Term awakening is very esoteric and imho should not be used on DhO unless someone has strict definition about what they awakened to. For example if person awakened to 7th dimension, universal consciousness then term Awakening makes perfect sense. If they meditated a lot, had some kind of seizure after which mind spin with less collisions then calling it awakening is completely unjustified.
There can be awakening to understanding - you need to understand how something works.
Understanding how mind works, what the issues are etc. isn't impossibly hard but from available data it is impossible if it doesn't interest you how mind & body works and just want them working better. To make mind & body work better you do not need to understand hence almost no one has any understanding and little understanding they have is completely backwards.
Will awakening end attachments and aversions, ending related emotions even if they are suppressed and so end muscle tension and any pain it causes?
Correct order of events is first you end attachments, clinging, aversion, fetter, etc. and then claim attainments which definition says you do not have said issues.
Since however no one wants to put any effort in to understanding any of these issues, let alone better themselves and people just think they will able to meditate enough until they can have click and somehow everything be better despite doing nothing to end anything - good news: it is possible!
Dukkha issue is technical. It is enough for brain to learn to shift resources it uses fast fast and you won't experience dukkha. Same technicalities which force mind to shift which parts of it are used can shift which parts of mind control muscles.
If however you manage to force your way through to such bizzare attainment of mind state which doesn't listen to anything you would like to cling to because it will force your shut down and assign new you in your place moment later before any clinging will be able to affect anything please do not call it "awakening" because it sounds silly.
Especially if you will have no idea how it works - which is normal. People who attained these things are oblivious about anything about how their mind states operate and will only be able to say sense of self doesn't exist and nothing sticks - it like clinging neither sense of self or things which would normally have some effects eg. emotional won't have chance to arise because mind constantly changes which parts of nervous system are in use, much faster and more aggressively than normal. Brain learns this because people who attain these attainments are so clingy to idea of enlightenment and do meditation so badly brain has to figure and do something to protect itself. Resulting mind state is still noisy as hell but out of noisy mind which can cling and noisy which cannot the second is still much better. Imhao.
