How to Trick Your Muscles into Relaxing

Muscle Energy techniques like Reciprocal Inhibition (RI) and Post-Isometric Relaxation (PIR) are safe ways of tricking your muscles into relax. You can think of these as an alternative to stretching. These should not hurt. If they hurt, either you have myofascial trigger points, or you are freshly injured, or you have scar tissue, and/or you have central sensitization, etc...