Every emotion we experience, resentment, anger, emotional pain, joy, or ecstasy, has a physical impact on the body.

Drooping shoulders, slouching, muscle tension, a habitual tilt of the head, uneven shoulders, or hips are evidence of emotional wounds and experiences.

Paying attention to your body and your posture can help in many life situations.

Here’s an example: you need to make an important phone call. If you sit on the edge of the chair with minimal support and tense legs, your voice will sound uncertain and constrained, and you may slip into a pleading tone.

But if before the call you sit firmly on the chair, place both feet flat on the floor, and take a few deep breaths, your voice will be calm and confident.

This creates a certain mood in the person you’re talking to. Even if you’re refused something important, it will be much easier to handle the rejection from this ‘grounded’ position.

Your body is a map of your life

There is a well-established system in which each part of the body corresponds to universal human functions.

If you draw a line down the spine and divide the body into right and left halves, the right side is responsible for our social contacts, public life, and interpersonal interactions.

The left side represents our feelings and emotions, our self-image, and our inner life.

Try this experiment

Stand on one leg. Which leg makes it easier to keep your balance? If it’s the right one, you are currently well-balanced with your environment.

If it’s the left one, you are in harmony with your feelings. If you have trouble balancing on either, you need to calm down, breathe slowly while sitting firmly on a chair, and try again.

Natural Responses

Why do muscle clamps and imbalances appear in the body? Because civilization forces us to suppress our natural reactions to stress.

What does an animal do when it is alarmed? It runs away. When angry? It attacks. And what do we do?

Our boss yells at us, and we habitually lower our heads, shift from foot to foot. We patiently wait for the humiliation to end.

Meanwhile, we have a lump in our throat or a spasm in our stomach. We feel constricted by an invisible cage.

All of this is the body’s reaction to stress.

What can we do if we are financially dependent on this tyrant? Or dependent on our career or position in the company? And we can’t stand up for ourselves?

In such cases, a childish trick helped me: making a fist with the thumb between fingers behind my back or in my pocket. Out of sight, you are saying, ‘screw you!’

Say it without words

Once we’ve calmed down a bit, it makes sense to honestly assess how truly dependent we are on bosses, husbands, lovers, or others who scare or humiliate us.

Breathe deeply. Walk briskly home instead of taking the bus. Close yourself in a room and punch or kick a pillow. Release the resentment and anger onto something inanimate.

Avoid ricochets

Otherwise, it may spill over onto loved ones. The emotion has to be expressed somehow, or you will continue to be deflated.

It is common to criticize the body or ignore its needs and desires. Love yourself, feel gratitude toward your body, and always support it.

How do we usually look at ourselves in the mirror? Critically, like at someone guilty who has failed to meet our expectations. Guilty of stretch marks, a little extra weight, and wrinkles around the eyes. Refuse to continue in this vein!

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Don’t be hard on yourself

Most women evaluate their appearance much more harshly than it actually is. Yet the body is the home of our heart and soul, the most accessible source of pleasure we have!

Every morning, no matter what the mirror shows, smile at yourself and say: ‘Hello, beautiful!’ Try it and you will see that it works.

Place a true value on your legs for carrying you through life? Your hands, for doing so many necessary and useful things?

Your belly and breasts for giving life to your children? Your heart for making the impossible possible. Your neck for proudly carrying your head and heart?

Be your own hospital

And even if the body sometimes lets us down, gets sick, or refuses to overexert itself or meet imposed standards, be gentle with and caring in your love for yourself as I am for you.

Talk to your body, listen to its needs, pamper it with a fragrant bath, a lover’s imagined caress, aromatic cream, or a nice new outfit.

It will respond. It will delight you with new muscle tone and a willingness to serve you faithfully and truly.

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