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A large spleen can trap blood cells, so anaemia, infection and easy bleeding follow, and it can rupture if it is struck. None of that is a symbol to wait out.",[276,286,287,288,290],{},"The emotional reading below is the part of the spleen entry that speaks of swelling, of blood, and of a life pulled off the ground. The wider story of unfinished things and of calling yourself a failure lives on the ",[280,289,266],{"href":109}," page.",[271,292,294],{"id":293},"fears-about-blood","Fears about blood",[276,296,297,298,301],{},"Trouble at the spleen is read as a clue to fears you could live about blood. You fear you might lack blood, or bleed too much, as at menstruation or during a transfusion. You may think your blood is \"not good\", or so rare that you doubt anyone could save your life in a major accident where you would need a transfusion. The fear of death is often present in the background. Because the spleen watches the quality of red cells, poor function is read as a great inner wound that remains to be healed. It is like a wound that bleeds. Blood stands for the joy of living, so you can have the impression that life is such a hard fight that you should lower the flag and retreat. The ",[280,299,300],{"href":34},"heart and circulation"," pages take up the blood itself.",[271,303,305],{"id":304},"swelling-rigidity-and-a-mask","Swelling, rigidity, and a mask",[276,307,308],{},"You may want to take refuge far from reality, in a more spiritual world that is not connected to the earth. That withdrawal is what this reading links with a swelling of the spleen. It is a picture of leaving the ground, not a mechanism, and not a reason to fear a spiritual life. You limit yourself inside a rigid structure, which takes you away from a feeling of freedom. In the body, that can be read as thinness. You build a wall between yourself and your emotions, and you wear a mask. It feels like a good way to defend yourself against the outside world and to avoid being humiliated.",[276,310,311,312,315],{},"The ",[280,313,314],{"href":165},"lymph"," is the wider system this organ belongs to. Infection, blood disease and liver disease enlarge the spleen for medical reasons. The emotional question is separate: where have I left the ground, and what fear of bleeding am I still carrying?",[271,317,319],{"id":318},"a-gentler-way-to-hold-it","A gentler way to hold it",[276,321,322],{},"Instead of staying obsessed with negative ideas you tend to exaggerate, the direction is to change those ideas and find ways to \"enlarge the spleen\" in the old French sense: to cheer it, to dilate it with laughter. You take the drama down. You learn to laugh at yourself and at certain situations. You learn to say what you feel as you go, so that balance and harmony have a chance in the whole body.",[324,325,326,334,340,346,352,358],"ul",{},[327,328,329,333],"li",{},[330,331,332],"strong",{},"Have the enlargement explained."," The cause is medical. A story about retreat does not find it.",[327,335,336,339],{},[330,337,338],{},"Name the fear of lacking blood, or of bleeding."," A transfusion, a period, an accident: the reading asks which scene it is.",[327,341,342,345],{},[330,343,344],{},"Ask whether you have left the ground."," A spiritual refuge that cuts you off from ordinary life is the picture tied to swelling.",[327,347,348,351],{},[330,349,350],{},"Notice the mask."," It was protection from humiliation. 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The emotional reading ties the swelling to fears about blood, a retreat from ordinary life, and a rigid frame you built yourself.","If this reading resonates with you, asking which fear of lacking or of bleeding you have been carrying can be a good next step, after a clinician has explained why the spleen is enlarged.",[400,401,402,403,404],"Fear of bleeding","Fear of death","Retreat","Rigidity","A mask",[406,407,408,409,410,411],"A fullness or mass under the left ribs, pain there, or feeling full after only a little food. An enlarged spleen must be investigated.","Fever, night sweats, weight loss, pale skin, or bruises and bleeds you cannot explain.","Pain in the left shoulder with faintness, especially after a blow or during [mononucleosis](\u002Fspleen\u002Fmononucleosis). A ruptured spleen is an emergency.","You have already been told the spleen is large. Do not play contact sport until you are cleared. A large spleen tears more easily.","Causes include infection, liver disease, blood disorders and inflammatory illness. The cause is a medical question.","Removal of the spleen, if it is ever proposed, is a doctor's decision. It is not the ending of a personal story.","Wz470zLoCe5e-lryK13F11cfn8ktA9Dn_KSzab8NuJI",{"id":414,"title":104,"body":415,"comingSoon":10,"dateModified":371,"datePublished":371,"description":105,"extension":373,"groups":528,"icon":107,"meta":531,"navigation":375,"order":108,"path":106,"reflectionQuestions":532,"seo":539,"sources":540,"stem":543,"themes":544,"whenToSeeADoctor":548,"__hash__":555},"areas\u002Fareas\u002Fspleen.md",{"type":268,"value":416,"toc":523},[417,420,423,429,433,445,448,462,466,475,479,485],[276,418,419],{},"The spleen sits in the upper left of the abdomen, under the diaphragm. It is a lymphoid organ. It watches the quality of red blood cells and takes part in fighting infection by making antibodies. An enlarged spleen, a ruptured spleen and life after the spleen has been removed are medical situations. A blow to the left side, with pain and faintness, is an emergency.",[276,421,422],{},"In the emotional reading, nostalgia, unfinished things, regrets and worries can lodge here. If the spleen works badly, the source asks whether you are working badly too, because you stay fixed on dark and negative ideas.",[424,425,426],"note",{},[276,427,428],{},"This page offers a symbolic and emotional perspective. It is meant to complement medical care, never to replace it. Pain under the left ribs after a blow, faintness or a shoulder pain that comes with collapse needs emergency care.",[271,430,432],{"id":431},"what-the-spleen-represents","What the spleen represents",[276,434,435,436,440,441,444],{},"You are obsessed with someone or something. The energy drops, and you no longer want to do anything. The book plays on the French word ",[437,438,439],"em",{},"rate",", the spleen, and ",[437,442,443],{},"raté",", a failure, something missed. You feel you have missed your life, even massacred it, because you could not finish certain things and you did not know how to turn the page. You missed the train. Fine opportunities went by, and you blame yourself. You now believe you are incapable of succeeding. You tarnish the family story in your own eyes.",[276,446,447],{},"You try to compensate by forgetting yourself for your family or your friends, and you cannot go on. You have built a situation you can no longer step out of. The source takes that picture as far as the spleen being removed. That is the book's image of a story you cannot leave. It is not a medical prediction, and it is not a reason to fear an operation you have not been offered. Surgery, if it is ever discussed, is a doctor's decision.",[276,449,450,451,453,454,457,458,461],{},"The negativism is often tied to the way you see yourself: ugly, not right, not good, not up to it. You would rather sleep and stay passive. You feed on anger, and nothing in the life feels cheerful. Someone or something \"falls on your spleen\": it may be someone in the family you consider a failure. ",[280,452,225],{"href":226},", ",[280,455,456],{"href":232},"regret"," and ",[280,459,460],{"href":256},"worry"," are the feelings this entry names as able to lodge here.",[271,463,465],{"id":464},"blood-and-the-fear-of-lacking-it","Blood, and the fear of lacking it",[276,467,468,469,471,472,474],{},"Trouble at the spleen is also read as a clue to fears about blood. You fear you might lack blood, or bleed too much, at menstruation or during a transfusion. The spleen's work on red cells is the physical side of that picture. The ",[280,470,300],{"href":34}," pages take up the blood itself. The ",[280,473,314],{"href":165}," is the wider system this organ belongs to.",[271,476,478],{"id":477},"caring-for-the-spleen-from-the-inside","Caring for the spleen from the inside",[276,480,481,482],{},"Infection, blood disorders and injury affect the spleen for medical reasons. The emotional perspective adds a question: ",[437,483,484],{},"what have I refused to finish, and what am I still calling a failure?",[324,486,487,493,499,505,511,517],{},[327,488,489,492],{},[330,490,491],{},"Turn one page."," An unfinished thing is the image this organ is given.",[327,494,495,498],{},[330,496,497],{},"Name the obsession."," A person or a thought that will not leave is what the entry says lowers the energy.",[327,500,501,504],{},[330,502,503],{},"Separate a missed chance from a ruined life."," The French pun is the book's way of saying you have sentenced yourself.",[327,506,507,510],{},[330,508,509],{},"Stop disappearing into other people."," Forgetting yourself for the family is the compensation the source describes, and it runs out.",[327,512,513,516],{},[330,514,515],{},"Set down one dark idea."," Passivity and sleep are the posture it pairs with a spleen that struggles.",[327,518,519,522],{},[330,520,521],{},"Get left-sided pain after a blow checked at once."," Meaning does not replace an emergency department.",{"title":365,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":524},[525,526,527],{"id":431,"depth":18,"text":432},{"id":464,"depth":18,"text":465},{"id":477,"depth":18,"text":478},[529],{"id":266,"title":104,"description":530},"The spleen as the place where unfinished stories, dark ideas and a sense of having missed your chance are said to lodge.",{},[533,534,535,536,537,538],"Which page of my life am I refusing to turn?","Who or what am I obsessed with, to the point that my energy has gone?","Where do I call myself a failure for something I did not finish?","What opportunity do I still punish myself for missing?","Am I disappearing into other people because I cannot forgive my own story?","What dark idea could I set down, even for an afternoon?",{"title":104,"description":105},[541],{"author":391,"work":392,"entries":542,"pages":395},[394],"areas\u002Fspleen",[545,225,231,255,546,547],"Unfinished things","Self-image","Obsession",[549,550,551,552,553,554],"Pain in the upper left abdomen, especially after an injury. A ruptured spleen is an emergency. Call emergency services.","Pain with fever, or pain that takes your breath.","Feeling faint, pale or very weak, which can mean internal bleeding.","Frequent infections if you have already had your spleen removed.","A swelling or fullness under the left ribs.","Unexplained bruises, or infections that keep returning.","3L-yrpLsSeb8-Zfjxeq36N3LOMduN5_43EdjhiQEE9c",[557],{"id":558,"title":559,"affirmation":560,"aka":561,"area":266,"body":565,"dateModified":371,"datePublished":371,"description":652,"extension":373,"group":266,"meta":653,"navigation":375,"path":654,"reflectionQuestions":655,"related":662,"sameAs":663,"seo":666,"sources":667,"stem":672,"summary":673,"supportIntro":674,"themes":675,"whenToSeeADoctor":681,"__hash__":688},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Fspleen\u002Fmononucleosis.md","Mononucleosis","I clear what needs clearing. I take my courage back, and I let joy and love be something I can actually live.",[562,563,564],"Glandular fever","Mono","The kissing disease",{"type":268,"value":566,"toc":647},[567,571,577,580,584,587,604,606,609],[271,568,570],{"id":569},"what-mononucleosis-is","What mononucleosis is",[276,572,573,574,576],{},"Infectious mononucleosis is an infection, usually with the Epstein–Barr virus, in which lymphocytes, a kind of white blood cell, increase. It is most common in adolescents and young adults. It is called the kissing disease because saliva can carry it. A sore throat, fever, swollen glands in the neck, a crushing fatigue and sometimes a rash are the picture. The spleen often enlarges. That is the link with ",[280,575,266],{"href":109}," trouble, and it is why a blow to the abdomen during the illness is dangerous. Most people recover with rest and time. A few need hospital care for the airway, the liver or a ruptured spleen.",[276,578,579],{},"The emotional reading below does not replace rest or a blood test. It asks what the fight to be accepted has been costing.",[271,581,583],{"id":582},"the-emotional-meaning-of-mononucleosis","The emotional meaning of mononucleosis",[276,585,586],{},"If you are an adult with this illness, the question is what could have affected you as if you were an adolescent, or what this recalls from that time of life. You want to live fully. You feel a change inside, and you have the impression of having to fight constantly to obtain what you want. Your defences develop to compensate for the attacks and the limitations you feel you receive from life. You feel alone in front of the obstacles, far from your clan. You want so much to be accepted by your family, your friends, society. Like the wolf, you want to be part of the pack. And you feel so alone, like a reject, a waste of society.",[276,588,589,590,593,594,598,599,603],{},"You run yourself down. You come to want to push other people away, and at the same time you need to cling to them. That provokes an inner split and a great tension. Mononucleosis is placed at the moment you feel guilty about a situation, or when you want more permission, when you criticise people or life in general. There is a deep lack of love. The ",[280,591,592],{"href":11},"head"," and a ",[280,595,597],{"href":596},"\u002Frespiratory-system\u002Fsore-throat","sore throat"," sit in the same season, because the illness announces itself there. An ",[280,600,602],{"href":601},"\u002Fspleen\u002Fenlarged-spleen","enlarged spleen"," is the physical sign this entry names.",[271,605,319],{"id":318},[276,607,608],{},"The direction is to clear house in your life, and to put more love there, toward yourself and toward others. Courage and trust return, and with them the energy and the joy of living that let you experience more love. That is an inner aim for the weeks of fatigue. It does not shorten the virus by force of will.",[324,610,611,617,623,629,635,641],{},[327,612,613,616],{},[330,614,615],{},"Rest, and protect the spleen."," Sport can wait. A rupture cannot.",[327,618,619,622],{},[330,620,621],{},"Ask what adolescence this is echoing."," The illness in an adult is read as a return to that age.",[327,624,625,628],{},[330,626,627],{},"Notice the push and the cling."," Wanting people gone and needing them close is the split.",[327,630,631,634],{},[330,632,633],{},"Look at guilt and at the wish for permission."," Criticism of life sits in the same place as the lack of love.",[327,636,637,640],{},[330,638,639],{},"Make one gesture of love toward yourself."," The reading treats that as how energy comes back, not as a treatment.",[327,642,643,646],{},[330,644,645],{},"Let a doctor confirm the virus."," A sore throat has many causes, and some of them need antibiotics that mono does not.",{"title":365,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":648},[649,650,651],{"id":569,"depth":18,"text":570},{"id":582,"depth":18,"text":583},{"id":318,"depth":18,"text":319},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of mononucleosis: how it may relate to a fight to be accepted, a deep lack of love, and an enlarged spleen.",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Fspleen\u002Fmononucleosis",[656,657,658,659,660,661],"If I am no longer a teenager, what in this illness reminds me of adolescence?","Where do I feel I must constantly fight to obtain what I want?","Do I want to be part of the pack, and at the same time push people away?","Where am I guilty, or asking for more permission than I need?","Whom, or what life, am I criticising while I feel a deep lack of love?","What would more love toward myself look like, in one concrete gesture?",[601,596],[664,665],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FInfectious_mononucleosis","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ207367",{"title":559,"description":652},[668],{"author":391,"work":392,"entries":669,"pages":671},[670],"Sang — Mononucléose infectieuse","385","conditions\u002Fspleen\u002Fmononucleosis","Mononucleosis is a viral infection that swells the lymph glands and often the spleen. It is read as a fight to belong, a deep lack of love, and the loneliness of someone who both pushes people away and needs to hold on.","If this reading resonates with you, one honest gesture of care toward yourself, while you rest as the illness requires, can be a good next step.",[676,677,678,679,680],"Belonging","Lack of love","Guilt","Criticism","Exhaustion",[682,683,684,685,686,687],"A severe sore throat, fever and swollen glands that are not improving. Mono needs a clinical diagnosis. Antibiotics do not treat the virus, and some of them cause a rash if given by mistake.","Pain in the upper left abdomen, or pain in the left shoulder. The spleen can rupture. This is an emergency.","Difficulty breathing or swallowing, extreme weakness, or yellow skin.","Avoid contact sports and heavy lifting until a doctor says the spleen is safe.","Fatigue that lasts for weeks is common. A return to full effort should be gradual and agreed.","Do not read a swollen spleen as a story and skip the examination.","kr5WSXTjX6Gw70G27FWqpscc9r3Pj2WnH3yppxUOG-c",[],1791107667477]