The phrase
"to tense up" means to become rigid or stiff, often as a response to stress, anxiety, fear or discomfort.
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If you worry it can make your
body tense up which stops the contractions do their job and is almost like you fighting against your own body.
The difference is not perception but rather performance when risk is involved — the
muscles tense up.
It makes every muscle in my body feel like it wants to
tense up at the same time.
If not, it is much easier for you to
tense up during the contraction causing yourself unnecessary pain and fear.
As mom experiences more pain from this position, her body could
tense up more and slow down the labor.
If you feel your
shoulders tense up toward your ears, try to relax them again so your body is loose and all in sync.
This makes a baby try to open their arms,
then tense them up along with the legs, and then try to start crying.
When the muscles in your neck, back, shoulders, and
jaw tense up, pain usually isn't far behind.
As muscles can
tense up when you are stressed out, you may not even notice until you stretch to release the tension.
Fear will make her
body tense up and actually make the labor process more difficult.
Our blood pressure rises, our
muscles tense up and there is a change in our cognitive function as our emotional response is heightened leading to reduced decision making.
I plan to take more deep breaths and to remind myself to relax, instead of
tensing up as the day goes on.»
The puller of the string
tenses up in anticipation, and then when nothing comes, the tension is deflated instead of popped.
I actually
tensed up on purpose to try to delay labor so I could get the second dose of antibiotics before delivering.
After sitting for long periods of time, the low back
tenses up from lack of movement.
Feeling tensed up can work against the effect of coconut oil, so stay calm and relaxed.
«I ended up actually hurting myself, wrenching my neck from
tensing up so hard.
I
immediately tensed up, my daughter could sense it, and she started screaming and thrashing, so of course the cover came ripping off.
Our muscles
tense up with low GABA levels, too, as the neurotransmitter is responsible for muscle relaxation.
Most
dogs tense up and release a small amount of anal gland secretions and we never even realize it.
If your back becomes looser than your belly, the relative tightness of the abdomen will bend your spine forward, and your back muscles will
tense up by reflex to oppose this.
I sit there assuring myself I'm totally fine and dandy with it, but as the minutes tick past I
start tensing up like a jack - in - the - box that's about to burst out.
It's cool stuff that'll make your
hands tense up as you try to emerge victorious.
Without SL, you have to monitor the market very often and get
very tensed up because you don't know how much you are going to lose.
If your
grandbaby tenses up and cries when you hold him or her, it may be a reaction to your own anxiety.
If Child A needs to be at violin class at 4, but Child B has a soccer game across town at 4:45, and Child C is complaining because he'd rather just stay home... yeah, that's the stuff that makes moms heads
instantly tense up with the pressures of mom life.
A no - brainer, but massage helps relax those same facial muscles and connective tissues that
tense up unwittingly.
I thought about «relaxing» into the pain and letting it happen to
prevent tensing up - which is hard not to do!
As a result, the vertebrae rotate against each other in an uncoordinated way and the deep back muscles activated
incorrectly tense up.
Most of us tend to hold our breath at the peak of sexual arousal and
tense up long, deep breaths result in intense orgasms.
Honestly, each individual strength in this film is rarely, if ever particularly outstanding, but collectively, the pros outweigh the cons enough to make a reasonably compelling film that entertains and
occasionally tenses up, even though it could have bitten so much more firmly.
Your whole body will
hopefully tense up during the climax, as you become that spectator in the crowds hoping for Watley's safe return.
It's not quite the fractious thing that the first Tuscan was, but it still demands a relaxed pair of hands;
tense up too much when the Sagaris sniffs out a ridge in the road to follow and you're probably going to have a fight on your hands.
The engineers found that humans imperceptibly prepare themselves for each new change in direction by keeping their heads level and
proactively tensing up muscles in response to subtle indicators that tell our brains that movement is imminent.