Muscle Tension Patterns Elicit Psycho-Emotional States

Our feelings of stress and apprehension elicit muscle contractions.  The cringe response, ‘being on your toes’, stopping your breathing in the diaphragm are a few of these predictable muscle responses.

Because these muscular patterns of tension/contraction are wired to the stress response, it also works in the other direction that chronic tension in posterior chain extensors muscles can elicit the same metabolic triggers as stress and can provoke the same underlying feelings that the adrenal corticoids did in the original incident.

In the emotional energetic body a vague anxiety, restlessness, inability to meditate, concentrate, digest, breathe in the diaphragm, accelerated heart rate, inability to heal are all possible symptomatic effects of chronic tension. The body is all one expressive whole.

External stimuli affects body chemistry and reactive muscle tensions.  Physical tensions elicit internal feelings.

Chronic muscle contraction patterns associated with past life events will elicit and promote feelings of anxiety and thoughts and stories and imaginings of future events mirroring your life’s themes.  Working through the body’s chronic tensions can begin to change all that.  Releasing tensions in the extensor muscles associated with fear and defensive action will free up energy to feel more joy and laughter and peace.