Electric Body, Electric Health by Eileen Day McKusick

Author:Eileen Day McKusick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

LEFT KNEE: ATTACHMENT AND RELEASE

A blockage in the right knee often has some connection to a blockage in the left. In the left knee, we hold on to old “stuff” from the past that no longer makes sense for us in our current lives. It could be anything that we feel ready to let go of—a marriage, an extra twenty pounds, a pile of junk in the garage—but for whatever reason, we can’t bring ourselves to do it.

There’s a lot of agonizing here about what to do next. I call it the knee of Should I stay or should I go? When this knee is clear and coherent, we know exactly when it’s time to leave a relationship, a job, or a city. We’re able to recognize when a substance, habit, or belief is no longer serving us, and we can take appropriate action to disengage from it. When it’s not, we find ourselves engaged in an internal struggle about whether or not to leave.

It’s related to the left-foot imbalance of being mired in a toxic situation that we feel powerless to change. The left foot, however, is largely unconscious. There’s a sense of resignation and victimization that says, “Well, I guess this is just the way things are,” which leads to a sense of disconnection and disassociation. But in the knee, there’s a very conscious inner conflict about whether to try to change the situation. We spend a tremendous amount of energy going back and forth about it.

The left knee holds the devil you know. It’s the relationships and attachments in our lives that we know aren’t good for us but we can’t seem to quit. So why do we stay? What it really comes down to is the ability to recognize when we’ve had enough and to trust that it’s safe to let go. People who stay too long in jobs or relationships, or who struggle with addictions and dependencies, tend to have a hard time recognizing satiation. If you can’t recognize when you’ve had your fill, it makes it difficult to say, “No, thank you,” and walk away.

The healthy tonal expression of the left knee is this basic rhythm of getting your fill and moving on to the next thing. It’s the ability to say, “Now I’ve had enough of that job, and it’s time for me to find another job.” The energy of the left knee then syncs up with the right knee to give you the force to actually go out and find that new job without blocking yourself with a bunch of excuses and stories about why you can’t.

Left-knee imbalances are always issues of attachment and release. Think about it: if you weren’t attached to the way things are, you wouldn’t be stuck. This pattern often goes all the way back to our earliest attachment in life: the bond between mother and child. If you didn’t bond well with your mom, whether because you didn’t get enough skin-to-skin contact, or there was postpartum mental illness, or the environment was chaotic, you can end up with a lot of energy stuck here.

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