A simple technique I find can often help people feeling tense and stressed is based on the idea of ‘like cures like’. Yes this is also the premise for homeopathy, which also appears to being more validated over the years.  Read along and see if this makes sense to you.
When we feel tense and stressed, our bodies respond with the typical ‘stress response’ of increasing adrenalin and cortisol. These ‘fight or flight’ reactions trigger these hormones which gets our body ready to deal with the threat we think we face. Often in our primitive environment (back in the so called Paleolithic era) this response was a matter of life or death. We might have been attacked by a dangerous animal and needed this chemical cascade to save us! Unfortunately today with the less severe but more frequent threats we experience, this ‘fight or flight’ response becomes toxic to our bodies!
The stress response makes our body ready to fight or run faster and harder, our muscles are tense and have more blood flow to them.   Back in the Paleolithic era we would in fact use these hormones to help us do exactly that; run or fight better. But today they just flow through our bodies making us feel tense and since we don’t really use them they end up causing more harm.
One way to reduce their negative effect is to use them – to get out and exercise. But often we cannot do that. So another way when feeling tense is to simply tense up! That’s right, take a deep breath and as you hold it, squeeze all the muscles in your body as hard as you can. By tensing up the muscles in this fashion,  I think to some degree you will end up finding a relief in the feelings of stress and tension!
I have tried it and it works for me!

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