Swelling

Swelling is read through the body's fluids, which in this framework stand for the emotions: a swelling is feeling held in and not let out. The pattern is retaining or repressing one's inner feelings - among them anger - while clinging to someone or something, past or present, as to a lifebuoy, and feeling blocked, even "frozen," in one's thinking. Often one weighs others' feelings so heavily that one's own are set aside, and one is afraid to express what one truly feels. The short explanation's "suppressed anger" is that held-back emotion pooling instead of flowing. Relief is described as letting the feelings move and be expressed, and loosening one's grip on what one is afraid to release.

Example from the findings: the swelling is read as emotion retained rather than released, the body holding what one will not let out.