Jaw Tension - 1 Key Emotional Cause

Of course, there is usually more at play than just emotions when we have jaw tension or bruxism (clenching/grinding), however, this tension our expressing ourselves and holding back what we want to say often features in the stories of the people we work with. The goal of this audio is to raise self-awareness, so you can implement changes in your life and be more conscious as you go through your day. All the best, Kieferfreund

Transcript

Here are some reflections of how emotionally you might be contributing,

Or whatever you're going through emotionally might be contributing to the tension in your jaw.

In most cases when I work with someone,

When getting down to the bottom of where this is coming from,

The theme of there's something you want to say but you can't say it,

Or you're stopping yourself from saying it because you feel like you can't say it,

Is always in there in the mix.

So if you just think about the phrases that we use in our language,

Like shut your mouth,

You know that's quite a strong saying if someone said that to you,

But just think about it,

You really shut your mouth and you clench up,

Tense up your jaw.

So if you just reflect,

This is just a really quick exercise and we could go much deeper,

But if you just reflect,

When your jaw tension started,

Or maybe it's been going on for a while and this has been a theme for you for a while,

Is there anything that you feel that you're really suppressing that you want to say?

Something that you feel strongly about,

You're quite emotionally involved with,

But you feel like you can't share it with the people that you care about,

Or the people at work,

Or society as a whole.

Are you suppressing yourself somehow?

And if you are,

There's no shame because that's just what you've gone through and you've tried your best throughout the whole situation,

Right?

And you felt like that was the best thing you could do to go forward,

That's how you could,

That's how you and your body thought you could thrive the best because maybe saying something could have been quite dangerous or perceived as quite dangerous for you.

The result however,

The cost of that,

May be tension in the jaw.

So when we identify that,

When you get a bit more clarity about,

Okay,

Here is where I'm suppressing myself,

Or here is how I have been suppressing myself and I'm still kind of active but I've kind of forgot about it,

Or this is very active and I'm really in the middle of this right now.

When you bring awareness to that,

That usually already starts to change symptoms and release tension.

But most importantly,

And I can't stress this enough,

This is also a key part of the work that I do with people when we look at this kind of thing.

It's about being with that feeling.

Being with it,

Sitting down next,

Almost sitting down next to it with a cup of tea and not wanting to change it or push it away or resist it.

Just being with it,

Allowing it to be there and by that kind of showing it that is not needed right now.

Not needed in the way that it's showing up,

Like it's okay.

And then maybe at the same time you can also work on expressing yourself more clearly.

And there's a few things you can do for that,

Get into that for another video.

But that's really emotionally one of the key ingredients I find and I hope it's helpful.

As I said,

Don't beat yourself up if that's the case for you.

Just try to inquire what is going on,

Try to raise self-awareness and realize it's an amazing opportunity to grow and to become an even better person than you already are.

So I hope this was helpful.

Have a beautiful day.

Take care.

Reviews

This is a very interesting concept, I look forward to more exploration with Kieferfreund 🙏😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Spot on. Should have listened before going to ER and Dentist. Thank you.

This aligns with other correlations in my body and your sharing this commonality is valuable to me! Thank you🙏🏻

Yes, this was very helpful and reassuring! Six months ago my brother/roommate withheld crucial information that put me and our elderly parent’s health at risk with his personal (selfish, ignorant) decision to remain unvaccinated. I could feel my emotional tension was extremely high. Eventually I was able to own and explain my feelings to him. After learning some breathing techniques I was able to release some of my physical tension. Typically, I usually try to avoid conflict. Now, I’m learning that by sitting with and acknowledging my efforts to maintain peaceful relationships, I can decrease my jaw tension and pain. Thank you so very much🙏

Thought I was going to be triggered for a moment ! Me and my Dad were told “shut your mouth” quite often. It ended for Dad on 9-17-20 when he passed away and for me on 6-7-21 when my Mama passed away. I had never thought about this lifetime of being told thst contributing to my jaw tension. I’m always working to relax all areas of this tired body. Thank you for this one Felix. 💜

Really helpful 👌