Knee pain
A few nights ago, I was juggling a very full cup of boiling water in one hand and several items in the other hand in an attempt to make a single trip up the stairs, when I tripped and spilt the water over my right arm, burning myself. Unable to take action and roll up my sleeve in order to put it under cold water because I was carrying so much stuff, the water burned into my arm causing intense pain. To add insult to injury, within seconds, I noticed a sharp pain in my left knee! After what seemed like an eternity, I put everything I was carrying down, rolled up my sleeve and ran it under cold water and then applied some burn ointment. But it was my knee that was really bothering me. The sharp pain at a single point was intense when putting pressure on that leg making is difficult to walk. The following morning the pain was just as intense as the night before.
Feeling frustrated and irritated by the whole situation and not feeling like I could work on this one myself, I asked Peter Donn, husband, EFT and meta-medicine practitioner for a session.
He asked me what I was feeling and thinking when I could not put the cup down and deal with my burn. Initially I thought frustrated but on deeper questioning, I realised I felt helpless. This is connected with an ongoing theme for me of needing and wanting to feel capable in order to avoid feeling the opposite which for me is helplessness and powerlessness. Interestingly, in meta-medicine, the knee is associated with lack of self worth. In my case, I felt a lack of self worth when I reflected on my ability to be capable compared to others. Looking back at my life, despite coming from a loving family, somewhere along the way, I created the belief that I was not supported which then caused me to create a forced and false sense of strength or capableness.
Testing my knee
My knee was giving me an opportunity to look at this and release these negative beliefs. After an hour of tapping, I was scared to move my knee to see if the pain had gone away, so we tapped on that and slowly I moved my knee and surprisingly I could get up with no pain and walk with no pain. There was still pain on walking up and down stairs and as the day progressed, the pain eased with and by the evening I could put all my weight on that leg with no pain! The photo is the next day with me testing my leg and feeling complete ease in that knee!
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