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(List is based on the book Heal Your Body by Louise Hay)
Ankle: Inflexibility and guilt. Ankles represent the ability to receive pleasure.
Arm: Represents the capacity and ability to hold the experiences of life.
Back: Represents the support of life.
Back Problems:
– Rounded shoulders: Carrying the burdens of life. Helpless and hopeless.
– Lower Back Pain: Fear of money or lack of financial support.
– Mid-Back Pain: Guilt. Stuck in all that stuff back there. “Get off my back!”
– Upper Back Pain: Lack of emotional support. Feeling unloved. Holding back love.
– Back Curvature: The inability to flow with the support of life. Fear and trying to hold on to old ideas. Not trusting life. Lack of integrity. No courage of convictions.
Bones: Represent the structure of the universe
Buttocks: Represent power, loose buttocks, loss of power
Brain: Represents the computer, the switchboard.
Ear: Represents the capacity to hear. – Ache: Anger. Not wanting to hear. Too much turmoil. Household arguing.
Elbow: Represents changing directions and accepting new experiences.
Eye: Represents the capacity to see clearly past, present, future.
Face: Represents what we show the world.
Feet: Represent our understanding – of ourselves, of life, of others. – Foot Problems: Fear of the future and of not stepping forward in life.
Fingers: Represent the details of life.
– Thumb: Represents intellect and worry.
– Index: Represents ego and fear.
– Middle: Represents anger and sexuality.
– Ring: Represents unions and grief.
– Little: Represents the family and pretending.
Hands: Hold and handle. Clutch and grip. Grasping and letting go. Caressing. Pinching. All ways of dealing with experiences.
Hip: Carries the body in perfect balance. Major thrust in moving forward. Fear of going forward in major decisions. Nothing to move forward to.
Jaw Problems: Anger. Resentment. Desire for revenge.
Knee: Represents pride and ego. Stubborn ego and pride. Inability to bend. Fear. Inflexibility. Won’t give in.
Left Side of Body: Represents receptivity, taking in, feminine energy, women, the mother.
Leg: Carry us forward in life.
Neck: Represents flexibility. The ability to see what’s back there. Refusing to see other sides of a question. Stubbornness, inflexibility. Unbending stubbornness.
Nose: Represents self-recognition. – Nose Bleeds:A need for recobnition. Feeling unnoticed.
Pubic Bone - Represent genital protection.
Ribs: The ribs surround and protect the organs in the chest, like your sentinels, guarding your inner being. A fractured rib, indicates that the person has lost his armor, that he is unprotected and unable to defend himself
Right Side of Body: Giving out, letting go, masculine energy, men, the father.
Shin: Represents the standards of life. Breaking down ideals.
Shoulders - Represent our ability to carry our experiences in life joyously. We make life a burden by our attitude.
Slipped Disc: Feeling totally unsupported by life. Indecisive.
Spine: Flexible support of life.
Stomach: Holds nourishment. Digests ideas. Dread. Fear of the new. Inability to assimilate the new.
Tailbone: Loss of power. Old stubborn anger. Out of balance with yourself. Holding on. Blame of self. Sitting on old pain.
Teeth: Represent decisions.
– Teeth Problems: Longstanding indecisiveness. Inability to break down ideas for analysis and decisions.
– Root Canal: Can’t bite into anything anymore. Root beliefs being destroyed.
– Impacted Wisdom Teeth: Not giving yourself mental space to create a firm foundation.
Throat: Avenue for expression. Channel of creativity. Throat Problems: The inability to speak up for one's self. Swallowed anger. Stifled creativity. Refusal to change.
Toes: Represent the minor details of the future.
– Thumb: Represents intellect and worry.
– Index: Represents ego and fear.
– Middle: Represents anger and sexuality.
– Ring: Represents unions and grief.
– Little: Represents the family and pretending.
Wrist: Represents movement and ease.
The Bone List
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