Relaxation of Muscles

Chapter six blew me away. The chapter is all about the idea of relaxing unused muscle groups. It made perfect sense to me. Before I step on stage I always find myself trying to loosen up my body. If I don't do or fail at trying to do this my voice locks up and I struggle to walk (yes we've all seen me trip on air). As I was reading I found myself trying the exercises and failing miserably. I lay on my back and find that it is imposable to get my body to fully relax. As soon as you releases one muscle another contracts to take the weight. It was impossible to get my whole back on the floor without engaging my abdominal muscles. It just seems natural and necessary. This chapter also managed to overwhelm me. So now we have to focus on concentration of attention, imagination, emotions and action on stage. On top of that we are adding relaxing your muscles witch is a three stage process (superfluous tenseness, mechanical relaxation and justification of the pose) that has to happen all in a matter of seconds. Were only on chapter six and my brain has hit overload.