Real Relaxation by Konstantin Koss

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Last time I wrote a guide to my favorite relaxation technique: the primal scream. But why does this work so well?

The primal scream releases stuck emotion in your body.

Whenever something bothers us, our primal roots actually want to scream out and fight the obstacle. This is still embedded in the basic animalistic parts of the brain.

Actually repression is the exact cause of the thoughts that are running rampant in our heads when we experienced some type of emotional, social or other type of abuse. (Read: your collegue was a prick)

Now, this doesn’t sound very plausible at first if you think about it. You are not repressing when someone just unloaded her anger on you and now you are freakin’ upset at them. You are feeling those emotiones, you are not repressing. Or are you?

Well, your primal instincts would rather have that person’s face smashed in with a stone and not taking physical action is repression to those instincts.

The word repression somehow got a bad vibe to it. Of course repressing in modern society is highly desirable, don’t get me wrong. On the one hand we do not want instinct-driven animals everywhere, but on the other hand this is a violation to some deep burried roots.

Also, notice what happens when you got a stress-reaction. Your blood starts flowing less into your head and digestive tract and exponentially more into your muscles. Your heart beats faster, spreading more oxygen into your cells. It’s the same reaction like when running or doing any other sports activity.

Think about it, someone merely insults you and your body gets ready for hardcore physical activity, for fight or flight.

But you just keep restraining yourself and keep the fight in your head. That’s why you keep mentally battling them when going to bed, that’s why stress stores up in the body. And that’s why abreactive primal therapy works so well, it get’s you physical. Screaming out your anger is what your biology wanted to do in the first place. (And screaming is just one part of primal therapy.) That’s also why working out is so effective in calming down.

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