What a pleasure it is to just relax.

How good it feels, even in the middle of the busiest day, to gather yourself together, take in a nice deep breath and then just let it go, dropping all your worries... even if only for the moment.

One reason it feels so good to reclaim your attention in this way is because -- by coming back into yourself -- you've actually changed your relationship with everything happening within and around you. The happy results are immediate:

• A peaceful calm washes over you
• You actually feel more alert and aware as your mind stops racing
• You have a brand new perspective that puts everything in proper order, including that problem that seemed so insurmountable just a minute before

Most surprising of all, you become aware of the punishing tension that held you in its grip until you took that simple, rejuvenating breath of relaxation.

We all know that tension is a killer. It confuses the mind, compromises the body, and closes the door to creativity and higher impressions.

Relaxation is one of the secret keys to higher success.

Great athletes are completely relaxed inwardly, even while their bodies make the greatest exertion. If you ever see slow-motion footage of a champion sprinter as he pushes his body to the limit, you notice that his face is slack and in perfect response to the forces pushing on it.

It's the same with great swimmers. Golfers. Archers. They all relax inwardly in the very act of meeting the challenge.

But relaxation isn't just for Olympic moments. It is the miracle method we can use every moment to experience:

• Improved health
• More pleasant, easygoing relationships
• Better use of energies
• Heightened focus on what's really important

When we are relaxed, we fully engage life without resisting it or feeling the need to control it. We flow with everything the moment presents and rise to all its beautiful possibilities.

Harness Nature's Great Secret for Success
 

Wherever you look in nature you see the principle of relaxation revealed. A tree has tremendous forces acting on it, including those that keep it standing upright against the pull of gravity. And yet the tree itself is relaxed, in perfect balance, and perfectly responding to the winds that buffet it but do not bring it down.

The lion and gazelle, predator and prey, shift naturally from the tension of the chase back into a relaxed state, even as the gazelle surrenders its life. There is no carryover of resentment, embarrassment, or concern for the future. Everything is allowed to pass.

Why is the dolphin so content in the sea? The deer so at home in the forest? The eagle the master of the skies? Why is relaxation the rule in nature?

The answer is one of the great wonders of life, and the secret to true success:

These creatures are all made for what happens to them.

Whatever life brings to them, they are created to handle. It's in their DNA.

And no matter how it may seem at times... no matter how punishing life can sometimes feel, or how much we think we have to fight and struggle just to get by in this world... it's true for us as well:

We too are made for what happens to us.

You could say it's part of our spiritual DNA.