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I let love move through the events that present themselves.",[263,264,265],"Lateral epicondylitis","Epicondylitis","Elbow tendinopathy","arms-and-hands",{"type":268,"value":269,"toc":354},"minimark",[270,275,279,292,296,299,306,310,313],[271,272,274],"h2",{"id":273},"what-tennis-elbow-is","What tennis elbow is",[276,277,278],"p",{},"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.",[276,280,281,282,287,288,291],{},"The emotional reading below is about direction, credit and a blow you do not throw. ",[283,284,286],"a",{"href":285},"\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fcarpal-tunnel","Carpal tunnel syndrome"," is the nerve complaint of the wrist beside it. The ",[283,289,290],{"href":123},"arms"," page takes up the wider gesture of embracing and of carrying.",[271,293,295],{"id":294},"the-emotional-meaning-of-tennis-elbow","The emotional meaning of tennis elbow",[276,297,298],{},"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.",[276,300,301,302,305],{},"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 ",[283,303,304],{"href":175},"anger"," about a situation, and you would like to punch someone, and you hold back.",[271,307,309],{"id":308},"a-gentler-way-to-hold-it","A gentler way to hold it",[276,311,312],{},"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.",[314,315,316,324,330,336,342,348],"ul",{},[317,318,319,323],"li",{},[320,321,322],"strong",{},"Ask what change of direction you are refusing."," Flexibility is what the elbow is for.",[317,325,326,329],{},[320,327,328],{},"Name the blow you keep absorbing."," Repetition is the medical story and the emotional one.",[317,331,332,335],{},[320,333,334],{},"Notice effort without credit."," The resentment of doing more than others belongs here.",[317,337,338,341],{},[320,339,340],{},"Look at the lesson you keep forgetting."," Impulsiveness is how the same mistake returns.",[317,343,344,347],{},[320,345,346],{},"Ask whom you want to hit, and do not."," Held-back anger is the reading. Acting it out is not the remedy.",[317,349,350,353],{},[320,351,352],{},"Change the grip, not only the story."," A kettle and a keyboard are allowed to be part of the cause.",{"title":355,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":356},"",[357,358,359],{"id":273,"depth":18,"text":274},{"id":294,"depth":18,"text":295},{"id":308,"depth":18,"text":309},"2026-10-04","The emotional and spiritual meaning of tennis elbow: how it may relate to resisting a change of direction, absorbing repeated blows, and an anger you do not strike with.","md",{},true,"\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Ftennis-elbow",[367,368,369,370,371,372],"What am I resisting so hard that my elbow has to keep changing direction for me?","Which repetitive event am I forever absorbing?","Where do I put in more effort than others and receive no credit?","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?",[285],[375,376],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FTennis_elbow","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ736776",{"title":260,"description":361},[379],{"author":380,"work":381,"entries":382,"pages":384},"Jacques Martel","Le Grand Dictionnaire des Malaises et des Maladies",[383],"Coudes — Épicondylite","127","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.",[389,390,391,392,393],"Resistance","Repeated blows","Unrecognised effort","Impulsiveness","Held-back anger",[395,396,397,398,399,400],"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.","Eb0XAQn6vX7_ocpeJzrhgULsfSe42Jzb2UgxQEIvKX4",{"id":403,"title":118,"body":404,"comingSoon":10,"dateModified":360,"datePublished":360,"description":119,"extension":362,"groups":522,"icon":121,"meta":529,"navigation":364,"order":122,"path":120,"reflectionQuestions":530,"seo":537,"sources":538,"stem":547,"themes":548,"whenToSeeADoctor":555,"__hash__":562},"areas\u002Fareas\u002Farms-and-hands.md",{"type":268,"value":405,"toc":517},[406,409,416,422,426,429,432,439,443,450,457,469,473,479],[276,407,408],{},"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.",[276,410,411,412,415],{},"In the emotional reading, the arms are how you embrace life, give and receive, and pass into action. They sit close to the ",[283,413,414],{"href":34},"heart",", and the source says 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.",[417,418,419],"note",{},[276,420,421],{},"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.",[271,423,425],{"id":424},"arms-elbows-and-shoulders","Arms, elbows and shoulders",[276,427,428],{},"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 the entry describes.",[276,430,431],{},"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.",[276,433,434,435,438],{},"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. The source distinguishes affective insecurity, placed on the left shoulder, from material insecurity, placed 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 ",[283,436,437],{"href":47},"back"," behind them is the part the entry calls weak and twisted by the weight.",[271,440,442],{"id":441},"hands-and-fingers","Hands and fingers",[276,444,445,446,449],{},"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 ",[283,447,448],{"href":214},"hate"," in the form of a fist, and how you \"manipulate\" events or people.",[276,451,452,453,456],{},"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 ",[283,454,455],{"href":181},"anxiety"," and nervousness. You are overwhelmed. You want to put the fire out yourself. Pain or cramps mean you refuse to be flexible.",[276,458,459,460,464,465,468],{},"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 ",[461,462,463],"em",{},"doigt",", finger, sits next to ",[461,466,467],{},"devoir",", duty, and the source uses that closeness. 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.",[271,470,472],{"id":471},"caring-for-the-arms-from-the-inside","Caring for the arms from the inside",[276,474,475,476],{},"Injury, nerve entrapment, arthritis and heart disease can all declare themselves in the arm. The emotional perspective adds a question: ",[461,477,478],{},"what am I holding, and what am I unwilling either to give or to receive?",[314,480,481,487,493,499,505,511],{},[317,482,483,486],{},[320,484,485],{},"Notice crossed arms."," Protection is useful. A permanent closure is the reading's warning.",[317,488,489,492],{},[320,490,491],{},"Ask whose happiness is on your shoulders."," A load that is not yours is what makes them hurt in this picture.",[317,494,495,498],{},[320,496,497],{},"Separate left and right."," Receiving and acting are the two hands. One without the other is incomplete.",[317,500,501,504],{},[320,502,503],{},"Look at the detail you are gripping."," Impatience about a small gesture is the finger's theme.",[317,506,507,510],{},[320,508,509],{},"Change one direction."," A stiff elbow is the fear of being trapped in the old way.",[317,512,513,516],{},[320,514,515],{},"Treat chest pain and sudden weakness as medical."," An emotional reading never waits out a possible stroke or heart attack.",{"title":355,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":518},[519,520,521],{"id":424,"depth":18,"text":425},{"id":441,"depth":18,"text":442},{"id":471,"depth":18,"text":472},[523,526],{"id":290,"title":524,"description":525},"Arms and shoulders","Arms that embrace, and shoulders that carry joy, sorrow and the responsibilities you have taken on.",{"id":527,"title":442,"description":528},"hands","Hands that take, give and do the work, and fingers that handle the details of the day.",{},[531,532,533,534,535,536],"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":118,"description":119},[539],{"author":380,"work":381,"entries":540,"pages":546},[541,542,543,544,545],"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",[549,550,551,552,553,554],"Giving and receiving","Action","Burden","Flexibility","Contact","Work",[556,557,558,559,560,561],"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.","21aVoAhWRFlMQky_4xOfTm8QLNzgFDfZhIcCGWJgBME",[564],{"id":565,"title":286,"affirmation":566,"aka":567,"area":266,"body":570,"dateModified":360,"datePublished":360,"description":647,"extension":362,"group":527,"meta":648,"navigation":364,"path":649,"reflectionQuestions":650,"related":657,"sameAs":658,"seo":661,"sources":662,"stem":667,"summary":668,"supportIntro":669,"themes":670,"whenToSeeADoctor":676,"__hash__":683},"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.",[568,569],"Median nerve compression","Wrist nerve entrapment",{"type":268,"value":571,"toc":642},[572,576,579,589,593,596,599,601,604],[271,573,575],{"id":574},"what-carpal-tunnel-syndrome-is","What carpal tunnel syndrome is",[276,577,578],{},"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.",[276,580,581,582,585,586,588],{},"The emotional reading below belongs to seasons when the hand is numb and the life feels narrowed. ",[283,583,260],{"href":584},"\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Ftennis-elbow"," is the neighbouring complaint of the arm. The ",[283,587,527],{"href":123}," page is the wider picture.",[271,590,592],{"id":591},"the-emotional-meaning-of-carpal-tunnel-syndrome","The emotional meaning of carpal tunnel syndrome",[276,594,595],{},"It shows up, in this reading, 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.",[276,597,598],{},"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.",[271,600,309],{"id":308},[276,602,603],{},"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.",[314,605,606,612,618,624,630,636],{},[317,607,608,611],{},[320,609,610],{},"Have the nerve tested if the hand is going weak."," Damage is easier to prevent than to reverse.",[317,613,614,617],{},[320,615,616],{},"Ask where you were the pillar, and no longer are."," Being pushed into the background is the season this reading names.",[317,619,620,623],{},[320,621,622],{},"Notice the rein you will not loosen."," Control and the wish to give orders sit together.",[317,625,626,629],{},[320,627,628],{},"Look at the narrow tunnel of choices."," Few paths, and a life that feels compressed, are the image of the wrist.",[317,631,632,635],{},[320,633,634],{},"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.",[317,637,638,641],{},[320,639,640],{},"Use the splint or the treatment you were offered."," Meaning does not open the tunnel.",{"title":355,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":643},[644,645,646],{"id":574,"depth":18,"text":575},{"id":591,"depth":18,"text":592},{"id":308,"depth":18,"text":309},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of carpal tunnel syndrome: how it may relate to feeling pushed aside, a narrow tunnel of choices, and a grip you will not loosen.",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Farms-and-hands\u002Fcarpal-tunnel",[651,652,653,654,655,656],"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?",[584],[659,660],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FCarpal_tunnel_syndrome","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ332293",{"title":286,"description":647},[663],{"author":380,"work":381,"entries":664,"pages":666},[665],"Poignet — Syndrome du canal carpien","350","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.",[671,672,673,674,675],"Feeling sidelined","Hormonal change","Control","A narrow path","Responsibility",[677,678,679,680,681,682],"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.","_yEbbx_NDM5IhoM3KepNWeB36MizQCrsu9Jawxv1r7g",[],1791107669047]