Emotions and where they are stored


 

Hands
  • Giving or receiving
  • Holding  on the reality
  • reaching goals
  • feel of action
Forearm
  • Means of attaining goals
  • Fear of inferiority
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Elbow
  • Connects the strength of the upper
  • Arms to the action of forearms
Upper Back
  • We carry stored anger (particularly between shoulder blades)
Lower Back
  • Junction between lower and upper body movement
  • Men store a lot here due to storing of emotions in the belly

Gluteus Muscles

  • Holding in emotions, not releasing and letting go

  • Anal blockage

 

Abductors
  • Inner thigh
  • Contain sexually charged issues
Ankles
  • Create balance

 

Arms
  • Love, express the heart center
  • Enables us to move and connect in the external world
Upper arm
  • Strength to act
  • Fear of being discouraged

 

Shoulders
  • Where we carry the weight of the world
  • Fear of responsibility
  • Women store a lot here
Back
  • Where we store all our unconscious
  • Emotions and excess tension

 

Pelvis
  • Seat of Kundalini energy
  • Root of basic survival needs and actions
Hamstring
  • Self control issues
  • Letting go
Lower leg
  • Enables movement towards goal
  • Fear of action

 

Nose
  • Related to heart
  • Sense and smell, sexual response
  • Self recognition
Mouth
  • Survival issues
  • How we take in nourishment security
  • Capacity to accept new ideas
Forehead
  • Intellectual expression

 

Neck
  • Thought and emotions come together
  • Stiffness is due to withheld emotions
Arms & hands
  • Are extension of the heart center
  • Express love and emotion
Solar plexus
  • Power issues
  • Emotional control issue, power - wisdom center
Genitals
  • Survival issue
  • Related to root chakra containing Kundalini
Knees
  • Fear of death
  • Fear of death of old-self or ego
  • Fear of change
Face
  • Expresses the various masks of our personality
  • Shows how we face the world
Eyes
  • Shows how we see the world
  • Nearsighted is more withdrawn
  • Farsighted is less oriented
  • Windows of the soul
Brow
  • Intuitive center
  • Emotional expression

 

Ears
  • Our capacity to hear
  • Have acupuncture points for every area of our body
Jaw
  • Tension indicates blockage of emotional and verbal communication
  • Fear of ease of expression
Chest
  • Relationship issues
  • Heart and love emotions
  • Respiration and circulation

 

Abdomen
  • Seat of the emotions
  • Contains our deepest feelings
  • center for sexuality
  • digestive system
Thigh
  • Personal strength
  • Trust in one's own abilities
  • Fear of inadequate strength
Feet
  • Shows if we are grounded
  • Connected with reaching our goals
  • Fear of completion