You hold stress in your body

In short

“Stress in the body” is a body & energy pattern: a tendency that repeats, not a fixed fact about you. You get into bed and your jaw is still clenched from a conversation at eleven this morning.

What it looks like

You get into bed and your jaw is still clenched from a conversation at eleven this morning. Your mind says fine; your body disagrees. Holding yourself together and holding on became the same motion for you. Your grip no longer tells a heavy load from a normal one. It may help to check the tension once a day and ask what it is actually about, instead of leaving it where it sits. A body this honest tells you early what most people find out late.

Related body & energy patterns

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  Your rest turns into another task

  You sit down with a coffee and stand up ninety seconds later to fix something.

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  You're tired for no clear reason

  You come back from a twenty-minute call and cannot start anything for the next hour.

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  You soothe yourself the same way

  The day ends and the loop starts: the snack, the scroll, the show.