"He liked people to go from left to right in a state of relaxation and heightened awareness, letting pictures on either side of the one you're looking at influence the others," Martineau said.
Some say that it's easier to reach the necessary state of relaxation and heightened awareness around dawn.
No loss of bladder or bowel control during a faint: The dog is in a state of relaxation, rather than heightened muscular activity.
Regardless of the style or the goal — relaxation, stress relief, healing, heightened spiritual awareness, improved ability to focus and concentrate — the meditation teacher Sarah McLean says all forms have this in common.
"The condition that I'm talking about, with both the relaxation and the arousal heightened together all at once, I know of only one context in which that appears and has been studied, and that is under trance," Deutsch says.
Yet, in my psychic preparation for labor and beyond, I am continually reminding myself to find relaxation in the middle of heightened presence, while I sit, do yoga, and frankly do anything.
Orgasm, also called Climax, climactic physiological state of heightened sexual excitement and gratification that is followed by relaxation of sexual tensions and the body's muscles.
The spine is a wonderfully sensuous area and you can heighten the sense of relaxation by slowly working up the spine, starting with large sweeps up from the buttocks first, then pressing each vertebrae with your thumbs.
