Week 4 - Breathing | Massage

This week in Stress management, we'll have a look at breathing, and how this relates to the stress response. We'll also have a look at how massage may be modified to suit different stages of the stress response.

Weekly tasks

• Read through the breathing physiology learning unit.
  
  
• Read through the massage for stress management learning unit.
  
  
• Try another relaxation technique progressive muscle relaxation. This is another one which is required for your assessment. Remember that before you can use a technique with clients you need to experience it yourself. With PMR you should probably use it most days for about 2 weeks before you are familiar enough with the process to use it with clients.
  WARNING: If you have muscle pain, then make sure that you don't tense the muscle up enough to increase the pain. Also if you suffer from hypertension or any other cardiovascular illness please contact David (021 2800 253) before trying out this technique.