Muscle tension has to be one of the most common symptom for anyone dealing with anxiety issues. Not only can it make you feel plain uncomfortable and in pain but is actually the reason for most of your stress symptoms. Chest tightness, burning sensations, headaches, pins and needles feeling, muscle twitches and spasms, fatigue are just a few of them. I am sure that most of the physical sensations we experience can be traced back to muscle tension.
The issue with muscle tension is that it creates symptoms that we in our alerted state of mind will often associate with something dangerous or even life threatening. This then leads to more stress and more symptoms.
Bodily tension will also have an immediate impact on our mental state as well. Being under so much strain and pain will cast a dark shadow over our thoughts. Thoughts become negative, we aren’t able to think clearly, we become frightened and depressed and most importantly it drains us of any motivation and joy. This further accelerates the downward spiral and we suddenly find us in a place in which we are constantly tired but still on edge. For many of sleep becomes an issue and we develop insomnia and chronic fatigue.
That is why it is so important to focus on “healing” your body from this tension. Your whole recovery journey has to be laid in a way that focuses on releasing that built up tension.
Working out and exercise is a great starting point and with the “proper” lifestyle around it it has almost every aspect of anxiety and panic recovery covered.
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