Muscle Complaints

Your muscles are what moves you. Not only in the physical sense — in every other sense as well. When you get up, when you reach for something, when you take a step forward, when you embrace someone: muscles are involved in all of these actions. They translate your will into movement. They are the organ of action.

When they ache, harden, cramp, or give way, they are telling you something about your relationship to movement — and therefore about your relationship to your own strength. About your will. About whether you are actually going where you want to go in your life. Or whether something in you has its foot on the brake while you simultaneously press the accelerator.