The brain has a constant amount of energy that it burns whether or not we are thinking “hard”. On the other hand, “thinking hard” often produces emotional stress. Emotional stress is or results in muscle tension and that tension can lead to headaches.
That’s mostly wasted motions. The most targeted way of getting rid of this kind of tensing up I know is the Grinberg method but other somatic approaches like Feldenkrais also reduce the amount of wasted motion that shows as tensing up.
Aside from that there’s a phenomenon that’s called ego depletion in the literature. I have my own theory about the relating space and I will likely publish a longer posts on it within two weeks from now.
The brain has a constant amount of energy that it burns whether or not we are thinking “hard”. On the other hand, “thinking hard” often produces emotional stress. Emotional stress is or results in muscle tension and that tension can lead to headaches.
That’s mostly wasted motions. The most targeted way of getting rid of this kind of tensing up I know is the Grinberg method but other somatic approaches like Feldenkrais also reduce the amount of wasted motion that shows as tensing up.
Aside from that there’s a phenomenon that’s called ego depletion in the literature. I have my own theory about the relating space and I will likely publish a longer posts on it within two weeks from now.
Interesting! I was going to ask some follow up questions, but if you’re planning on writing more about it I’ll wait for the write ups :)