Jaw / TMJ Muscles

Buried Feelings

Also known as: TMJ · Jaw muscles · Masseter

Resentmenttensionbitterness
Possible Buried Beliefs
  • “If I open my mouth, it will come out wrong.”
Healing Notes

From the 2023 Emotion Link Reference Guide — possible emotional associations: jaw and TMJ muscle tension is often linked with resentment, tension and bitterness. Possible purpose or secondary gain: a way to keep bitter words clenched shut.

It moves through honest grief for what was unfair, and a choice — eventually — to stop paying interest on the debt.

Hard to Go Places

The places the body has been avoiding — the feelings, truths, or moments it has been organised to keep at a distance.

  • Jaw / TMJ Muscles

    Saying the resentment plainly instead of grinding on it.

  • Resentment

    Feeling the anger underneath without acting it out.

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