Releasing Held Tension
Best for: chronic body tension and bracing
Anxiety stores itself in the body long before the mind notices. In this session you'll practise a slow, attentive scan through the places that hold tension on your behalf, jaw, shoulders, hands, belly, using gentle awareness rather than effort to invite release. The technique is somatic noticing paired with micro-softening: small, achievable shifts that let the body remember its resting state.
About this session
Releasing Held Tension is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the 21-day anxiety collection.
Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.