I'm sure there are conditions, cultures and circumstances where this does not apply as much, but:
In my limited experience any sort of awakening should be accompanied by subtle-to-massive release of tension somewhere in the body.
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Kind of like an orgasm, if I'm being crass - sometimes even more powerful and immediate, sometimes subtle and dragged out over days and weeks.
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Today I had the vivid experience of a pain I'd coiled around for years coming apart, slowly, as the pressure around it lightened.
This feeling permeated the body, so that a release that started somewhere in the gut eventually reached the toes and the crown of the head.
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Meditation can really fuck you up. But sometimes, the work pays off.
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That's generally my experience. Energy release accompanies perspectival shift
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It seems to be an issue with conditioned dissociation.
If, for whatever reason, you *haven't* been conditioned to dissociate all the time, the tension isn't there to begin with.
But that's mostly a speculative point.
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I mean, I've had everything from "huh, shoulders feel a bit less tense" all the way to weeping in a deranged mixture of joy and awe.
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discovered this on my own when shoulders-and-up tension cleared and blood rushed to my head, producing the most vivid and transformative clarity of mind I’ve ever experienced. I’ve had brain fog for a few months now, but I think this is about to happen again soon.
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I can tell because, when I stretch out my spine, it’s the vertebrae right between my shoulders that are beginning to loosen and shift. I sort of think tension is the body’s way of denying access to certain parts of the mind until we’re ready to handle them.