The Adjustable Threshold of Sensory Awareness
Your muscle tension is like a rockstar who can’t hear his playing in his monitor.
There is a part of your brain that actively adjusts the loudness of the tension sensation from themuscles back to your brain. Unfortunately, you’re brain isn’t hearing much of it.
Your muscles are ‘on’ so much that they are sore and causing pain. Your brain has set the threshold of your tension awareness. Most of your muscle tension is outside of your awareness. The threshold is changeable.
In response to the insults of life, all the endlessly practiced reactions to stress, trauma, and injury, your nervous system raises its threshold of tension perception. These reactive tensions become the new normal. This is the root of the problem. What you are not aware of will not change. You will remain trapped in the habit. Posture is the expression of tension habit that is outside of your awareness.
Somatic Re-Education Process is the easiest, most direct way to change persistent, troublesome muscle tensions. It is education because you teach your brain. This gentle movement process allows you to teach your nervous system a renewed sensory threshold. It’s like changing a hearing aid battery. You can finally hear what’s going on. That “hearing” allows you to regain control of tension.
Take an inspired step and take back sovereignty over your muscle system. The results are less pain, renewed vitality, freedom from the residue of stress, and deeper self-knowledge.
As you learn to recalibrate the threshold of your tension awareness, your awareness will change in other areas of your life. This new freedom will allow you to hear, and play, the lyrical harmonies of your embodiment.
-Eric Cooper
InspireSomatics.com
2019