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I let my natural inner strength express itself and carry me towards what I deeply wish for.",[301,302,303,304,305,306,307],"Armpit","Underarm pain","Lump in armpit","Left armpit pain","Right armpit pain","Swollen lymph nodes in armpit","Aisselle","arms-and-hands",{"type":310,"value":311,"toc":456},"minimark",[312,317,321,335,339,342,347,350,354,357,361,373,377,389,393,400,417,421,424],[313,314,316],"h2",{"id":315},"what-armpit-pain-is","What armpit pain is",[318,319,320],"p",{},"The armpit (axilla) is the hollow under the shoulder, between the side of the chest and the inner arm. It holds many blood vessels, nerves, lymph nodes and sweat glands, which is why pain or a lump there can have many causes.",[318,322,323,324,329,330,334],{},"Common causes of armpit pain include a strained chest or shoulder muscle after exercise or lifting, skin irritation from shaving or deodorant, an ingrown hair, a ",[325,326,328],"a",{"href":327},"\u002Fskin\u002Fboils","boil"," or an infected sweat gland, and lymph nodes that swell while the body fights an infection, for instance after a cold, a cut on the arm or a vaccination. Breast tissue extends towards the armpit, so cyclical ",[325,331,333],{"href":332},"\u002Fbreasts\u002Fbreast-pain","breast pain"," can be felt there too. Less often, pain comes from shingles, a trapped nerve, or the heart. A lump in the armpit is usually a swollen lymph node, a cyst or a fatty lump, but it can occasionally be a sign of breast cancer or lymphoma, so any new lump needs a doctor's examination. Treatment depends on the cause: rest for a strain, antibiotics for some infections, and tests such as an ultrasound when a lump needs checking.",[313,336,338],{"id":337},"the-emotional-meaning-of-armpit-pain","The emotional meaning of armpit pain",[318,340,341],{},"Spiritually, the armpit is linked to your oldest and deepest forces, the basic, instinctive energy you were born with, and to how you meet it. Tucked away and rarely shown, it is read as the place where you keep what you have not yet allowed into the light.",[343,344,346],"h3",{"id":345},"basic-emotions-held-back-or-taking-over","Basic emotions held back, or taking over",[318,348,349],{},"The spiritual interpretation of armpit pain points to two opposite movements. Either you refuse your most basic emotions and drives, sexuality among them, or they take up all the room. Either way, the balance with your deeper nature is disturbed. You may also find it hard to move forward because you set aside what your inner voice is telling you.",[343,351,353],{"id":352},"under-someones-wing","Under someone's wing",[318,355,356],{},"The armpit is the place under the arm, and in French, to be \"under someone's wing\" is to be protected by them. Armpit pain can sit with parents, or other protectors, who want to keep you sheltered there. That shelter can make it hard to tell yourself apart from them and to simply be \"me\".",[343,358,360],{"id":359},"sweating-and-secrets","Sweating and secrets",[318,362,363,364,367,368,372],{},"When the armpits sweat heavily, it is heard spiritually as emotions overflowing, with nervousness and ",[325,365,366],{"href":201},"anguish",". In French, \"I cannot smell him\" means \"I cannot stand him\". There may be a situation in your life that you cannot stand and that you keep secret, tucked \"under your wing\". See ",[325,369,371],{"href":370},"\u002Fwhole-body\u002Fsweating-and-body-odour","sweating and body odour"," for more.",[343,374,376],{"id":375},"swollen-nodes-in-the-armpit","Swollen nodes in the armpit",[318,378,379,380,383,384,388],{},"When the lymph nodes in the armpit swell, the spiritual interpretation speaks of emotions and drives hidden very deep inside. Unable to hold them back for ever, you may find they come out as compulsive behaviour. Behind this there can be a fear of being who you really are, so you conform to others, become ",[325,381,382],{"href":225},"dependent"," on them and lose touch with your own nature. This is a symbolic interpretation only: a swollen node is never \"just emotion\" and always deserves medical attention. See ",[325,385,387],{"href":386},"\u002Flymph\u002Fswollen-lymph-nodes","swollen lymph nodes",".",[313,390,392],{"id":391},"left-side-or-right-side","Left side or right side?",[318,394,395,396,388],{},"Spiritually, the two sides of the body carry two principles that everyone holds, whatever their sex. See the guide to the ",[325,397,399],{"href":398},"\u002Fguides\u002Fleft-vs-right-side-of-the-body","left and right sides of the body",[401,402,403,411],"ul",{},[404,405,406,410],"li",{},[407,408,409],"strong",{},"Right armpit:"," the masculine principle, linked to action, logic, decisions and the men in your life, such as a father or partner. Pain here may ask whether you are holding back the drive to act and choose your own direction, or still following the path a father figure set for you.",[404,412,413,416],{},[407,414,415],{},"Left armpit:"," the feminine principle, linked to feeling, intuition, tenderness, receiving and the women in your life, such as a mother. Pain here may ask whether you are keeping feelings secret, sheltering under a mother's wing, or struggling to say \"I love you\" or \"I am hurting\".",[313,418,420],{"id":419},"a-gentler-way-to-hold-it","A gentler way to hold it",[318,422,423],{},"The closing movement is about coming out of your shell instead of staying hidden.",[401,425,426,432,438,444,450],{},[404,427,428,431],{},[407,429,430],{},"Listen to your inner voice."," Note one thing it has been telling you that you keep putting aside.",[404,433,434,437],{},[407,435,436],{},"Make room for your basic emotions."," Let yourself feel what is there, without shame and without letting it run everything.",[404,439,440,443],{},[407,441,442],{},"Step out from under the wing."," Make one choice that is yours, even if it differs from what your family expects.",[404,445,446,449],{},[407,447,448],{},"Let go of what no longer suits you."," If a situation or secret is weighing on you, ask what you could release or say.",[404,451,452,455],{},[407,453,454],{},"Trust your natural strength."," Let it give you the confidence and drive to move towards what you deeply wish for.",{"title":457,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":458},"",[459,460,466,467],{"id":315,"depth":18,"text":316},{"id":337,"depth":18,"text":338,"children":461},[462,463,464,465],{"id":345,"depth":26,"text":346},{"id":352,"depth":26,"text":353},{"id":359,"depth":26,"text":360},{"id":375,"depth":26,"text":376},{"id":391,"depth":18,"text":392},{"id":419,"depth":18,"text":420},"2026-10-08","The emotional and spiritual meaning of armpit pain: your deepest inner forces, staying under someone's wing, hidden emotions, and left vs right.","md","arms",[],[474,477],{"name":475,"url":476},"MedlinePlus: Armpit lump","https:\u002F\u002Fmedlineplus.gov\u002Fency\u002Farticle\u002F003099.htm",{"name":478,"url":479},"NHS: Swollen glands","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fsymptoms\u002Fswollen-glands\u002F",{},true,"\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Farmpit-pain",[484,485,486,487,488,489],"Do I refuse my most basic emotions and drives, or do they take up all the room?","Which part of my inner voice have I been setting aside?","Am I still sheltering under my parents' wing, or someone else's, in a way that keeps me from being myself?","Is there a situation I cannot stand, and that I keep secret, close to me?","Do I prefer to conform to others rather than show my true personality?","What would it feel like to come out of my shell?",[386,370,332,491],"\u002Fshoulders\u002Fshoulder-pain",[493,494],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAxilla","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ499",{"title":298,"description":469},"Armpit Pain Spiritual Meaning: Left vs Right Armpit",[498,503,507],{"author":499,"work":500,"entries":501,"pages":502},"Jacques Martel","Le Grand Dictionnaire des Malaises et des Maladies",[307],"32",{"author":499,"work":500,"entries":504,"pages":506},[505],"Masculin (principe…)","270–271",{"author":499,"work":500,"entries":508,"pages":510},[509],"Féminin (principe…)","182–183","conditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Farmpit-pain","Spiritually, armpit pain is often linked to how you meet your oldest and deepest inner forces, whether you hold them back or let them take over, and to staying \"under the wing\" of others instead of becoming fully yourself.","If this reading resonates with you, choosing one small way to show more of who you really are this week, in a place where you feel safe, can be a good next step.",[515,516,353,517,518,519],"Deep inner forces","Basic emotions held back","Becoming yourself","Secrets kept close","Conforming to others",[521,522,523,524,525,526],"A new lump in the armpit must be checked by a doctor. Do not assume it is a harmless swollen gland or \"just emotion\".","A lump that is hard, fixed, growing, or still there after two weeks, or a lump with fever, night sweats, weight loss or tiredness you cannot explain.","Any change in the breast or nipple, such as a lump, dimpling, discharge or skin change, together with armpit pain or a lump. See a doctor promptly.","Pain in the chest that spreads to the left arm, armpit, jaw or back, especially with breathlessness, sweating or nausea. Call emergency services, as this can be a heart attack.","A red, hot, swollen, painful area or a boil in the armpit with fever, or pain that keeps getting worse.","A painful rash or blisters on one side of the chest or under the arm, which can be shingles.","ro7RRZIkQHru3MBw_10S6dWjkPWwN-XnKczTqy8QEQg",{"id":529,"title":126,"body":530,"comingSoon":10,"dateModified":660,"datePublished":661,"description":127,"extension":470,"groups":662,"guides":669,"icon":129,"medicalSources":674,"meta":675,"navigation":481,"order":28,"path":128,"reflectionQuestions":676,"seo":683,"seoTitle":684,"sources":685,"stem":694,"themes":695,"whenToSeeADoctor":702,"__hash__":709},"areas\u002Fareas\u002Farms-and-hands.md",{"type":310,"value":531,"toc":655},[532,535,542,548,552,555,558,577,581,588,595,607,611,617],[318,533,534],{},"The arm runs from the shoulder to the hand. The shoulder carries, the elbow bends, the hand grasps, and the fingers do the fine work. A break, a dislocation, a deep cut and a sudden loss of strength are medical events. Sudden weakness of one arm, with trouble speaking, is an emergency.",[318,536,537,538,541],{},"In the emotional reading, the arms are how you embrace life, give and receive, and pass into action. They sit close to the ",[325,539,540],{"href":35},"heart",", and love and energy are felt to come from the heart when you are open. The hands carry that further: they take, they give, they do the work, and they can also make a fist.",[543,544,545],"note",{},[318,546,547],{},"This page offers a symbolic and emotional perspective. It is meant to complement medical care, never to replace it. A limb you cannot feel or move, chest pain, or a cut that will not stop bleeding needs urgent care.",[313,549,551],{"id":550},"arms-elbows-and-shoulders","Arms, elbows and shoulders",[318,553,554],{},"The arms represent your ease in embracing life, in welcoming new experiences, and in acting. You use them to touch and to hold, to express creativity, the potential for action, and love. You come closer to people, or you show them that you love them. You also do your work and meet your obligations with them. Crossed arms are read as protection: you close yourself to feelings that do not suit you. Opening the heart and the arms is the acceptance.",[318,556,557],{},"The elbows are freedom of movement. They are the flexible joint that lets you change direction, transfer a desire into an act, and welcome a new idea. Pain or stiffness means a lack of flexibility, and the fear of feeling trapped in an unpleasant situation. You may judge people whose way of doing things questions your habits. When the routine is \"unstitched\", the elbows react. You can fear being incompetent in a domain you care about, and then being unable to support your family. You resist a new direction by blocking, without knowing it, the energy of the heart on its way to this joint. You feel obliged to do things against your will, to \"use your elbows\". You fold in on yourself because you distrust the world, and you stay on your positions.",[318,559,560,561,564,565,568,569,572,573,388],{},"The shoulders are the capacity to carry a load: joys, sorrows, responsibilities and insecurities. If you make yourself responsible for other people's happiness, the weight increases and the shoulders hurt. You have too much to do. Things are imposed, or you are not helped, and you feel blocked. Affective insecurity is placed on the left shoulder, material insecurity on the right. You do not feel supported. You are so afraid of tomorrow that you forget to live today. The responsibility of having to create, to do and to succeed can crush you. Throwing the shoulders back to prove you can face things is read as a front. The ",[325,562,563],{"href":50},"back"," behind them is the part read as weak and twisted by the weight. The ",[325,566,567],{"href":124},"shoulders"," now have their own page, with ",[325,570,571],{"href":491},"shoulder pain"," and ",[325,574,576],{"href":575},"\u002Fshoulders\u002Frounded-shoulders","rounded shoulders",[313,578,580],{"id":579},"hands-and-fingers","Hands and fingers",[318,582,583,584,587],{},"The hands are the capacity to take, to give or to receive. They realise the act and carry out the work. When they are damaged you feel powerless, because the power of touch is so great. The left hand is the hand of the heart: it receives. The right hand is the will and the power: it acts and affirms. Between your hands are the situations of the day. Their state shows how far you grasp your reality, how you express love as well as ",[325,585,586],{"href":243},"hate"," in the form of a fist, and how you \"manipulate\" events or people.",[318,589,590,591,594],{},"Cold hands are read as an emotional withdrawal from a situation or a relationship. You may also be refusing to look after your basic needs. Clammy hands are an excess of ",[325,592,593],{"href":204},"anxiety"," and nervousness. You are overwhelmed. You want to put the fire out yourself. Pain or cramps mean you refuse to be flexible.",[318,596,597,598,602,603,606],{},"The fingers are the prolongation of the hands. They are action in the present moment, the details of the day, dexterity. A hurt finger is read as trying to do too much, clinging to details, going too far or too fast. Your attention is on too many things. You are impatient about gestures you feel you must perform. The French ",[599,600,601],"em",{},"doigt",", finger, sits next to ",[599,604,605],{},"devoir",", duty, and the closeness is meaningful. Guilt makes you fear being rapped on the knuckles, or biting your fingers over something you said. A crushed finger raises the question of who, or what, is crushing you, and the fear of losing what you have.",[313,608,610],{"id":609},"caring-for-the-arms-from-the-inside","Caring for the arms from the inside",[318,612,613,614],{},"Injury, nerve entrapment, arthritis and heart disease can all declare themselves in the arm. The emotional perspective adds a question: ",[599,615,616],{},"what am I holding, and what am I unwilling either to give or to receive?",[401,618,619,625,631,637,643,649],{},[404,620,621,624],{},[407,622,623],{},"Notice crossed arms."," Protection is useful. A permanent closure is the spiritual interpretation's warning.",[404,626,627,630],{},[407,628,629],{},"Ask whose happiness is on your shoulders."," A load that is not yours is what makes them hurt in this picture.",[404,632,633,636],{},[407,634,635],{},"Separate left and right."," Receiving and acting are the two hands. One without the other is incomplete.",[404,638,639,642],{},[407,640,641],{},"Look at the detail you are gripping."," Impatience about a small gesture is the finger's theme.",[404,644,645,648],{},[407,646,647],{},"Change one direction."," A stiff elbow is the fear of being trapped in the old way.",[404,650,651,654],{},[407,652,653],{},"Treat chest pain and sudden weakness as medical."," An emotional reading never waits out a possible stroke or heart attack.",{"title":457,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":656},[657,658,659],{"id":550,"depth":18,"text":551},{"id":579,"depth":18,"text":580},{"id":609,"depth":18,"text":610},"2026-10-06","2026-10-04",[663,666],{"id":471,"title":664,"description":665},"Arms and elbows","Arms that embrace and carry, and elbows that let you change direction.",{"id":667,"title":580,"description":668},"hands","Hands that take, give and do the work, and fingers that handle the details of the day.",[670,671,672,673],"\u002Fguides\u002Faffirmations-by-body-part","\u002Fguides\u002Fbody-twitching-spiritual-meaning","\u002Fguides\u002Femotions-body-map","\u002Fguides\u002Fspiritual-meaning-of-pain-in-body-parts",[],{},[677,678,679,680,681,682],"Who am I willing to take in my arms, and who am I crossing my arms against?","What load am I carrying that actually belongs to someone else's happiness?","Do I feel unsupported, and am I living tomorrow's fear instead of today?","Is my right hand all action, and my left hand unable to receive?","Which small detail am I gripping so hard that I have become impatient?","Where am I refusing to change direction?",{"title":126,"description":127},"Arm & Hand Pain Spiritual Meaning: Elbows, Wrists, Fingers",[686],{"author":499,"work":500,"entries":687,"pages":693},[688,689,690,691,692],"Bras (en général)","Mains (en général)","Doigts (en général)","Coudes (en général)","Épaule(s) (en général)","75–76, 127, 146, 173–174, 259–260","areas\u002Farms-and-hands",[696,697,698,699,700,701],"Giving and receiving","Action","Burden","Flexibility","Contact","Work",[703,704,705,706,707,708],"A deformed, pale or numb arm after an injury. This can be a break or a dislocation.","Sudden weakness or clumsiness of one arm, especially with a facial droop or trouble speaking. Call emergency services.","A hot, swollen joint with fever.","Pain in the chest or arm that could be the heart. Call emergency services.","A hand wound that is deep, dirty, or will not stop bleeding.","Numbness, night pain or dropping objects that persists. This can involve a nerve.","ThI5UGGTKs7B6SRsMYAyV-lwR16E1esd_wnfl8T9Uqw",[711,860,1003,1246],{"id":712,"title":713,"affirmation":714,"aka":715,"area":719,"body":720,"dateModified":660,"datePublished":661,"description":813,"extension":470,"group":719,"guides":814,"medicalSources":815,"meta":819,"navigation":481,"path":820,"reflectionQuestions":821,"related":828,"sameAs":829,"seo":834,"seoTitle":835,"sources":836,"stem":845,"summary":846,"supportIntro":847,"themes":848,"whenToSeeADoctor":852,"__hash__":859},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Fbreasts\u002Fbreast-pain.md","Breast pain and cysts","I leave the people I love free to become responsible for themselves. I let my real personality come forward, and I let an old anguish be set down.",[716,717,718],"Mastalgia","Breast cyst","Fibrocystic breasts","breasts",{"type":310,"value":721,"toc":807},[722,726,729,740,744,747,754,757,759,764,766,769],[313,723,725],{"id":724},"what-breast-pain-and-cysts-are","What breast pain and cysts are",[318,727,728],{},"Pain in the breasts, mastalgia, is common. It is often cyclical, worse before a period, and felt in both breasts. A cyst is a fluid-filled sac. Many are benign and move with the hormones of the month. Fibrocystic change is a lumpy, tender pattern, not a disease in itself. None of this can be told from a feeling of guilt or of care. A new lump, a skin change, or a discharge needs a clinician, who can use examination and, when it is warranted, ultrasound or a mammogram. Most lumps are not cancer. Waiting in order to interpret them is how the ones that matter get missed.",[318,730,731,732,736,737,739],{},"The emotional reading below asks about protection, loss and anguish. ",[325,733,735],{"href":734},"\u002Fbreasts\u002Fmastitis","Mastitis"," is the infection in the same place. The ",[325,738,719],{"href":158}," page asks where the balance of care has gone.",[313,741,743],{"id":742},"the-emotional-meaning-of-breast-pain","The emotional meaning of breast pain",[318,745,746],{},"When the breasts hurt, the question is whether you are taking an over-protective or dominating attitude toward your children, toward whoever represents your children, or toward your partner. \"Children\", here, can be a project you tend like a baby, a niece or nephew or another child you count as your own, or your own parents, now that they need the attention children need. Are you afraid, or did it really happen, that someone very dear was taken from you? You may have been separated from them physically, or the break may be in a personal relationship where communication and exchange no longer exist. An unmet need to be linked to things and to beings leaves a void. You were disowned by one of your own, and you suffer it badly. Or you are the one who disowned your own people.",[318,748,749,750,753],{},"You are ",[325,751,752],{"href":201},"anguished",". You think too much. You have the impression your freedom is curtailed. You concern yourself little with your emotions, and you find yourself wanting to dominate, to be possessive. You judge others in a bloody way and do not want to hear what they have to say. You want nothing to escape you. You doubt your value, and you tend to catch fire easily in love. You lose yourself in relationships to compensate for a small store of trust and self-esteem. The joy you could feel is diluted in old sorrows and worries that have followed you for years. Your anguish and your insecurity are stronger than your desire to take yourself in hand. You have the impression of living in the wrong. You give all the power to your rational side, to get away from your emotions. The emotions are still there, and the breasts can become hypersensitive, letting that inner pain and grief show through.",[318,755,756],{},"A cyst is placed, in this approach, with feeling guilty about a motherhood, or with having undergone an emotional shock. That is a question to sit with after a clinician has said what the lump is. It is not a way to decide. By wanting too much to protect the people you love, you keep them from living. You take the decisions in their place. You become a mother hen.",[313,758,392],{"id":391},[318,760,761,762,388],{},"Spiritually, the right side of the body is linked to the masculine principle (action, providing, the outer world, the men in your life) and the left side to the feminine principle (tenderness, receiving, the women in your life, your maternal side). Pain in the right breast may ask whether protecting someone has turned into deciding and acting for them. Pain in the left breast may ask whether you can say \"I am hurting\" and let yourself be comforted. A persistent pain in one breast is also the kind a clinician should see. See the guide to the ",[325,763,399],{"href":398},[313,765,420],{"id":419},[318,767,768],{},"You leave the people you love free to become autonomous, so that they too become responsible people. You let your real personality emerge. You deserve what is best. In letting go of anguish, worries and resentments of the past, you give the feeling life somewhere else to go. Breast tissue follows hormones, cysts and, sometimes, disease. It does not become healthy because a sorrow was named. Naming the sorrow is for you. The tissue is for the doctor.",[401,770,771,777,783,789,795,801],{},[404,772,773,776],{},[407,774,775],{},"Have a new lump examined."," Interpretation comes after the scan, not before.",[404,778,779,782],{},[407,780,781],{},"Ask whom you are over-protecting."," A child, a project, a parent, a partner.",[404,784,785,788],{},[407,786,787],{},"Name a bond that broke."," Disowning, and being disowned, are both in the picture.",[404,790,791,794],{},[407,792,793],{},"Notice when protection becomes decision-making for someone else."," The mother hen keeps people from living.",[404,796,797,800],{},[407,798,799],{},"Look at the joy diluted in an old sorrow."," Anguish stronger than the wish to take yourself in hand is the climate.",[404,802,803,806],{},[407,804,805],{},"Keep screening and review."," A reading is not a clearance.",{"title":457,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":808},[809,810,811,812],{"id":724,"depth":18,"text":725},{"id":742,"depth":18,"text":743},{"id":391,"depth":18,"text":392},{"id":419,"depth":18,"text":420},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of breast pain and cysts: how they may relate to over-protection, a broken bond, and anguish that has nowhere to go.",[398],[816],{"name":817,"url":818},"NHS: Breast pain","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fsymptoms\u002Fbreast-pain\u002F",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Fbreasts\u002Fbreast-pain",[822,823,824,825,826,827],"Where am I over-protective or dominating toward my children, or toward whoever holds that place, or toward my partner?","Have I lost someone dear, in body or in a bond where exchange has stopped?","Who disowned me, or whom have I disowned?","Where is my freedom curtailed, and where am I the one curtailing someone else's?","Am I deciding for the people I love, and calling it protection?","What old sorrow is diluting a joy I could otherwise feel?",[734],[830,831,832,833],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FBreast_pain","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ1907986","https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FFibrocystic_breast_changes","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ1423177",{"title":713,"description":813},"Breast pain and cysts: Spiritual Meaning & Emotional Causes",[837,841,843],{"author":499,"work":500,"entries":838,"pages":840},[839],"Seins — Douleurs, kyste","391",{"author":499,"work":500,"entries":842,"pages":506},[505],{"author":499,"work":500,"entries":844,"pages":510},[509],"conditions\u002Fbreasts\u002Fbreast-pain","Breast pain and cysts are common and usually benign, and a new lump still needs a clinician. They are read alongside over-protection, a bond that broke, and anguish carried for years in place of joy.","If this reading resonates with you, asking whom you are protecting past the point of letting them live can be a good next step, after any new lump has been examined.",[849,850,200,851,239],"Over-protection","A broken bond","Possession",[853,854,855,856,857,858],"A new lump, a change in the skin, nipple discharge, or pain that is in one spot and does not come and go with the cycle. Have it examined. Most lumps are not cancer. The ones that might be should be found.","A cyst that is large and painful can be drained. A clinician decides. Do not assume a cyst from how it feels.","Redness, heat and fever. That may be [mastitis](\u002Fbreasts\u002Fmastitis) and needs same-day care.","Pain with a hard, fixed mass, or with swelling of the arm.","Cyclical pain in both breasts is common. A persistent one-sided pain is the one to report.","An emotional reading does not clear a lump, and letting go of a sorrow does not make breast tissue \"perfectly healthy\". Screening and examination do that work.","3XaeFrHEFVL8_CmZrcsRY4b5_c8aa70u6rJLMD4sPEY",{"id":861,"title":862,"affirmation":863,"aka":864,"area":868,"body":869,"dateModified":661,"datePublished":661,"description":961,"extension":470,"group":868,"guides":962,"medicalSources":964,"meta":966,"navigation":481,"path":967,"reflectionQuestions":968,"related":975,"sameAs":976,"seo":979,"seoTitle":980,"sources":981,"stem":986,"summary":987,"supportIntro":988,"themes":989,"whenToSeeADoctor":995,"__hash__":1002},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Flymph\u002Fswollen-lymph-nodes.md","Swollen lymph nodes","I say what I need. I let despair make room for hope, and I put a limit where the load is no longer mine.",[865,866,867],"Lymphadenopathy","Swollen glands","Enlarged lymph nodes","lymph",{"type":310,"value":870,"toc":956},[871,875,883,894,898,907,910,913,915,918],[313,872,874],{"id":873},"what-swollen-lymph-nodes-are","What swollen lymph nodes are",[318,876,877,878,882],{},"A lymph node is a rounded cluster of cells along a lymphatic vessel. It filters lymph and takes part in the immune response. Nodes swell when they are busy with an infection, with inflammation, and sometimes with a more serious disease. A sore throat, a scalp infection, ",[325,879,881],{"href":880},"\u002Fspleen\u002Fmononucleosis","mononucleosis"," and a skin wound are everyday reasons. The node is tender, it comes up quickly, and it goes down. A node that is hard, that grows, or that stays needs a clinician, because a few of them are lymphoma or a spread of cancer, and those are medical diagnoses. Feelings do not sort the harmless from the serious. Examination does.",[318,884,885,886,890,891,893],{},"The emotional reading below is about a discouragement that was not spoken. ",[325,887,889],{"href":888},"\u002Flymph\u002Flymphatism","Lymphatism"," is the other, quieter picture of this system. The ",[325,892,868],{"href":179}," page is the wider flow.",[313,895,897],{"id":896},"the-emotional-meaning-of-swollen-lymph-nodes","The emotional meaning of swollen lymph nodes",[318,899,900,901,903,904,906],{},"If you have difficulty facing a situation and, instead of speaking about it and asking for help, you keep everything to yourself, you keep your discouragement and your despair secret, and you feel like letting everything go, nostalgia about your life is read as showing up, after a time, as one node or several. Your self-esteem has fallen, and your fear of the future brings ",[325,902,366],{"href":201},". You live on the defensive and in inaction. You live a situation in which you have the impression someone wants to attack you. Your back is to the wall and you can no longer move. You may also have difficulties of communication, and that affects you emotionally or causes fears in your relationships. You would like to be part of a group, to feel you belong to an organisation, to be closer to your friends, instead of living as a solitary. ",[325,905,257],{"href":258}," is the feeling this entry names.",[318,908,909],{},"Where the nodes appear is taken as a clue. If you worry about something you want to express and you keep it inside, nodes are read as more likely in the throat. You are overwhelmed by emotions you are fleeing. If there are things you do not want to hear, nodes near the ears are read as getting in the way of hearing. Nodes in general show that you are ambivalent about a situation. You worry a great deal. You feel caught, stuck. You feel attacked and you have to defend yourself constantly, protect yourself, and you see no place to shelter. Unconsciously you would like your father to defend you. You feel obliged to keep the family linked and on good terms. You also ask whether you are ready to take entire responsibility for your life, or whether you prefer to be in the clouds. You are afraid of your emotional world. The whole sexual aspect is perceived as a threat. In cutting yourself off from your own emotions and covering yourself with a shell, how can you stay in contact with the people around you?",[318,911,912],{},"When the nodes swell, there is a surcharge in the organism, toxins that have to be eliminated. It can be general or local, as in the groin, and it is related to the central nervous system. The load of responsibilities you impose on yourself is probably in excess. You do not speak of it, and you keep that frustration in you. You observe your attitudes toward a person in your intimacy, and you see that you would do well to step out of a role you have taken on, whose weight is too heavy.",[313,914,420],{"id":419},[318,916,917],{},"You communicate your needs at every level, so that despair can leave and make room for hope and for the joy of living. You let problems go and you trust. You accept feeling everything that inhabits you. The more you include your physical body and all your inner feelings, the more a balance of body and mind is restored. You learn to love and respect yourself by setting certain limits, to say when you are too full, and so your relationships become more authentic. A node that is not settling still goes to a doctor. Authenticity does not biopsy it.",[401,919,920,926,932,938,944,950],{},[404,921,922,925],{},[407,923,924],{},"Have a node that lasts, hardens or grows examined."," Infection is the common reason. It is not the only one.",[404,927,928,931],{},[407,929,930],{},"Say the discouragement you have been keeping secret."," Asking for help is the first move this reading names.",[404,933,934,937],{},[407,935,936],{},"Use the place as a question, not as a diagnosis."," Throat for what is unsaid, ears for what you will not hear, a heavy intimate role for a local load.",[404,939,940,943],{},[407,941,942],{},"Notice the wish that a father, or that place, would defend you."," Keeping the family glued together can be the weight.",[404,945,946,949],{},[407,947,948],{},"Name one role that is too heavy."," Stepping out of it is allowed.",[404,951,952,955],{},[407,953,954],{},"Do not decide that a gland is \"just emotion\"."," Night sweats, weight loss and a node above the collarbone need a clinician.",{"title":457,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":957},[958,959,960],{"id":873,"depth":18,"text":874},{"id":896,"depth":18,"text":897},{"id":419,"depth":18,"text":420},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of swollen lymph nodes: how they may relate to a discouragement kept secret, a feeling of being attacked, and a responsibility you have not said is too heavy.",[963],"\u002Fguides\u002Fgetting-sick-often",[965],{"name":478,"url":479},{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Flymph\u002Fswollen-lymph-nodes",[969,970,971,972,973,974],"What discouragement or despair am I keeping secret instead of asking for help?","Where do I feel attacked, with my back to the wall and no room to move?","If the nodes are in the neck, what do I want to express and keep inside?","If they are near the ears, what do I not want to hear?","Which role have I taken on whose weight is too much, especially in an intimate bond?","Am I ready to take responsibility for my life, or would I rather stay in the clouds?",[888,880],[977,978],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FLymphadenopathy","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ847726",{"title":862,"description":961},"Swollen Lymph Nodes: Spiritual Meaning & Emotional Causes",[982],{"author":499,"work":500,"entries":983,"pages":985},[984],"Ganglion lymphatique","194","conditions\u002Flymph\u002Fswollen-lymph-nodes","Swollen lymph nodes are usually a sign that the body is answering an infection. They are also read as a discouragement you kept to yourself, a life on the defensive, and a responsibility that has become too heavy to carry in silence.","If this reading resonates with you, telling one person that the load is too heavy can be a good next step, after a clinician has said why the nodes are swollen.",[990,991,992,993,994],"A secret discouragement","Defensiveness","Feeling attacked","Ambivalence","Too much responsibility",[996,997,998,999,1000,1001],"A node that is enlarging, hard, fixed, or still there after two to three weeks. Most swollen nodes are infection and settle. The ones that do not need to be seen.","Nodes with night sweats, unexplained weight loss, fever, or breathlessness. Seek care promptly.","A node above the collarbone, or many nodes in several regions.","Red, hot, very tender nodes with fever. That can be an infected node.","Swelling of a whole limb, especially after surgery or cancer treatment. That is a different problem and needs its own assessment.","An emotional reading does not distinguish an ordinary gland from one that needs a biopsy. A doctor does.","aGzco3CXwD5xUipSRhDR521DFUD149bUhvW8iKAStRk",{"id":1004,"title":1005,"affirmation":1006,"aka":1007,"area":567,"body":1016,"dateModified":660,"datePublished":660,"description":1188,"extension":470,"group":567,"guides":1189,"medicalSources":1195,"meta":1202,"navigation":481,"path":1203,"reflectionQuestions":1204,"related":1211,"sameAs":1215,"seo":1218,"seoTitle":1219,"sources":1220,"stem":1228,"summary":1229,"supportIntro":1230,"themes":1231,"whenToSeeADoctor":1238,"__hash__":1245},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Fshoulders\u002Fshoulder-pain.md","Shoulder pain","I am responsible for myself. I let others carry their own happiness, I share the load, and I live this day as it comes.",[1008,1009,1010,1011,1012,1013,1014,1015],"Sore shoulder","Shoulder ache","Frozen shoulder","Adhesive capsulitis","Left shoulder pain","Right shoulder pain","Shoulder tension","Douleur à l'épaule",{"type":310,"value":1017,"toc":1173},[1018,1022,1025,1033,1036,1039,1043,1046,1050,1053,1057,1064,1068,1071,1075,1087,1091,1094,1098,1101,1103,1109,1121,1124,1126,1129],[313,1019,1021],{"id":1020},"what-shoulder-pain-is","What shoulder pain is",[318,1023,1024],{},"Shoulder pain is pain felt in or around the shoulder joint, from the top of the arm to the base of the neck. It is very common and usually comes from the joint itself or the soft tissues around it.",[318,1026,1027,1028,1032],{},"Frequent causes include rotator cuff problems (irritated, worn or torn tendons, often painful when lifting the arm), bursitis, frozen shoulder, osteoarthritis, a dislocation or a broken collarbone or upper arm after a fall. Pain can also be referred to the shoulder from somewhere else: the neck, the ",[325,1029,1031],{"href":1030},"\u002Fliver-and-gallbladder\u002Fgallstones","gallbladder"," on the right side, and the heart, especially on the left. Most shoulder pain improves within a few weeks with relative rest, simple painkillers, gentle movement and, if needed, physiotherapy. Steroid injections and, more rarely, surgery are options when it does not settle.",[343,1034,1010],{"id":1035},"frozen-shoulder",[318,1037,1038],{},"Frozen shoulder, or adhesive capsulitis, happens when the capsule that surrounds the joint becomes inflamed, thickens and tightens. The shoulder gets painful, then very stiff, then slowly loosens again. The whole course often takes one to three years. It is most common between 40 and 60, more common in women and in people with diabetes, and it can follow a period when the arm was kept still. Treatment aims at relieving pain and keeping movement: painkillers, physiotherapy exercises, sometimes a steroid injection, and occasionally a procedure to free the joint.",[313,1040,1042],{"id":1041},"the-emotional-meaning-of-shoulder-pain","The emotional meaning of shoulder pain",[318,1044,1045],{},"Spiritually, a painful shoulder is a shoulder that carries more than it can. The question is less \"why me?\" than \"what have I taken on?\"",[343,1047,1049],{"id":1048},"making-yourself-responsible-for-others","Making yourself responsible for others",[318,1051,1052],{},"The weight grows heaviest when you make the happiness and comfort of the people around you your personal task. You feel there is always too much to do and that you will never get to the end of it. Each new demand lands on the same spot.",[343,1054,1056],{"id":1055},"blocked-and-without-backing","Blocked and without backing",[318,1058,1059,1060,1063],{},"The pain can also come with a sense of being stopped. Things are imposed on you, someone's different opinion stands in your way, or the help you hoped for with a project simply does not come. You may feel you are being slapped in the face again and again, until you want to give up, to lower your weapons. Life looks tangled and you lose sight of your own good qualities. In French, not feeling ",[599,1061,1062],{},"épaulé",", \"shouldered\", is not feeling supported.",[343,1065,1067],{"id":1066},"crushed-by-having-to-succeed","Crushed by having to succeed",[318,1069,1070],{},"Shoulders hurt when you feel flattened by your responsibilities, emotional as well as material. The obstacles you meet, the pressure to create, to do and to succeed, all press down. You may feel shut inside a structure and unable to break the door down to get out.",[343,1072,1074],{"id":1073},"perfection-and-remorse","Perfection and remorse",[318,1076,1077,1078,1080,1081,572,1084,1086],{},"Behind many sore shoulders there is a strict inner judge. You demand perfection from yourself, and if you think you were cowardly, you may whip yourself emotionally for it. You may blame yourself for not having kept someone you love safe under your wing. Thoughts of \"I should have…\" come back. ",[325,1079,263],{"href":264},", ",[325,1082,1083],{"href":240},"guilt",[325,1085,366],{"href":201}," about the future add their weight. You can be so afraid of tomorrow that today goes by unlived.",[343,1088,1090],{"id":1089},"when-a-bone-is-hurt","When a bone is hurt",[318,1092,1093],{},"If the bone is involved, as in a fracture, the pain is linked to your most basic responsibilities and to a deep conflict that touches who you are. You may be asking too much of yourself and wanting too much control, until the burden is simply too heavy.",[343,1095,1097],{"id":1096},"frozen-shoulder-going-through-the-motions","Frozen shoulder: going through the motions",[318,1099,1100],{},"A frozen shoulder becomes cold, painful and hard to use fully. Spiritually, it asks whether you have grown cold and indifferent towards what you do. Are you doing it just to do it, or do you really want to? The stiffness can point to a deep tension between your present path and a wish to do something quite different.",[313,1102,392],{"id":391},[318,1104,1105,1106,1108],{},"The side that hurts adds a nuance. In this approach, the right side carries the active, rational, \"masculine\" principle and the left side the receptive, feeling, \"feminine\" one, in men and women alike. See ",[325,1107,399],{"href":398}," for the wider picture.",[401,1110,1111,1116],{},[404,1112,1113,1115],{},[407,1114,1013],{}," is linked to material insecurity and to tension around work, authority and decisions. You may undervalue your role or status in the family, the couple or society, and the stiff, controlling side takes over.",[404,1117,1118,1120],{},[407,1119,1012],{}," is linked to emotional insecurity and to expressing what you feel. You may belittle your image of yourself as a good parent, or as a good son or daughter. Receiving love can feel harder than giving it.",[318,1122,1123],{},"Left shoulder pain with chest symptoms is a medical emergency first, whatever its meaning.",[313,1125,420],{"id":419},[318,1127,1128],{},"The aim is not to blame yourself for a sore shoulder. Tendons, joints, posture and injuries play a real part, and the warning signs above need a doctor. The emotional perspective invites you to look at what you are carrying.",[401,1130,1131,1137,1143,1149,1155,1161,1167],{},[404,1132,1133,1136],{},[407,1134,1135],{},"Name what crushes you."," Look honestly at the loads that sit on your shoulders today, one by one.",[404,1138,1139,1142],{},[407,1140,1141],{},"Hand back what is not yours."," You are responsible for yourself. Others can take care of their own happiness.",[404,1144,1145,1148],{},[407,1146,1147],{},"Delegate."," Stop carrying the world on your shoulders. Choose one task to share or let go this week.",[404,1150,1151,1154],{},[407,1152,1153],{},"Soften the judge."," When \"I should have\" comes up, ask what you could reasonably have done with what you knew then.",[404,1156,1157,1160],{},[407,1158,1159],{},"Check your motive."," If your shoulder has frozen around a task, ask whether you still want to do it, and what you would rather do.",[404,1162,1163,1166],{},[407,1164,1165],{},"Live this moment."," Each time you notice yourself in tomorrow, come back to the present. The load feels lighter there.",[404,1168,1169,1172],{},[407,1170,1171],{},"Trust that your needs can be met."," You do not have to provide everything alone.",{"title":457,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":1174},[1175,1178,1186,1187],{"id":1020,"depth":18,"text":1021,"children":1176},[1177],{"id":1035,"depth":26,"text":1010},{"id":1041,"depth":18,"text":1042,"children":1179},[1180,1181,1182,1183,1184,1185],{"id":1048,"depth":26,"text":1049},{"id":1055,"depth":26,"text":1056},{"id":1066,"depth":26,"text":1067},{"id":1073,"depth":26,"text":1074},{"id":1089,"depth":26,"text":1090},{"id":1096,"depth":26,"text":1097},{"id":391,"depth":18,"text":392},{"id":419,"depth":18,"text":420},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of shoulder pain: left vs right shoulder, frozen shoulder, and the weight of responsibilities that are not yours.",[670,671,1190,672,1191,398,1192,673,1193,1194],"\u002Fguides\u002Fcan-emotions-cause-physical-pain","\u002Fguides\u002Fjacques-martel-dictionary","\u002Fguides\u002Flouise-hay-list","\u002Fguides\u002Fwhat-is-my-body-trying-to-tell-me","\u002Fguides\u002Fwhere-is-trauma-stored-in-the-body",[1196,1199],{"name":1197,"url":1198},"NHS: Shoulder pain","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fsymptoms\u002Fshoulder-pain\u002F",{"name":1200,"url":1201},"NHS: Frozen shoulder","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fconditions\u002Ffrozen-shoulder\u002F",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Fshoulders\u002Fshoulder-pain",[1205,1206,1207,1208,1209,1210],"Whose happiness or well-being have I quietly made my job?","Do I feel blocked by someone's opinion, or left without help for my plans?","What am I telling myself I \"should have\" done, and how hard am I on myself about it?","Is it my affective security or my material security that feels shaky right now?","Am I still doing this task because I want to, or just to get it done?","What would I do differently if I let myself?",[575,1212,1213,1214],"\u002Fback\u002Fupper-back-and-neck-pain","\u002Fback\u002Fstiff-neck","\u002Fjoints-and-bones\u002Fosteoarthritis",[1216,1217],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FShoulder_problems","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ7502714",{"title":1005,"description":1188},"Shoulder Pain Spiritual Meaning: Left vs Right & Frozen",[1221,1224,1226],{"author":499,"work":500,"entries":1222,"pages":1223},[692],"173–174",{"author":499,"work":500,"entries":1225,"pages":506},[505],{"author":499,"work":500,"entries":1227,"pages":510},[509],"conditions\u002Fshoulders\u002Fshoulder-pain","Spiritually, shoulder pain is often linked to carrying more than your share. It can point to a sense of being crushed by responsibility, of having no one to back you up, and of driving yourself towards perfection while fearing tomorrow.","If this reading resonates with you, a few minutes of deep rest in which your shoulders can drop and nothing is asked of you can be a good next step.",[1232,1233,1234,1235,1236,1237],"Over-responsibility","Feeling unsupported","Perfectionism","Remorse","Fear of the future","Doing what you no longer want to do",[1239,1240,1241,1242,1243,1244],"Left shoulder or arm pain with chest pain or tightness, breathlessness, sweating or nausea. Call emergency services, as this can be a heart attack.","A shoulder that looks out of place, or that you cannot move after a fall or a blow.","A hot, red or swollen shoulder, or shoulder pain with a high temperature.","Sudden weakness of the arm, or pain with numbness or tingling down to the hand.","Right shoulder tip pain with pain under the right ribs, fever, or yellow skin or eyes.","Pain or stiffness that has not improved after two weeks of self-care, that wakes you at night, or that stops you lifting your arm. 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I make room for something new.",[1251,1252,1253,1254,1255,1256,1257,1258],"Excessive sweating","Hyperhidrosis","Body odor","BO","Perspiration","Cold sweats","Night sweats","Transpiration","whole-body",{"type":310,"value":1261,"toc":1404},[1262,1266,1269,1286,1289,1293,1296,1300,1319,1323,1336,1339,1343,1346,1350,1370,1372],[313,1263,1265],{"id":1264},"what-sweating-and-body-odour-are","What sweating and body odour are",[318,1267,1268],{},"Sweating is how the body cools itself. Sweat is mostly water and salt, and on its own it has almost no smell. Body odour comes when bacteria on the skin break down sweat, especially from the glands in the armpits and groin, which become active at puberty. Heat, exercise, spicy food, alcohol, hormones and nerves all make people sweat more.",[318,1270,1271,1272,1276,1277,1080,1281,1285],{},"Some people sweat far more than the body needs to cool down, often from the hands, feet, armpits or face. This is called hyperhidrosis. It often starts young and runs in families, with no other cause. Sweating can also be caused by something else: the ",[325,1273,1275],{"href":1274},"\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fmenopause","menopause",", an ",[325,1278,1280],{"href":1279},"\u002Fthyroid\u002Fhyperthyroidism","overactive thyroid",[325,1282,1284],{"href":1283},"\u002Fblood-sugar\u002Fhypoglycaemia","low blood sugar",", an infection, anxiety, or a medicine. Night sweats that soak the bed are worth a medical check.",[318,1287,1288],{},"Regular washing, breathable clothes and antiperspirants help most people. A pharmacist or GP can suggest stronger antiperspirants, and a doctor or dermatologist can offer other treatments for heavy sweating.",[313,1290,1292],{"id":1291},"the-emotional-meaning-of-sweating-and-body-odour","The emotional meaning of sweating and body odour",[318,1294,1295],{},"Spiritually, the liquids of the body are linked to emotions. Sweat is water that comes out through the skin, so it is read as feelings that overflow when they have been held inside too long.",[343,1297,1299],{"id":1298},"body-odour-and-feelings-held-back","Body odour and feelings held back",[318,1301,1302,1303,1306,1307,1310,1311,1314,1315,1318],{},"A strong, unpleasant body odour is read as harmful feelings that are spilling over and asking to be expressed: irritability, discontent, ",[325,1304,1305],{"href":270},"resentment",", frustration, ",[325,1308,1309],{"href":243},"hatred"," or disgust towards a person or a situation. You may be very sensitive to gossip and criticism aimed at you. Low self-confidence and a ",[325,1312,1313],{"href":234},"fear"," of being criticised or ",[325,1316,1317],{"href":267},"rejected"," can sit behind it. Because a strong smell tends to keep people away, it raises a gentle question: is there a reason you might want to keep others at a distance?",[343,1320,1322],{"id":1321},"heavy-sweating-nervousness-and-insecurity","Heavy sweating, nervousness and insecurity",[318,1324,1325,1326,1328,1329,572,1332,1335],{},"Abundant sweating is linked to inner nervousness, insecurity or great ",[325,1327,366],{"href":201},". What you push down and keep inside comes out through the pores, often ",[325,1330,1331],{"href":198},"anger",[325,1333,1334],{"href":276},"shame",". You may feel unsure of which path to take in life, and stay on the defensive, afraid of being hurt or trapped if you show your feelings, especially in front of others.",[318,1337,1338],{},"Spiritually, the person you are most wary of may be yourself. You hold your emotions back so tightly that they push to come up, and that is exactly what you are trying to avoid.",[343,1340,1342],{"id":1341},"washing-a-situation-clean","Washing a situation clean",[318,1344,1345],{},"Sweat is also read as a way of trying to \"wash\" a situation in which you felt separated from others, or in which you felt dirtied or treated unjustly.",[313,1347,1349],{"id":1348},"where-and-when-you-sweat","Where and when you sweat",[401,1351,1352,1358,1364],{},[404,1353,1354,1357],{},[407,1355,1356],{},"Where it happens:"," sweating in one part of the body may point to an intense emotion, or a letting go, linked to what that part represents.",[404,1359,1360,1363],{},[407,1361,1362],{},"Cold sweats:"," these are linked to being frozen with fear, and to great difficulty in your relationships with the people around you.",[404,1365,1366,1369],{},[407,1367,1368],{},"In front of others:"," sweating that comes mainly when you have to speak or be seen points to the fear of being judged or caught out when you express yourself.",[313,1371,420],{"id":419},[401,1373,1374,1380,1386,1392,1398],{},[404,1375,1376,1379],{},[407,1377,1378],{},"Say what you feel."," Let both pleasant and difficult feelings out in words, instead of keeping everything inside.",[404,1381,1382,1385],{},[407,1383,1384],{},"Assert yourself."," Practise stating what you need, in small steps, with people you feel safe with.",[404,1387,1388,1391],{},[407,1389,1390],{},"Look at your distance."," Notice whom you keep at arm's length, and whether you still want to.",[404,1393,1394,1397],{},[407,1395,1396],{},"Make peace with yourself."," The \"enemy\" you guard against may be your own feelings. Meeting them with kindness takes away some of their charge.",[404,1399,1400,1403],{},[407,1401,1402],{},"Make room for the new."," Once old feelings have been expressed, there is space for warmer thoughts to nourish you.",{"title":457,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":1405},[1406,1407,1412,1413],{"id":1264,"depth":18,"text":1265},{"id":1291,"depth":18,"text":1292,"children":1408},[1409,1410,1411],{"id":1298,"depth":26,"text":1299},{"id":1321,"depth":26,"text":1322},{"id":1341,"depth":26,"text":1342},{"id":1348,"depth":18,"text":1349},{"id":419,"depth":18,"text":420},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of sweating and body odour: emotions held back that overflow, nervousness, fear of criticism and cold sweats.","general",[],[1418,1421],{"name":1419,"url":1420},"NHS: Excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fconditions\u002Fexcessive-sweating-hyperhidrosis\u002F",{"name":1422,"url":1423},"NHS: Body odour (BO)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fsymptoms\u002Fbody-odour-bo\u002F",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Fwhole-body\u002Fsweating-and-body-odour",[1427,1428,1429,1430,1431,1432],"Which feelings, such as irritation, frustration or resentment, am I keeping inside instead of saying?","How much do gossip and criticism about me affect me?","Do I sweat most in front of others, when I fear being judged or caught out?","Am I really wary of others, or am I wary of what I might feel and show?","Is there a situation where I felt separated from others, or treated unfairly, that I still want to \"wash away\"?","When do I break into a cold sweat, and what am I afraid of in that moment?",[1274,1279,1283,1434],"\u002Fheart-and-circulation\u002Fheart-attack",[1436,1437,1438,1439],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FPerspiration","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ3503092","https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FBody_odor","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ1328199",{"title":1248,"description":1414},"Sweating Spiritual Meaning: Body Odour and Cold Sweats",[1443],{"author":499,"work":500,"entries":1444,"pages":1446},[1445],"Odeur corporelle et transpiration","299–300","conditions\u002Fwhole-body\u002Fsweating-and-body-odour","Spiritually, sweating and body odour are often linked to emotions held back that overflow through the skin, such as irritation, anger and shame, and to nervousness and a fear of being criticised or rejected.","If this reading resonates with you, a few minutes of slow breathing before a moment that usually makes you sweat can be a good next step.",[1451,1452,1453,1454,1455],"Emotions that overflow","Nervousness and insecurity","Fear of criticism","Anger and shame","Keeping others at a distance",[1457,1458,1459,1460,1461,1462,1463],"Sweating with chest pain, pain spreading to the arm, jaw, neck or back, breathlessness or feeling sick. Call emergency services, as this can be a heart attack.","A cold sweat with confusion, shaking or feeling faint, especially if you have diabetes. This can be low blood sugar and needs treating at once.","Night sweats that soak your bedclothes or sheets, especially with unexplained weight loss, fever, a long-lasting cough or swollen glands. See a GP soon, as these need to be checked for infection or other illness.","Heavy sweating that starts suddenly, affects the whole body, or comes with a racing heart, weight loss or shaking, which can point to an overactive thyroid.","Sweating that started after a new medicine. Do not stop the medicine on your own; ask the prescriber.","A change in your body odour, or a new unusual smell, that does not go with washing.","Sweating that affects your daily life, work or confidence. Effective treatments exist.","lCsmS07eqFoKvcMAG0h6rjGV7l7cjdPmieatvHglY64",[],[],1791456514838]