Knee Pain & Congestion

[IndigoSalvia]

Open to thoughts from dear other-selves on my current physical distortions. 

While reading the Law of One, I have had: knee joint pain (more R than L) and lingering mucus/congestion in ENT, which is typical allergy symptoms for me (and which is also now improving). 

Physically: I am vata (air/ether) and prone to dryness, among other things. As such, I have been pacifying my vata dosha, and releasing ama. 

Metaphysically: I am trying to gain clarity on the catalytic purpose of my knee pain: impedes my ability to walk/move on my path; reduces my flexibility; reduces the strength and confidence of my spiritual movement and expression; etc. 

Through meditation & contemplation, I have received info, and thus am drawn toward: balancing my green energies (too much or perhaps, unbalanced with blue energies) with blue energies (too little, or need to nourish and tap into). Basically, directionless, abundant compassion and love with too little wisdom (guidance, direction, focus). My (less-than-optimal, LOL) pattern is to give abundant love, indiscriminately; get caught up in Stuff; and then withdraw from 3D other-selves and reconnect with self and 2D other-selves. Thus, I feel an urge/need to work on balancing my expression of love with wisdom (light).  

I also understand that knees are connected to root chakra/red energies. 

I am kinda stuck bringing all of these bits of metaphysical information together. I am open to any thoughts you'd like to share. 

In love and light.

[Dtris]

While working with Chakra's directly can correct imbalance, sometimes dealing with an apparent issue more directly will also correct the imbalance.

Is your knee pain due to an earlier injury? Is it due to excessive use? Is it due to poor posture or biomechanics? Are you sitting funny or otherwise moving that knee differently than the other?

For the congestion that can be tricky. There are many accounts of people curing their allergies by "going to the country". Start with mundane causes. How is your HVAC system? Do you change the filter regularly? Have you tried sleeping with your window open so you get constant exposure to outdoor allergens while reducing indoor ones? When you sleep do you breath thru your mouth? What about during the rest of the day? Do you spend too much time indoors/outdoors?

Lastly your nutrition can effect allergies and healing. For allergies people surprising do well when they start taking probiotics. There is also an autoimmune part of allergies as it is essentially an over reaction of your immune system. Turmeric and ginger and other herbs that help balance immune function may be useful. For the knee you have glucosamine chondroitin but copper and vitamin C are also needed as well as Vitamin E and minerals.

From a metaphysical side I would attempt to notice when the knee pain or allergies begin, and then reflect on behavior and events which happened before the pain began, or if it is recurrent with a specific pattern. Maybe your knee hurts every time you go to a specific location, and it is your bodies way of trying to say going there isn't good for you.

[Diana]

All of Dtris's ideas are great.

I will add that when the metaphysical aspects are alluding you, it's sometimes efficacious just to address the physical. For example, as Dtris mentioned, do you sit misaligned (crossing legs is not a good thing for example), how is your posture (which is very important in any position). And gentle stretching, easy walking, gentle massaging, gentle yoga, and not too much inactivity will likely bring some flow back into that area.

On the metaphysical, I would probably ask myself what is blocked in my "foundation" that may be impeding moving forward.

[IndigoSalvia]

Thank you. I am trying to attend to all of the possible physical "causes," which you tenderly remind me.

Metaphysically, I think I had it kind of bass-ackwards. Until yesterday, I was seeing the physical distortion as an impediment to my ability to express Light/Love (literally, hindering my ability to walk and move amongst; communication with) and therefore was awaiting healing. I was putting Light/Love on hold until I could physically heal.

Then, thanks to insights from Ra, it dawned on me: no, honey, these physical distortions are a cosmic nudge for further polarization (and greater harmony/balance) on my chosen path. No need to put Light/Love on hold pending healing: the healing medicine is, in fact, to be that which you seek. That's where I'm at now ... it's ever-evolving.

[Nikki]

I have studied a book called "The Healing Power of Illness" by Thorwald Dethlefsen and Ruediger Dahlke, MD because of my sister having breast cancer. Knowing her since the day she was born, found this book very enlightening. Our body talks to us telling us the spiritual areas that we may want to look at, something is missing. At the back of the book there is "A List of Psychological Equivalents of Organs and Parts of the Body in Common Idioms:

Knees - humility, submissiveness
Lungs - contact, communication, freedom.

Hoping you can search within, check outside of self for polarity and meditate on these equivalents. May this serve you in a loving way.

[IndigoSalvia]

Knees - humility, submissiveness
Lungs - contact, communication, freedom.

Yeah, Nikki, I can work with this. Rings some bells ...

[flofrog]

Knees - humility, submissiveness
Lungs - contact, communication, freedom.

Yeah, Nikki, I can work with this. Rings some bells ...

Best wishes IndigoSalvia, 
I had a knee accident when I was 13, I was not submissive then but humble, lol… note that arnica gel is a good friend to knees as just external care. Best wishes really