Why You’re Stressed, According To Which Body Part Hurts
The impact stress can have on your body is completely underrated. The body is a very complex thing. You might not realize it, but the pain, pressure, or feelings from your body are signals that are trying to get a message to you. This is why it’s important to take care of your body and listen to its cues.
Let’s start with an example. For those of us who get chronic migraines, you probably know what your triggers are. For instance, some days I forget to take care of myself at work. I get too busy, I’m on my feet all day, forget to eat, am way overstimulated, and I start to feel a migraine coming on. I inevitably end the night laying in a dark room with an ice pack on my throbbing head. Along with the migraine, I get dizzy and sick to my stomach.
My body is reacting to the environment I put myself in, and it’s trying to tell me to make a change. Obviously, we can’t always avoid stress, and sometimes we just have to treat it as needed so that it doesn’t get worse. Psychology Today suggests that we store our stress in different parts of the body. It says that we express certain types of tension or negative emotions through different body parts. If you’re someone who struggles to be aware of their emotions, and only really notice that you’re upset or stressed about something when you feel a physical pain, then this breakdown can help you figure out what’s bothering you.
Lower Back = Anger
When we’re angry and we bottle up the anger rather than doing something with it, our back tends to hold the tension.