06/26/2025
âThe Body Remembers: 9 Sacred Portals Where Emotions Speakâ by Faith Spina
Your body is not broken. Itâs a living record of everything youâve dared to feel and everything you were taught to suppress. It does not lie, cannot be fooled, and never forgets what the soul came to transmute.
Each ache is not a problem to fix itâs a message to decode. These are not "pains" but portals. Let us walk together through nine of the most sacred:
1. Hips â The Temple of Grief & Ancestral Memory The hips are your gateway to movement forward motion, pleasure, and primal inheritance. When grief is buried or lineage pain goes unspoken, it lodges here. Deep hip openers donât just stretch fasciaâŚthey open the vault of what your womb or root has carried for lifetimes. Let your hips weep, sway, dance it free.
2. Shoulders â The Atlas of Responsibility You were never meant to carry the world. But many of you learned to bear what was not yours: family pain, unmet expectations, emotional labor. Tension in the shoulders says: âPut it down now, love. Whatâs not yours was never meant to be held by you.â
3. Lower Back â The Currency of Safety This is your root supportâŚwhere fear of survival, financial instability, and uncertainty lives. When the base chakra is trembling, the lower back tightens. It says, âDo you trust that life will catch you when you lean?â Restoration here begins with choosing to feel safe in the unknown.
4. Jaw â The Muzzle of the Silenced Voice Clenching, grinding, tension: these are the shackles of unsaid truths. The jaw is where your rage and your power bite down when theyâre not allowed to roar. To free it is to say the words youâve swallowed, even if just in sacred whisper to the stars.
5. Chest â The Chalice of Sorrow Heartbreak, betrayal, uncried tears⌠they pool in the chest like sacred rainwater waiting for release. If you feel tightness here, it may be your soul saying, âIâm still holding that love we never got to give.â Place your hands there. Breathe. Let yourself mourn the unlived loves.
6. Neck â The Crossroads of Truth & Identity Torn between who you are and who you think you should be? That conflict sits in the neck. It stiffens when your truth is out of alignment with your life. Realignment doesnât require force it requires self-honoring. It begins with one âNoâ that means âYesâ to your soul.
7. Stomach â The Reactor of Unmet Safety Anxiety and trauma donât live in your mind...they nest in your gut. When youâre not digesting your life, your body tightens to brace itself. Digestive issues are not always about foodâŚthey are often about emotional toxicity. Ask your stomach: âWhat am I trying to stomach that no longer nourishes me?â
8. Hands â The Grip of Control Your hands are extensions of your nervous system. When clenched or in pain, they reveal where youâre trying to control what must be surrendered. Soften your grip. Let life flow. Trust that not everything has to be held so tightly to be real.
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9. Knees â The Bend of Becoming The knees speak of surrender. When they ache, itâs often a sign of resistance to change or fear of forward motion. Bowing in prayer or yielding in humility re-teaches the body what the ego forgot: you are safe to evolve. The future is not your enemy.
Pain is not punishment. Itâs a communication from your deeper knowing. Each sensation in the body is a sacred telegram from the soul, saying:
âFeel me. Honor me. Move with me, not against me.â
Let this article be a mirror âŚnot of whatâs wrong, but of whatâs ready to be reclaimed.