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Usage examples of muscles.

There is a certain form of idiocy in which the jaw muscles lose all tonus and the jaw just hangs open.

I wanted so badly to perform well that I kept tensing all my muscles and getting in my own way.

Tensing your muscles and holding your breath are part of the same thing-a general holding pattern which comes from trying too hard.

Reich continued to work, he did less verbal analysis and more work directly on the body to release muscles and free breathing.

It is a smooth muscle like the extensor muscles of the back, not a striated muscle like the biceps.

The breathing muscles which I have just discussed actually cause the pelvis to rock, affecting many other muscles.

In fact, though the air only goes as far down as the lungs, muscles stretch and contract all the way down the legs with every breath, creating a feeling of a full breath going all the way down the legs.

Yawning also stretches the face and chest muscles and brings tears to wash out the eyes.

This chapter is the beginning of the end for stiff necks, flabby muscles, weak backs, headaches, etc.

Our skeleton and muscles can channel our weight through two legs with ease and elegance.

We begin to compensate by holding ourselves up with muscles in the chest, neck and shoulders, sacrificing the freedom which nature gave us.

The muscles which control the diaphragm are located in the lower back, at the third, fourth, and fifth lumbar vertebrae.

If those vertebrae are interfered with, the breathing muscles actually get involved in the process of holding us up.

When we are alive, however, the jaw is attached to the rest of the skull by two of the strongest muscles in the body.

If you want to feel these muscles, put your fingers below your cheeks and back toward your ears and press.