I think jamming is a decent enough analogy. If you are about to be punched — you constrict the muscle and fascia to resist the impact, but you can also use the same constriction to prevent an instinct to attack someone more powerful than you
Yeah there's also a thing I'll write about eventually where I think if
If you're not feeling a part of your body in high resolution, in order to protect it from sudden external forces, the only way to do that is to tense it.
There's definitely a deep relationship between conflicting feelings and muscle tension.
A lot of parallel threads in existing somatic theories:
- Wilhelm Reich talked about 'armoring' — chronic muscle tension that blocks the expression of emotions (he suggested releasing this through orgasm)
- There's an old Doug Tataryn paper about repression as a muscles 'storing' repressed feelings https://www.bioemotiveframework.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/BEF_dougs_1983_paper_on_emotions_muscles_and_the_cortex_-_ocr.pdf (beware hilarious OCR)
I think jamming is a decent enough analogy. If you are about to be punched — you constrict the muscle and fascia to resist the impact, but you can also use the same constriction to prevent an instinct to attack someone more powerful than you
Yeah there's also a thing I'll write about eventually where I think if
If you're not feeling a part of your body in high resolution, in order to protect it from sudden external forces, the only way to do that is to tense it.