The human body has a tremendous capacity to heal itself. In relaxation, the process of healing will automatically start; all the various systems in the body - the nervous system, the digestive system, the lymphatic system, etc. will all start to function efficiently. When you are relaxed, you breathe deeper, you sleep well, you feel energetic and happy, you eat only as much as you need to, you are more loving and compassionate to people around you...the list goes on and on! : )

Once after a long "relaxing" bath in the hot sulfur springs in the temple at Vashist, Manali, I was so happily dazed that I walked away leaving my things behind. When I returned later, it was predictably gone! As I complained about the lack of morals of people stealing from a temple & how I was so relaxed that I left my things behind to Swamiji, my yoga teacher there, he made a very interesting point. "If there is no awareness, then you are not relaxed, your condition would be something like a drunken stupor! "

Relaxation is always with awareness. The more aware you are, the easier it is to relax; this is experienced firsthand in a shav asana or the dead body posture in yoga.

"Relaxation is just being natural...to start relaxing. Start from the circumference -- that's where we are, and we can start only from where we are. Relax the circumference of your being -- relax your body, relax your behavior, relax your acts. Walk in a relaxed way, eat in a relaxed way, talk, listen in a relaxed way. Slow down every process. Don't be in a hurry and don't be in haste. Move as if all eternity is available to you...

Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for the tomorrow now, or for the afterlife ...

The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement; movement there is, certainly, but it is utterly relaxed. Trees are growing and birds are chirping and rivers are flowing, stars are moving: everything is going in a very relaxed way. No hurry, no haste, no worry, and no waste. Except man. Man has fallen a victim of his mind... "

Osho