Exploring the Mind-Body Connection

Emotional Body Pain Chart

By Sahara Rose, CHHC and author of Eat Right For Your Mind-Body Type
www.eatfeelfresh.com

The pain we feel is not random.

In fact, our bodies reflect pain in specific locations according to emotional pain we’ve
suffered through.

As I explain in my book Eat Right For Your Mind-Body Type, our minds and bodies are
interconnected and reflect one another. Our physical ailments can be attributed to
mental causes.

This Emotional-Pain Body diagram depicts the various places we commonly feel pain in
our bodies and their emotional roots.

How it works:
• Look for tightness or aching in a specific part of your body.
• Think back on when these symptoms first began.
Can you remember their onset?
What was going on in your life at the time?
• Has exercise, physical therapy or any other type of physical treatment made this pain
feel better?
Does the pain come back?
• Do any emotions (anger, fear, frustration, exhaustion, stress, depression) make the
pain worse?
• Ask yourself: what can this pain teach me?
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Emotional Body Pain Chart

Neck
Shoulders
Stress, worry, anxiety, stiffness

Feeling like you are carrying

the weight of the world on your shoulders.

Back
Upper back: Expectations placed upon you,
Type A Personality, perfectionism
Middle Back: Fear of the future, insomnia, anxiety
Lower Back: Financial issues, buried emotions
Elbows
Resistance to change, stubbornness

Hands
Inability to connect with others

Knees
Inflexibility, being stuck
in your masculine, ego

Hips
Emotional pain, anger,
sadness, heart-break

Calves
Stress, tension, emotional tension, jealousy
Ankles
Instability, uncertainty, resisting pleasure
Feet
Negativity, being hard on oneself
 Keep in mind that this diagram is more related to
deep-seeded, chronic pain that is unable to be explained by
a physical cause. If you have an acute injury causing your
pain, there may not an emotional cause.

This information is not scientifically provenand is not meant

to treat, diagnose or heal any diseases but rather just
educate you the emotional causes of some of your physical
ailments.

Curious to discover more about yourself?

Take the free quiz to discover your mind-body type on
www.eatfeelfresh.com

Sahara Rose
Certified Holistic Health Coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner

Sources:
1. http://goop.com/the-body-doesnt-lie-2/
2. http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-15099/how-to-overcome-the-emotional-causes-of-back-pain.html
3. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/littlethingscom/the-incredible-way-your-e_b_7464472.html?slideshow=true