Chinese medicine agrees that emotions can create stagnation
in the energy of the body, leading to issues with the spleen, heart, kidneys,
liver, bladder, gallbladder, etc. They usually categorize the emotions into
seven distinct areas – grief, sorrow, worry, fear, joy, anger and fright. Following are some more general rules about
how emotions display in the physical body:
Your
head hurts, or your brow is often furrowed:
This means you need to stop ignoring your intuition and
trust what your ‘higher self’ is trying to tell you about a situation or
person. Basically, you need to pay attention to your gut. A pain in the back of
the head, instead of the forehead means you haven’t forgiven yourself for
perceived faults or past mistakes.
Nearsightedness
or Farsightedness:
This means you have trouble ‘seeing things clearly.’
Farsighted folks often pine away for the future and nearsighted folks can’t
seeing anything but the nose on their own faces. Seeing the here and now
accurately is difficult for either person with sight issues. Meditation is one
way to offload emotions that cause you to feel uncomfortable in the here and
now.
Hearing
Problems are similar – it may mean you are tuning out.
Our
mouths are associated with our expression of sensuality. If you
have lost your taste, it can literally mean you have disconnected from reality
because it ‘leaves a bad taste in your mouth.’ This part of the body is also
connected with the second chakra, or Swadhistana, which governs all the sexual
organs. If you can’t experience pleasure without guilt or over-indulge in
sexual gratification, it will also lead to pursed lips or an unattractive
mouth.
Your
neck and shoulders support the head, but are also the gateway
between the head and heart – or the Anahata Chakra (Heart Chakra) and Ajna
Chakra (Pineal Gland Center). Issues with the throat, and neck, or tightness in
the shoulders may mean you are having a hard time integrating mental acuity and
tempering it with compassion. If you are overly intellectual, you may have
shoulder and neck problems. This is the
most narrow part of the body between the torso and head, and therefore, a place
that easily gets congested energetically. Yoga poses like Matsyasana (Fish
Pose) and Halasana (Plow Pose) can help to release blockages here, and the
emotions that are stored without conscious awareness.
The
Arms and Hands are how you reach out to others. Any stagnation
of positive emotion regarding extending yourself to others can manifest as
physical symptoms here.
While we can’t nor should stuff our emotions down, including
negative ones, we can learn to control them and shift our attention to positive
feelings as often as possible to dramatically change our bodies – right down to
our DNA.
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