Body Armour

We are starting into exploring the etheric body.  This recognizes the energy flow within and around me.  However, I am struggling with some physical aspects of my being that are demanding my attention.  I have held a great deal of tension in my right shoulder, and in starting to work with my physical body with more awareness, it has now become awakened.  No amount of massage ever was able to awaken this frozen position of tension.  No forcing of the muscle would work.  Rather what did cause it to awaken was the work of Thomas Hannah's Somatics practitioners.  This simple practice of noticing the connection between the spine and the shoulder girdle has brought to my attention all of the frozen positioning.   You can check out the class here.

It makes me think a bit of Wilhelm Reich and his concept of body armour or character armour.  i do feel that this frozen tension reflects some emotional defenses.  Look for his definition  of this concept here.  Maybe, this reflect a type of trapped emotion (as detailed by Bradley Nelson)  Reich was a contemporary of Freud, and why Freud received so much more attention than the brilliant insights of Reich is beyond me.  His conecpt of body armour draws us into such an important awareness between the body and emotions.  Now we have ample research in this area from people like Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps The Score), or Peter Levine (Healing Trauma: Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body).  There is so much to be understood in mind-body research.  And exploring this in our own selves can lead to incredible insights and healing experiences.

In these days of being in our mind, and almost disconnected to our physical being, and in some cases physical world as we spend more and more time in virtual reality, I wonder if we wouldn't benefit as a whole spending an entire year learning to be more present in our body and the physical world.

Nonetheless, I do see a connection between this stuck energy in my physical body and the energetic nature of the etheric.  I think I just need to go out and lie in the grass for a while.

As I follow the step by step journey of coming back into connection with my body, both physical and energetic, I connect more deeply with something more true.  I develop a greater our awareness of myself and of my true nature.

T