Abstract

We, as a moving organism, always seek for better and easier ways of movement. However, our body movement pattern could be affected by emotional factors in the early developmental period and stressful events in our life. In this study, the relationship between emotion and body movement patterns was reviewed; the way how the strong emotion could become embedded in the muscular skeletal area, and how habitual movement patterns are formed and continues to affect throughout one's whole life. This habits could create limitation in one's action and, possibly furthermore, muscular skeletal diseases. Different kinds of somatic educations and movement therapies were introduced as the ways of freeing oneself from the emotional residues in our body as well as improving body movement. And further study of human body movement in the health psychology area was suggested.