Your brain tightens your neck when it senses a threat, integrating signals from your eyes, balance system, and muscles to assess safety. Retraining your eye movements can change how your brain evaluates danger, loosening the tension and reducing chronic pain.
So now that you've seen that the eyes do impact the neck, let's talk about what's really going on. It's common to think that the muscular system in the neck works independently of the visual system, which works independently of the vestibular system, and so on. But that's not true. The brain takes in all of this information from all of these systems and determines what's happening around you. And if it feels that something is not safe, then it is going to limit your movement or even give you pain. So what we've done here is we've just started to get the eyes to move in a different way to allow the neck to move better because the brain now thinks it's safer.
Stop Stretching Your Neck. Try This Instead (It Might Improve Your Vision Too)
