"You'd be surprised at how much tension you're carrying"

[Image description: A Facebook post by Daniel Garcia "Place the heel of your palm in the groove between your chin and lower lip. Gently push down until you feel your jaw really open and stretch. Massage the hinges of your jaw after. Unclench your teeth. Sit up straight and arch your back. Feel it stretch. Are you carrying any tension, stress down there? Unlatch your tongue from the roof of your mouth. Massage the tendons in your neck. Gently press and drag your thumbs across your eyes, then press and roll the pads of them in small circles.

You'd be surprised at how much tension you're carrying. Breathe. Take a sec. Pause."]

Daniel Garcia's work appears or is forthcoming in Write About Now, Button Poetry, Hawaii Pacific Review, Crab Fat Magazine, SLICE, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. A semifinalist for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, Daniel is a Rustbelt Poetry Slam Champion, a recipient of the Myong Cha Son Haiku Award, the 1st Place Personal Essay Award at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, and winner of the Bat City Review Short Prose Contest.