Imagine that all of the muscles in your head and neck are like tightly coiled springs. Now imagine that all of those springs begin to loosen. As they do, the muscles become more relaxed, and your discomfort decreases, says Dennis Gersten, M.D., a San Diego psychiatrist and publisher of Atlantis, a bi-monthly imagery newsletter. He adds that if you do this for 30 seconds every hour on the hour, it will dramatically relax you and ease your headache.