Relaxation techniques are helpful tools for coping with stress and promoting long term health. In fact, more than 3,000 professional studies show the beneficial effects of relaxation on health and well being. Relaxation techniques are practiced in almost all societies around the world. There are many different roads to achieve relaxation such as: singing, dancing, praying, meditating, and self hypnosis.                                                                             

      In this chapter the major techniques of relaxation are discussed.