This 10 Minute calming progressive muscle relaxation meditation will help ease anxiety, lower stress and help you fall asleep faster. Progressive Muscle Relaxations help you to feel grounded by guiding you to focus your attention on your body while learning to relax your muscles. When we are anxious and stressed, our muscles often become quite tense without us even knowing it. This practice scans over each major muscle group while guiding you to tense and relax your muscles. An intentional activity such as this teaches our brain and our body the difference between tension and relaxation in our muscles, which helps us to calm anxiety and stress in the future.