Body Language and Relaxation Techniques: A Comprehensive Approach
Objectives of Body Language
- Learn and develop the capacity of the body
- Develop expressive possibilities of the body
- Enhance your own creativity
- Improve social integration and interpersonal relationships
Components
Biotypology
Biotypology studies the relationships between the physical type of people and certain psychological characteristics.
- Picnic: Person in poor physical condition. Goodness, little physical activity, love of food.
- Atletico: Person in good physical condition. Initiative, dynamism, self-centeredness.
- Asthenic: Person weak and fragile. Smart, maverick, ambitious.
Space-Orientation
Space-orientation is the ability that allows you to locate the body position in relation to other objects. The structure and spatial organization can know how and where the various objects found in the same space are located.
Time
- Temporary Orientation is the ability that allows tracking of time.
- The temporal structure allows us to know all the temporary changes that occur either in the order or sequence.
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The temporal organization allows you to perceive the feelings of order and length of time. It is divided into three:
- Pressing: All are subject to a unit pulse, and rhythm is the pulse.
- The compass: the fixed and structured organization of press.
- The subdivision allows the pulse sequence as many times as you want.
Classification of Body Control
Body control is the ability to control and master the elements involved in human movement:
- The body itself: it is necessary to know the muscles and capacities of our body.
- Space: we know the area where we may be: land, air, or water.
- Time: must learn to control slow or fast rhythms is an exercise.
- There must be a relationship between body, space, and time.
Musical Situations
In body language, exercises can be done with the support of music.
- Ballroom: This is a series of steps, leaps, gestures, or commanded position of a deal at a rate.
- Dance: A succession of steps, jumps, and attitudes, executed following a certain order and rhythm.
- Rhythmic activities: such as dance, jazz, aerobics, or modalities of these activities.
Staging
Staging is putting before the public a dramatic or comic message using different techniques of body language.
- Mime: uses the gesture as a means of expression, but without words, and uses the visual channel for communication.
- Theatre and drama: join theatrical expression and body.
- Movies: The action of a dramatic or comic message is recorded using the visual channel for communication.
Relaxation
Objectives
- To become aware of one’s body and its parts and their feelings
- Find the psychic and physical equilibrium
- Stress-defense
- Facilitate recovery efforts
- Facilitate mental focus
- Improve knowledge of all internal sensations
Methods of Relaxation
Jacobson Progressive Relaxation
Its aim is to know the location of the muscles and learn to relax the muscles at will and learn to relax the muscles that have low voltage.
Phases:
- Involves the recognition of the feelings that cause muscle relaxation.
- Learning involves the contraction of a particular muscle group while relaxing others.
Schultz Autogenic Training
It is looking for relaxation through hypnosis therapy and healing of nervous diseases. It has two cycles:
Lower Cycle
- It could apply the final part of physical education sessions.
- Consciousness of heaviness.
- Provoke the sensation of heat.
- With the hand on the heart.
- It is a slow breath.
- Get the feeling of coolness in the head.
Upper Cycle
Minor in physical education and is a method that requires deep psychotherapy specialists.
The Euphony of G. Alexander
It aims to achieve muscle tone that suits the activity that is taking place, eliminating unnecessary contractions and excessive muscle tone.
Psychotonic Relaxation of J. Ajuriaguerra
Use relaxation to cure diseases. His technique consists of the specific application of the phases of the methods of Schultz and Jacobson, but with a medical purpose.