Hip pain/stiffness is a physical representation of deep, primal fear.
If you suffer from hip pain you know what a grind it can be. Grinding pain or stiffness curtails mobility and prevents you doing the things you love. Whilst you might not want to do headstands, you want to be able to move forward, both metaphorically and physically, in a pain free, confident way. To do that, you first have to understand what is causing your body to respond the way it is.
Life has always been an uncertain business. The rapid changes of recent years would be incomprehensible to previous generations. Unfortunately, however much we consciously embrace change, emotional responses and biology simply don’t evolve that fast! Consequently, we shouldn’t be surprised when our bodies react in what, to our conscious mind, seem like odd, sometimes painful and usually inconvenient ways.
Our bodies show us our inner emotional landscape the only way they can, by manifesting a physical representation of that inner dis-ease. The area affected, correlates with the area of your life about which you are concerned. In the case of your hips, it all revolves around fear and uncertainty. Safety and security are vital, deep, primal survival instincts. When we worry about them, we can literally worry ourselves to a stand still. Our hip and pelvic area seize up making movement hard or impossible.
EMOTIONAL ISSUES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO HIP PAIN/STIFFNESS
Fear of making major decisions.
Lack of physical and emotional support.
Not wanting to accept present experiences.
Fear of going forward.
Worry about major decisions.
Belief that we have nothing good to look forward to.
No matter how deeply we try to bury, deny, or ignore them, the scared, hurt and otherwise wounded parts of ourselves live on. Until we heal them, they’ll continue to affect every area of our lives and our health!
Your body is wise. It’s nocoincidence that it manifested pain, discomfort or injury exactly the way it has!
Tap the area your body has manifested it’s dis-ease in on the image below to discover the emotional issues behind it and the health and lifestyle messages they hold. When you know what they are you can begin to heal them!
The Emotions Beneath Your Pain
Headache & Migraine
Headache & Migraine are your body’s way of telling you you are going too fast, doing too much and overloading your circuits. You need to take some time out, relax and ease the pressure! Details of ourAffirmations For Headache & Migraine Relief meditation.
Heart
Our heart and blood stream correspond to our relationship with love. As blood gives us life, so love gives our lives meaning and direction. The more we open our hearts to love, for ourselves and others, the more expansive our lives become. If we close down to love, our hearts can harden and blood circulation constrict. As with all of these things, this works on a physical as well as an emotional level. An open, loving heart is vital to our physical and emotional well-being. Details of our Affirmations To Heal Your Heartmeditation.
Breasts
Lack of self-care, putting others needs before your our own and repressing our feelings, taking on other people's problems as if they were our own all contribute to an overall lack of self-care and self - esteem. Sadness, regret, holding on to past hurts, not knowing how to say no, feeling overwhelmed by the responsibilities of motherhood can all lead to feelings of disempowerment, victimhood and feeling as though we have no control of our own lives. Feeling unfulfilled by life and finding it difficult if not impossible to ask for help all can all contribute to breast conditions. Self-love really is the key to breast health. Details of our Affirmations For Breast Health meditation.
Upper Back Pain
The upper back represents the reverse side of the heart; this is where we find fear, irritation, anger, resentment and frustration. Many physical issues can arise based upon the emotional health of your spine. Since the spine literally supports your whole body, pain and imbalance in the spinal column often reflects feelings of non support and lack of love. Details of our Affirmations For Upper Back Pain Meditation.
Skin Conditions
The skin represents our physical and emotional boundaries! If our emotional and energetic boundaries are not healthy it will be reflected in the condition of our skin. If you are irritated or if someone is “getting under your skin” should you be surprised that your skin becomes itchy or inflamed, angry and red? If we feel we are under attack, (even if we strive to show a polished veneer to the outer world) sooner or later our skin will come to our defence in the only way it knows how, by manifesting physical evidence. Details of our Affirmations To Soothe Your Skin meditation.
Stomach Problems
Our stomachs are often where we store feelings of fear and anxiety. Digestion symbolises the ability to absorb what we need and let go of what we don’t need. Do you know what is good for you? Do you have a tendency to be influenced by things that are not good for you? When we harbour worry our digestive enzymes churn away until we can no longer stomach what is happening. Our relationship with food is intimately connected with how emotionally loved or nourished we feel and our stomachs deal with all these conflicting emotions for us. What emotions are you harbouring in your stomach? What painful emotions are you trying to swallow down? Details of our Affirmations To Soothe Your Stomach meditation.
Mid Back Pain
The middle area of your back holds the balance in the centre of the body; therefore it is connected to decision-making. Resentment can also be found in the middle back. Pain in the mid-back is associated to deficiency in the stomach liver, gallbladder, adrenal glands, and reproductive organs. The saying “I bent over backwards to help” relates to the middle back. Details of our Affirmations For Mid-Back Pain meditation.
Lower Back Pain
The lower back is often where we store feelings of being unsupported, the weight of responsibility. Issues with the lower back are connected to the large intestine, immune system, bladder, and kidneys. Childhood trauma that has not been dealt with often manifests in lower back problems. Issues of security, isolation, survival and self-support are often stored in the lower back. Details of our Affirmations For Lower Back Pain meditation.
Hip Pain & Stiffness
Fear of moving forward, feeling useless or fearing for our survival causes us to hold on tightly to what we have often to the point that we become immobile. Are you carrying too much weight for others, holding it as a mother carries a child on her hip? You may even be carrying your own mother in your hips. Is it hard for you to put her down and stand on your own? Hip pain often tells us that we're holding on to a lot of deep fear, root chakra, primal fear. Details of our Affirmations For Hip Pain & Stiffness meditation.
Ankle Pain & Injury
These thin little parts of our body support our entire weight. If an ankle slips, our whole body falls to the ground. Support is the key here as the ankles reflect the support we depend on not just from others but from our inner support system. This inner system consists of psychological and emotional beliefs that give our lives meaning and purpose. If any of this is taken away, doubted or questioned there is nothing to hold us upright. This can happen when we experience shock or trauma or when we feel rejected, betrayed and unable to stand alone. Details of our Affirmations For Ankle Pain & Injury meditation.
Neck Pain & Stiffness
The neck acts as a bridge between our heads and bodies, between the intellectual mind and the loving heart. Many of us have more energy in our heads, we can spend hours talking or thinking and this often comes at the expense of feeling or hearing our hearts and bodies. This can create tension or rigidity in our necks. If the head and the heart can communicate with each other and respect each other they may not feel so throttled or denied. Details of our Affirmations For Neck Pain meditation.
Knee Pain & Injury
We need our knees to be flexible so we can move with grace and ease, to dance, run and climb stairs! Pride and inflexibility put a strain on our knees. If our knees give way too quickly, knocking or trembling with fear or an inability to stand up for ourselves, we need to work on our self-esteem and insecurity issues come to believe in ourselves and claim our place in the world. Details of our Affirmations For Knee Pain & Injury meditation.
Our Bodies Carry Our Unresolved Pain and Trauma From The Past.
Our bodies carry our unresolved pain, worry, fear and trauma from the past. Unless we have consciously healed them, we are all still carrying the, sometimes crippling, feelings of rejection and low self-worth we picked up in early childhood and beyond. Our bodies pay a high price for our unresolved emotions!
Knees are wonderfully complex joints. We need them to be healthy and flexible so we can move with grace and ease. Dance, run, climb mountains and stairs which, with painful knees, can sometimes feel like mountains!
If we are struggling emotionally with situations that we seem to be stuck in, holding ourselves back by sticking rigidly to old habits, remaining in unhealthy relationships and stubbornly holding on to painful memories, our knees are likely to be struggling too!
Alternatively, low self-worth or fear of standing up for ourselves can lead to conditions that weaken our knees.
If our knees buckle, give way too quickly, knockor tremble with fear or we are unable to stand up for ourselves (metaphorically and/or physically). We need to work on our self-esteemand insecurity, learn to believe in ourselves and claim our place in the world.
9 Metaphysical/Emotional Issues related To Knee Pain
(Chronic & Acute)
•Stubborn ego and pride.
•Inability to bend.
•Fear.
•Inflexibility.
•Won’t give in.
•Fear of change of life direction.
•Lack of ease of movement.
•Unable to be flexible.
•Not wanting to bend, usually to authority.
Right Knee
•Not wanting to give in to authority
•Conflict
•Moving in a direction you don’t want to go, but going anyway
•Spiritual turmoil
•Conflicts about no longer being physically able to do something
Left Knee
•Insecurity
•Unresolved stress
Our best-selling Affirmations For Knee Pain & Injury meditation addresses and helps you resolve these and all the emotions generally associated with knee pain & injury Learn more…
Few things make us feel more helpless than when our dogs are ill, especially if they have to stay at the vet’s and we can’t see or speak to them. Even though we know all the medical interventions, as painful as many of them are, could be life saving, it’s horrible to imagine how scared and alone our beloved dog might be feeling. Our imaginations can really run away with us but there is nothing we can do – or is there?
How To Help Your Dog (And Yourself!) With Surrogate E.F.T. Tapping
It’s wonderful to see Emotional Freedom Technique becoming more widely known and accepted. It is very quick and easy to learn and amazingly effective even in the hands of complete beginners. Not all teachers know, or will tell you, that E.F.T. can also be done surrogately. You can tap on behalf of someone else even when you are not with them.
As we are using loving intention and energy, time and distance don’t matter. You can tap for your dog no matter where you are!
I won’t speculate on how or why this works, there are many different theories and for the purposes of this article, all I care about is that it helps someone out there.
Firstly Soothe Your Self!
We often project our fears onto others. In such a traumatic situation you have to soothe yourself first. We are no use to anyone else when we are in deep trauma and shock ourselves. Your dog feels your emotions and energy so by soothing yourself you also help them.
Three Ways to Tap On Behalf of Your Dog
Tune in to your dog and tap for whatever you feel or can see is upsetting or traumatising them. The obvious ones are of course, pain, fear, isolation and any painful medical interventions.
1. Tap On Your Own Body As Yourself
Simply tap as you normally would, but rather than state you have the problem, use your dog’s name for your set up statement. “Even though (dog’s name or my dog) has this problem (state problem) I deeply and completely love and accept (dog’s name). Do the same with your reminder phrase.
2. Tap On Your Own Body As Your Dog
Similar to the method above but sometimes this helps you tune into how your dog is feeling more accurately. Bearing in mind how connected you are it’s not surprising that you often feel exactly what they are feeling. Set your intention that you are your dog, then tap around as though you are your dog. “Even though I have this problem” etc. Remember to disconnect and come back to yourself when you are done.
3. Using A Proxy Item To Represent Your Dog
This can be a really useful way to help you focus. Any teddy bear, doll or other toy will do. Simply intend the toy to represent your dog and tap around the points as normal.
The Question of Permission
Given that you only have the highest and best intentions for your dog, your heart and intent are pure and loving. In the higher realms we are all connected, we are all love, we are all one. If you feel the need to ask the dog’s higher self or soul for permission do so but I truly don’t think anything done from such love, care and compassion can ever cause harm.
Few things make us feel more helpless than when our horses are ill, especially if they have to stay at the vet’s and we can’t see or speak to them. Even though we know all the medical interventions, as painful as many of them are, could be life saving, it’s horrible to imagine how scared and alone our beloved horse might be feeling. Our imaginations can really run away with us but there is nothing we can do – or is there?
How To Help Your Horse (And Yourself!) With Surrogate E.F.T. Tapping
It’s wonderful to see Emotional Freedom Technique becoming more widely known and accepted. It is very quick and easy to learn and amazingly effective even in the hands of complete beginners. Not all teachers know, or will tell you, that E.F.T. can also be done surrogately. You can tap on behalf of someone else even when you are not with them.
As we are using loving intention and energy, time and distance don’t matter. You can tap for your horse no matter where you are!
I won’t speculate on how or why this works, there are many different theories and for the purposes of this article, all I care about is that it helps someone out there.
Firstly Soothe Your Self!
We often project our fears onto others. In such a traumatic situation you have to soothe yourself first. We are no use to anyone else when we are in deep trauma and shock ourselves. Your horse feels your emotions and energy so by soothing yourself you also help them.
Three Ways to Tap On Behalf of Your Horse
Tune in to your horse and tap for whatever you feel or can see is upsetting or traumatising them. The obvious ones are of course, pain, fear, isolation and any painful medical interventions.
1. Tap On Your Own Body As Yourself
Simply tap as you normally would, but rather than state you have the problem, use your horse’s name for your set up statement. “Even though (horse’s name or my horse) has this problem (state problem) I deeply and completely love and accept (horse’s name). Do the same with your reminder phrase.
2. Tap On Your Own Body As Your Horse
Similar to the method above but sometimes this helps you tune into how your horse is feeling more accurately. Bearing in mind how connected you are it’s not surprising that you often feel exactly what they are feeling. Set your intention that you are your horse, then tap around as though you are your horse. “Even though I have this problem” etc. Remember to disconnect and come back to yourself when you are done.
3. Using A Proxy Item To Represent Your Horse
This can be a really useful way to help you focus. Any teddy bear, doll or other toy will do. Simply intend the toy to represent your horse and tap around the points as normal.
The Question of Permission
Given that you only have the highest and best intentions for your horse, your heart and intent are pure and loving. In the higher realms we are all connected, we are all love, we are all one. If you feel the need to ask the horse’s higher self or soul for permission do so but I truly don’t think anything done from such love, care and compassion can ever cause harm.