Would You Go Days Without Brushing Your Teeth?

Ask yourself this... Would you skip brushing your teeth for a week, or go days without drinking water, eating, or showering? I know I can hear you saying, “Of course not!”

But what about your inner world? Every day, we absorb stress, tension, and emotions, yet so many of us, carry these unseen burdens without ever releasing them. Just like our physical body needs daily care, our emotional body requires daily releasing practices to stay healthy. Yet, many of us continue to carry stress, tension, and unresolved feelings day after day, and even holding onto years of buried pain, without ever releasing them.

But here’s the truth, your body holds what your mind doesn’t process. You’ve probably heard the phrase “your body keeps score.” Chronic stress, anxiety, tension, and even physical pain are all signs that something inside needs to be released, let go of.

Modern neuroscience backs this up. Research shows that unreleased stress floods the body with cortisol, rewires the brain to stay in survival mode, and creates chronic inflammation, that leads to illness. Coming to the forefront are studies on psychosensory practices, such as The Havening Technique, Tapping and Touch Yoga, are all proving that intentional daily releasing, calms the nervous system, boosts oxytocin (the soothing hormone), and helps clear emotional and physical tension.

So, if you wouldn’t skip brushing your teeth, why are you skipping the daily emotional clean up for your body and mind?

Why You Need a Daily Releasing Practice:

1. Unreleased emotions are stored in the nervous system, creating chronic tension, anxiety, and even long-term health issues (as shown in studies on somatic memory).
2. Stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline build up without release, disrupting sleep, digestion, immunity, and accelerating aging.
3. The vagus nerve, key to our inner calm needs daily activation, through breath, touch, and movement, to regulate stress responses and restore balance.
4. Chronic stress reshapes the brain, shrinking areas like the hippocampus (memory, learning) and over activating the amygdala (fear centre).
5. The body keeps the score, emotional pain manifests physically as tight muscles, headaches, gut issues, and inflammation (scientifically linked to unresolved stress).
6. Deep, intentional breathwork reduces sympathetic (fight/flight) activation, and shifts you into parasympathetic (rest and heal) mode, essential for recovery and resilience.
7. Physical touch and self-soothing practices boost oxytocin, lowering blood pressure and calming the nervous system naturally a proven natural antidote to anxiety.
8. You can't access higher thinking (prefrontal cortex) when stuck in survival mode daily release brings you back to clarity, focus, and emotional stability.
9. Holding stress weakens the immune function, studies show chronic emotional suppression increases vulnerability to illness and slows healing.
10. Releasing emotions reduces inflammation, a root cause of many chronic diseases, including heart disease and autoimmune conditions.
11. Trauma and unprocessed emotions dysregulate the nervous system, daily practices like movement, breath, and psychosensory techniques repair and retrain it over time.
12. Life creates micro-stressors every day, if you don’t release them, they accumulate and affect both mind and body long-term.

So, are you ready to stop carrying what no longer serves you and start feeling lighter, clearer, and calmer?

Our Touch Yoga Releasing Practices are designed to help you let go of stored tension and stress through simple, science-backed methods like movement, breath, and therapeutic touch. Come join me at Yoga Box and start your daily releasing practice now!

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