(c) Terry Floyd Johnson, 2018 ( Zoua; the OutRyder )
In the annuals of psychological doing, how psychologists look at a person’s body, is to see it as body-mind, this says there’s a split between mind and body.
The first person to say this is wrong, is Wilhelm Reich, who coined the word ” character ” to explain how we live our daily lives; and can also be found in the person’s muscular armor, seen within the person’s bodymind, directed repression by the person’s character; he also found the worm in man/woman.
He found muscular armor, is created by repression and denying yourself, this character armor isn’t vertical, but horizontal, these six circular bands on the bodymind, allow us to see the character each person has formulated for themselves. To work on each one- you go from top ( head ) to the hips.
The discovery of Orgone Energy, shows us Orgone Energy is found in everything, He said he saw this orgone energy, when he was in the Orgone Accumulator Box. ” Later he expanded his idea of orgone energy, to placing it as cosmic orgone energy, for orgone is found in all things, everywhere.
He took his therapy to the next level also; the nuerotic dependence on orgone energy, becomes a fear, of creating off-balance in the bodymind, and many times the client will go back to blocking the orgone energy or cosmic orgone energy, even after having it freed through Reichian therapy.
Reich also formulated the great achievement= bio-electrical four step buildup to letting go of charged life energy:
- Mechanical Tension
- Charge
- Discharge
- Mechanical Relaxation
These are the steps in bioelectrical charge and discharge in the body, leading to sexual fulfillment. Full charge means the person has orgasmic potency, and is the true life process.
Reich found that you could free the mind, but without freeing the whole bodymind, or in another way-healthy being, is lost if the bodymind isn’t freed, at the same time.
I concur with this, as working on my own self-therapy, I found if I didn’t do bodymind work, with the expression of the character within muscular armor repressing on natural flowing life energy, the breakthroughs would not stay.
Alexander Lowen
Studied with Reich, for many years, but then started going off in his own direction, seeing within the bodymind, what troubles the person working with; Reich is the first person to call the human body that. Bodymind means there are no parts in the human body, each of us, human and more, are a single process, we are whole within ourselves. By freeing yourself via manipulation of the bodymind, you get closer and closer to total health or orgastic potency found only within the man, woman free of all nuerosis and muscular armor, and any new ones, coming in, are quickly worked through, maintaining the healthy process of life.
Alexander Lowen started seeing symbolic shapes being expressed in the person’s bodymind. He began to look for them, and to manipulate the bodymind in these areas to release the bioenergy stopped up in symbolic character armor expressing what the character is trying to express. To free the person from the muscular armor creating these bodymind symbolic positioning, which reflects the areas being repressed and creating more armor.
I concur with this, also, Symbolism, within the character structure of each person will show up within the bodymind acting out the character muscular armor, and needs to be worked on- to achieve a breakthrough on the bodymind, mental nueroses symbolized in the bodymind.
He followed this insight up, by formulating exercises, which work on the whole bodymind of the person, and free him/her, from the tyranny of each person’s unique character armor, and get life energy streaming once again.
We will look at other practitioners in bodywork, bodymind, and so on, but for now, I want to list what I see within the bodymind work:
1. Character is seen within the symbolization of problems being repressed within the muscular structure, when kept not moving for a length of time, they become frozen, and are like shields of steel, ergo, muscular armor.
2. Role playing helps you to talk to the repressions keeping your bodymind in the unhealthy stage it’s in.
3. Working with a person’s bodymind, by tension and relaxation walking, can work the whole body, and achieve an amazing breakthrough, to be working with the person’s spirit, usually within fifteen to twenty minutes. I feel-see the person’s spirit, and work with the physical bodymind and the spirit, coming in to defend its lifeplan, for its physical person avatar.
4. Psychic/Telepathic/Spiritual talents, abilities and skills, are natural to you, no one gives them to you, and no one can take them away from you, what they can do, is convince you to block them yourself, and no one is the true way for you, but you.
5. A teacher who shows you how to grow within yourself, without making you walk a path he/she/it wants you to walk, so as to praise them, and not teach you, but wants to create a follower of his/her/its perceptions, not yours. The true spiritual teacher is the one who sees beauty in the wisdom gained by any student, to what is the right path for them, wherever they may be.
Microcosmic Force be with you here and now!
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