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emotional and spiritual meaning of breathing problems: what colds, coughs and lung issues may say about space, freedom and your taste for life.","\u002Fareas\u002Frespiratory-system","i-lucide-wind","\u002Frespiratory-system",{"title":28,"description":29,"path":30,"icon":31,"order":12,"comingSoon":10,"to":32,"conditionCount":18},"Heart and circulation","The emotional and spiritual meaning of heart and circulation problems: what they may reveal about love, joy of living and the pressure you carry.","\u002Fareas\u002Fheart-and-circulation","i-lucide-heart-pulse","\u002Fheart-and-circulation",{"title":34,"description":35,"path":36,"icon":37,"order":38,"comingSoon":10,"to":39,"conditionCount":20},"Digestive system","The emotional and spiritual meaning of digestive problems: what stomach and bowel issues may say about what you cannot digest, control and letting go.","\u002Fareas\u002Fdigestive-system","i-lucide-utensils",5,"\u002Fdigestive-system",{"title":41,"description":42,"path":43,"icon":44,"order":45,"comingSoon":10,"to":46,"conditionCount":20},"Back","The emotional and spiritual meaning of back problems: what back and neck pain may reveal about support, burdens, flexibility and what you hide behind you.","\u002Fareas\u002Fback","i-lucide-person-standing",6,"\u002Fback",{"title":48,"description":49,"path":50,"icon":51,"order":52,"comingSoon":10,"to":53,"conditionCount":20},"Skin","The emotional and spiritual meaning of skin problems: how your skin may reflect boundaries, contact, self-image and the emotions you hold inside.","\u002Fareas\u002Fskin","i-lucide-fingerprint",7,"\u002Fskin",{"title":55,"description":56,"path":57,"icon":58,"order":59,"comingSoon":10,"to":60,"conditionCount":20},"Joints and bones","The emotional and spiritual meaning of joint and bone problems: what they may reveal about flexibility, rigid thinking, authority and your inner structure.","\u002Fareas\u002Fjoints-and-bones","i-lucide-bone",8,"\u002Fjoints-and-bones",{"title":62,"description":63,"path":64,"icon":65,"order":66,"comingSoon":10,"to":67,"conditionCount":20},"Reproductive system","The emotional and spiritual meaning of reproductive problems: what they may reveal about creativity, femininity, masculinity and your body.","\u002Fareas\u002Freproductive-system","i-lucide-venus-and-mars",9,"\u002Freproductive-system",{"title":69,"description":70,"path":71,"icon":72,"order":73,"comingSoon":10,"to":74,"conditionCount":20},"Kidneys and urinary system","The emotional and spiritual meaning of kidney and urinary problems: what they may say about fear, old emotions that have not been let go, and the balance between what comes in and what leaves.","\u002Fareas\u002Fkidneys","i-lucide-droplets",10,"\u002Fkidneys",{"title":76,"description":77,"path":78,"icon":79,"order":80,"comingSoon":10,"to":81,"conditionCount":18},"Blood sugar","The emotional 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can live in me. I make peace with myself and let the weight on my soul grow lighter.",[178,179,180],"Deep sadness","A heavy heart","The doldrums",[],{"type":183,"value":184,"toc":258},"minimark",[185,190,194,197,201,204,209,212,215,219,222,226,229],[186,187,189],"h2",{"id":188},"what-melancholy-is","What melancholy is",[191,192,193],"p",{},"Melancholy is a deep, lasting sadness. Mood is low, pleasure is thin, and the days can feel heavy or pointless. In ordinary speech it is a mood. When it is severe, constant, and comes with hopelessness or thoughts of death, it belongs with depression and needs a doctor. The two are related. They are not the same page.",[191,195,196],{},"The reading below is for the mood the source describes. It does not replace care for a serious depression.",[186,198,200],{"id":199},"the-emotional-meaning-of-melancholy","The emotional meaning of melancholy",[191,202,203],{},"In the emotional approach, melancholy is deep sadness with a moral pain that is hard to bear. You feel at fault. Even physical movement can be affected. You slow down. What sits underneath is dissatisfaction, a vexation, a sorrow, and from those a lack of joy.",[205,206,208],"h3",{"id":207},"emotions-that-get-darker","Emotions that get darker",[191,210,211],{},"The sadness leaves you mixed up in your feelings, and those feelings grow darker. There is the impression of going round in circles. The source calls it a pain of the soul. You want to be recognised at your full value, and instead you pass unnoticed.",[191,213,214],{},"The entry does not tie this mood to one organ. It describes a state of the whole person, which is why this page links to other feelings rather than to one part of the body.",[205,216,218],{"id":217},"a-way-back-to-joy","A way back to joy",[191,220,221],{},"The healing direction is plain. Affirm that joy can inhabit your whole being. Set goals you can actually reach, so that life-energy has something to move toward, sadness can thin, and satisfaction has room. Make peace with yourself. The image the source ends on is a soul light enough to take flight again.",[186,223,225],{"id":224},"a-gentler-way-to-hold-it","A gentler way to hold it",[191,227,228],{},"The aim is not to blame yourself for a heavy mood. The emotional perspective invites you to look at the joy that has gone missing, and at the wish to be seen.",[230,231,232,240,246,252],"ul",{},[233,234,235,239],"li",{},[236,237,238],"strong",{},"Name the dissatisfaction."," A vague heaviness often has a vexation or a sorrow underneath it.",[233,241,242,245],{},[236,243,244],{},"Notice if you have made it your fault."," Feeling at fault is part of this reading, and it is worth questioning.",[233,247,248,251],{},[236,249,250],{},"Ask to be seen."," Going unnoticed while wanting recognition feeds the circle.",[233,253,254,257],{},[236,255,256],{},"Set one reachable aim."," Not a new life. One thing that brings a little energy back.",{"title":259,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":260},"",[261,262,266],{"id":188,"depth":18,"text":189},{"id":199,"depth":18,"text":200,"children":263},[264,265],{"id":207,"depth":20,"text":208},{"id":217,"depth":20,"text":218},{"id":224,"depth":18,"text":225},"2026-10-02","The emotional and spiritual meaning of melancholy: a deep sadness, a moral pain, and the sense of going unnoticed while joy is missing.","md","grief",{},true,[274,275,276,277,278],"What dissatisfaction or hurt has taken the joy out of my days?","Do I feel at fault for this pain?","Am I going round in circles, mixed up in feelings that keep getting darker?","Do I want to be recognised for who I am, and instead pass unnoticed?","What small, real goal could bring some life back?",[154,121,142,94],[],{"title":138,"description":268},[283],{"author":284,"work":285,"entries":286,"pages":288},"Jacques Martel","Le Grand Dictionnaire des Malaises et des Maladies",[287],"Mélancolie","272","emotions\u002Fmelancholy","Melancholy is a deep sadness. It is often read as moral pain, a feeling of being at fault, and a life that has lost its joy while you go unnoticed.",[178,292,293,294,295],"Moral pain","Feeling at fault","Going unnoticed","Loss of joy",[],"ss6RndsWrZVBjnIWuzVKdeHDZwqILFxdbgoFL3kbLX4",[299,424,576,683],{"id":300,"title":93,"affirmation":301,"aka":302,"areas":306,"body":308,"dateModified":267,"datePublished":267,"description":395,"extension":269,"group":396,"meta":397,"navigation":272,"order":18,"path":94,"reflectionQuestions":398,"related":404,"sameAs":405,"seo":406,"sources":407,"stem":412,"summary":413,"themes":414,"whenToSeeADoctor":419,"__hash__":423},"emotions\u002Femotions\u002Fanguish.md","I take charge of my life and my choices. I can respect myself and leave other people their own space.",[303,304,305],"A sense of dread","Feeling trapped","Inner tightness",[307],"respiratory-system",{"type":183,"value":309,"toc":387},[310,314,317,320,324,327,331,334,337,341,344,347,350,352,355],[186,311,313],{"id":312},"what-anguish-is","What anguish is",[191,315,316],{},"Anguish is a psychic distress in which you feel limited, restricted in your space, and above all smothered in your desires. It is close to anxiety, and the source treats it as kin to claustrophobia, because both are a tightening. It can feel like an oppressive wait for something that might happen, often with no name. When it is constant, or comes with panic or despair, it needs care, not only reflection.",[191,318,319],{},"The reading below does not replace that care. It looks at the tightening, and at the air and the space that feel missing.",[186,321,323],{"id":322},"the-emotional-meaning-of-anguish","The emotional meaning of anguish",[191,325,326],{},"You feel caught, or caught in a trap. You cannot express your anger. You agree, in a way, to let people invade your psychic space, and that shows up as an inner tightening. Personal needs are set aside so that others can be pleased first, in order to attract the love you need, even though there are other ways. Dissatisfaction runs deep. The tightening amplifies emotion at the cost of balance.",[205,328,330],{"id":329},"a-danger-with-no-name","A danger with no name",[191,332,333],{},"You live in a fog. Confidence is shaken. Despair, and even the wish to stop struggling, can take the place. You sense an imminent danger you cannot identify. You fear the future, and the effort it would take to reach your aims. You stand before a choice that seems impossible. Instead of believing in your own power, you place it in someone outside you, someone you consider higher, more realised. You want them to protect you, as if you were too weak to take care of yourself. You look for a meaning. You feel at the mercy of a mortal danger, because you are leaning on someone or something outside. You are full of sadness, and you feel caught, bound, compressed, even chained. You no longer trust your capacities.",[191,335,336],{},"The source asks where, when you were young, you felt tightened, so that you still reproduce that pattern. Anguish and claustrophobia meet in that word: tightening.",[205,338,340],{"id":339},"air-space-and-other-people","Air, space and other people",[191,342,343],{},"The body, in this reading, naturally tries to meet basic psychic needs: the need for air in order to live and breathe, the space between you and other people, the freedom to decide what is good for you. That is why this page is linked with the respiratory system. The entry is about smothering and breath, not about a lung disease.",[191,345,346],{},"If you feel smothered, the source adds a hard question: it may be because you, consciously or not, smother the people around you. Meeting your own expectations first makes it more likely you can leave other people's expectations in their place, and meet them without violating their space.",[191,348,349],{},"Underneath, the deep sources are often in the child you were: fear of abandonment, fear of losing the love of someone dear, and suffering. A similar situation later rings an alarm. In childhood, anguish often shows as fear of the dark, and a tendency to a solitary life.",[186,351,225],{"id":224},[191,353,354],{},"The aim is not to blame yourself for feeling trapped. The emotional perspective invites you to take back the air, the space and the choices that the tightening has handed away.",[230,356,357,363,369,375,381],{},[233,358,359,362],{},[236,360,361],{},"Find the real border."," Some of the walls are not there. Ask which ones you built.",[233,364,365,368],{},[236,366,367],{},"Say the anger."," Unexpressed anger is part of the trap.",[233,370,371,374],{},[236,372,373],{},"Take your power back from the person you lean on."," Protection from outside is not the same as being unable to care for yourself.",[233,376,377,380],{},[236,378,379],{},"Give yourself air."," Literally, and in the room you allow between you and others.",[233,382,383,386],{},[236,384,385],{},"Leave other people their space."," The source says freedom returns when you stop both smothering and being smothered.",{"title":259,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":388},[389,390,394],{"id":312,"depth":18,"text":313},{"id":322,"depth":18,"text":323,"children":391},[392,393],{"id":329,"depth":20,"text":330},{"id":339,"depth":20,"text":340},{"id":224,"depth":18,"text":225},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of anguish: the feeling of being trapped, of desires smothered, and of not having enough air or space.","fear",{},[399,400,401,402,403],"Where do I feel trapped, or tied up, when nothing is actually holding me?","Which of my desires have I smothered in order to please someone?","Am I giving my power to someone I think is stronger, and waiting for them to protect me?","When I was young, where did I feel tightened, and am I repeating that now?","Do I fear losing the love of someone dear, more than I fear the situation in front of me?",[97,127],[],{"title":93,"description":395},[408],{"author":284,"work":285,"entries":409,"pages":411},[410],"Angoisse","47–48","emotions\u002Fanguish","Anguish is often read as a tightening. Desires feel smothered, space feels smaller than it is, and the body asks for the air and the room it needs in order to live.",[304,415,416,417,418],"Smothered desires","Need for air","Pleasing others","Fear of abandonment",[420,421,422],"Anguish with chest pain, severe breathlessness or fainting. Call emergency services.","A feeling of dread most days, or panic that stops you leaving the house or sleeping.","Thoughts of harming yourself, or of no longer wanting to struggle. Seek help straight away.","VgmqWgjSHE8wlOyfMKu3xfD33NY7gBX6s6jSHNqJp2U",{"id":425,"title":120,"affirmation":426,"aka":427,"areas":431,"body":433,"dateModified":267,"datePublished":267,"description":542,"extension":269,"group":270,"meta":543,"navigation":272,"order":12,"path":121,"reflectionQuestions":544,"related":551,"sameAs":552,"seo":555,"sources":556,"stem":561,"summary":562,"themes":563,"whenToSeeADoctor":569,"__hash__":575},"emotions\u002Femotions\u002Fdepression.md","I can step back, rest, and take my life up one thing at a time. I do not need anyone's approval to exist.",[428,429,430],"Depressive episode","Clinical depression","Low mood",[307,432],"reproductive-system",{"type":183,"value":434,"toc":532},[435,439,442,445,449,452,456,459,462,466,469,472,475,478,482,485,489,492,495,497,500],[186,436,438],{"id":437},"what-depression-is","What depression is",[191,440,441],{},"Depression is more than a sad day. Medically it is a state of deep sadness, a moral pain, a loss of self-esteem and a slowing of body and mind. It often includes loss of interest, guilt, tiredness, and changes in sleep and appetite. It can follow a birth. A lighter, shorter slump, a day or a few days of discouragement, is not the same thing. A seasonal low mood in autumn and winter, with a strong need to eat and sleep, is its own pattern, tied to less light.",[191,443,444],{},"Depression is treatable. Talking therapies, medication when it is needed, and support all have a place. An emotional reading sits beside that care. It does not replace it, and it is not a reason to stop treatment.",[186,446,448],{"id":447},"the-emotional-meaning-of-depression","The emotional meaning of depression",[191,450,451],{},"The source is precise. Depression, in this reading, is self-devaluation and guilt eating you from the inside. Both have to be there. Settle one of them, the devaluation or the guilt, and you are no longer in what the source calls depression. You feel miserable, less than nothing. You may feel guilty for being who you are.",[205,453,455],{"id":454},"a-life-lived-backwards","A life lived backwards",[191,457,458],{},"You live in the past and struggle to leave it. The present does not exist. The future frightens you. Here and now is impossible. Current life leaves you indifferent. You would rather do nothing.",[191,460,461],{},"To avoid frustration, especially sexual frustration, desire itself is cut off. You do not want to take yourself in hand. Depression is often a decisive stage, adolescence is one example, because it forces a questioning. You want a different life at any cost, and you are torn between your ideals and what is real, between who you are and who you want to be.",[205,463,465],{"id":464},"territory-air-and-invasion","Territory, air and invasion",[191,467,468],{},"The source places the root in territory: the space that feels like yours. People, animals, work, a house, the things that belong to your vital space. The conflict may be the fear of losing one element of that territory, a dispute on your ground, or something already lost that you blame yourself for, words said or acts done.",[191,470,471],{},"The phrases it hears are physical. \"You are smothering me.\" \"You are pumping the air out of me.\" \"Give me air.\" There is also the difficulty of knowing what is yours alone and what belongs to others. People living this way are often very permeable. They feel everything around them, sensitivity doubles, and the entourage feels like an invasion. Everything is lived from very close, which spends energy. Even fighting feels pointless, because you would lose. Things get started and not finished. Nothing you do seems good enough. There can be a pull toward self-destruction.",[191,473,474],{},"Pressure makes this worse. Emotions are contained and buried. When the pressure is too much, depression sets in, and responsibilities get taken away. The pressure may come from parents, a partner, a boss, or from society: succeed, keep a reputation, look as if the marriage and the family have worked. The bar is set too high. One event pops the cork.",[191,476,477],{},"The link with the respiratory system, on this site, is that smothered, airless feeling. The link with the reproductive system is the postnatal reading below, not a claim that depression is a genital disease.",[205,479,481],{"id":480},"after-a-birth","After a birth",[191,483,484],{},"Postnatal depression, in the source, can come weeks or even months after the birth. You feel discouraged, afraid you will not manage, and unsure how to get out. The baby may have filled an emptiness for a while. Then you are faced with yourself, with the solitude and the void. You do not believe in your own strength, so you cannot see how you will cope. Painful memories of your own childhood or birth can amplify it.",[205,486,488],{"id":487},"a-shorter-slump-and-the-dark-season","A shorter slump, and the dark season",[191,490,491],{},"The source distinguishes a passing slump: a day to a few days of disgust, weariness and discouragement. It also describes a seasonal depression in autumn and winter, when the days shorten. The need to eat and sleep grows, along with the symptoms of depression. Darkness recalls the dark sides of the personality, and the conflicts where you cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel. You feel like a victim, powerless. You fold in and stop communicating, even with yourself, so you will not have to question anything or take responsibility.",[191,493,494],{},"Children can be depressed too. The source notes that it is harder to see, and that a child who easily feels guilty, who thinks they are the cause of the family's problems or of their parents' couple, is at risk. That is never the child's job to carry.",[186,496,225],{"id":224},[191,498,499],{},"The aim is not to blame yourself for being depressed, and not to treat this page as a cure. If you are in danger, get help first. The emotional perspective invites you to look at guilt, devaluation, and the territory that feels lost or invaded.",[230,501,502,508,514,520,526],{},[233,503,504,507],{},[236,505,506],{},"Separate the two weights."," Ask whether you are devaluing yourself, feeling guilty, or both. The source says both are required for this picture.",[233,509,510,513],{},[236,511,512],{},"Come back from the past."," One present fact, looked at without the old story, is a beginning.",[233,515,516,519],{},[236,517,518],{},"Mark your space."," What is yours, and what have you let others occupy until you cannot breathe?",[233,521,522,525],{},[236,523,524],{},"Rest before you rebuild."," The source asks for good time, rest, and then one project at a time, finished before the next begins.",[233,527,528,531],{},[236,529,530],{},"You do not need approval to exist."," Letting others live, and giving yourself room, is part of the way out it describes.",{"title":259,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":533},[534,535,541],{"id":437,"depth":18,"text":438},{"id":447,"depth":18,"text":448,"children":536},[537,538,539,540],{"id":454,"depth":20,"text":455},{"id":464,"depth":20,"text":465},{"id":480,"depth":20,"text":481},{"id":487,"depth":20,"text":488},{"id":224,"depth":18,"text":225},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of depression: deep sadness that needs both self-devaluation and guilt, a life lived in the past, and a territory that feels invaded or lost.",{},[545,546,547,548,549,550],"Am I devaluing myself and feeling guilty at the same time?","Am I living in the past, with no real present and a future that frightens me?","Which desires have I cut off, especially so I will not be frustrated?","What in my territory, a person, a home, a role, am I afraid of losing, or do I already blame myself for losing?","Where do I feel smothered, as if someone were taking the air that belongs to me?","If this began after a birth, what emptiness did I meet once the first weeks had passed?",[154,139,109],[553,554],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FMajor_depressive_disorder","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ42844",{"title":120,"description":542},[557],{"author":284,"work":285,"entries":558,"pages":560},[559],"Dépression","142–143","emotions\u002Fdepression","Depression, in this reading, needs both self-devaluation and guilt. It is often a life stuck in the past, cut off from desire, and a conflict about the territory you feel is yours.",[564,565,566,567,568],"Self-devaluation","Guilt","Living in the past","Territory","Loss of desire",[570,571,572,573,574],"Thoughts of suicide or of harming yourself. Seek help straight away. Call emergency services if you are in immediate danger.","A low mood most of the day, nearly every day, for more than two weeks, especially with loss of interest, hopelessness, or changes in sleep, appetite or concentration.","A low mood in the weeks or months after a birth.","Depression in a child or a teenager, which is easy to miss. Take it seriously.","If you already take treatment, do not stop it because of an emotional reading. Decisions about medication belong with you and your doctor.","KNfnnKREEJH_wZ0I6zmZhiSTUl_bQf9X5wt9e07X_sU",{"id":577,"title":141,"affirmation":578,"aka":579,"areas":582,"body":583,"dateModified":267,"datePublished":267,"description":658,"extension":269,"group":270,"meta":659,"navigation":272,"order":38,"path":142,"reflectionQuestions":660,"related":666,"sameAs":667,"seo":668,"sources":669,"stem":674,"summary":675,"themes":676,"whenToSeeADoctor":681,"__hash__":682},"emotions\u002Femotions\u002Fnostalgia.md","I taste the moment I am in. Each moment can be a full experience, not only a reminder of what is gone.",[580,147,581],"Longing for the past","Homesickness",[],{"type":183,"value":584,"toc":650},[585,589,592,595,599,602,606,609,613,616,619,621,624],[186,586,588],{"id":587},"what-nostalgia-is","What nostalgia is",[191,590,591],{},"Nostalgia is a tender, painful longing for a time, a place or a person that is no longer here. A wave of it is ordinary. It becomes costly when the past is where you live, and the present is only something you pass through.",[191,593,594],{},"The reading below does not treat a fond memory as a problem. It looks at nostalgia when it turns into a regular escape.",[186,596,598],{"id":597},"the-emotional-meaning-of-nostalgia","The emotional meaning of nostalgia",[191,600,601],{},"The source calls nostalgia a melancholy caused by regret. You look through a clouded mix of emotions, outside present time, with the feeling that something is missing. It is a kind of daydream. The warning is that the dream should not become a regular flight from the moment you are in.",[205,603,605],{"id":604},"holding-on-in-order-to-cope","Holding on in order to cope",[191,607,608],{},"You cling to the good old memories to help yourself hold on. Clinging to the past, you can no longer see what beauty is on its way. Optimism and spontaneity leave. You cannot savour here and now, and you let countless chances pass: new people, new experiences.",[205,610,612],{"id":611},"when-it-pushes-people-away","When it pushes people away",[191,614,615],{},"Nostalgia can turn into negativism, and friends may move away. The source is also fair about the dose. It need not harm you, if you visit it now and then, and do not exaggerate it.",[191,617,618],{},"The entry does not tie nostalgia to one part of the body. It is a way of standing in time.",[186,620,225],{"id":224},[191,622,623],{},"The aim is not to forbid memory. The emotional perspective invites you to notice when memory has replaced the present.",[230,625,626,632,638,644],{},[233,627,628,631],{},[236,629,630],{},"Visit, then come back."," A memory can be tasted without becoming the place you stay.",[233,633,634,637],{},[236,635,636],{},"Name what is missing."," Regret usually has a specific loss inside it.",[233,639,640,643],{},[236,641,642],{},"Look at what you are refusing."," Sometimes the past is easier than a present that asks something of you.",[233,645,646,649],{},[236,647,648],{},"Savour one present second."," The healing direction is to let each moment be a full experience, rich in what it can teach.",{"title":259,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":651},[652,653,657],{"id":587,"depth":18,"text":588},{"id":597,"depth":18,"text":598,"children":654},[655,656],{"id":604,"depth":20,"text":605},{"id":611,"depth":20,"text":612},{"id":224,"depth":18,"text":225},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of nostalgia: regret that lives outside the present, and a past you hold on to because the moment in front of you is hard to taste.",{},[661,662,663,664,665],"What am I regretting when I drift out of the present?","Am I using good old memories to hold myself together?","What new person or experience am I letting pass while I look backward?","Has this nostalgia become my usual way of leaving the moment?","What is actually here, today, that I have not tasted?",[139],[],{"title":141,"description":658},[670],{"author":284,"work":285,"entries":671,"pages":673},[672],"Nostalgie","297","emotions\u002Fnostalgia","Nostalgia is melancholy caused by regret. It is often read as living outside the present, holding the past so tightly that what is coming, and who is here, cannot be seen.",[147,677,678,679,680],"Outside the present","Holding the past","Lost spontaneity","A missing piece",[],"HaKJrnPXV8cdF4c7DQf71kIzTEFpNtX_QFoaatDiKAc",{"id":684,"title":153,"affirmation":685,"aka":686,"areas":690,"body":693,"dateModified":267,"datePublished":267,"description":768,"extension":269,"group":270,"meta":769,"navigation":272,"order":18,"path":154,"reflectionQuestions":770,"related":776,"sameAs":777,"seo":778,"sources":779,"stem":784,"summary":785,"themes":786,"whenToSeeADoctor":791,"__hash__":792},"emotions\u002Femotions\u002Fsadness.md","I let this pain break open. Warmth can move the tears, and joy can come back.",[687,688,689],"Feeling sad","The blues","Low spirits",[307,691,692],"heart-and-circulation","blood-sugar",{"type":183,"value":694,"toc":760},[695,699,702,705,709,712,716,719,723,726,729,731,734],[186,696,698],{"id":697},"what-sadness-is","What sadness is",[191,700,701],{},"Sadness is a natural, and sometimes sudden, state of sorrow or melancholy. Almost everyone knows it. It becomes something to take seriously when it stays, flattens the days, and takes away sleep, appetite or the wish to see people. It can also be part of depression, which needs proper care.",[191,703,704],{},"The reading below does not replace that care. It listens to what happens when sadness is not expressed.",[186,706,708],{"id":707},"the-emotional-meaning-of-sadness","The emotional meaning of sadness",[191,710,711],{},"The source holds to a simple line: what is not expressed gets printed somewhere. Unexpressed sadness, in this reading, can lead toward trouble in the lungs. A deep sadness can go further. The whole body refuses the joy of living. Attention stays on the grey of ordinary days. Nothing seems to smile. Pain flows inside. The heart feels as if it is tearing. A huge emptiness seems to widen, making room for a ball of pain.",[205,713,715],{"id":714},"cut-off-from-your-own-power","Cut off from your own power",[191,717,718],{},"With that emptiness comes a loss of contact with creative power. Life is met by submission rather than by action. You endure the days instead of moving in them.",[205,720,722],{"id":721},"letting-the-pain-move","Letting the pain move",[191,724,725],{},"The healing direction is to let the pain break open. The source speaks of needing some sharpness in life, some warmth that brings the inner tears to the boil so they can leave the body, the way steam rises. The emptiness can then be filled with gentleness and tenderness. Dark ideas thin out. Energy and the joy of living have a way back.",[191,727,728],{},"The source also links a very deep sadness with diabetes. The body areas named here are the breath, the heart, and blood sugar.",[186,730,225],{"id":224},[191,732,733],{},"The aim is not to blame yourself for feeling sad. Sadness is human. The emotional perspective invites you to stop leaving it unspoken.",[230,735,736,742,748,754],{},[233,737,738,741],{},[236,739,740],{},"Give it a way out."," Talk, write, cry. What stays unsaid is what this reading says the body may carry.",[233,743,744,747],{},[236,745,746],{},"Notice the grey filter."," If nothing can smile, the sadness may be colouring the whole day, not only one event.",[233,749,750,753],{},[236,751,752],{},"Choose one action."," Submission waits. A small act of your own is a way back to your power.",[233,755,756,759],{},[236,757,758],{},"Ask for warmth."," Tenderness is part of filling the emptiness, not a luxury after you have coped.",{"title":259,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":761},[762,763,767],{"id":697,"depth":18,"text":698},{"id":707,"depth":18,"text":708,"children":764},[765,766],{"id":714,"depth":20,"text":715},{"id":721,"depth":20,"text":722},{"id":224,"depth":18,"text":225},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of sadness: unexpressed grief that can weigh on the lungs and the heart, and a life seen only in grey.",{},[771,772,773,774,775],"What sadness have I not allowed myself to express?","Do I see only the grey in my days, as if nothing can smile at me?","Where have I stopped acting, and started only submitting to life?","Is there a ball of pain I am making room for, instead of letting it move?","What warmth or tenderness is actually missing?",[157,139,121],[],{"title":153,"description":768},[780],{"author":284,"work":285,"entries":781,"pages":783},[782],"Tristesse","413","emotions\u002Fsadness","Sadness is often read as a pain that has not been expressed. The source links unexpressed sadness with the lungs, a deeper sadness with the heart, and a very deep sadness with diabetes.",[787,788,789,295,790],"Unexpressed pain","The lungs","A torn heart","Submission",[],"ixzKK2AE06P9D67W2t3_R2HJX04UPiNBgsCfoFEnZCc",[],1790940866629]