Withdrawal and submission

Emotional state

• Body and mind is fatigued
• Loss of excitement
• Feelings of hopelessness
• Submission

Function of stage

• Preserve energy

Muscle reactions in withdrawal and submission

• The body is fatigued, unable to fight
• Diaphragm begins to descend
• The chest collapses
• Muscles of the anterior abdominal wall collapses, draging down muscles of the chest and esophagus

Muscles relevant to withdrawal and submission

• Deep ventral line
• Diaphragm
• Rhomboideus
• Stomach muscles
  • Rectus abodiminis
  • Transversus abdominis
  • External oblique
  • Internal oblique
• Supportive ventral line
• Deep ventral arm line together with deep dorsal arm line
• Superficial ventral arm line together with superficial dorsal arm line