Progressive Muscle Relaxation (1929)

Record 008 · Rest · 1929

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Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Edmund Jacobson

“Jacobson's method of tensing and releasing muscle groups until the body learns quiet.”

Progressive Relaxation (1929) made anxiety a muscular protocol. It is still the skeleton inside many 'wind-down' scripts.

Opened rest as a teachable sequence.

Official site
  • Systematic tensing/releasing
  • Body-as-instrument rest
  • Clinic-to-home script

Tense. Release. Notice.