Total relaxation is one of the most popular categories of guided meditations in the Plum Village app https://plumvillage.app/

This particular guided relaxation has been recorded in a recording studio in London earlier this year, when Brother Phap Linh and other monastics from Plum Village came to offer several urban retreats and days of mindfulness for practitioners in the UK.

Here's Thich Nhat Hanh on the importance of practicing deep relaxation: "We think that when we are not doing anything we are wasting our time, that is not true. Our time is first of all for us to be. To be, to be what? to be alive, to be peace, to be joy, to be loving. And that is what the world needs the most. So we train ourself in order to be. And if you know the art of being peace, of being solid, then you have the ground for every action… because the ground for action is to be. And the quality of being determines the quality of doing. Action must be based on non-action."

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