Soma & Soul

Your diaphragm is meant to handle most of the work involved in breathing.

But when your breathing pattern shifts toward your upper chest, the muscles in your chest and neck begin working harder than they should. This can include your scalenes, sternocleidomastoid, and upper trapezius muscles.

Over time, these muscles can become overworked, tense, and uncomfortable because they’re being activated with every breath. The surrounding fascia can also become increasingly tight.

And this can affect more than just your neck and shoulders — your jaw is closely connected to your breathing muscles.

The muscles and fascia around your jaw, tongue, and neck work together. So when there’s increased tension through your upper chest and neck, that tension can also contribute to jaw tightness and discomfort.

Then, if you’re constantly yawning, it can create an even bigger cycle.

Repeatedly opening your mouth wide, combined with taking forced or upper-chest breaths, can place extra repetitive strain on your jaw, neck, and upper chest muscles.

In other words, the way you breathe can influence the amount of tension you carry through your neck and jaw.
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Stress and trauma can be carried in the body long after the moment has passed. Tension can settle into the jaw, neck, shoulders and face, showing up as tightness, heaviness and that feeling of being “stuck.”
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The tension, sorrow, mental stress we carry starts throughout the body, but shows up with stiffness, tightness and tension in our chest, neck, shoulders, head and face. We want our faces to look light & happy, not heavy. ✨Book your treatment and begin to unravel how it works and how to help it☘️
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When fascia and muscle tissue in the chest (pectoralis) and platysma (neck) become chronically tight and restricted, they exert a downward mechanical pull on the facial structures. Because the platysma weaves directly into the depressor muscles of the lower face, this persistent downward tension overpowers the lifting muscles of the upper face. The result is an accelerated gravitational pull that causes the skin to sag, creating the appearance of jowls and a less defined jawline.
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