Tension – common cause of migraine headaches

Tension is a common cause of migraine headaches. Yoga therapy postulates that tension headaches are a common type of stress and lifestyle related headaches. This is the built up version of what people would have experienced later. That is, imagine they return from a mid day shopping hungry in the midday sun. People undergoing stress and tension headaches and seek medical help are, by and large, hyper-sensitive and often end up with a head ache resulting from even minor triggers.

By and large, tension headaches are triggered or aggravated as a result of external environmental and life style changes. These include late meals, very hot weather, closed spaces, loud noises, and automobile pollution. Then there are psychological situations like tension, anxiety or anger. In fact, even positive emotional surges such as an excitement of receiving large profits or passing exams with high credits. Oftentimes, tension headaches are linked to constipation and insomnia. Lack of sleep is the one of the most common causes of tension headaches.
 
Modern medical science has clearly traced the pathway of tension headaches. They seem to know exactly how the above mentioned events can trigger headaches. The 'ache' is the result of a steady, continuous and long standing contraction or tightening of the frowning muscles in your forehead. These are called the frontals. Imagine if you were to hold a fist tight for 1 – 2 hours. What do you think would happen? You end up with a severe pain in your wrist, forearm and hand.

Tension headaches are much like this. Without knowing it, you are holding your frontals very tight. The brain is under the control of the mind. When a person thinks, worries or overexerts his or her mind triggers off a loop of electrical currents which tighten the frontals. The problem comes up unconsciously in one’s own mind that is hypersensitive. For this reason the answer to the problem also lies within. This is in the form of an inbuilt program in the system. Al one has to know is how to use it. Yoga therapy teaches that.