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dormant muscles This is so because they are difficult to recruit dont move with the rest of the |
body and are starved of blood Dormant muscles cannot recover adequately after a workout |
and are resistant to growth and strengthening because they can never fully relax and thus can |
never fully heal As long as they are under constant selfimposed strain they will continue to |
grow harder more fragile and decrepit Scrunchedup muscles crumple your body and cause it |
to buckle under every movement |
Pregnancy itself does not necessarily adversely affect a womans physique Rather it is the |
months of prolonged bracing absence of postural variety and limited range of motion that can |
accompany the later stages of pregnancy for some women that have prominent longlasting |
effects Moreover although some of the natural variation in physique between humans is due |
to exercise genetics and exposure to testosterone much of it can be attributed to differences |
in dormant muscle that arose due to bracing during stress |
You have significant untapped reservoirs of muscle in your body that correspond to areas |
you brace and have been bracing for decades For example think about the hunch you probably |
have in your neck Starting at birth you had a natural tendency to straighten the cervical |
vertebrae in your neck stacking them in a straight line That straightnecked upright posture is |
optimal But social pressures can affect how we carry our heads and necks the less safe stable |
or welcoming your childhood environment was the more you were conditioned to hunch over |
communicating modesty or submission The standard submissive neck posture is to stoop over |
jut your chin out and tilt your head back All of those changes reduce your height and help you |
appear guarded But they also introduce a slant in your neck which is an inefficient way of |
stacking vertebrae against the force of gravity The excessive tension that develops leads to the |
proliferation of trigger points and those in turn cause muscle dormancy in your neck |
shoulders and chest and from there on down the spine |
Chapter will detail exactly how to reclaim your neck and regain its flexibility and full |
range of motion But the neck is just one example of a reservoir of muscle that has been |
suppressed that you can tap into These reservoirs can be found all over our bodies Take your |
clothes off and look in the mirror Any body parts that dont appear nubile and supple have |
great potential If all of our muscles were brought completely out of dormancy we would have |
the physiques if not bulk of elite athletes |
Injuries Lead to Muscular Bracing |
Injuries contribute to and interact with bracing After getting hurt individuals often try to avoid |
experiencing pain by tensing the area surrounding the site of injury When someone sprains |
their ankle they unintentionally contract many muscles in the ankle setting it in a fixed |
PROGRAM PEACE Self Care Exercises to Reprogram Your Mind and Body |
defensive position This is intended to protect the injury In fact it is known as splinting |
because it acts as a splint to immobilize the joint Unfortunately it also deprives the muscles of |
the rest oxygen and nutrients they need to heal As a result splinting worsens the pain in the |
long term by overtaxing the muscles involved This happens partly because we tend to breathe |
extremely shallowly whenever we injure ourselves because as you know shallow breathing |
causes bracing This is why whenever experience an injury pull out my breath metronome |
immediately |
Injuries almost always result in some form of persistent muscle tension Even major |
medical procedures can contribute atrogenic pain is a term referring to pain caused by |
medical treatment and is especially common with the use of braces slings casts and surgeries |
Immobilizing a broken forearm with a cast can easily lead to frozen shoulder syndrome in |
which a group of deltoid muscles is barred from moving through its normal range of motion as |
tension gradually mounts |
had a melanoma removed from my shoulder blade in my midteens and recently found |
that have a series of muscular knots under the scar from bracing the area My brother |
received a large shot in the quadriceps during his appendectomy years ago and he says the |
same area troubles him often Think conscientiously about past injuries medical procedures |
and other forms of trauma identifying how they might be causing you to brace or tense |
muscles even today |
Stress and muscular tension also make us more susceptible to physical injury because tense |
muscles fail and tear under excessive force whereas relaxed ones are more resilient The |
muscles strained by sitting in a fixed position at a computer for eight hours a day are the most |
susceptible to damage from a fall or car accident Thus injury can lead to bracing and bracing |
can lead to reinjury |
Tense muscle tissue can be conceptualized as an injury or as a trauma even if there was no |
precipitating accident The word injury is defined as physical damage to a biological organism |
The word trauma is defined as an abnormality in an organisms tissues usually caused by |
injury By these definitions any form of persistent bracing and the trigger points stemming |
from it are both injurious and traumatic Unfortunately once they get bad enough they can |
poison us emotionally |
The Link Between Tension Pain and Negative Emotion |
These mountains that you are carrying you were only supposed to climb Najwa Zebian b |
Physical pain is an adaptive evolved mechanism The pain from a cut or burn informs us that |
our bodies are suffering damage It gives us builtin motivation to withdraw from the source of |
harm and learn to avoid it in the future But what about muscular pain also known as myalgia |
In contrast to physical pain myalgia has more to do with restricting movement It compels us to |
refrain from specific motions that might be damaging or harmfulit tells us not to overstretch |
a strained muscle not to bend a weakened joint too far It also tells us when we approach the |
limits of our healthy range of motion giving us important feedback about what our bodies can |
and cannot do This would have restricted aging huntergatherers from movements that had |
Chapter Recognize Muscular Tension Dormancy |
proven necessary and probably also helped them save energy Due to the negative emotions |
it creates however muscular pain is destructive to our wellbeing |
Suffering is not abstract or conceptual It is embodied in the pain circuits of your nervous |
system Nociceptive pain is pain caused by the activation of pain receptors known as |
nociceptors Nociceptors respond to either thermal eg heat or cold chemical eg |
inflammatory or mechanical eg crushing or tearing sources of harm They come in three |
general types visceral organ superficial skin and deep somatic pain muscle Deep somatic |
pain is triggered by the activation of nociceptors in ligaments tendons bones blood vessels |
fascia and muscles It is dull aching and difficult to localize Strangely we become so |
accustomed to it that we dont consciously notice its presence until a painkiller takes it away |
Drugs like heroin and ecstasy induce intense euphoric states largely by alleviating this pain |
Longterm bracing of our body parts and chakras causes deep somatic pain that poisons |
our minds The toxicity is especially apparent in extreme examples such as people with chronic |
pain People living with longterm pain of any kind frequently display psychological disturbances |
and exhibit elevated levels of hysteria depression and hypochondriasis the neurotic triad |
Chronic pain patients also generally have low selfesteem and higherthanaverage levels of |
anxiety fear and anger In fact somatic pain is known to interact with psychogenic pain |
which arises from social rejection defeat heartbreak and grief These two forms of pain |
comingle and exacerbate one another There is no telling how much the undiagnosed chronic |
pain from our muscular tension desecrates us emotionally |
The experience of pain is transformed by paced breathing Try it the next time you feel |
either physical or psychological pain It takes all the edge off One of the quickest and easiest |
ways to create massive amounts of nondamaging pain is to submerge an arm or leg in ice |
water Without paced breathing this is excruciating for the two to five minutes it takes for the |
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