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It is especially to such tense, controlled, nail-digging people that I say ‘Practise masterly inactivity and let go.’ If your body trembles, let it tremble. Don’t feel obliged to try and stop it. Don’t try to appear normal. Don’t even strive for relaxation. Simply let the thought of relaxation be in your mind, in your attitude towards your body. Loosen your attitude. In other word, don’t be too concerned because you are tense and cannot relax. The very act of being prepared to accept your tenseness relaxes your mind, and relaxation of body gradually follows. You don’t have to strive for relaxation. You have to wait for it. When a patient says ‘I have tried so hard all day to be relaxed,’ surely he has had a day of striving, net relaxation? Let your body find its own level without controlling, directing it. Believe me, if you do this, you will not crack. You will not lose true control of yourself. You will float up to the surface from the depths of despair.

The relief of loosening your tense hold on yourself, of giving up the struggle and recognizing that there is no battle to fight, except of your own making, may bring a calmness you have forgotten existed within you. In your tense effort to control yourself you have been releasing more and more adrenalin and so further exciting your organs to produce the very sensations from which you have been trying to escape.

Float past tension and fear.

Float past unwelcome suggestions.

Float, don’t fight.

Accept and let more time pass.