In this article I will discuss how we manifest pain and tension in the muscular system and why that tension can be on-going for many years.

Firstly let me say that it is important and very responsible to exhaust all possible anatomical reasons for someone's on-going muscular pain. Posture, stretching exercises and what type of mattress you sleep on, can be important factors to address and to teach. Discussing a person's lifestyle can help them take positive action to overcome physical problems.

Three Causes of Muscular Tension

The first one we will call driver tension. Driver tension is basically caused through repetition of movement over long periods of time. This movement is performed in an unconscious manner until pain is present. (I.e. RSI or overuse syndrome)

The second one is caused through some type of injury, such as a sporting injury or a car accident.

The third one is emotional and the one I want to focus on the most. It is fair to say that all these causes of tension effect the nervous system and in turn can have an effect on a person's psyche.

One thing for sure is that chronic muscular pain is the body's way of forcing you to take a long hard look at your lifestyle and your belief system. In essence the body is forcing you to change your life.

How Does Thinking Aid In Creating Muscular Tension?

When we think (that is worry) we build energy circles inside the brain. The more we think of the same thing over and over, the more these energy circles build upon each other. The brain has a mechanism that will release this energy into the muscular system. We have all experienced times when we've laid in bed and worried about something and could not stop thinking and stressing over it. Then we've woken up the next day with either a stiff neck, or back or shoulder pain.

Unresolved Trauma From Childhood

I will go way out a limb and say that our childhood for a good 90% of us was a traumatic experience and a miracle we survived it in a reasonably okay fashion. Most of us who live in a Western society are conditioned by parents, teachers and other authority figures to not fully express and experience our feelings. We learn from a very early age that expressing natural emotions such as anger, frustration, sadness, fear, grief, immense joy, pleasure and excitement, are not acceptable. When these natural feelings do surface and try to find expression, they are often meet with ridicule, rejection and reprimand. When a child is thwarted from expressing any natural emotion, he or she will engage different segments of the musculature of the body to block the on-coming feelings. The chest may tighten to restrict breathing, the throat will often become blocked to stop any release of emotion, and the jaw will be clenched to hold back any expression of anger. In essence the child is building muscular tension which can also be known as "body armour".

Whenever the natural expression of emotion is blocked from being felt and experienced, body armour will manifest. There are seven different segments where the armour will form and subsequently block any expression of deep emotional trauma. By doing this, we repress our true nature. This in turn creates stress, tension, pain in the muscles, sadness and even depression. We create body armour as a by-product of anxiety. This anxiety is usually unconscious. The building of body armour contributes to us shrinking back from fully experiencing our life and our own greatness.

This is just an over view on the subject of muscular tension or body armour. If you would like to find out more please contact me, Anthony (Tony) Andrews - The En-orgone Method, Melbourne.