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.Thus, if you find a tension around the eyes, you might be in-holdinga desire to cry.If you find a tension-ache in your temples, you may beclamping your jaws together unknowingly, perhaps trying to preventscreaming, yelling, or even laughing.A tension in the shoulder and neckindicates suppressed or in-held anger, rage, or hostility, while a tensionin the diaphragm indicates that you chronically restrict and in-hold yourbreathing in an attempt to control the display of wayward emotions orfeeling-attention in general.(During any act of self-control, most peoplewill hold their breath.) Tension through the lower abdomen and pelvicfloor usually means you have cut off all awareness of your sexuality, thatyou stiffen-up and in-hold that area to prevent the vital force of breathand energy from flowing through.Should this occur for whateverreason you will also shut off most feeling in your legs.And a tension,rigidity, or lack of strength in your legs usually indicates lack ofrootedness, stability, groundedness, or balance in general.Thus, as we have just seen, one of the best ways to understand thegeneral meaning of a particular block is by noting where it occurs in thebody.Particular body areas usually discharge particular emotions.Youprobably don t scream with your feet, cry with your knees, or haveorgasms in your elbows.So if there is a block in a particular body area,we can assume the corresponding emotion is being suppressed and in-held.In this regard, the works of Lowen and Keleman (listed at the endof this chapter) are excellent guides.Assuming you have now more or less located your major blocks tofeeling, you can proceed to the really interesting endeavor: releasing anddissolving the blocks themselves.Although the basic procedure is simpleto comprehend and easy enough to perform, the fruition of consciousresults takes much hard work, effort, and patience.You probably havespent at least 15 years building up a specific block, so you shouldn t he surprised if it doesn t vanish permanently after 15 minutes of work.Likeall boundaries, these take time to dissolve in conscious awareness.If you have encountered these blocks before, you will realize that themost annoying aspect of them is that no matter how hard you try, youcan t seem to relax them, at least not permanently.Through consciouseffort you might succeed in going limp for a few minutes, but the tension(in your neck, back, chest, etc.) returns with a vengeance the momentyou forget this "forced relaxation." Some blocks and tensions perhapsmost refuse to relax at all.And yet the only remedy we habituallyapply is the futile attempt to consciously relax these tensions (an ap-proach, paradoxically enough, which itself demands a rather exhaustingeffort).It seems, in other words, that these blocks happen to us, that theyoccur against our will, that they are wholly involuntary and uninvited.We seem to be their uncomfortable victims.Let us see, then, just what isinvolved in the persistence of these uninvited guests.The first thing to notice is that these blocks are all muscular, as wementioned earlier.Each block is actually a contraction, a tightening, alocking of some muscle or group of muscles.Some group of skeletalmuscles, that is, and every skeletal muscle is under voluntary control.The same voluntary muscles you use to move an arm, to chew, to walk,to jump, to make a fist, or to kick just these same muscles are operatingin every body block.But that means that these blocks are not indeed, they physicallycannot be involuntary.They do not happen to us.They are and must besomething we are actively doing to ourselves.In short, we have deliber-ately, intentionally, and voluntarily created these blocks, since they con-sist solely of voluntary muscles.Yet, curiously enough, we don t know that we are creating them.Weare tightening these muscles, and although we know that they are tightand tense, we do not know that we are actively tensing them.Oncethis type of block occurs, we can t relax these muscles, simply becausewe don t know we are contracting them in the first place.It then appearsthat these blocks happen all by themselves (just like all other uncon-scious processes), and we seem helpless victims crushed by forces "be-yond" our control. This whole situation is almost exactly as if I were pinching myselfbut didn t know it.It is as if I intentionally pinched myself, but thenforgot it was I who was doing the pinching.I feel the pain of thepinching, but cannot figure out why it won t stop.Just so, all of thesemuscular tensions anchored in my body are deep-seated forms of self-pinching
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