body tension
Muscles holding stress
Body tension is the physical tightness or holding pattern in muscles, often unconscious and stress-related.
Actors and dancers work to release body tension for fluid movement.
In everyday life, body tension accumulates in the shoulders, jaw, or back: I carry all my body tension in my neck.
Massage and stretching aim to relieve it.
- stiffNot easily bent
- tightFirmly stretched or fitting
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- musclesContractile body tissue
- clenchedContracted with force
tight muscles · clenched jaw · rigid · locked up · knots · muscle knots · shoulders · jaw · holding · strain · coiled · bracing · neck · anxiety · let it go · deep breath · breath · massage
- body ailmentsback pain, neck pain, joint pain, muscle pain, sciatica
- body languagegestures, facial expressions, hand gestures, posture, nodding
- climbingrock climbing, free climbing, belay, bouldering, carabiner
body tensionrelaxation
State of being unwound
muscle relaxation · looseness · limpness · suppleness · flaccidity
body tensionrelaxation
State of being unwound
calm · deep relaxation · tranquility · repose · restfulness
body, bodies, bodied, bodily, bodywork, embody, embodied, embodiment, disembodied