Imagine flexing your bicep constantly and never fully letting go and you get the idea: After a while, this would cause your arm to lose flexibility, strength, and the ability to relax. When we lose the connection to those deep muscles, it becomes difficult to relax the area, meaning the pelvic floor becomes perma-flexed. You know that feeling when you get cut off by someone while driving, get bad news, or are about to go into a high stress situation? This can cause you to clench your pelvic floor (i.e., it feels like a pit in your stomach). It is a “stress container,” in that it’s where we process the emotion and house our fight or flight reactions.
In Eastern traditions, the pelvic floor is known as the root chakra-it’s where we tend to literally “hold” fears, specifically fears around primary instincts such as our health, our family’s safety, and our financial security. It’s a lack of connection to the deep core muscles, thanks to the fact that the pelvic floor gets stuck, disconnected, weak, and loses tone because it is an area where we hold stress and tension. There’s actually a pretty simple reason why so many women have issues with incontinence, low back pain, and not so much fun in the bedroom. Strong pelvic floor muscles also improve sexual performance and orgasm, help stabilize the hip joints, and act as a lymphatic pump for the pelvis. Having strong pelvic floor muscles gives you proper control over our bladder and bowels, but that’s not their only role. These muscles effectively form a hammock across the base of your pelvis that supports the internal organs above it. The pelvic floor is a group of muscles that attaches to the bones at the bottom of your pelvis. The culprit? A little-known group of muscles called the pelvic floor. The most common type of incontinence is called ‘stress incontinence,’ and happens when you laugh, cough, sneeze, jog, or do something that puts pressure on your bladder.
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, about 25 to 45% of women suffered from urinary incontinence (also known as leakage) at least once in the past year. We’ve all probably once said: “I laughed so hard I nearly peed myself.” Well, for many women that isn’t a joke it’s reality.
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