Tennis elbow (epicondylitis) is viewed as a healing-phase condition involving tendons and connective tissue after a self-devaluation conflict connected to the arm, hand, performance, or dexterity.
“Tendonitis affecting the elbow relates typically to sports activity such as tennis (having played a bad game)”
In GHK/GNM terminology, this would usually relate to:
- A “not good enough” conflict
- Failure in performance or precision
- Feeling weak, incapable, or ineffective with the arm/hand
- Frustration related to work, sport, craftsmanship, or repetitive effort
- Conflict involving force, resistance, or pushing
The pain and inflammation are interpreted as part of the healing phase after the conflict is resolved or temporarily eased.
Handedness and side interpretation:
- Right-handed person:
- Right elbow → partner-related conflict
- Left elbow → mother/child-related conflict
- Left-handed person → reversed.
A typical GHK-style case example inspired by the explanations given in Helmut Pilhar seminars and Learning GNM teachings could look like this:
A tennis player or worker experiences a sudden drop in confidence after repeated criticism, losing a match, failing physically, or feeling incapable of performing properly. During the stress phase, there may be little or no pain. Once the person relaxes, resolves the emotional tension, or stops the activity, the healing phase begins with inflammation, swelling, tenderness, and sharp pain around the outer elbow — diagnosed conventionally as tennis elbow.
Similarly, a carpenter, physiotherapist, painter, typist, dentist, or mother carrying children repeatedly may develop the same symptoms if there is an associated self-devaluation conflict:
- “My arm is failing me”
- “I cannot manage this workload”
- “I am not capable enough”
- “I cannot hold things together”
Another interesting related interpretation from Learning GNM:
- Wrist tendonitis → dexterity conflict
- Shoulder tendon calcification → relationship self-devaluation
- Elbow tendonitis → sports/performance-related self-devaluation. (learninggnm.com)
Also, localized elbow symptoms can sometimes overlap symbolically with wanting “elbow room” or wanting to push someone away, especially if skin involvement or psoriasis around the elbows is present.
