Dissolving the Body Armor

[Anders]

Wilhelm Reich discovered that tensions are stored in the body which he called the body armor.

"Wilhelm Reich developed the concept of armoring in reference to character and body armor. Initially trained as a psychoanalyst with Freud, Reich veered from standard theory and practice and over time conceptualized a very different paradigm. He practiced with an engaged style in the here and now, interacting with how patients presented in the office and toward him.

Reich created the term character armor. He meant that we all have coping patterns – stylistic character defenses that we develop throughout our life, usually starting before we can think or talk. We scope out our life situation with parents, caregivers, and early schooling, and figure out the best way to adapt. Depending on how our life unfolds, our defensive structure either becomes more adaptive or becomes problematic. Reich called our habitual demeanor, stance and attitude character armor. Our dominant, submissive, pleasing, withdrawn, petulant, stubborn styles, for example, become a uniform we wear in relationships – our suit of armor." - https://orgonomictherapy.com/2013/07/29/...-armoring/

As a way of learn/teach about the body armor and how to remove it my intention with this thread is to post about it with focus on first-hand information from Wilhelm Reich himself.

[Anders]

Here is a quote from the book Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy by Wilhelm Reich:

"There is considerable variation in the outward expression of inner emotional states. No two people have precisely the same speech, respiratory block, or gait. Nonetheless, there are a number of universal, clearly distinguishable modes of expression. In depth psychology we draw a fundamental distinction between the neurotic character and the genital character on the basis of muscular and character armoring. We say that a character is neurotic when his organism is governed by an armor so rigid that he cannot voluntarily change or eliminate it. We speak of a genital character when the emotional reactions are not governed by rigid automatism, when the person is capable of reacting in a biological way to a particular situation. These two basic character types can also be quite sharply distinguished from one another in the area of biological functioning.

The armoring, its nature, the degree of its rigidity, and the inhibition of the body's emotional language can be easily assessed once the analyst has mastered the language of biological expression. The total expression of the armored organism is one of restraint. The meaning of this expression is quite literal: the body is expressing that it is holding back. Pulled-back shoulders, thrust-out chest, rigid chin, superficial, suppressed breathing, hollowed-out loins, retracted, immobile pelvis, "expressionless" or rigidly stretched-out legs are the essential attitudes and mechanisms of total restraint." - Wilhelm Reich

Reich defines orgonomy as: "The natural science of the cosmic orgone energy." Ra says in the Law of One that everything is thought which in my opinion is the same as interconnected information. And energy can be described as change of information. This includes all forms of energy such as electromagnetic radiation, kinetic energy and vacuum energy. And then the concept of orgone energy is demystified a bit since like all forms of energy even orgone is merely change of information and nothing more than that. As a simple analogy a digital image is static (changeless) information and a video being played is information that changes over time.

[Anders]

In this quote Reich writes about how we generally are unaware of the body armor.

"There can be no doubt that the basic attitude of the armored body is not consciously created but is autonomous. A person is not aware of his armor as such. If the attempt is made to describe it to him in words, he usually does not understand what one is talking about. He does not sense the armor itself but merely the distortion of his inner perceptions of life. He describes himself as being apathetic, rigid, confined, empty, or he complains about palpitations, constipation, insomnia, nervous restlessness, nausea, etc. If the armor has existed for a long time and has also had an effect on the tissues of the organs, the patient comes to us because of peptic ulcers, rheumatism, arthritis, cancer, or angina pectoris." - Wilhelm Reich

Causality is a tricky subject and I actually believe that causality is nondual, meaning that the whole of reality is the cause of everything that happens. Nevertheless the body armor is from a relative perspective the cause of lots of psychological and physical diseases.

[Anders]

Something I came to think of now is that the body armor keeps reinforcing itself! So to really dissolve the body armor, that which builds it up needs to be removed.

And also, the body armor seems similar to what Eckhart Tolle calls the pain body. And my idea about the pain body is that the nervous system numbs out pain over time which causes harm, deterioration and increased stiffness and rigidity in the body. Therefore it's the continuous suppression of pain which builds the pain body resulting in more and more body armor.

[Anders]

With all the mainstream and alternative knowledge about health plus the thousands of years of healing methods, why hasn't anybody as far as I know dissolved the body armor? My answer is that the body armor goes so incredibly deep and is an inherent part of third density and I even suspect that to really dissolve the body armor requires what Ra calls a full green-ray activation.

And my experience with inner body awareness practice is that it's extremely difficult and frustrating to achieve significant relaxation of the tensions in the body and mind. That doesn't mean that it will necessarily remain a difficult task. As evolution continues the sub-density vibrations increase and so it will actually become easier and easier to achieve results in terms of healing the body armor.

[Anders]

The body armor I realized is caused by a false belief in separation. When we believe we are separate entities having to struggle against reality that's a false belief since all is one wholeness. The law is One.

One esoteric cure for that is I believe the transparent astral crystal I mentioned in another thread. Instead of separating reality into different colors the transparent astral crystal is the "screen" on which seemingly separate things happen. I will stay with that for a while and see what happens with my body armor.