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Message: [QUOTE="AntonDrake, post: 1796453, member: 81614"] *heh heh* That sounds more like an automatic response. It's good though that you are able to be aware of changes like that in muscular tension. A lot of people tense up and are completely unaware of it... and in fact probably mistake that feeling of tension for an emotion or a thought process. In some people, muscular tension caused by situational stress or negative emotion can create perpetual muscular tension--the stress and the physical habit of tension form grooves, so to speak, in the nervous system. For instance you see many people walk around kind of huched-over or visibly tight; if those people want to really change the way they think or feel, at some point they might realize that the tension in their muscles holds them in their present state: an emotion created the chronic tension, so if you try to let go of the emotion, the chronic tension is still there and is a link back to the emotion and/or the thought process that created the emotion. I'm sorry if I seem to be really getting into this question... I do realize you were kind of making a joke, however this is actually an interesting question. The idea is that you want to be able to consciously control your muscles, with your mind; the inverse of that is the ability to consciously [I]relax [/I]your muscles with your mind. If you can work your muscles effectively without resistance, then you also gain the ability to relax them. Now... if the AK situation was very tense for some reason, sure, perhaps you might feel like doing an isometric technique with one of your arms or one of your legs as the action comes around to you... just to kind of channel some of that adrenaline, let off a bit of "steam" which might help you stay more balanced in the moment. Or you might just stay very relaxed--the opposite of what you jokingly describe. But it's your choice. A lot of people might be very lazy and sedentary, for instance lying around on the couch all day watching TV, but ironically they are also very tense. They are emotionally tense and their muscles are very tense. The techniques and concepts described in the book are actually a way out of this trap. Cheers! [/QUOTE]

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