Visualisation exercise When you relax, you can create mental images that fill you with energy. A visualisation exercise can be a good way to obtain more energy.

Do as follows:

Sit or lie down as comfortably as possible.

When you are really comfortable, breathe deeply a couple of times.

Focus your attention on your right foot and its toes. Feel the foot, both the upper and lower side as well as the toes.

Move your attention upwards so that you feel your right calf and your right shin. Feel your right knee.

Shift your attention to your right thigh and feel both the front and the back of the thigh.

Now, focus on your left foot and its toes. Feel the foot, both the upper and lower side as well as the toes.

Move your attention upwards so that you feel your left calf and your left shin. Feel your left knee.

Shift your attention to your left thigh and feel both the front and the back of the thigh.

Move your attention further up your body – feel the pelvic region, buttocks, abdomen and hip joints.

Move your attention further up your body. Sense how your body has a front and a back as well as a right and a left side.

Feel how your body expands all the way round when you breathe in and feel how the body contracts every time you breathe out.

Let your attention move slowly upwards.

Feel both your shoulders, upper arms, elbow joints, lower arms, hands and fingers.

Let your attention move further upwards. Feel the back of your neck, neck, head and face.

Try to feel your entire body at one time – from the feet to the top of your head. Feel your body from one fingertip to another.

Imagine that every time you breathe in, you inhale new energy. Maybe you can imagine – even feel – how you are filled with a sparkling and refreshing feeling of well-being and new energy at each breath.

You feel the energy prick in your toes and feet and then spread further up through the legs and the entire body, up to the shoulders and out into your arms, hands and fingers.

Feel the sparkling refreshing energy spreading from the shoulders, out into your arms and further down to your hands and fingertips.

Feel how the energy spreads up through the back of your neck, up to your head, giving you a feeling of sparkling mental clarity.

Sense how your body is filled with more and more energy each time you breathe in and how you feel both relaxed and filled with well-being.

Notice the entire body again at one time, from your feet, all the way up to the top of your head and from one fingertip to another.

Yawn while sitting down. You could also get up and yawn. Then stretch all parts of your body. Sense how relaxed, comfortable and filled with sparkling energy you are.