chronic tension
Constant underlying stress
Chronic tension is persistent, long-term stress or tightness in the body or mind.
Physical chronic tension settles in muscles—especially the neck, shoulders, and back—from sustained stress, poor posture, or repetitive strain: Chronic tension in her jaw led to headaches.
The phrase also describes ongoing psychological strain or unresolved conflict: chronic tension between the two departments.
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- stress responseBody's reaction to threat
- fight or flightThreat-triggered physiological state
- tightnessState of being constricted
- muscle knotsContracted tissue bundles
knots · shoulders · neck · headache · clenched · jaw clenching · stiff · ache · anxiety · grinding · jaw · muscle · strain · fatigue · insomnia · cortisol · buildup · persistent
- tensiontautness, tightness, strain, stiffness, rigidity
- bodyworkmassage, massage therapy, manual therapy, bodywork, deep tissue
- Orgone TheoryWilhelm Reich, Reich, body armor, life energy, character analysis
chronic tensiondeep relaxation
Thorough mental and bodily ease
looseness · suppleness · laxity · flaccidity · softness
chronic, tension, chronicle, chronically, chronological, chronology, synchronic, synchronize, synchronous