Body contractions are an important component of trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, low self-esteem and more.
The mind needs sensations to give imagination a sense of solidity and reality and to give it a charge. So it tenses muscles to create these sensations.
They are sometimes temporarily amplified as needed in the situation. And if the mind wishes to create a more lasting experience of trauma etc., then the body contractions can be more lasting and chronic.
These contractions are somewhat individual and can be just about anywhere on the body, although they are often in the torso along the mid-line and also in the throat and head area. They can be on the skin or deeper in the body. (They can even sometimes be experienced as outside of the physical body, when imagination makes physical sensations appear in the space outside of the body.)
There are many ways to work with these contractions and what they are a component of. We can do inquiry on them and see how we relate to them and also what imaginations are connected with them.
Through inquiry, we get to see how we relate to the contractions and also what imaginations (memories, images, words) are connected to them.
We can tap on them, hold, massage.
Therapeutic tremoring (TRE) can help release the physical contraction. This will, in turn, take some of the charge out of what the contraction is a part of whether it’s trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction or something else.
We can use different forms of energy and/or bodywork to (a) shift how we relate to the contraction (befriend it), or (b) release the contraction.
Exploring the contraction both from the mind (inquiry) and the body side is often helpful and sometimes essential.
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Initial notes……
- body contractions
- a component of trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, low self-esteem etc.
- can be temporary or temporarily amplified, and also more lasting and chronic
- the mind needs sensations to give imagination a sense of solidity and reality, and to give them a charge
- so it tenses muscles to create these sensations