Tensing up is a way of avoiding the unadorned experience and the discomfort it brings ego, whether that discomfort is physical or psychological; tension is our way of closing down experience and shutting off awareness.

our body as a whole, as well as any part of it, is not an objectifiable, quantifiable reality, but rather a “gate,” a portal and a process through which much larger domains of our being, and of Being itself, become accessible to us.