My client [name withheld] wants to know what Creator would advise about his hip arthritis issue. The left side is worse, but he feels it across both, and it is not getting better, and wonders if continued exercise for a triathlon is good for it or not. His arthritis in the back gets better with more vigorous activity, but hips not so much.

His desire to overcome this by a sheer force of will and not surrendering to infirmity is admirable but somewhat ill-advised. There is a happy medium here. Pain has a purpose, particularly as a warning that tissues are under stress and this signals the person to take it easy and not add more physical duress to the situation. Usually, painful feelings call for a time of rest to stand down and allow some healing time to work. This is especially important when there is a physical injury, but can also be the case when there is impairment due to abnormal changes, such as in the joints with loss of adequate cartilage to cushion the joints. Physical exercise will not reverse this, and so that is the distinction here. When there are muscular issues and loss of flexibility in the ligaments, exercise can be a tonic to regain resilience and encourage repair, up to a point, if the exercise is not too demanding. When there are situations with the loss of tissue mass and there is structural weakness present, the onset of pain is a warning that too great a stress is being applied than can be tolerated or withstood, and it would be better in this case to heed the warning and exercise moderately where the hips are concerned. In the meantime, what is needed to truly heal this is continued karmic repair, as the origin of this condition is karmic and stems from multiple lifetimes of prior difficulty. That is why it has not yielded as yet to healing work to reach a level that becomes asymptomatic. That is possible, but will take some additional work because of its deep nature, and as it involves many choices made by the man himself, we cannot simply remove it. So this falls in that category where much additional time and repeated healing requests are necessary to do the job. So there is no reason to give up on this, but to make excessive demands with physical activity would be ill-advised under these circumstances.