Where Is Your Body Holding What Your Heart Hasn’t Spoken?
Ever had a lump in your throat before you cried?
Or felt your stomach churn during a difficult conversation? That wasn’t random. That was emotion, held, stored, speaking through sensation.
Your body is your subconscious made flesh. And when emotions aren’t allowed to move through, they settle in.
Tantra teaches us that the body doesn’t lie. It holds on until it feels safe to let go.
Common Signs You’re Holding Emotion in Your Body:
Tight jaw or teeth grinding (unspoken truth, anger, suppression)
Shallow breathing (anxiety, fear, panic)
Numbness or lack of sensation (shutdown, dissociation, overwhelm)
Tight hips and pelvis (repressed grief, sexuality, shame)
Shoulder and neck tension (burdens, unexpressed responsibility)
Gut issues or tight belly (worry, fear, powerlessness)
Constant fatigue (emotional exhaustion masked as physical)
You don’t need to psychoanalyse every symptom. But you do need to listen. Your body remembers what your mind may have tried to forget.
Why This Happens
From a young age, most of us were taught to suppress our emotions to stay “safe” or “acceptable.”
Don’t cry.
Be strong.
Stop being dramatic.
So the energy of those feelings didn’t leave. It just buried itself deeper. And over time, that buried energy becomes tension, illness, or emotional reactivity.
But here’s the beauty: what the body holds, it can also release.
The Tantric Approach to Emotional Release
Tantra is not about fixing. It’s about feeling. It teaches you to stay present with sensation rather than flee from it. In this way, the body becomes your healer. Not your enemy.
1. Befriend the Sensation
Instead of naming it anxiety or grief, notice how it feels:
Is it sharp or dull?
Moving or still?
Hot or cold?
This removes judgment and invites curiosity. Every sensation becomes a gateway.
2. Breath is the Bridge
Emotions get stuck when breath is shallow. Bringing deep, conscious breath into tense areas lets them soften. It’s not about forcing anything—it’s about inviting openness.
3. Let the Body Speak
Movement, sound, touch. Tthey’re all ways to express what words cannot. A tremble, a sigh, a shake, it’s all the body releasing.
Try this:
Sit or lie down.
Place your hands where you feel the tension.
Breathe into it.
Let a sound emerge naturally.
Let yourself move or shake, even a little.
4. Create a Safe Ritual Space
Set time aside just to feel. Light a candle. Put on music. Let the intention be: “Today, I listen to my body without rushing it.”
5. Get Support When Needed
Sometimes, what’s held is too big to navigate alone. A trauma-informed Tantric session can create the safety and attunement you need to gently unwind these patterns with love and slowness.
You Are Not Broken.
If you’re feeling tight, stuck, or numb, it doesn’t mean you’re doing life wrong. It means you’re carrying more than your body knows how to hold.
But with breath, presence, and safe containers, you can release what isn’t yours to carry anymore.
You deserve to feel light again.
You deserve to inhabit your body fully.
You deserve to be free.
If you’re ready to explore where emotion lives in your body and begin softening what’s been silently held, I invite you to book a Tantra Counselling or Mystic Tantra Massage session.
