The Tension Check
Your tightness keeps coming back. Let's look at what may be bringing it back.
If you've stretched it, massaged it, strengthened it, worked on your posture, or tried to relax it—and the tightness still returns—there may be part of the pattern you haven't been looking at yet.
Maybe getting tight isn't the whole problem.
You loosen your neck.
Your shoulders feel better after a massage.
Stretching helps your back.
You move around, adjust your posture, breathe, exercise, or try to relax.
And sometimes those things genuinely help.
So why does the tightness keep coming back?
One possibility is that we've been paying most of our attention to what happens after the tightness appears.
The Tension Check helps you begin looking at what might be happening before you notice it.
We're going to look for three things.
You don't need to know anything about anatomy, posture, or the nervous system. You simply need to notice what happens in your own body.
Is there a pattern?
We'll look at where your tightness returns and the situations in which you tend to notice it.
Is there effort you aren't noticing?
You'll do a quick check to see whether your body may be doing more work than the moment requires.
Where have you been entering the cycle?
We'll look at what you've already tried—and whether most of those strategies begin only after the tightness has appeared.
This isn't another test telling you what's wrong with you.
I'm not going to give you a made-up body type or tell you that every symptom is caused by tension, stress, posture, fascia, or your nervous system.
Your answers can't diagnose why you're hurting.
They can help us identify a pattern worth investigating.
That's an important difference.
Instead of assuming we already know the answer, we'll start with what your body actually shows us.
Most people become experts at the end of the cycle.
When something gets tight, uncomfortable, or painful, naturally we try to make it feel better.
But there's another question that often gets overlooked:
What was your body doing during the minutes or hours before you noticed the tightness?
That's where this check begins.
This may be especially useful if...
And you won't just answer questions.
During the check, I'll have you pause for a moment and actually observe what your jaw, shoulders, hands, breathing, and body are doing.
Don't try to relax.
Don't correct yourself.
Just notice.
You may find effort you didn't know was there.
Or you may not.
Either answer is useful.
At the end, you'll choose what happens next.
You don't need to commit to a large program just because you took the check.
Explore it yourself
Continue into Reset10, my 10-day guided experience for learning to notice recurring effort and experiment with your own tension patterns.
Let me look with you
Choose a paid personalized assessment where I'll review your answers and investigate your particular pattern with you one-on-one.
Ready?
Stop asking only how to get rid of the tightness.
Let's start looking at the pattern around it.
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