Muscles and tendons: emotional and spiritual meaning

Muscles move the body. Tendons join muscle to bone. A strain, a tear, a tendon injury and true muscle disease are physical events. Rest, a clinician and, when the pain is sudden and disabling, urgent care belong to them.

In the emotional reading, muscles are the effort required to go forward, and the mental energy you need in order to pass into action. Tendons are how you adapt, and whether you advance while listening to your inner voice or while ignoring it.

What the muscles represent

The source calls muscle the life, the power and the strength of the bones. Muscles reflect what you are, what you believe, and what you think you will become. A problem here shows you feeling powerless in a situation, as if you were in a straitjacket. You feel diminished in a strength that may be physical, intellectual or emotional. Performance falls.

Your experiences, and the feelings attached to them, are said to be soaked into the muscles. The inner state matches the muscle: tense and nervous, or released. Muscles react strongly to too much stress. Because the body is made of them, the source says the body takes the shape of your thoughts and attitudes. If you let yourself slide into depression, negativism or fear, the posture follows. Joy of living, drive and a positive stance are read as muscles that stay firm and flexible.

Muscles wrap the bones, so they also stand for the deep feelings of your emotional life. If you are not in contact with those feelings, and you privilege the material and artificial side of life, the muscles suffer. You stay on your guard. A permanent nervousness is there. The joints and bones are the structure underneath. Accepting a transformation, and living the present instead of clinging to the past, is what the entry says keeps muscle healthy.

What the tendons represent

A tendon is the hyphen between muscle and the bone it pulls on. Soft tissue, in this reading, is mental energy joining spiritual energy, so that expression and a complete movement can be one thing. Supple tendons show suppleness toward yourself and toward others. Rigid tendons reflect rigid tendencies. If the mental energy is stiff, you become inflexible, and the soft tissue feels it.

Pain comes when what you think you ought to do conflicts with the inner voice that says what you actually want. You tend to belittle yourself. The tendon decides one direction. The bone, read as the deep and spiritual energy, wishes to go the other way. The source asks you to look at which tendon is touched. A wrist tendon, for example, raises the question of the activity that uses the wrists and hands, and the impression that you are not good enough or that you could do better. What are you apprehensive about? Where do you need to improve in order to reach a future aim, while feeling powerless to do it? You feel chained, unable to get where you are going. You need someone to hold out a hand.

Caring for muscle from the inside

Overuse, injury, nerve disease and inflammation are real causes of muscle and tendon pain. The emotional perspective adds a question: where is my strength, and which voice am I refusing to follow?

• Notice the posture. A body that has collapsed or braced is read as the shape of the thought.
• Name the powerlessness. The straitjacket is the image for a situation you cannot move.
• Live one piece of the present. Clinging to the past is what the muscle entry sets against health.
• Ask which tendon, and which task. The place of the pain is the clue to the activity you are belittling.
• Hear the inner voice beside the duty. The conflict between the two is the tendon pain in this reading.
• Rest a tear. Meaning does not replace a diagnosis when the movement has gone.