Above all, the hips represent moving forward in life, finding balance, and standing our ground.
From a spiritual perspective, hip pain can be related to blockages in the progress of our lives, emotional baggage we are carrying or being resistant to change.
Right Hip Pain Spiritual Meaning
“The highest form of masculine energy is compassion.” – Dalai Lama
The right side of the body is linked to the masculine energy.
This includes traits like aggression, intelligence and dominance.
If I have pain in my right hip, that is a message for me that there is an imbalance and challenge in those areas.
It is not just physical pain but a very deep message from within that something needs me to take heed.
Spiritually, right hip pain can represent challenges in standing up for myself or making clear choices.
Maybe I am struggling with asserting myself.
It is possible that this pain again indicated to me how controlling I can be and the difficulty of balancing my thoughts with feelings.
I cannot stress enough how life-changing it has been to realize these things.
It has made me more conscious of the way I have conducted myself, how I rationalize my decision-making processes and how to hold space for both reason & emotion.
By listening to these messages and treating the root of them, I can then not only start living (literally) in a healthier physical body but also heal my spiritual & emotional self.
Left Hip Pain Spiritual Meaning
“The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful world must be built.” – Isha Judd
The left side of the body is connected with feminine energy.
It is home to our intuition, emotions and nurturance aspect of us. If I feel pain in my left hip, it means that there are roots of imbalance or suppression in those things.
t manifests as a prolonged ache in the left hip, an insistent twinge reminding me that there’s something here I need to address.
In spiritual terms, this pain is not just a physical ailment but reflects the misalignment of my connection to what it means to be me as a divine feminine.
The female energy is receptive, intuitive and emotional.
That can be really hard because our world is filled with fast-paced, often hyper-masculine systems where these qualities frequently get pushed under the rug or overlooked.
I can end up trying to force my way through life, completely ignoring the more delicate intuitive sides of my nature.
This suppression may create an energetic blockage that will cause a pain cycle in my left hip.
I think of the many times I have battled with pain in my left hip, and there is a pattern.
It was during moments in my life when I had stopped following whatever ‘intuitive lead’ or shut myself down emotionally. As though my body is saying, “Listen with your insides.”
The left hip is associated with the root chakra, or how secure and grounded you feel.
When I’m disconnected from solid feminine energy, my emotions and the strength of hormones homeostasis can be tossed about like a paper caught in a windstorm.
Left hip pain and what to do about it I meet myself more with my practice — not just the physical therapy kind or even medication, but being present to a part of me that resonates in other spaces as well.
A wonderful place to start this work is with meditation.
Thinking space allows me to be able to tune in and start hearing what my body is saying.
A key part of this is welcoming vulnerability.
Being vulnerable means exposing the rawness of my emotions, including those hurtful ones.
Actually means not being afraid of judgment and being myself.
My emotions are not forgotten when I ignore them: they will only come back in the form of physical pain.
The second important step is to investigate my intuitive skills.
Listening to my intuition brings back the connection with my feminine side.
Nurturing is another characteristic form of feminine energy.
It not only requires me to nurture those around me but also to nurture myself.
Self-care is something we need, not just luxury.
All are about paying attention to what nourishes my soul and making them non-negotiable.
I consider that in my path, with healers and spiritual guides walking by your side can also be very helpful.
There are times when only the outside observer can (or maybe should) point out to me what is missing from my vision.
Healers will support me in noticing where I have energetic blockages and tools or practices to restore balance.
Energy healing, acupuncture or holistic modalities are examples of how these components have become interrelated over time.
The Sacral Chakra
“The sacral chakra is the seat of creation and connection.” – Anodea Judith
The hips are influenced by the sacral chakra. If this chakra is blocked or unbalanced, it can cause a person not to have enough self-worth and be emotionally unstable, which also leads to relationship problems.
My hip pain can dramatically get better for a long time when I start to work on sacral chakra imbalances through meditation, energy healing and creative expression.
Past Life Trauma
“The soul is healed by being with children.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Unresolved karma or trauma can be one of the reasons why someone is feeling hip pain.
The hips are large ball and socket joints that move us through life.
Hips can store the energy of the past, whether from this lifetime or others!
So, in my case, I would probably have to undergo past life regression therapy or deeper spiritual healing practices that could ease these energies.
This process is so deeply healing, not just in the releasing of physical pain — but also now my soul had permission to let go of a wound it carried for years.
It is about unresolved grief
“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” – Caroline Myss
One of the most profound journeys we can undertake is to navigate our emotions.
Most of the time, the aches I feel in my body—especially in my hips—are not necessarily physical at all but an echo point from some emotional baggage or grief that remains uncleared.
As the center of the body, my hips are able to help with movement and stability in everything.
They carry the burden of my physical weight as well as the burden of my traumas.
I carried around an aching pain in my hips for years that did not seem to go away through any manner of physical therapy. It was not before I dove deep into the emotional roots of my suffering that things started to ease up for me.
The aching in my hips was physically telling me how much weight I had been carrying.
Grief of this nature is one of the most toxic forms of emotional baggage.
Whether in the deepest grief of mourning loss from yourself or someone close to you, in a broken heart when they break with goodbye and not returning for many things we may wish would return — sometimes it is as if that undigested years and decades worth of grieving lodged their way into my kinaesthetic memory.
This makes energy heavy and constricting, a quality which is now able to turn into pain in certain parts of my body — such as the hips.
They are essential for me both on a bodily level (important due to their function) and emotionally.
For me, moving through that unacknowledged and untouched grief became an important aspect of my healing process.
The very first thing was to allow myself real empathy for the emotions I had been stuffing down for all those years.
It was not an easy thing to do since, as a society, we are encouraged never to stay down too long in grief and sadness but rather pull ourselves together and keep moving.
However, I can also heal by simply letting whatever needs to fall apart in me die when it is time for its season.
This allowed for the healing of those emotions, which eased the suffering.
My body felt seen and finally justified.
The process of unearthing emotional baggage and unresolved grief is a slow one; it takes time, love and the ability to transverse through my emotions.
I’m Bulgarea Candin Stefan and I have started Spiritual Whirlwinds to pass my learnings from my spiritual journey. Spiritualwhirlwinds.com provides a space of spiritual awakening with guided meditations, e-books, mantras, and pendulum readings.
