“[N]ervousness, stress, fear, anxiety, caution, boredom, restlessness, happiness, joy, hurt, shyness, coyness, humility, awkwardness, confidence, subservience, depression, lethargy, playfulness, sensuality, and anger can all manifest through the feet and legs.”
The most common causes include injury, arthritis and normal wear and tear. Depending on the cause, you may feel pain or stiffness anywhere around the ankle. Your ankle may also swell, and you may not be able to put any weight on it. Usually, ankle pain gets better with rest, ice and over-the-counter pain medications.
According to many myths, metaphors and symbols for the foot also represent life-spending fertility, eroticism, and sexuality. But nevertheless the foot is also a symbol of respect, reverence, and subservience, feet washing and anointing is an act of humility and love.
When an emotion is not fully processed, it may become “stuck” in the body. However, it’s the limbic structures of the brain where emotional processing occurs.
Ever since people’s responses to overwhelming experiences have been systematically explored, researchers have noted that a trauma is stored in somatic memory and expressed as changes in the biological stress response.
The Holy Quran forbids women to wear anklet bracelets outside of her husband’s house. It is forbidden for the anklet worn by women to jingle or produce sound to the hearing of non-Mahram men – those who are Islamically unlawful.
An anklet on the right ankle could mean that you are single and searching. If, however, a married person wears an anklet on their right foot, the message being conveyed is that they are open to having extramarital affairs.
Researchers estimate that more than 3% of Americans have ankle osteoarthritis. This condition can cause the ankle to stiffen and become painful when you’re sleeping. These symptoms are likely caused by the ankle positions or lack of movement that occurs while you’re asleep.
What Can Cause Ankle Pain Without Injury?- Rheumatoid Arthritis. Even though the immune system works to fight off germs, there can be times when it will attack the joints on accident.
Common causes of ankle pain include:- Achilles tendinitis.
Achilles tendon rupture.
Avulsion fracture.
Broken foot.
Bursitis (joint inflammation)
Gout (arthritis related to excess uric acid)
Osteoarthritis (disease causing the breakdown of joints)
Osteochondritis dissecans.
Over time, chronic stress and anxiety can also increase your sensitivity to pain. Consequently, when your feet hurt, anxiety may intensify the pain. From here it’s an ongoing cycle of pain and anxiety. As your pain worsens, you may become more anxious, which can make your feet hurt even more.
The left foot stores more of the internal or self representation – it contains the vital energy for the moral and spiritual growth and understanding. Another division could be that the right side is how one relates to the world and others and the left is more of relating to self and Spirit.
Can Anxiety, Depression, or Emotional Stress Cause Plantar Fasciitis? While depression or anxiety can certainly be byproducts of chronic pain, there’s some evidence suggesting that emotional stress can increase your chances of developing plantar fasciitis.
Intrusive memories
Recurrent, unwanted distressing memories of the traumatic event. Reliving the traumatic event as if it were happening again (flashbacks) Upsetting dreams or nightmares about the traumatic event. Severe emotional distress or physical reactions to something that reminds you of the traumatic event.
Some people’s efforts to block residual feelings of trauma may look like adapting avoidance behavior to avoid feelings of pain, also called trauma blocking. What is Trauma blocking? Trauma blocking is an effort to block out and overwhelm residual painful feelings due to trauma.
Signs You Have Shame- Feeling sensitive.
Feeling unappreciated.
Uncontrollable blushing.
Feeling used.
Feeling rejected.
Feeling like you have little impact.
Being worried what others think about you.
Worrying that you aren’t treated with respect.
Massage therapy, the manual manipulation of soft body tissue to promote health and well-being, can provide relief from physical, emotional, and mental stress, and decrease levels of depression, anxiety, irritability, and other symptoms associated with trauma exposure (Collinge, Kahn, & Soltysik, 2012).
If the trauma is left untreated, one can experience nightmares, insomnia, anxiety, depression, phobias, substance abuse, panic attacks, anger, irritability, or hopelessness. The individual might also begin to have physical symptoms such as gastrointestinal distress, rapid heartbeat, or extreme fatigue.
As soon as you recognize fear, your amygdala (small organ in the middle of your brain) goes to work. It alerts your nervous system, which sets your body’s fear response into motion. Stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline are released. Your blood pressure and heart rate increase.
Anklet Positioning
An anklet can be worn on either ankle; there are no underlying messages on what it means to wear it on the left versus the right. However, you should never wear your ankle bracelet with pantyhose. It should be worn on bare legs only.
Choosing the right or left anklet
Anklets were also once a gift given by the groom to the bride. Wearing the anklet on the right ankle symbolizes those girls being called girls. However, in today’s world, there is no significance behind which ankle you wear yours on.
There is a scientific reason for wearing silver anklets. Wearing anklets helps one to re-vibrate the energy to their own body. Wearing Silver anklets will relieve the pain and weakness in the legs. So this is the reason we see a lot of grand mom’s are still strong who followed the indian tradition.
Some say that when someone wears an anklet on their right foot it means they are single and have no lover. In some subcultures, however, if a person is married or in a committed relationship and wears anklets on their right foot, it means that they are looking to have an affair or fling.
Black thread protects from evil eye
According to astrology, black colour protects from the evil eye. That’s why people use black tika, black cloth or black thread to avoid it. Along with this, many remedies have been told in astrology to avoid the evil eye.