Therapist Shari B. Kaplan explains how visual, auditory, and memory-based blockages trap tension in the body. Specific physical exercises can target each type, releasing the jam and opening mental space.
One of the reasons I do different types of exercises, because sometimes it's the eyes that are jamming things up, sometimes it's the auditory processing that's jamming things up, and sometimes it's just stuck memories jamming things up. And there's different physical movements and there's different types of simple exercises that we can be working with our patients that actually give them momentum because it unlocks their bodies and it opens up their mind.
