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Left eye vs right eye, left vs right ear.","\u002Fareas\u002Feyes-and-ears","i-lucide-eye",2,"\u002Feyes-and-ears",{"title":21,"description":22,"path":23,"icon":24,"order":25,"comingSoon":10,"to":26,"conditionCount":27},"Respiratory system","Lungs spiritual meaning: your taste for life, the space you take, and feeling smothered. What shortness of breath, coughs, asthma and colds may say.","\u002Fareas\u002Frespiratory-system","i-lucide-wind",3,"\u002Frespiratory-system",20,{"title":29,"description":30,"path":31,"icon":32,"order":33,"comingSoon":10,"to":34,"conditionCount":35},"Heart and circulation","Heart spiritual meaning: love given and received, joy of living, and the pressure you carry. Blood pressure, palpitations and chest pain at a glance.","\u002Fareas\u002Fheart-and-circulation","i-lucide-heart-pulse",4,"\u002Fheart-and-circulation",11,{"title":37,"description":38,"path":39,"icon":40,"order":41,"comingSoon":10,"to":42,"conditionCount":43},"Digestive system","Digestive issues spiritual meaning: what you cannot digest or accept, the need to control, and letting go. Stomach and bowel problems at a glance.","\u002Fareas\u002Fdigestive-system","i-lucide-utensils",5,"\u002Fdigestive-system",19,{"title":45,"description":46,"path":47,"icon":48,"order":49,"comingSoon":10,"to":50,"conditionCount":51},"Back","Back pain spiritual meaning: support, burdens and being the pillar. What lower, middle and upper back and spine problems may say, and left vs right side.","\u002Fareas\u002Fback","i-lucide-person-standing",6,"\u002Fback",7,{"title":53,"description":54,"path":55,"icon":56,"order":51,"comingSoon":10,"to":57,"conditionCount":58},"Skin","Skin problems spiritual meaning: boundaries, contact and separation, and how you feel seen. What rashes, eczema, psoriasis, acne and itching may say.","\u002Fareas\u002Fskin","i-lucide-fingerprint","\u002Fskin",27,{"title":60,"description":61,"path":62,"icon":63,"order":64,"comingSoon":10,"to":65,"conditionCount":66},"Joints and bones","Joint pain spiritual meaning: flexibility, rigid thinking, authority and your inner structure. Which joint hurts, left vs right side, and bone problems.","\u002Fareas\u002Fjoints-and-bones","i-lucide-bone",8,"\u002Fjoints-and-bones",14,{"title":68,"description":69,"path":70,"icon":71,"order":72,"comingSoon":10,"to":73,"conditionCount":35},"Reproductive system","Uterus and reproductive problems spiritual meaning: creativity, femininity, masculinity and pleasure. Periods, fibroids, ovaries, prostate at a glance.","\u002Fareas\u002Freproductive-system","i-lucide-venus-and-mars",9,"\u002Freproductive-system",{"title":75,"description":76,"path":77,"icon":78,"order":79,"comingSoon":10,"to":80,"conditionCount":49},"Kidneys and urinary system","Kidney spiritual meaning: unspoken fear, old emotions that harden into stones, and balance in partnership. Kidney stones, bladder, left vs right kidney.","\u002Fareas\u002Fkidneys","i-lucide-droplets",10,"\u002Fkidneys",{"title":82,"description":83,"path":84,"icon":85,"order":35,"comingSoon":10,"to":86,"conditionCount":18},"Blood sugar","The spiritual and metaphysical meaning of diabetes and low blood sugar: sweetness, sadness, love that is hard to receive, and giving yourself away.","\u002Fareas\u002Fblood-sugar","i-lucide-candy","\u002Fblood-sugar",{"title":88,"description":89,"path":90,"icon":91,"order":92,"comingSoon":10,"to":93,"conditionCount":66},"Mouth and teeth","Teeth and mouth spiritual meaning: taking life in, words held back, and biting into decisions. Toothache, gums, jaw pain and mouth sores at a glance.","\u002Fareas\u002Fmouth-and-teeth","i-lucide-smile",12,"\u002Fmouth-and-teeth",{"title":95,"description":96,"path":97,"icon":98,"order":99,"comingSoon":10,"to":100,"conditionCount":25},"Liver and gallbladder","Liver and gallbladder spiritual meaning: anger, criticism and bitterness, and faith in yourself. What liver problems and gallstones may say, at a glance.","\u002Fareas\u002Fliver-and-gallbladder","i-lucide-filter",13,"\u002Fliver-and-gallbladder",{"title":102,"description":103,"path":104,"icon":105,"order":66,"comingSoon":10,"to":106,"conditionCount":18},"Pancreas","Pancreas spiritual and metaphysical meaning: digesting emotions, freedom and self-mastery, and the sweetness of joy. 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Cramps, tendons, fibromyalgia.","\u002Fareas\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons","i-lucide-dumbbell",16,"\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons",{"title":122,"description":123,"path":124,"icon":125,"order":126,"comingSoon":10,"to":127,"conditionCount":64},"Shoulders","Shoulder pain spiritual meaning: the loads you carry, responsibility, and holding yourself back. What left shoulder and right shoulder pain may say.","\u002Fareas\u002Fshoulders","i-lucide-backpack",16.5,"\u002Fshoulders",{"title":129,"description":130,"path":131,"icon":132,"order":133,"comingSoon":10,"to":134,"conditionCount":92},"Arms and hands","Arm and hand pain spiritual meaning: giving and receiving, taking action and carrying loads. Left arm vs right arm, plus elbows, wrists and fingers.","\u002Fareas\u002Farms-and-hands","i-lucide-hand",17,"\u002Farms-and-hands",{"title":136,"description":137,"path":138,"icon":139,"order":140,"comingSoon":10,"to":141,"conditionCount":49},"Hips","Hip pain spiritual meaning: moving forward or holding back, living for yourself or for others. What left hip and right hip pain may say, with questions.","\u002Fareas\u002Fhips","i-lucide-move",17.5,"\u002Fhips",{"title":143,"description":144,"path":145,"icon":146,"order":147,"comingSoon":10,"to":148,"conditionCount":133},"Legs and feet","Leg and foot pain spiritual meaning: moving forward, direction, support and the mother. Left leg vs right leg, swollen feet, knees, ankles and heels.","\u002Fareas\u002Flegs-and-feet","i-lucide-footprints",18,"\u002Flegs-and-feet",{"title":150,"description":151,"path":152,"icon":153,"order":43,"comingSoon":10,"to":154,"conditionCount":41},"Hair and nails","The spiritual meaning of hair and nails: strength, vitality, protection and self-image. Hair loss, grey hair, nail biting and brittle nails at a glance.","\u002Fareas\u002Fhair-and-nails","i-lucide-scissors","\u002Fhair-and-nails",{"title":156,"description":157,"path":158,"icon":159,"order":27,"comingSoon":10,"to":160,"conditionCount":18},"Breasts","Breast pain spiritual meaning: giving and receiving, mothering others and femininity. What the left and right breast may say, with cysts and mastitis.","\u002Fareas\u002Fbreasts","i-lucide-flower-2","\u002Fbreasts",{"title":162,"description":163,"path":164,"icon":165,"order":12,"comingSoon":10,"to":166,"conditionCount":33},"Thyroid","Thyroid spiritual meaning: speech, creativity, and the moments you feel you must stay silent. 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I put my energy into what I truly want to do, with flexibility and an open mind.",[312,313,314,315,316,317,318,319],"Pain in the right elbow","Sore right elbow","Right elbow ache","Right tennis elbow","Right golfer's elbow","Outer right elbow pain","Inner right elbow pain","Right elbow joint pain","arms-and-hands",{"type":322,"value":323,"toc":476},"minimark",[324,329,339,352,355,358,362,369,374,377,381,384,388,391,395,398,402,409,413,425,429],[325,326,328],"h2",{"id":327},"what-right-elbow-pain-is","What right elbow pain is",[330,331,332,333,338],"p",{},"Right elbow pain is pain in or around the right elbow. Because most people are right-handed, the right elbow does most of the gripping, twisting and lifting, and overuse is the usual story. The commonest cause is ",[334,335,337],"a",{"href":336},"\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Ftennis-elbow","tennis elbow",", or lateral epicondylitis: soreness where the forearm tendons attach to the bony point on the outer elbow. It comes from repeated gripping with the wrist bent back, so it is common in people who use a mouse all day, use screwdrivers or other tools, paint, garden, lift at work or play racquet sports. Pain on the inner side of the elbow is often golfer's elbow, the same problem on the other set of tendons.",[330,340,341,342,346,347,351],{},"Other causes include olecranon ",[334,343,345],{"href":344},"\u002Fjoints-and-bones\u002Fbursitis","bursitis",", a soft swelling over the point of the elbow, a pressed ulnar nerve with tingling in the ring and little fingers, arthritis, ",[334,348,350],{"href":349},"\u002Fjoints-and-bones\u002Fgout","gout",", and fractures or dislocations after a fall. A red, hot, swollen elbow with fever needs a doctor quickly.",[330,353,354],{},"Heart pain is usually felt in the chest and the left arm, but it can spread to the right arm or to both. Arm pain on either side with chest pressure, breathlessness, sweating or nausea needs emergency help: call 999 in the UK, 911 in the US or 112 in the EU.",[330,356,357],{},"Most tendon pain improves over weeks to months with relative rest from the provoking task, a lighter or different grip, a better workstation, simple painkillers, a forearm strap if it helps, and gradual strengthening exercises, often with a physiotherapist. Pushing through the same movement because you \"have to\" is how it lasts.",[325,359,361],{"id":360},"the-emotional-meaning-of-right-elbow-pain","The emotional meaning of right elbow pain",[330,363,364,365,368],{},"Spiritually, the elbows give you freedom of movement and the flexibility to change direction in new situations. They are linked to ambition, possession, work and, at the other end, laziness: the joint that turns a desire into something done. In the map of ",[334,366,367],{"href":298},"the left and right sides of the body",", the right side carries the active, masculine principle, in women as much as in men: action, logic, decisions, work, the direction you choose, and the men in your life. So the right elbow tends to ask about flexibility in what you do.",[370,371,373],"h3",{"id":372},"a-new-direction-you-refuse","A new direction you refuse",[330,375,376],{},"Elbow pain is linked to resisting a new direction by holding your position. On the right, this is often a change at work or in your plans: a new role, a new method, a move into another field, the end of a way of working you know well. You may cling to what you have because the unknown frightens you, even when part of you knows the old direction has run its course.",[370,378,380],{"id":379},"forced-to-do-without-taste-for-it","Forced to do, without taste for it",[330,382,383],{},"Inflamed elbows are linked to something you cannot manage to achieve, or something you are made to do without any appetite for it. You may feel obliged to act against your will, to elbow your way through, day after day. The right elbow may ask how much of your effort goes into tasks you have stopped believing in.",[370,385,387],{"id":386},"effort-without-credit","Effort without credit",[330,389,390],{},"You may feel you work harder than others to reach the same results, and that the recognition you are due never comes. The same pressures keep returning, and each time you absorb the blow. Impulsive reactions can make it worse: acting fast, forgetting what you learnt last time, and walking into the same mistake again.",[370,392,394],{"id":393},"rigidity-and-judgement","Rigidity and judgement",[330,396,397],{},"Because the elbows are linked to action, stiffness there can show in how you judge others. Colleagues who work differently from you may irritate you because their way questions your own habits. When your routine is disrupted, when order comes apart at the seams, the elbow reacts. You may also fear being incompetent in a field you care about, and so being unable to support your family.",[370,399,401],{"id":400},"the-punch-you-hold-back","The punch you hold back",[330,403,404,405,408],{},"Tennis elbow is linked to a great deal of ",[334,406,407],{"href":199},"anger"," about a situation, with a wish to punch someone and a hand that holds back. On the right, that anger is often aimed at authority: a boss, a client, a father whose way you resist. For a man, it may touch rivalry and the need to prove himself. For a woman, it may touch her working life and the roles she wants to step out of. Holding back the blow is wise. Leaving the anger unheard is what keeps the arm tense.",[325,410,412],{"id":411},"the-other-side","The other side",[330,414,415,419,420,424],{},[334,416,418],{"href":417},"\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fleft-elbow-pain","Left elbow pain"," is linked to flexibility in the emotional life: a change at home you resist, care that goes unrecognised, and the people you keep at arm's length. The right elbow asks where you are rigid in your work and your plans, the left where you are rigid in your heart. The page on ",[334,421,423],{"href":422},"\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Felbow-pain","elbow pain"," holds both sides.",[325,426,428],{"id":427},"a-gentler-way-to-hold-it","A gentler way to hold it",[430,431,432,440,446,452,458,464,470],"ul",{},[433,434,435,439],"li",{},[436,437,438],"strong",{},"Name the direction you refuse."," Write down the change at work you keep resisting, and what you fear in it.",[433,441,442,445],{},[436,443,444],{},"Separate want from must."," List your weekly tasks, and mark the ones you do only because you feel obliged.",[433,447,448,451],{},[436,449,450],{},"Claim your credit."," Tell someone, plainly, what you achieved this month.",[433,453,454,457],{},[436,455,456],{},"Learn from the repeat."," When a familiar mistake comes back, pause before reacting.",[433,459,460,463],{},[436,461,462],{},"Let others work their way."," Notice one colleague whose method differs, and let it be.",[433,465,466,469],{},[436,467,468],{},"Hear the anger without striking."," Write it down, walk it off, or say it to someone safe.",[433,471,472,475],{},[436,473,474],{},"Change the grip."," Adjust the mouse, the tool or the racquet, and let the tendon recover with graded exercise.",{"title":477,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":478},"",[479,480,487,488],{"id":327,"depth":18,"text":328},{"id":360,"depth":18,"text":361,"children":481},[482,483,484,485,486],{"id":372,"depth":25,"text":373},{"id":379,"depth":25,"text":380},{"id":386,"depth":25,"text":387},{"id":393,"depth":25,"text":394},{"id":400,"depth":25,"text":401},{"id":411,"depth":18,"text":412},{"id":427,"depth":18,"text":428},"2026-10-16","The emotional and spiritual meaning of right elbow pain: resisting a new direction at work, tasks you are forced to do, effort without credit, held-back anger, and when to see a doctor.","md","arms",[],[495,498],{"name":496,"url":497},"NHS: Elbow and arm pain","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fsymptoms\u002Felbow-and-arm-pain\u002F",{"name":499,"url":500},"MedlinePlus: Elbow Injuries and Disorders","https:\u002F\u002Fmedlineplus.gov\u002Felbowinjuriesanddisorders.html",{},true,"\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fright-elbow-pain",[505,506,507,508,509,510],"Which change of direction at work or in my plans am I refusing?","What am I obliged to do that I have no taste for?","Where do I put in more effort than others and receive no credit?","Do I judge colleagues who work differently from me because they unsettle my habits?","Am I afraid of not being good enough at something that matters to me, or of not providing for my family?","Whom would I like to hit, and what am I holding back?",[336,422,417,512,513],"\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fcarpal-tunnel","\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fright-wrist-pain",[515,516],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FElbow_pain","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ109927447",{"title":309,"description":490},"Right Elbow Pain Spiritual Meaning: Changing Direction","right",[521,527,530,534],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":524,"pages":526},"Jacques Martel","Le Grand Dictionnaire des Malaises et des Maladies",[525],"Coudes — Épicondylite","127",{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":528,"pages":526},[529],"Coudes (en général)",{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":531,"pages":533},[532],"Masculin (principe…)","270–271",{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":535,"pages":537},[536],"Féminin (principe…)","182–183","conditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fright-elbow-pain","Spiritually, right elbow pain is linked to flexibility in action. It may sit with resisting a new direction at work, doing tasks you have no taste for, putting in more effort than others without credit, and an anger you hold back from striking with.","If this reading resonates with you, naming one task you force yourself through each day, and asking whether it could be done differently, can be a good next step while the elbow rests from the movement that inflames it.",[542,543,387,394,544,545],"Resisting a new direction","Forced to do","Held-back anger","Fear of incompetence",[547,548,549,550,551,552],"Arm pain on either side with chest pain, pressure or tightness, breathlessness, sweating or nausea. Call emergency services straight away (999 in the UK, 911 in the US, 112 in the EU), as this can be a heart attack.","An elbow that looks deformed, will not bend or straighten, or is very painful after a fall. Go to A&E or urgent care.","A hot, red, swollen elbow, especially with fever. This can be an infected bursa, gout or an infected joint.","Numbness or tingling in the ring and little fingers, or a weak grip. A nerve at the elbow may be pressed.","Pain on the outer elbow that makes gripping, lifting a kettle or turning a handle difficult, or that has not improved after a few weeks of relative rest.","Steroid injections and surgery are decisions for a clinician. Most elbow tendon pain settles with graded loading and time.","fRAagiwFqalqJe-rVy8uGw2Sh4PLZyJ3YdyrA7mHpEg",{"id":555,"title":129,"body":556,"comingSoon":10,"dateModified":807,"datePublished":808,"description":130,"extension":491,"groups":809,"guides":816,"icon":132,"medicalSources":823,"meta":824,"navigation":502,"order":133,"path":131,"reflectionQuestions":825,"seo":832,"seoTitle":833,"sources":834,"stem":846,"themes":847,"whenToSeeADoctor":854,"__hash__":861},"areas\u002Fareas\u002Farms-and-hands.md",{"type":322,"value":557,"toc":797},[558,561,564,570,574,577,661,665,668,671,692,696,703,710,722,726,729,733,736,740,743,749,753,759],[330,559,560],{},"Spiritually, the arms and hands are how you embrace life, give and receive, and turn a wish into action. Arm and hand pain is often linked to a load you carry for others, a change of direction you resist, or difficulty receiving as freely as you give. The left side leans towards love and receiving, the right towards action and authority.",[330,562,563],{},"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.",[565,566,567],"note",{},[330,568,569],{},"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.",[325,571,573],{"id":572},"arm-and-hand-problems-and-their-spiritual-meaning-at-a-glance","Arm and hand problems and their spiritual meaning at a glance",[330,575,576],{},"Each condition has its own page, with questions to reflect on, an affirmation and when to see a doctor.",[578,579,580,593],"table",{},[581,582,583],"thead",{},[584,585,586,590],"tr",{},[587,588,589],"th",{},"Condition",[587,591,592],{},"What it is often linked with",[594,595,596,608,619,630,640,651],"tbody",{},[584,597,598,605],{},[599,600,601],"td",{},[334,602,604],{"href":603},"\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fwrist-pain","Wrist pain",[599,606,607],{},"Held-back action, indecision, feeling tied down",[584,609,610,616],{},[599,611,612],{},[334,613,615],{"href":614},"\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fdupuytrens-contracture","Dupuytren's contracture",[599,617,618],{},"Holding on, control, withdrawal",[584,620,621,627],{},[599,622,623],{},[334,624,626],{"href":625},"\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Farmpit-pain","Armpit pain",[599,628,629],{},"Deep forces held back, conforming",[584,631,632,637],{},[599,633,634],{},[334,635,636],{"href":336},"Tennis elbow",[599,638,639],{},"Resisting change, held-back anger",[584,641,642,648],{},[599,643,644],{},[334,645,647],{"href":646},"\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Ffinger-pain","Finger pain",[599,649,650],{},"Daily details, pressure, authority, close bonds",[584,652,653,658],{},[599,654,655],{},[334,656,657],{"href":512},"Carpal tunnel syndrome",[599,659,660],{},"Feeling sidelined, squeezed by responsibilities",[325,662,664],{"id":663},"arms-elbows-and-shoulders","Arms, elbows and shoulders",[330,666,667],{},"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.",[330,669,670],{},"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.",[330,672,673,674,677,678,681,682,686,687,691],{},"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 ",[334,675,676],{"href":50},"back"," behind them is the part read as weak and twisted by the weight. The ",[334,679,680],{"href":127},"shoulders"," now have their own page, with ",[334,683,685],{"href":684},"\u002Fshoulders\u002Fshoulder-pain","shoulder pain"," and ",[334,688,690],{"href":689},"\u002Fshoulders\u002Frounded-shoulders","rounded shoulders",".",[325,693,695],{"id":694},"hands-and-fingers","Hands and fingers",[330,697,698,699,702],{},"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 ",[334,700,701],{"href":244},"hate"," in the form of a fist, and how you \"manipulate\" events or people.",[330,704,705,706,709],{},"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 ",[334,707,708],{"href":205},"anxiety"," and nervousness. You are overwhelmed. You want to put the fire out yourself. Pain or cramps mean you refuse to be flexible.",[330,711,712,713,717,718,721],{},"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 ",[714,715,716],"em",{},"doigt",", finger, sits next to ",[714,719,720],{},"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.",[325,723,725],{"id":724},"left-arm-or-right-arm-left-hand-or-right-hand","Left arm or right arm? Left hand or right hand?",[330,727,728],{},"The side adds a nuance to what the arm already means. Take it as a question, not a verdict.",[370,730,732],{"id":731},"left-arm-and-left-hand","Left arm and left hand",[330,734,735],{},"The left side of the body carries the feminine principle: feeling, tenderness, intuition and receiving. A sore left arm or hand may ask whether you find it hard to show love and kindness, or to accept care when it is offered. It can also touch your bond with the women in your life, starting with your mother.",[370,737,739],{"id":738},"right-arm-and-right-hand","Right arm and right hand",[330,741,742],{},"The right side carries the masculine principle: will, logic, action and direction. Trouble in the right arm or hand may point to a strain with authority, a conflict with someone you count on as your \"right-hand\" person, or pressure about how you act, decide and provide. It can also touch your bond with the men in your life, starting with your father.",[330,744,745,746,748],{},"For the full map, see ",[334,747,367],{"href":298},". Pain in the left arm with chest tightness, breathlessness or sweating can be a heart attack, and sudden weakness of one arm with a drooping face or slurred speech can be a stroke. Call emergency services for either.",[325,750,752],{"id":751},"caring-for-the-arms-from-the-inside","Caring for the arms from the inside",[330,754,755,756],{},"Injury, nerve entrapment, arthritis and heart disease can all declare themselves in the arm. The emotional perspective adds a question: ",[714,757,758],{},"what am I holding, and what am I unwilling either to give or to receive?",[430,760,761,767,773,779,785,791],{},[433,762,763,766],{},[436,764,765],{},"Notice crossed arms."," Protection is useful. A permanent closure is the spiritual interpretation's warning.",[433,768,769,772],{},[436,770,771],{},"Ask whose happiness is on your shoulders."," A load that is not yours is what makes them hurt in this picture.",[433,774,775,778],{},[436,776,777],{},"Separate left and right."," Receiving and acting are the two hands. One without the other is incomplete.",[433,780,781,784],{},[436,782,783],{},"Look at the detail you are gripping."," Impatience about a small gesture is the finger's theme.",[433,786,787,790],{},[436,788,789],{},"Change one direction."," A stiff elbow is the fear of being trapped in the old way.",[433,792,793,796],{},[436,794,795],{},"Treat chest pain and sudden weakness as medical."," An emotional reading never waits out a possible stroke or heart attack.",{"title":477,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":798},[799,800,801,802,806],{"id":572,"depth":18,"text":573},{"id":663,"depth":18,"text":664},{"id":694,"depth":18,"text":695},{"id":724,"depth":18,"text":725,"children":803},[804,805],{"id":731,"depth":25,"text":732},{"id":738,"depth":25,"text":739},{"id":751,"depth":18,"text":752},"2026-10-12","2026-10-04",[810,813],{"id":492,"title":811,"description":812},"Arms and elbows","Arms that embrace and carry, and elbows that let you change direction.",{"id":814,"title":695,"description":815},"hands","Hands that take, give and do the work, and fingers that handle the details of the day.",[817,818,301,819,820,821,822],"\u002Fguides\u002Faffirmations-by-body-part","\u002Fguides\u002Fbody-twitching-spiritual-meaning","\u002Fguides\u002Femotions-stored-in-the-shoulders","\u002Fguides\u002Fheart-chakra","\u002Fguides\u002Fitchy-palms-meaning","\u002Fguides\u002Fspiritual-meaning-of-pain-in-body-parts",[],{},[826,827,828,829,830,831],"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":129,"description":130},"Arm & Hand Pain Spiritual Meaning: Left vs Right",[835,842,844],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":836,"pages":841},[837,838,839,529,840],"Bras (en général)","Mains (en général)","Doigts (en général)","Épaule(s) (en général)","75–76, 127, 146, 173–174, 259–260",{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":843,"pages":533},[532],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":845,"pages":537},[536],"areas\u002Farms-and-hands",[848,849,850,851,852,853],"Giving and receiving","Action","Burden","Flexibility","Contact","Work",[855,856,857,858,859,860],"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.","GdL7uGdwQDzX0K5FAKmf1RTS24ORAQ3DXU9Gtcc73ts",[863,1031,1241,1459],{"id":864,"title":657,"affirmation":865,"aka":866,"area":320,"body":873,"dateModified":807,"datePublished":808,"description":977,"extension":491,"group":814,"guides":978,"medicalSources":979,"meta":986,"navigation":502,"parent":987,"path":988,"reflectionQuestions":989,"related":996,"sameAs":997,"seo":1000,"seoTitle":1001,"side":987,"sources":1002,"stem":1014,"summary":1015,"supportIntro":1016,"themes":1017,"whenToSeeADoctor":1023,"__hash__":1030},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fcarpal-tunnel.md","I accept the change that has arrived. I can take a risk, discover another path, and include the whole of who I am.",[867,868,869,870,871,872],"Median nerve compression","Wrist nerve entrapment","Carpal tunnel","Carpal tunnel in left hand","Carpal tunnel in right hand","Numb fingers at night",{"type":322,"value":874,"toc":968},[875,879,882,891,895,898,901,905,911,915,918,922,925,927,930],[325,876,878],{"id":877},"what-carpal-tunnel-syndrome-is","What carpal tunnel syndrome is",[330,880,881],{},"Carpal tunnel syndrome is compression of the median nerve as it passes through a narrow tunnel at the front of the wrist. You feel numbness, tingling and sometimes pain in the thumb, index and middle fingers, and sometimes weakness of the grip. It is often worse at night or on waking. It is more common in women, in pregnancy, around the menopause, in diabetes, and in people whose work or tools load the wrist. It also happens in men, and without any hormonal change. Splints, changes at work, and sometimes an injection or a small operation relieve the pressure. The nerve is a physical structure. A story about control does not decompress it.",[330,883,884,885,887,888,890],{},"The emotional meaning below belongs to seasons when the hand is numb and the life feels narrowed. ",[334,886,636],{"href":336}," is the neighbouring complaint of the arm. The ",[334,889,814],{"href":134}," page is the wider picture.",[325,892,894],{"id":893},"the-emotional-meaning-of-carpal-tunnel-syndrome","The emotional meaning of carpal tunnel syndrome",[330,896,897],{},"It shows up, in this approach, at times of great hormonal change, when you have not yet included a feminine side of yourself in its fullness. That is a question about a season of change in a body, not a rule about women, and not a claim that men are exempt. It usually appears when you feel relegated to the second rank, or when you no longer feel in your place. Before, you had the impression of being the pillar that brought balance to your life and to the people close to you, in the family, at work, or in a social activity. Now the attention is on someone else, and you put pressure on yourself to find new ways of being noticed.",[330,899,900],{},"You do not know how to use your authority. You need to let go, and you refuse to let go of control, to \"loosen the rein\". You tend to want to give orders. You feel far from your partner, and you are no longer in contact with a sexuality that feels absent. You see few solutions and few paths. The tunnel is very narrow. You feel pressed by life, and compressed by your responsibilities, which makes a decision harder. The structures you oblige yourself to satisfy leave you feeling limited.",[325,902,904],{"id":903},"left-side-or-right-side","Left side or right side?",[330,906,907,908,691],{},"Carpal tunnel syndrome often starts in the dominant hand, and in pregnancy it is commonly felt in both, so the side is first a matter of use and anatomy. Spiritually, the side can still add a nuance. The left hand is the hand of the heart, the one that receives, and is linked to the feminine principle. The right hand stands for will, action and command, and is linked to the masculine principle. Men and women carry both. See the guide to the ",[334,909,910],{"href":298},"left and right sides of the body",[370,912,914],{"id":913},"carpal-tunnel-in-the-left-hand","Carpal tunnel in the left hand",[330,916,917],{},"In the left hand, carpal tunnel is linked to feeling, intuition, receiving, and the women in your life. The narrow tunnel may run through your emotional and family life: a season in which you no longer feel at the centre of the home, because attention has moved to someone else, a new baby, a partner's career, a grown child leaving. Numbness in the receiving hand may ask whether you have stopped letting care reach you while you hold on tightly to the role of pillar. It can also ask which feelings about the changes in your body, in pregnancy, around the menopause or with age, have had no room to be said.",[370,919,921],{"id":920},"carpal-tunnel-in-the-right-hand","Carpal tunnel in the right hand",[330,923,924],{},"In the right hand, it is linked to action, authority, work, the direction you choose, and the men in your life. The narrow tunnel here is more often one of responsibilities and control. At work you may feel relegated to the second rank, or squeezed by obligations until no decision seems possible. The right hand is the hand that commands, and numbness may ask where you refuse to loosen the rein, giving orders because letting go feels like losing your place. For a woman, it may touch a tension between her working life and the roles expected of her. For a man, it may touch a question of rivalry or of strength.",[325,926,428],{"id":427},[330,928,929],{},"The direction is to accept the newness and the changes that are arriving. A situation or a challenge is read as a chance to acquire a new strength, so that a potential can be realised. This passage is one you make in relation to who you are, and to your physical and inner changes. You accept taking risks, and discovering avenues that bring a real personal satisfaction, because you will have come through your fears. You choose to include what you are, as a whole. You free yourself from what was chaining you, and you come back to yourself.",[430,931,932,938,944,950,956,962],{},[433,933,934,937],{},[436,935,936],{},"Have the nerve tested if the hand is going weak."," Damage is easier to prevent than to reverse.",[433,939,940,943],{},[436,941,942],{},"Ask where you were the pillar, and no longer are."," Being pushed into the background is the season at the heart of it.",[433,945,946,949],{},[436,947,948],{},"Notice the rein you will not loosen."," Control and the wish to give orders sit together.",[433,951,952,955],{},[436,953,954],{},"Look at the narrow tunnel of choices."," Few paths, and a life that feels compressed, are the image of the wrist.",[433,957,958,961],{},[436,959,960],{},"Include the change in the body."," Pregnancy, menopause, or any real shift is part of the picture. It is not a failure to be feminine or masculine enough.",[433,963,964,967],{},[436,965,966],{},"Use the splint or the treatment you were offered."," Meaning does not open the tunnel.",{"title":477,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":969},[970,971,972,976],{"id":877,"depth":18,"text":878},{"id":893,"depth":18,"text":894},{"id":903,"depth":18,"text":904,"children":973},[974,975],{"id":913,"depth":25,"text":914},{"id":920,"depth":25,"text":921},{"id":427,"depth":18,"text":428},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of carpal tunnel syndrome: left vs right hand, feeling pushed aside, a narrow tunnel of choices, a grip held tight.",[817,821,822],[980,983],{"name":981,"url":982},"NHS: Carpal tunnel syndrome","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fconditions\u002Fcarpal-tunnel-syndrome\u002F",{"name":984,"url":985},"MedlinePlus: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome","https:\u002F\u002Fmedlineplus.gov\u002Fcarpaltunnelsyndrome.html",{},null,"\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fcarpal-tunnel",[990,991,992,993,994,995],"Where do I feel relegated to the background, or no longer in my place?","What changed, so that I am no longer the pillar I used to be?","Where do I need to let go of control, and refuse to loosen the rein?","Do I feel far from my partner, or out of contact with my own sexuality?","Which responsibilities are compressing me until a decision feels impossible?","What new strength is this passage actually asking me to develop?",[336,603],[998,999],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FCarpal_tunnel_syndrome","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ332293",{"title":657,"description":977},"Carpal Tunnel Spiritual Meaning: Left vs Right Hand",[1003,1007,1010,1012],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1004,"pages":1006},[1005],"Poignet — Syndrome du canal carpien","350",{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1008,"pages":1009},[838],"259–260",{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1011,"pages":533},[532],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1013,"pages":537},[536],"conditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fcarpal-tunnel","Carpal tunnel syndrome is compression of a nerve in the wrist, with numbness in the fingers, often at night. It is read as a season of change in which you feel relegated, squeezed by responsibilities, and unable to loosen your grip.","If this reading resonates with you, asking where you are squeezing a life that has already changed can be a good next step, while the wrist is given a proper assessment.",[1018,1019,1020,1021,1022],"Feeling sidelined","Hormonal change","Control","A narrow path","Responsibility",[1024,1025,1026,1027,1028,1029],"Numbness, tingling or pain in the thumb, index and middle fingers, especially at night. A clinician can test the nerve.","Weakness, or things dropping from the hand. Lasting compression can damage the nerve.","Symptoms in pregnancy. They are common and often settle, and they still deserve advice if they are severe.","Numbness with neck pain, or in the little finger only. That may be a different nerve.","A wrist that is swollen, hot or injured.","Splints, therapy, injections and surgery are medical options. A reading does not choose among them.","kivBmeEV-Qq7MwbCqWbMDy8xIDMTAqykk4tTrFI2-sQ",{"id":1032,"title":418,"affirmation":1033,"aka":1034,"area":320,"body":1043,"dateModified":489,"datePublished":489,"description":1199,"extension":491,"group":492,"guides":1200,"medicalSources":1201,"meta":1204,"navigation":502,"parent":422,"path":1205,"reflectionQuestions":1206,"related":1213,"sameAs":1215,"seo":1216,"seoTitle":1217,"side":1218,"sources":1219,"stem":1228,"summary":1229,"supportIntro":1230,"themes":1231,"whenToSeeADoctor":1237,"__hash__":1240},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fleft-elbow-pain.md","I welcome the changes in my life with an open heart. I let love move through my arms, and I let myself hold and be held.",[1035,1036,1037,1038,1039,1040,1041,1042],"Pain in the left elbow","Sore left elbow","Left elbow ache","Left tennis elbow","Left golfer's elbow","Outer left elbow pain","Inner left elbow pain","Left elbow joint pain",{"type":322,"value":1044,"toc":1186},[1045,1049,1061,1064,1067,1070,1074,1080,1084,1087,1091,1094,1098,1104,1108,1115,1119,1122,1126,1129,1131,1140,1142],[325,1046,1048],{"id":1047},"what-left-elbow-pain-is","What left elbow pain is",[330,1050,1051,1052,1054,1055,1057,1058,1060],{},"Left elbow pain is pain in or around the left elbow joint, where the upper arm meets the two bones of the forearm. Where it hurts gives a first clue. Pain on the outer side, worse when gripping, lifting or turning a handle, is usually ",[334,1053,337],{"href":336},", an overuse problem of the forearm tendons. Pain on the inner side is often golfer's elbow, its mirror image. A soft swelling over the point of the elbow is olecranon ",[334,1056,345],{"href":344},", often from leaning on it. Tingling in the ring and little fingers points to the ulnar nerve, the \"funny bone\", being pressed, for example by sleeping with the arm bent. Arthritis, ",[334,1059,350],{"href":349},", a fracture or a dislocation after a fall are other causes.",[330,1062,1063],{},"For right-handed people the left is the non-dominant arm, so a left tennis elbow often has a clear source: carrying a child, a shopping bag or a laptop bag on that arm, two-handed work, or a new sport or hobby. For left-handed people, it is the working arm.",[330,1065,1066],{},"The left arm also matters for a reason that has nothing to do with the elbow. Pain from the heart, in angina or a heart attack, often spreads from the chest into the left arm. Left arm pain with chest pressure, breathlessness, sweating, nausea, or pain in the jaw or neck needs emergency help: call 999 in the UK, 911 in the US or 112 in the EU.",[330,1068,1069],{},"Most tendon pain at the elbow settles over weeks to months with relative rest from the provoking movement, a change in grip, simple painkillers, a strap if it helps, and exercises that rebuild strength gradually.",[325,1071,1073],{"id":1072},"the-emotional-meaning-of-left-elbow-pain","The emotional meaning of left elbow pain",[330,1075,1076,1077,1079],{},"Spiritually, the elbows give you freedom of movement and the flexibility to change direction when life brings something new. They are the joint that turns a wish into a gesture. Healthy elbows also let you hold someone close. In the map of ",[334,1078,367],{"href":298},", the left side carries the receptive, feminine principle, in men and women alike: feeling, intuition, tenderness, receiving, the home, and the women in your life. So the left elbow tends to ask about flexibility in matters of the heart.",[370,1081,1083],{"id":1082},"a-change-of-heart-you-resist","A change of heart you resist",[330,1085,1086],{},"Elbow pain is linked to a lack of flexibility and a fear of being stuck in an unpleasant situation. On the left, the change you resist is often emotional: a child growing up and leaving, a relationship that is changing shape, a parent who needs more from you, a friendship drifting. You may hold your position rather than open to what is coming, because the new and the unknown feel frightening.",[370,1088,1090],{"id":1089},"the-same-hurt-again-and-again","The same hurt, again and again",[330,1092,1093],{},"When the elbow is inflamed, the question is what you oppose with so much resistance. You may feel that the same events keep coming round, and that you have to absorb the blow each time: the same criticism from a family member, the same disappointment, the same silence. You may even notice that you react in the same way each time, as if a lesson learnt had been forgotten.",[370,1095,1097],{"id":1096},"care-without-credit","Care without credit",[330,1099,1100,1101,1103],{},"Inflamed elbows are linked to the feeling of putting in more effort than others without receiving the credit you are due. On the left, that effort is often care: the meals, the remembering, the listening, the holding of everyone's feelings. When nobody notices, frustration builds, and with it a quiet ",[334,1102,407],{"href":199}," you keep to yourself.",[370,1105,1107],{"id":1106},"arms-length","Arm's length",[330,1109,1110,1111,1114],{},"The left elbow also asks about embracing. A stiff left elbow may ask whom you are keeping at arm's length, perhaps because you distrust what closeness would bring. It may also ask whether you let yourself be held. In French, ",[714,1112,1113],{},"serrer les coudes",", to press elbows together, means to stick together and support one another. A sore left elbow can ask whether you are bracing alone when you could be leaning on others.",[370,1116,1118],{"id":1117},"routine-and-order-at-home","Routine and order at home",[330,1120,1121],{},"Elbows react, spiritually, when your need for order is upset and your routine comes apart at the seams. On the left, this may be life at home: a new baby, a move, a partner's new hours, a relative staying. You may judge the people who do things differently from you, because their way questions your habits. The elbow then stiffens around the old way.",[370,1123,1125],{"id":1124},"looking-inside-for-the-answer","Looking inside for the answer",[330,1127,1128],{},"The elbows are also linked to welcoming new ideas and drawing on your own inner resources to choose the best direction. The left side is the side of intuition, so the left elbow may ask whether you are listening to it, or waiting for someone else to tell you which way to turn.",[325,1130,412],{"id":411},[330,1132,1133,1136,1137,1139],{},[334,1134,309],{"href":1135},"\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fright-elbow-pain"," is linked to work and action: tasks you are obliged to do, effort without recognition at work, a change of direction you refuse in your career, and pushing your way through. The left elbow asks where you are inflexible in your emotional life, the right where you are inflexible in what you do. The page on ",[334,1138,423],{"href":422}," holds both.",[325,1141,428],{"id":427},[430,1143,1144,1150,1156,1162,1168,1174,1180],{},[433,1145,1146,1149],{},[436,1147,1148],{},"Name the change you push against."," Write down the shift at home or in a relationship that you keep resisting.",[433,1151,1152,1155],{},[436,1153,1154],{},"Notice the repeated blow."," If the same hurt keeps coming, ask what a different answer might be.",[433,1157,1158,1161],{},[436,1159,1160],{},"Ask for recognition."," Say plainly what you do, and that you would like it noticed.",[433,1163,1164,1167],{},[436,1165,1166],{},"Open your arms once."," Hug someone you have been holding at a distance, or let yourself be hugged.",[433,1169,1170,1173],{},[436,1171,1172],{},"Let one habit bend."," Allow one thing at home to be done another way.",[433,1175,1176,1179],{},[436,1177,1178],{},"Listen inside."," Before asking anyone else, ask yourself which direction feels right.",[433,1181,1182,1185],{},[436,1183,1184],{},"Change the load."," Swap the bag to the other arm, rest from the movement that hurts, and rebuild strength slowly.",{"title":477,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":1187},[1188,1189,1197,1198],{"id":1047,"depth":18,"text":1048},{"id":1072,"depth":18,"text":1073,"children":1190},[1191,1192,1193,1194,1195,1196],{"id":1082,"depth":25,"text":1083},{"id":1089,"depth":25,"text":1090},{"id":1096,"depth":25,"text":1097},{"id":1106,"depth":25,"text":1107},{"id":1117,"depth":25,"text":1118},{"id":1124,"depth":25,"text":1125},{"id":411,"depth":18,"text":412},{"id":427,"depth":18,"text":428},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of left elbow pain: resisting a change in your emotional life, holding people at arm's length, care without credit, and when to see a doctor.",[],[1202,1203],{"name":496,"url":497},{"name":499,"url":500},{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fleft-elbow-pain",[1207,1208,1209,1210,1211,1212],"Which change in a relationship or in my family am I resisting?","What hurt do I keep absorbing, like the same blow, without answering?","Where do I give a great deal of care and receive little recognition?","Whom am I holding at arm's length, and whom would I like to hold close?","When my routine at home is disturbed, how rigid do I become?","What answer am I looking for outside that I could find inside myself?",[336,422,1135,344,1214],"\u002Fheart-and-circulation\u002Fheart-attack",[515,516],{"title":418,"description":1199},"Left Elbow Pain Spiritual Meaning: Flexibility & Love","left",[1220,1222,1224,1226],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1221,"pages":526},[525],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1223,"pages":526},[529],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1225,"pages":533},[532],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1227,"pages":537},[536],"conditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fleft-elbow-pain","Spiritually, left elbow pain is linked to flexibility in your emotional life. It may sit with resisting a change in a relationship or in the family, absorbing the same hurt again and again, giving care that goes unrecognised, and keeping people at arm's length.","If this reading resonates with you, noticing which change at home you keep pushing against, while the elbow rests from the movement that inflames it, can be a good next step.",[1232,1233,1097,1234,1235,1236],"Resisting a change of heart","Repeated hurts","Keeping people at arm's length","Fear of the new","Embracing",[1238,548,549,550,1239,552],"Left arm or elbow pain with chest pain, pressure or tightness, breathlessness, sweating or nausea, or pain spreading to the jaw, neck or back. Call emergency services straight away (999 in the UK, 911 in the US, 112 in the EU), as this can be a heart attack.","Pain that has not improved after a few weeks of relative rest and a change in how you use the arm.","mAzOn3K6e9aPjs7MbuESDTyi2hbdAUpv8FLlKofYXGY",{"id":1242,"title":1243,"affirmation":1244,"aka":1245,"area":320,"body":1254,"dateModified":489,"datePublished":489,"description":1408,"extension":491,"group":814,"guides":1409,"medicalSources":1410,"meta":1417,"navigation":502,"parent":603,"path":1418,"reflectionQuestions":1419,"related":1426,"sameAs":1428,"seo":1431,"seoTitle":1432,"side":519,"sources":1433,"stem":1442,"summary":1443,"supportIntro":1444,"themes":1445,"whenToSeeADoctor":1450,"__hash__":1458},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fright-wrist-pain.md","Right wrist pain","I let my energy flow into action. I trust myself, stay determined and open, and take the opportunities life offers me.",[1246,1247,1248,1249,1250,1251,1252,1253],"Pain in the right wrist","Sore right wrist","Right wrist ache","Stiff right wrist","Right wrist injury","Right wrist tendonitis","Right wrist pain from typing","Douleur au poignet droit",{"type":322,"value":1255,"toc":1395},[1256,1260,1266,1279,1286,1290,1296,1300,1303,1307,1310,1314,1317,1321,1324,1328,1331,1335,1338,1340,1349,1351],[325,1257,1259],{"id":1258},"what-right-wrist-pain-is","What right wrist pain is",[330,1261,1262,1263,1265],{},"Right wrist pain is pain, aching or stiffness in the right wrist. For most people this is the dominant hand, the one that writes, types, uses a mouse or a phone, holds tools and swings a racquet, so overuse is a frequent cause. Repetitive strain can inflame the tendons that cross the wrist. De Quervain's tenosynovitis causes pain at the base of the thumb, worse when gripping or twisting. ",[334,1264,657],{"href":512},", with numbness and tingling in the thumb and first fingers, often at night, tends to be worse in the dominant hand.",[330,1267,1268,1269,1273,1274,1278],{},"Injuries are the other big group. A fall onto an outstretched hand can sprain or break the wrist, and a fracture of the small scaphoid bone may not show on the first X-ray, so pain at the base of the thumb after a fall should be rechecked. Weight-bearing on bent wrists, in press-ups, yoga or gymnastics, can also strain the joint. A ganglion, ",[334,1270,1272],{"href":1271},"\u002Fjoints-and-bones\u002Fosteoarthritis","osteoarthritis",", gout and ",[334,1275,1277],{"href":1276},"\u002Fjoints-and-bones\u002Frheumatoid-arthritis","rheumatoid arthritis"," are further causes. Heart pain is usually on the left, but arm pain on either side with chest pressure, breathlessness or sweating needs emergency help: call 999 in the UK, 911 in the US or 112 in the EU.",[330,1280,1281,1282,1285],{},"Mild pain usually settles with rest, ice, a support and simple painkillers. Changing the set-up helps a great deal: a lower keyboard, a neutral mouse, regular breaks, a lighter grip on tools. Splints, physiotherapy, injections and sometimes surgery are used depending on the cause. The page on ",[334,1283,1284],{"href":603},"wrist pain"," covers the condition as a whole.",[325,1287,1289],{"id":1288},"the-emotional-meaning-of-right-wrist-pain","The emotional meaning of right wrist pain",[330,1291,1292,1293,1295],{},"Spiritually, the wrists are the pivots that start every movement of the hands. They express your will in action: when you act and move forward fluidly, the wrists are pictured as strong. In the map of ",[334,1294,367],{"href":298},", the right side carries the active, masculine principle, in women as much as in men: action, logic, decisions, work, the direction you choose, and the men in your life. So the right wrist tends to ask about the practical actions you take, or do not take, in the outer world.",[370,1297,1299],{"id":1298},"an-action-held-back","An action held back",[330,1301,1302],{},"Wrist pain is linked to a block, an obstruction or a refusal around actions you feel you should take. On the right, these are often practical: the application you have not sent, the conversation with a manager you keep postponing, the project you have not launched, the bill or the form left on the pile. Energy gathers around the action and stays in the wrist. Skilled, precise tasks are often the first to suffer.",[370,1304,1306],{"id":1305},"so-much-pressure-that-you-lose-your-way","So much pressure that you lose your way",[330,1308,1309],{},"The pressure on you may be so great that you no longer know which direction to take. Spiritually, the wrist is the place of a great indecision. On the right, the choice is usually concrete: stay or leave a job, expand or close a business, accept or refuse an offer. The more options pull at you, the less your hand knows where to go.",[370,1311,1313],{"id":1312},"responsibility-you-would-rather-put-down","Responsibility you would rather put down",[330,1315,1316],{},"The wrist is linked to how you carry responsibility. You may want to reject your share in some situations, or find it hard to recognise how much your own actions matter. A gentle question is what the pain now spares you: which tasks, and so which responsibilities, you are no longer obliged to take on. On the right side, it may also be worth asking whether you blame colleagues, a boss or the system for a stiffness that is partly yours.",[370,1318,1320],{"id":1319},"resisting-new-solutions","Resisting new solutions",[330,1322,1323],{},"A wrist problem can show how easily you are swayed, and how firmly you resist new directions or new solutions. At work, this may be a new tool, a new way of doing things, or an idea of your own you keep dismissing because it does not fit the usual method.",[370,1325,1327],{"id":1326},"handcuffed-at-work","Handcuffed at work",[330,1329,1330],{},"Some people with sore wrists feel chained, as if handcuffed, in a situation where they are prevented from saying something. On the right, that is often a job: a contract, a hierarchy, a team where speaking up feels impossible. The wrist then stops the hand from moving.",[370,1332,1334],{"id":1333},"a-break-that-calls-you-back","A break that calls you back",[330,1336,1337],{},"A sprain or fracture always needs proper care first. Spiritually, it is linked to a deep conflict about how you express yourself in life. A broken right wrist may feel like a call to stop looking for reasons to escape your responsibilities. Because the right side is partly learnt from your father, his relationship with duty may be part of the picture. For a man, the strain may touch rivalry. For a woman, it may touch her working life and the roles she wants to step out of.",[325,1339,412],{"id":411},[330,1341,1342,1346,1347,424],{},[334,1343,1345],{"href":1344},"\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fleft-wrist-pain","Left wrist pain"," is linked to actions of the heart: a gesture of care held back, difficulty receiving, creativity on hold, and feeling tied in a close relationship. The right wrist asks which practical action you postpone, the left which heartfelt one. The page on ",[334,1348,1284],{"href":603},[325,1350,428],{"id":427},[430,1352,1353,1359,1365,1371,1377,1383,1389],{},[433,1354,1355,1358],{},[436,1356,1357],{},"Name the action."," Write down the one practical thing you keep not doing.",[433,1360,1361,1364],{},[436,1362,1363],{},"Do the smallest part of it."," One email, one call, one form, today.",[433,1366,1367,1370],{},[436,1368,1369],{},"Choose a direction for now."," When pressure leaves you undecided, a provisional choice is better than none.",[433,1372,1373,1376],{},[436,1374,1375],{},"Look at your share."," Notice which responsibility is truly yours, without blame towards yourself or anyone else.",[433,1378,1379,1382],{},[436,1380,1381],{},"Try one new solution."," Let a different method or your own idea have a fair trial.",[433,1384,1385,1388],{},[436,1386,1387],{},"Say what you have not said."," If you feel tied at work, start by naming it to someone you trust.",[433,1390,1391,1394],{},[436,1392,1393],{},"Rest the wrist."," Breaks, a better set-up and a support are part of acting with care.",{"title":477,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":1396},[1397,1398,1406,1407],{"id":1258,"depth":18,"text":1259},{"id":1288,"depth":18,"text":1289,"children":1399},[1400,1401,1402,1403,1404,1405],{"id":1298,"depth":25,"text":1299},{"id":1305,"depth":25,"text":1306},{"id":1312,"depth":25,"text":1313},{"id":1319,"depth":25,"text":1320},{"id":1326,"depth":25,"text":1327},{"id":1333,"depth":25,"text":1334},{"id":411,"depth":18,"text":412},{"id":427,"depth":18,"text":428},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of right wrist pain: action held back, indecision under pressure, responsibilities you want to put down, resisting new solutions, and feeling tied at work.",[],[1411,1414],{"name":1412,"url":1413},"NHS: Wrist pain","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fsymptoms\u002Fhand-pain\u002Fwrist-pain\u002F",{"name":1415,"url":1416},"MedlinePlus: Wrist Injuries and Disorders","https:\u002F\u002Fmedlineplus.gov\u002Fwristinjuriesanddisorders.html",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fright-wrist-pain",[1420,1421,1422,1423,1424,1425],"Which practical action do I know I need to take and keep holding back?","Is the pressure on me so great that I no longer know which way to go?","Which responsibility at work would I rather put down, or not admit is mine?","Do I blame others for a rigidity that is partly my own?","Which new method, solution or direction am I resisting?","What does this sore wrist now excuse me from doing?",[603,1344,512,1135,1427],"\u002Fjoints-and-bones\u002Fsprain",[1429,1430],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FWrist_pain","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ8038367",{"title":1243,"description":1408},"Right Wrist Pain Spiritual Meaning: Action & Decisions",[1434,1438,1440],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1435,"pages":1437},[1436],"Poignet","349–350",{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1439,"pages":533},[532],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1441,"pages":537},[536],"conditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fright-wrist-pain","Spiritually, right wrist pain is linked to will in action. It may sit with an action you keep holding back, pressure so great you no longer know which direction to take, responsibilities you would rather put down, and resisting a new solution at work.","If this reading resonates with you, choosing one small action you have been postponing and doing it today, while giving the wrist the rest it needs, can be a good next step.",[1446,1447,1022,1320,1448,1449],"Action held back","Indecision under pressure","Blaming others","Feeling tied at work",[1451,1452,1453,1454,1455,1456,1457],"Wrist pain after a fall onto an outstretched hand, especially with swelling or tenderness at the base of the thumb. Some wrist fractures do not show at first and need an X-ray.","A wrist that looks deformed, or a hand that is numb, cold or pale after an injury. Go to A&E or urgent care.","A hot, red, swollen wrist, especially with fever. This can be an infection or gout.","Numbness or tingling in the thumb and fingers, often at night, or weakness of the grip.","Arm pain on either side with chest pain, pressure or tightness, breathlessness, sweating or nausea. Call emergency services straight away (999 in the UK, 911 in the US, 112 in the EU).","Pain that has not improved after two weeks of rest and simple painkillers, or that keeps coming back with work or sport.","Morning stiffness or swelling in several joints, which can be a sign of inflammatory arthritis.","QX8wNzk5LlIWQnrPzJFp2qjVVV7JG9lKfTM2RzzEnUU",{"id":1460,"title":636,"affirmation":1461,"aka":1462,"area":320,"body":1466,"dateModified":489,"datePublished":808,"description":1587,"extension":491,"group":492,"guides":1588,"medicalSources":1589,"meta":1593,"navigation":502,"parent":987,"path":1594,"reflectionQuestions":1595,"related":1601,"sameAs":1602,"seo":1605,"seoTitle":1606,"side":987,"sources":1607,"stem":1616,"summary":1617,"supportIntro":1618,"themes":1619,"whenToSeeADoctor":1624,"__hash__":1631},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Ftennis-elbow.md","I can drop an old pattern and take a better direction. I let love move through the events that present themselves.",[1463,1464,1465],"Lateral epicondylitis","Epicondylitis","Elbow tendinopathy",{"type":322,"value":1467,"toc":1578},[1468,1472,1475,1487,1491,1494,1500,1502,1507,1510,1513,1520,1523,1530,1535,1537,1540],[325,1469,1471],{"id":1470},"what-tennis-elbow-is","What tennis elbow is",[330,1473,1474],{},"Tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis, is pain where the tendons of the forearm attach to the bony point on the outer side of the elbow. Despite the name, it is a complaint of repeated gripping and wrist extension, in work as often as in sport. The tissues become sore and irritable. Lifting, pouring and shaking hands hurt. It is an overuse injury. Rest from the provoking movement, a change in how you grip, and a gradual return of strength are the usual care. Forcing the same action because you \"should\" get on with it is how it lasts.",[330,1476,1477,1478,1480,1481,1483,1484,1486],{},"The emotional meaning below is about direction, credit and a blow you do not throw. For other causes of a sore elbow, and the meaning of the elbow itself, see ",[334,1479,423],{"href":422},". ",[334,1482,657],{"href":512}," is the nerve complaint of the wrist beside it. The ",[334,1485,492],{"href":134}," page takes up the wider gesture of embracing and of carrying.",[325,1488,1490],{"id":1489},"the-emotional-meaning-of-tennis-elbow","The emotional meaning of tennis elbow",[330,1492,1493],{},"The elbows give you the flexibility you need when the direction changes. When they are inflamed, the question is what you are opposing with so much resistance, and why. Frustration can grow after repetitive events in your life, with the impression that you must constantly absorb the blows. You can feel you put in more effort than other people to accomplish certain tasks or reach certain results, and that you do not receive the credit you are due. You are very impulsive in your actions. You tend to forget the lessons learned in the past, so you tend to make the same mistakes again.",[330,1495,1496,1497,1499],{},"Tennis elbow can indicate that there is something you cannot manage to realise, or that you are being obliged to do and have no taste for. You live a lot of ",[334,1498,407],{"href":199}," about a situation, and you would like to punch someone, and you hold back.",[325,1501,904],{"id":903},[330,1503,1504,1505,691],{},"Tennis elbow most often affects the dominant arm, simply because that arm does most of the gripping, so a right-handed person usually feels it on the right. Mechanics come first. Spiritually, the side can still add a nuance: the right side carries the active, masculine principle and the left side the receptive, feminine one, and everyone, man or woman, carries both. See the guide to the ",[334,1506,910],{"href":298},[370,1508,418],{"id":1509},"left-elbow-pain",[330,1511,1512],{},"Left elbow pain is linked to the feminine principle: feeling, intuition, tenderness and receiving, and the women in your life. The elbow gives you the flexibility to change direction, so on the left the resistance often concerns your emotional life: a change in a relationship or in the family that you keep opposing, or a hurt you absorb again and again, like a blow, without answering. You may give a great deal of care and receive little credit for it. The left elbow also asks about embracing. Healthy elbows let you hold someone close, and a sore left elbow may ask whom you are keeping at arm's length, and whether you let yourself be held.",[330,1514,1515,1516,1519],{},"The page on ",[334,1517,1518],{"href":417},"left elbow pain"," goes further.",[370,1521,309],{"id":1522},"right-elbow-pain",[330,1524,1525,1526,1529],{},"Right elbow pain is linked to the masculine principle: action, logic, work and the direction you choose, and the men in your life. Here the repeated blows tend to come from work or from authority: tasks you are obliged to do and have no taste for, effort that goes unrecognised, a boss or a father whose way you resist. In French, ",[714,1527,1528],{},"jouer des coudes",", to use your elbows, means to push your way through, and the right elbow may ask whether you are forcing your way forward, or holding back an anger you would like to strike with. The question is which change of direction, at work or in your plans, you keep refusing.",[330,1531,1515,1532,1519],{},[334,1533,1534],{"href":1135},"right elbow pain",[325,1536,428],{"id":427},[330,1538,1539],{},"The direction is to let old ideas and old patterns go, so you can take the best direction for your own evolution. You also let love circulate in the events that present themselves. The elbow still needs a change in the physical load. Love does not replace that.",[430,1541,1542,1548,1554,1560,1566,1572],{},[433,1543,1544,1547],{},[436,1545,1546],{},"Ask what change of direction you are refusing."," Flexibility is what the elbow is for.",[433,1549,1550,1553],{},[436,1551,1552],{},"Name the blow you keep absorbing."," Repetition is the medical story and the emotional one.",[433,1555,1556,1559],{},[436,1557,1558],{},"Notice effort without credit."," The resentment of doing more than others belongs here.",[433,1561,1562,1565],{},[436,1563,1564],{},"Look at the lesson you keep forgetting."," Impulsiveness is how the same mistake returns.",[433,1567,1568,1571],{},[436,1569,1570],{},"Ask whom you want to hit, and do not."," Held-back anger is the spiritual interpretation. Acting it out is not the remedy.",[433,1573,1574,1577],{},[436,1575,1576],{},"Change the grip, not only the story."," A kettle and a keyboard are allowed to be part of the cause.",{"title":477,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":1579},[1580,1581,1582,1586],{"id":1470,"depth":18,"text":1471},{"id":1489,"depth":18,"text":1490},{"id":903,"depth":18,"text":904,"children":1583},[1584,1585],{"id":1509,"depth":25,"text":418},{"id":1522,"depth":25,"text":309},{"id":427,"depth":18,"text":428},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of tennis elbow: left vs right elbow, resisting a change of direction, and an anger held back.",[817,822],[1590],{"name":1591,"url":1592},"NHS: Tennis elbow","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fconditions\u002Ftennis-elbow\u002F",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Ftennis-elbow",[1596,1597,507,1598,1599,1600],"What am I resisting so hard that my elbow has to keep changing direction for me?","Which repetitive event am I forever absorbing?","What lesson have I already learned, and keep repeating anyway?","What am I being obliged to do that I have no taste for?","Whom do I want to hit, and what stops the blow?",[422,512],[1603,1604],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FTennis_elbow","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ736776",{"title":636,"description":1587},"Tennis Elbow Spiritual Meaning: Left vs Right Elbow",[1608,1610,1612,1614],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1609,"pages":526},[525],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1611,"pages":526},[529],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1613,"pages":533},[532],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1615,"pages":537},[536],"conditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Ftennis-elbow","Tennis elbow is inflammation where the forearm tendons meet the outer elbow. It is read as resistance to a change of direction, the fatigue of absorbing the same blows, and an anger you hold back from throwing.","If this reading resonates with you, naming the repeated blow you are tired of absorbing can be a good next step, while the elbow is rested from the movement that inflames it.",[1620,1621,1622,1623,544],"Resistance","Repeated blows","Unrecognised effort","Impulsiveness",[1625,1626,1627,1628,1629,1630],"Pain on the outer elbow that makes gripping, lifting a kettle or turning a door handle difficult.","Pain after an injury, or with swelling, redness and fever.","Numbness, or pain that travels from the neck. A nerve may be involved.","An elbow that locks, looks deformed, or will not straighten.","Pain that is not improving after a few weeks of relative rest and a change in how you load the arm.","Steroid injections and surgery are decisions for a clinician. Most cases settle with load that is graded, not with pushing on.","4Xv4T6G7akYD9reXi4LvKnmCMXyjL1NRgWqbk81KR2s",{"id":1633,"title":1634,"affirmation":1635,"aka":1636,"area":320,"body":1642,"dateModified":489,"datePublished":489,"description":1824,"extension":491,"group":492,"guides":1825,"medicalSources":1826,"meta":1829,"navigation":502,"parent":987,"path":1830,"reflectionQuestions":1831,"related":1838,"sameAs":1839,"seo":1840,"seoTitle":1841,"side":987,"sources":1842,"stem":1849,"summary":1850,"supportIntro":1851,"themes":1852,"whenToSeeADoctor":1857,"__hash__":1864},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Felbow-pain.md","Elbow pain","I put my energy into what I truly want, and I let my feelings show. I take each new direction in my life as a challenge I can meet.",[1637,1638,1639,1640,418,309,1035,312,1641],"Sore elbow","Elbow joint pain","Stiff elbow","Golfer's elbow","Douleur au coude",{"type":322,"value":1643,"toc":1809},[1644,1648,1651,1672,1675,1679,1686,1690,1697,1701,1708,1712,1715,1719,1734,1738,1741,1743,1748,1750,1753,1757,1759,1762,1766,1768,1771],[325,1645,1647],{"id":1646},"what-elbow-pain-is","What elbow pain is",[330,1649,1650],{},"The elbow is the hinge between the upper arm and the forearm. It bends and straightens the arm, and it also lets the forearm turn the palm up or down. Pain there usually comes from the tendons, the joint, a small fluid-filled sac, or a nerve that passes close to the surface.",[330,1652,1653,1654,1656,1657,1659,1660,1663,1664,686,1666,1668,1669,691],{},"Overuse is the most common cause. ",[334,1655,636],{"href":336}," hurts on the outer side, and golfer's elbow on the inner side, both from repeated gripping and twisting. A soft swelling on the point of the elbow is usually ",[334,1658,345],{"href":344},", after leaning on it or a knock, and it can become infected. Falls on an outstretched hand can sprain, break or dislocate the elbow. In young children, a sudden pull on the arm can slip the joint out of place. ",[334,1661,1662],{"href":1271},"Osteoarthritis",", ",[334,1665,1277],{"href":1276},[334,1667,350],{"href":349}," can make it stiff and swollen. Pressure on the ulnar nerve, the \"funny bone\", causes tingling in the ring and little fingers. Pain can also travel down from the neck or ",[334,1670,1671],{"href":684},"shoulder",[330,1673,1674],{},"Most elbow pain settles in a few weeks with rest from the movement that provokes it, ice or a heat pack, simple painkillers, and gentle strengthening, often with a physiotherapist. Injections and surgery are kept for the cases that do not settle.",[325,1676,1678],{"id":1677},"the-emotional-meaning-of-elbow-pain","The emotional meaning of elbow pain",[330,1680,1681,1682,1685],{},"Spiritually, the elbows are freedom of movement. They are the supple joint that lets the arm change direction, and they carry a wish over into the gesture that makes it real. Within the wider picture of the ",[334,1683,1684],{"href":134},"arms and hands",", the elbow is where flexibility lives.",[370,1687,1689],{"id":1688},"flexibility-and-a-new-direction","Flexibility, and a new direction",[330,1691,1692,1693,1696],{},"Strong, flexible elbows let you take on large tasks. They are linked to ambition, to what you own, to work, and also to its shadow, laziness. They let you welcome a new idea and look inside yourself for the direction that truly suits you. When the elbow hurts or stiffens, the spiritual interpretation sees a lack of flexibility, and often a ",[334,1694,1695],{"href":235},"fear"," of being caught, cornered in a situation you do not like. You may be resisting a new direction without knowing it, as if the energy of the heart, on its way down the arm, stopped at the joint.",[370,1698,1700],{"id":1699},"order-routine-and-other-peoples-ways","Order, routine and other people's ways",[330,1702,1703,1704,1707],{},"Because the elbow is so tied to action, the stiffness can show in how you see other people's actions. You may judge those who do things differently, especially when their way questions your own habits. You need order, and when your routine comes apart, the elbow reacts. In French, a day that is ",[714,1705,1706],{},"décousu",", literally \"unstitched\", is one without thread or sense.",[370,1709,1711],{"id":1710},"afraid-of-not-being-up-to-it","Afraid of not being up to it",[330,1713,1714],{},"Elbow pain can sit beside a fear of being incompetent in an area that matters deeply to you, and, behind it, the fear of not being able to provide for your family. The worry makes you cling to what you already have. The new and the unknown feel risky, so you stay on your positions instead of opening to a fresh idea.",[370,1716,1718],{"id":1717},"elbowing-your-way-and-being-nudged","Elbowing your way, and being nudged",[330,1720,1721,1722,1725,1726,1729,1730,1733],{},"French has several elbow expressions, and each describes a pressure. ",[714,1723,1724],{},"Jouer des coudes",", to use your elbows, is to push your way through, and here it means feeling obliged to do things against your will. Being ",[714,1727,1728],{},"poussé du coude",", nudged by the elbow, is feeling pushed by someone else. ",[714,1731,1732],{},"Serrer les coudes",", to squeeze the elbows together, is to close ranks and protect yourself. You may be folding in on yourself because you distrust the world around you, even while part of you would like to let go.",[370,1735,1737],{"id":1736},"arms-that-can-hold-someone","Arms that can hold someone",[330,1739,1740],{},"Two healthy elbows are what let you hold someone close. A sore elbow may simply ask whom you are keeping at arm's length, and whom you would like to hug.",[325,1742,904],{"id":903},[330,1744,1745,1746,691],{},"Many elbow problems affect the arm you use most, so mechanics come first. Spiritually, the side can still add a shade. The right side of the body carries the masculine, active principle and the left side the feminine, receptive one, and every person, man or woman, carries both. See ",[334,1747,367],{"href":298},[370,1749,418],{"id":1509},[330,1751,1752],{},"Left elbow pain is linked to the feminine principle: feeling, intuition, tenderness, receiving, and the women in your life, such as a mother, a daughter or a partner. Here the lost flexibility tends to concern your emotional life. You may be resisting a change in a relationship, or finding it hard to say \"I love you\" or \"I am hurt\". Receiving, especially love, may feel less comfortable than giving. Ask whether the elbow is keeping someone at a distance, and what you would feel if you let them come close.",[330,1754,1515,1755,1519],{},[334,1756,1518],{"href":417},[370,1758,309],{"id":1522},[330,1760,1761],{},"Right elbow pain is linked to the masculine principle: action, logic, decisions, work, and the men in your life, such as a father, a partner or a boss. The elbow's themes of ambition, competence and providing come to the front. You may be forcing your way forward at work, judging colleagues whose methods unsettle yours, or carrying the fear of not being good enough to support your family. For a man this can touch rivalry and the image of strength; for a woman, a tension between working life and the roles she is expected to fill. Ask which change of direction, in your work or your plans, you keep refusing.",[330,1763,1515,1764,1519],{},[334,1765,1534],{"href":1135},[325,1767,428],{"id":427},[330,1769,1770],{},"The direction is to put more energy into what you really want, and to let your feelings show. Life's changes then become easier to accept.",[430,1772,1773,1779,1785,1791,1797,1803],{},[433,1774,1775,1778],{},[436,1776,1777],{},"Name the direction you are resisting."," Write it down, and one small step towards it.",[433,1780,1781,1784],{},[436,1782,1783],{},"Loosen one habit."," Let someone do a task their way, and notice what that stirs in you.",[433,1786,1787,1790],{},[436,1788,1789],{},"Look at the fear of not being enough."," Ask what you would try if you trusted your competence.",[433,1792,1793,1796],{},[436,1794,1795],{},"Let go a little."," You do not have to hold every position. Life can take care of you too.",[433,1798,1799,1802],{},[436,1800,1801],{},"Stay open to love."," Meet the day with suppleness rather than aggression.",[433,1804,1805,1808],{},[436,1806,1807],{},"Look inside for the answers."," Take new directions as challenges, knowing that what you receive can match the effort you give.",{"title":477,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":1810},[1811,1812,1819,1823],{"id":1646,"depth":18,"text":1647},{"id":1677,"depth":18,"text":1678,"children":1813},[1814,1815,1816,1817,1818],{"id":1688,"depth":25,"text":1689},{"id":1699,"depth":25,"text":1700},{"id":1710,"depth":25,"text":1711},{"id":1717,"depth":25,"text":1718},{"id":1736,"depth":25,"text":1737},{"id":903,"depth":18,"text":904,"children":1820},[1821,1822],{"id":1509,"depth":25,"text":418},{"id":1522,"depth":25,"text":309},{"id":427,"depth":18,"text":428},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of elbow pain: flexibility, resisting a new direction, feeling trapped or forced to elbow your way, and left vs right elbow.",[],[1827,1828],{"name":496,"url":497},{"name":499,"url":500},{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Felbow-pain",[1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837],"Which new direction am I resisting, and what am I afraid of finding there?","In which unpleasant situation do I feel caught, with no room to move?","Whose way of doing things am I judging because it questions my own habits?","What happens in me when my routine comes apart?","Am I afraid of not being competent at something I care about, and of failing to provide for my family?","What am I doing against my will, and who do I feel pushed by?",[336,344,603,684,1271],[515,516],{"title":1634,"description":1824},"Elbow Pain Spiritual Meaning: Left vs Right Elbow",[1843,1845,1847],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1844,"pages":526},[529],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1846,"pages":533},[532],{"author":522,"work":523,"entries":1848,"pages":537},[536],"conditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Felbow-pain","Elbow pain is pain in or around the joint that bends and turns the arm. Spiritually, it is often linked to a loss of flexibility, the fear of being trapped in an unpleasant situation, and resistance to a new direction in life.","If this reading resonates with you, choosing one small change of direction you have been putting off, and taking it gently, can be a good next step.",[851,1853,1854,1855,1856,1236],"Changing direction","Feeling trapped","Order and routine","Fear of not being competent",[1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863],"An elbow that looks out of shape, cannot bend or straighten, or is very painful after a fall or a blow, especially if you heard a snap. It may be broken or dislocated. Go to an urgent treatment centre or A&E.","A young child who suddenly stops using an arm after it was pulled or swung. A pulled elbow needs a clinician to put it back.","A hot, red, swollen elbow, or a swelling on the point of the elbow, with a high temperature or feeling hot and shivery. A joint or bursa infection needs urgent care.","Tingling or numbness in the ring and little fingers, or a weakening grip. A nerve at the elbow may be squeezed.","Arm pain that comes on suddenly with pressure, heaviness or tightness across the chest. Call emergency services, as this can be a heart attack.","Pain that has not improved after a few weeks of rest and simple care. 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