What is Your Body Saying?

It’s been a while since I’ve had any health issues worth reporting but I thought I’d update you on what my body has been telling me. My main problem was my left knee and the damage I did when I slipped on some petrol on a carpark floor recently. I was wondering what this ‘accident’ was really about and when I developed a condition called ‘erythema nodosum’ it became very obvious that my wounded pride was really the cause of my fall.

Knees allow you to run, to stand straight and the kneel down- they are connected to pride, obstinacy, ego and surrender. The adage ‘pride comes before a fall’ was therefore very relevant to me injuring my knee. I had just had a ‘conversation’ with my sister concerning a particular relationship and I had felt quite defensive about. The knee and it’s flexibility represent the ability to concede, to give way and give in. As an obstinate character, I was refusing to concede to the point of the conversation. I refused to concede the point of the discussion and that was the cause of my knee injury. You might ask how an ‘accident’ can be caused by this? I don’t believe that I have accidents as far as my body is concerned- an innate intelligence that keeps me alive without me consciously doing anything is more than capable of keeping me safe. The slip on the petrol may have been accidental but the way in which my body responded to the fall was not. My body gave way at my left knee- my feminine side which was rather irritated by the topic of discussion.

Add to this the development of ‘erythema nodosum’ which is roughly translated as ‘red patches’ in my knee, and I got a very clear message. Erythema nodosum is an inflammation of the tissues which results in hot, itchy, red patches which often doesn’t seem to have any cause or cure according to orthodox medicine. I got it in my left knee after I had my daughter- again, wounded pride! After crying like a baby during the birth, feeling guilty that I’d even asked for pain relief (yes, I know!) and worrying that I should have been more in control of myself (yes, I know!) I got a sore knee. It was my difficulty in living up to my ideals that showed up in a physical message. This time, my knee was really inflamed and so I knew it was the irritation I felt emotionally- someone or something had made me feel angry and I was refusing to give in.

This came up during a BodyTalk session and I had been doing some tapping over the issue so the inflammation went relatively quickly but it took a while for the knee to calm down completely- safe to say my pride and ego are obviously not that easily appeased- something for me to continue to work on but I am grateful for the insights that my body gives me about my emotional states!