Have you ever wondered what conditions your posture? Do you think emotions have something to do with it? The truth is that they do. Posture is our way of being in the world, as well as being a strategy employed by our neuromuscular and skeletal system to remain in balance in the most economical way possible. In our musculoskeletal system we express our emotions and with it we express ourselves in general.
It is necessary to re-educate our posture and become aware of it in order to improve our emotional part and vice versa. The body language of each one of us represents and manifests our emotions and state of mind. When we release a muscular-emotional load that has been retained for a long time, we immediately feel liberated. If I emotionally hold back or do not pay attention to it, the emotional energy is converted into muscular, joint or respiratory tension.
The four key emotional movements: fear, anger, joy and sadness.
- Fear closes our posture generating slower breathing and a generalized lack of muscular strength. It generates a feeling of weakness and inability to cope with life.
- Anger/aggressiveness/anger/anger opens our posture in excess with faster breathing and increased dynamic muscle tone. It generates constant muscle tension and stiffness (more prone to contractures).
- Joy gives us a good breathing, lets us inspire and oxygenate. It generates an upright and fluid posture in turn.
- Sadness rolls our whole body down as if we had disconnected from our body completely; think of the phrase “falling down”. Therefore, this necessary emotion at certain times will induce us to breathe without strength.
These four emotions are necessary and, in a certain way, vital to face, in an optimal way, our day to day; the problem arises if we live constantly in one of them. There is a point of somato-psycho-emotional balance among these four. It is essential to be at this point to feel in harmony with ourselves. Breathing fluently and consistently allows to avoid, in the short term, certain body pains and, in the long term, other dysfunctions or more serious pathologies. It should be taken into account that each person has a specific somato-psycho-emotional pattern that generates a body imbalance; it is in this imbalance or deviation where emphasis should be made at the physiotherapeutic level by developing certain tools for the patient to avoid a series of alterations at the articular, muscular and respiratory level.
We must never forget that behind back suffering there is, in some way, an emotional suffering.