When you are stressed, both your emotional and physical health can suffer. People with trauma, stress or mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression often suffer physical symptoms as well. In all of this, there may be one common link: the hips.
“The hip area is associated with your sacral chakra, which holds our creative and sexual energy,” described Sarah Donner, a holistic health coach and founder of Siva Wellness. “Your sacral chakra is believed to be a big part of our emotional world and how we relate to others.
Fitness professional Chitrakshi Sharma, too, suggested that the “hips are an important storage vessel of emotional stress because of the psoas' link to the adrenal glands and the location of the sacral chakra which processes emotions like fear, sadness, frustration, loss, and worry”.
As stress tightens the hip muscles, it can be said that stress might get trapped there. Besides, this region is also linked with sacral chakra or Svadhisthana, which is linked to how you relate to your emotions and the emotions of others.
Grief can be stored in various parts of the body, such as the heart, lungs, throat, and stomach. People may also experience physical sensations like heaviness in the chest or tightness in the throat when experiencing grief.
Stretching the hip muscles causes a release; pent-up emotions may resurface, suppressed memories may arise, unconscious tension still held onto from a traumatic event may bubble up. All of which may unleash a seemingly inexplicable barrage of tears.
Maybe you feel the need to cry, scream into a pillow, go for a swim, walk or run, dance it out, hit a punching bag, do some gardening, tapping, yoga or TRE, paint your feelings out, or simply breathe deeply while facing the sun—whatever feels cathartic in that moment, do it.
Joined at the hip means inseparable, two people who are so close they are almost considered one person. The idiom joined at the hip first appeared in the 1960s in American English. It is assumed that it stems from the phenomenon of conjoined twins, formerly known as Siamese twins.
Problems within the hip joint itself tend to result in pain on the inside of your hip or your groin. Hip pain on the outside of your hip, upper thigh or outer buttock is usually caused by problems with muscles, ligaments, tendons and other soft tissues that surround your hip joint.
Osteoarthritis: Osteoarthritis is a common cause of hip pain in women, especially as they age. This condition occurs when the cartilage that cushions the hip joint wears away, leading to bone-on-bone friction and resulting in pain and stiffness.
To sum up, since hip muscles are where emotions are trapped caused by events that switch your fight or flight mode, working on deep tissues in hip-focused postures like pigeon pose can release both physical and emotional stress.
This happens due to the lose of oestrogen during Menopause as the time for tendon repairs take longer than usual. Some tips to ease the pain and treat such hip pain during Menopause are: Visit a physiotherapist and get therapy and massage for your affected area.
Emotional stress and anxiety might not seem related to physical pain, but the two can be linked. When you're under ongoing, intense stress, your body releases molecules that stimulate inflammation. This can lead to swelling around your joints, including your hips, and result in stiffness and pain.
The most common areas we tend to hold stress are in the neck, shoulders, hips, hands and feet. Planning one of your stretch sessions around these areas can help calm your mind and calm your body.
Anger and suppressed rage are often stored in the buttocks.
Face down, legs together
If the receiving partner has hip, hand, and/or knee problems, laying on the stomach will provide a lot of relief, Deitsch says. Plus, squeezing the legs together can help increase and intensify an orgasm in women. (There's a reason so many ladies self-pleasure in this position.)
Hip opening yoga poses improve circulation, flexibility and range of movement in the hips, legs and back. They are also beneficial for improving posture, strengthening balance, reducing stress, and promoting mental health and overall wellness.
Hip openers move prana (life force) through the pelvis, which is said to hold negative emotions and stress, such as guilt, fear and sadness. Opening the hips can create space for the birth of new ideas, and opens us physically, spiritually, and creatively.
For some people, the tremors are big movements in the muscles. For others, they are tiny contractions that feel like electrical frequencies moving through the body. TRE® is not painful—in fact, most people enjoy the sensations.
Guilt, Fishkin says, is associated with activity in the prefrontal cortex, the logical-thinking part of the brain. Guilt can also trigger activity in the limbic system. (That's why it can feel so anxiety-provoking.)
Emotional Trauma Symptoms
Psychological Concerns: Anxiety and panic attacks, fear, anger, irritability, obsessions and compulsions, shock and disbelief, emotional numbing and detachment, depression, shame and guilt (especially if the person dealing with the trauma survived while others didn't)