Alexander Lowen was an American PsychoTherapist with an interest in the link between the mind and the body. I read this very interesting quote from one of his books recently, I’m sure plenty of you can associate with the concept of emotions manifesting as muscular tension…

“While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling is diminished. The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid. Suppression entails the development of chronic muscular tension in those areas of the body where the feeling would be experienced.“