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When trying to relax creates more physical tension

I can feel my whole nervous system buzzing with stress but when I try to relax everything in my body just tenses up more.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The effort to force relaxation activates the sympathetic nervous system it was meant to calm.

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