Arthritis (Joint Inflammation)

Your joints are inflamed. They swell, grow stiff, hurt with every movement — sometimes even at rest. What was self-evident yesterday — holding a cup, climbing stairs, closing your fingers in the morning — becomes a challenge. Your body, which is supposed to carry you through life, becomes resistance.

Medically, arthritis is an inflammatory joint disease that can take many forms — from rheumatoid arthritis, in which the immune system attacks its own joints, to reactive arthritis following infection. Psychosomatically, a different question arises: what is inflaming itself in you that is not allowed to come out? And why does your body attack precisely the places that stand for movement and flexibility?

Joints are connectors. They allow changes of direction, adaptation, fluidity. When they inflame, your body is saying: something is not right about the way you are moving through your life.