In the wild, a mother bird will protect her young by pretending to be hurt when a predator gets too close to her nest.  When the predator is interested in her, she moves away a little at a time, leading the danger far away from her babies.

Curl the back of your wrist into your chest.  Cock your head to the side. To me this looks like a hurt bird.  “I’m already hurt. You wouldn’t hurt me, again, would you?”  (Batting lashes…)

The reasoning being, that if I’m already hurt, your job is done for you and you can move along… sort of like playing dead… or possum for those passive-aggressive types.

I see this as playing the victim, a manipulation posture against those using the Hissing Cat or Bulldog postures from previous posts.

I have seen this in shoulder, arm, and rotator cuff issues. There are a couple of deviations that I have found in a couple of client’s energy patterns.

One with the hands are up like a defensive posture (like “Back up, I don’t want to fight with you.”) and are creating a force field that is trying to buffer the whole aura from attack, but is draining the arm in question.  Therefore, there is no energy to keep the arm healthy and it gets injured from being weak.

I have also seen people who are over-achievers and “put their shoulder into it”. Going the extra mile to make things work, leaning into a project with too much intensity or anticipation, therefore wearing out the shoulder with too much force, shorting out the energy of the arm.  This one goes back having to the Bulldog posture.

Are you going to keep hiding or are you going to step up and fight the bully?