Uniting Our Mind and Body

The Neck acts as a connector between our mind and body, thoughts and feelings.

• Witholding certain expressions – mental and emotional.
• Disconnection with one’s physical body – due to abuse or being disabled; lack of relating to one’s body.
• Passage of concepts, ideas, wishes, and will from the mental “brain” to action “body.”
• Stiff neck indicates resistance to other concepts or viewpoints; narrow mindedness; unable to turn or see the bigger picture.

Back:

• Where repressed anger, rage, resentment, feelings of guilt, shame, and fear reside.
• Charged memories/feelings of people or situations that have been pushed away, denied, ignored, disconnected, and detached from.
• Feeling unsupported, having been let down by someone close to us.
• Muscle tension caused by emotional tension and conflicts with friends or loved ones, fears of vulnerability, surrender, deep anger issues.

With Open Arms

Our Arms symbolize sharing and connecting ourselves with others.

• Extend one’s energy outwards.
• Assert some control and take action.
• Expressing one’s desires and making firm decisions.
• Ability to share one’s true feelings and connect with another.
• Open arms show acceptance and sharing one’s heart versus crossed arms over heart, which say/show, “stay away,” keep distance, allow no intimacy, protecting one’s heart, judgment.
• Weakness illustrates inability to control, take action, or make decisions, as well as the suppressing of one’s true feelings; inability to express needs.

Engaging One’s Self

To Be or Not To Be

The Knees symbolize our willingness to concede or resist life.

• Convey the concept of resistance. One needs to surrender in life, in order to bend and move with fluidity, and also to concede one’s position.
• The act of kneeling — when we pray, we get down on our knees; indicative gesture of humbling oneself to a higher authority.
• Kneeling also signifies a letting go of the ego — an act of humility, without which one becomes stubborn, prideful, inflexible, obstinate, self-righteous.
• Resistance to bend or yield — left knee indicative of moving forward; right knee indicative of judgments of actions taken or not taken in the moving forward process.
• Weak knees — knees tremble from fear, lack of self-esteem, inability to hold one’s position in the world.
• Swollen knees — emotional energy attached to surrendering; unwilling to bend, inability to adapt.
  Inflamed knees — irritation with some person or situation. Indicative of not wanting to give in, bracing for a power struggle.
• Dislocated knees — resistance to bending, collapsing under pressure, buckling under stress of a situation or force stronger than originally perceived. Losing ground, loss of dignity.