Anger, Emotions can cause tension in the body,so do you think releasing tension (

[Littlebunny]

massage)releases the emotion? If you think so, how and why....

A a lot of people say the emotions are linked with the body, But Im curios to know how this actually works.
Ever felt a release after a massage?
And its usually anger or emotions that cause the tension and tightness in the first place, so do you think, by releasing the tightness, it releases the emotions?
If so, how do you thin this actually works?
How do you think the emotions is actually "stored" in the body?

 

[Momo Chi]

I'll make this simple and I'll make this fast. (SOMEWHAT)

I wrote a long(liek 1000+ words) answer a while back about controling emotions, but I don't think the reader recieved it well because it didn't exsactly say how to do this, it merely stated the logic of the process, not the process. This time I'm going to break it down into something different.

There are several chemicals in the brain that make up our emotions.
There are chemicals that make you anticpate an action, enjoy the process of anction, and enjoy the completion of an action.

When emotions are 'pent up' its like to say there is an imbalance of the chemicals that make you anticpate something, making you restless and makeing the emotion stick. This is because you are unstatified... you have no completion and process to enjoy... just the anticaption... that will seemingly never end.

What you must do is accept for yourself a resolution. You must metally as and mean,' I will do this, and by doing it I will have my satifaction (or revenage or release, or, happiness, or peace or whatever it is that you need to remove this overwhelming burdon)'
This will create anticpation.
Then you do the action, and while doing it think... "This is helping me, this is working."
This will create a sense of success and pleasure during the action.
Then lastly, when you are done, say, "I'm done... and... now I'm at peace."

The action itself that helps you relieve stress shouldn't be something like lashing out, it should be something more peaceful, like drinking a whole glass of water, or writting a poem... or if you need to, crying, or a big shout.

These in of itself 'releases' the emotion that was 'stored' by making your brain balance your emotions. Sometimes its as easy as counting backwards from ten or saying your alaphabet backwards.

In the end, you should make yoursefl tranquil and calm. If you do something angry, and frustrated you could end up repeating the cycle, thus making yourself unstatified again.

 

[simplelife]

Emotions have three components.

Psychological: the thoughts you have when you are angry eg "I hate him" or "she's winding me up on purpose"

Behavioral: What you do when you are angry eg shouting or breaking something.

Physiological: eg fast heart beat and muscle tension.

Using massage would usually relax the muscles and release the tension. Anger is a stress response and a reduction in tension, lowers the physiological component of the anger (stress response) and makes you feel less angry.

The event that made you angry hasn't altered because you have had a massage but the bodies stress response to the event has been halted.

I guess it is the reduction in tension that feels like a release.

Emotions themselves aren't stored. Emotions are primitive responses to our environment. We store memories and associate emotion with the memories.

Take another emotion, fear or in some cases phobia A phobia is an irrational fear and produces a massive stress response in the persons body. For example somebody may be frightened of something harmless like a feather. (It's true, some people are!) It's not the feather that makes them frightened, it's their thoughts about the feather that produce the feeling of fear.

Just my thoughts but hope they might help.

 

[orangelicous]

If u are angry or emotional, you probably have bottled up feeling ready to expel it from your system by screaming or shouting or crying or what not. But today we sometimes find it hard to do so.

Actually its simple. Your body has an intention to unwind. So the solution is simple

A massage is great but a better way is to relieve the tension by doing it but in another form.

The best way is still the ability to forgive and forget, but if u still feel suppressed:

If you are angry, scream or clench your fists into a pillow.

If you are a salesperson who always handle cranky customers, buy a boxing mannequin labelled customers( with a paper and tape) and start boxing.

If you have issues with family , forgive forget, or channel it into things you like doing and exceling in games and outdoor sports

If you are always handling tough decisions that causes you to lose ur cool, go fishing. It forces you to be patient, and not make tough decisions.

If you feel emotional, talk it out to a friend for perhaps family memebers or make a video blog. You will feel more relieved as you pour it out. If u feel like cryin you can do it while you are bathing.. Thats last min resort.

Anyway when u unwind u will cure the isssue there and then. Well massage is fine, but its not a long term cure..