2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
The picture has become clearer of how two opposite mechanisms can simultaneously manifest themselves - an intuitive attempt by the body to cope with stress through sports and, conversely, an increase in muscle clamps as a result of stress
After jogging in the morning, she began to cough up her throat. Despite the fact that there was no cold or sore throat. And then the associative array rushed at the speed of light, bringing new insights.
I, like many people, tend to hold back my breathing during strong emotional shocks or stress (decrease in the amplitude of inhalation and exhalation, only chest or only abdominal breathing, inability to fully exhale or inhale). Now I know this mechanism, but in adolescence, when the hurricane of feelings and emotions raged, I did not know this. Once, for a couple of days, I felt the symptoms of suffocation, because I really wanted to please the adored boy.
And I loved running. Long-distance running that many girls don't like so much at 14. Now I know why!
Running makes you breathe. He opens his lungs. You are learning to open your chest. Inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth. You simply have to do this if you run for a long time, otherwise shortness of breath will catch up with you after 500 meters.
Running helped me deal with my emotions. He helped breathe and feel, and not swallow everything.
It is not for nothing that psychotherapists, psychologists and counselors so often remind clients to breathe.
Our chest is immobilized when scared, painful or anger overwhelms us … This is a kind of anesthesia. To not feel, you just need to stop breathing. We don't even notice how we hold our breath for a while. And then diseases appear, because air is our everything. And immobilization leads to stagnation in the organs
But sometimes, after quarrels with my parents, I went to the same stadium and, instead of running, worked out the abs on the simulators. Rocked and rocked and rocked. She rocked it like she had never passed the standard at school. What was it? It was strengthening my muscle tension.
Muscle clamps are the body's method of displacing real needs and unpleasant reactions to frustration from consciousness. They allow you to avoid the unwanted fear of being sensitive and back into trauma
The same restraint of breathing is manifested through the tension of the muscles of the chest and muscles of the abdominal cavity. If we repeat this action often, it turns into automatism, then into chronic muscle tension or muscle clamping
When emotions are unbearable, muscle tightening increases
In order not to breathe and not to experience unbearable emotions, I needed to tighten my abdominal muscles even more. Tighten, squeeze so that the intestines twist, but do not breathe or feel. It does indeed act as "soothing" as immobilizing violent patients.
How can it be that in one person the body is intuitively able to search simultaneously for two different ways to cope with emotions? Some kind of self-therapy that allows you to breathe and experience, and, conversely, a method that strengthens the clamps so as not to feel the same emotions?
Our body is smart - it knows what it is ready to deal with directly, and what impulses it is better to reformat into something acceptable to it. As Ch. Aitmatov said, “The stomach is smarter than the brain, because the stomach can vomit. The brain swallows any rubbish”.
Emotions that I did not express, but which the body was ready to accept, I experienced while running. That which was strangled and not released, was exhaled along with carbon dioxide already at the second kilometer. The same emotions that my consciousness wanted to displace farther, were even more clamped in the body. This is worse for the body, but the psyche is selfish and often puts its own interests above the bodily.
Z. Freud, W. Reich, A. Lowen and others wrote about the connection between the mental and the physical, about muscle clamps. All our processes are interconnected. If we develop physical flexibility through gymnastics or yoga, we become more flexible in thought processes and in perception. If we work on strength and pump muscles, we become tough and psychologically more confident. The more we expand our awareness of our body, the more the boundaries of perception of the environment expand. After all, what we see is a reflection of our inner world.
It is important to be aware of the true messages of the body and to listen to them. By combining the appropriate physical work with psychological work, you can greatly improve the quality of your life. Do not strengthen the clamps even more, but, on the contrary, remove tension and learn to live emotions safely for yourself.
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