SI joint

SI joints lie left and right between the sacrum and pelvis. They make a connection between your spine and the bones of the legs (see photo between 1 and 2). SI joints can be seen on the outside: they are the two small dimples on either side of the back at the level of where you wear your belt. Their job is to transfer the weight of your upper body to your hips and legs. Consequently, SI joints are subjected to continuous heavy stress.

What is the story of your SI joint?

Within Heartconnection Netherlands® we investigate the story of the complaint through various questions. What stories may be related to SI symptoms? Below you will find several options. Perhaps they will help you get behind the story of your SI symptoms. Ultimately, you are the director of your own subconscious. That’s where all the answers lie, as you learn during our trainings.

SI and birth

SI joints are very rigid, they only move during birth or in an accident, fall. Therefore, we look at the situations associated with birth, among others:

• Was your birth difficult?
• Were you welcome?
• Was the nest (at home) safe?
• Did mother have to stop the contractions?
• Were there any complications?

Also look at the birth of your child(ren):

• How did you experience the birth?
• Have there been interventions? If so, which one? How did this feel?
• Did you have to hold the contractions?
• Was the birth in a nice safe place?
• And so on.

SI and I don’t belong

SI symptoms can also be related to feeling like you don’t belong, feeling like an odd man out. Because of this feeling of being excluded, you don’t feel (h)acknowledged in who you are. ‘Nobody sees what I’m all about.”

Women who sacrifice themselves

Usually women suffer from this because the woman is the one who makes most of the sacrifices, such as pregnancy, childbirth, taking care of the children, housework, work, and so on. It may be that her husband fails to see all that this woman does after her work day. For example, he criticizes her when he comes home, watches television and drinks beer. He does not see that she takes care of the children, does homework with the children, provides meals, and so on. This may be the situation of a woman with SI symptoms. Note: it is still her own story; she will have to make her own connection to her SI story. Her boss, business partner, parents and/or children may also be the ‘ actors’ who do not see her commitment and even criticize her.

Ask yourself questions like:

• What have you all sacrificed for your children?
• Have you gone beyond your limits to care for your children?
• How did you yourself experience your delivery(s)?
• Were you supported, understood or stood alone in this?

SI conflicts

• Conflict of rejection: you are not chosen for, say, a musical role in 8th grade; you are not hired when you apply for your ideal job or you are not chosen by your great love. Or daddy has another daughter as a favorite daughter.
• Conflict “I’m not good enough”: somewhere you believe you don’t deserve someone to choose you. For example, “No one is interested in me” or “No one chooses me because I am not good enough.
• Conflict of sacrifice: for example, a man accepts a salary of 1,500 euros while he is worth 3,000 euros. He sacrifices himself to get elected or stay in office.
• A conflict of sacrifice can also express itself as, “I will make sure that no one is disappointed in me and I am going to make a huge effort to make sure the other person is convinced that he/she made a good choice to have chosen me.
• Conflict of pleasing: trying tremendously hard to be seen, accepted, appreciated by father, mother, partner, children, boss, and so on.