Armor & Doing The Thing
Greetings! August 21st, 2011
Chapter 4 from the book "Doing The Thing: How Finding Your Shine Will Brighten Our World."
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ARMOR
Why don't we know who we really are?
Why aren't we everything we want to be?
What is in the way?
The concept of Armor was developed and studied extensively in the work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich. This term aptly describes what is in the way. A very simple explanation: as babies and children we toughen ourselves in response to emotional and physical stressors around us. This acts as protection to help us cope with growing up. The problem is, as adults we no longer need this protection but the armor is still there. Holding onto and carrying it around becomes habit. As time goes on, it begins to feel normal. When the armor has been with us for a long time, it covers up our core and we forget the true essence of who we are. We think the armor is us.
Have you ever been doing so well that you somehow sabotage yourself to get back to the feelings you are used to? Or, when you are feeling content and you think of something that brings you down. That is armor! It is no longer protection. Armor is keeping what you don't want in, and what you do want out. Now it acts as limitation. It shows up in your body as tension, pain or disease. It shows up in your psyche as mental or emotional suffering, or simple discontent.
You can read the most inspiring words, attend motivational seminars and get fired up! You can learn all the worlds greatest secrets. But if you don't clear out what is in your way, you tend to stay stuck.
Let us unload as much armor as we can for our welfare and for the innocent bystanders in our wake. We can learn to take off the armor and find freedom by having a willingness to look at it, a curiosity to question how it got there and an openness to wonder how life can feel without it.
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This was my main motivation for writing the book. In it you will find solutions and ways I have used to unload my armor as I go. My greatest hope is for you to use this book to find the ways that work for you.
Do The Thing in Peace,
Dana
Chapter 4 from the book "Doing The Thing: How Finding Your Shine Will Brighten Our World."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
ARMOR
Why don't we know who we really are?
Why aren't we everything we want to be?
What is in the way?
The concept of Armor was developed and studied extensively in the work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich. This term aptly describes what is in the way. A very simple explanation: as babies and children we toughen ourselves in response to emotional and physical stressors around us. This acts as protection to help us cope with growing up. The problem is, as adults we no longer need this protection but the armor is still there. Holding onto and carrying it around becomes habit. As time goes on, it begins to feel normal. When the armor has been with us for a long time, it covers up our core and we forget the true essence of who we are. We think the armor is us.
Have you ever been doing so well that you somehow sabotage yourself to get back to the feelings you are used to? Or, when you are feeling content and you think of something that brings you down. That is armor! It is no longer protection. Armor is keeping what you don't want in, and what you do want out. Now it acts as limitation. It shows up in your body as tension, pain or disease. It shows up in your psyche as mental or emotional suffering, or simple discontent.
You can read the most inspiring words, attend motivational seminars and get fired up! You can learn all the worlds greatest secrets. But if you don't clear out what is in your way, you tend to stay stuck.
Let us unload as much armor as we can for our welfare and for the innocent bystanders in our wake. We can learn to take off the armor and find freedom by having a willingness to look at it, a curiosity to question how it got there and an openness to wonder how life can feel without it.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
This was my main motivation for writing the book. In it you will find solutions and ways I have used to unload my armor as I go. My greatest hope is for you to use this book to find the ways that work for you.
Do The Thing in Peace,
Dana
Posted by Dana Quade at 8/21/2011 9:01 PM 
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Tags: armor solutions resistence self-help self-esteem power misery happiness
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: armor solutions resistence self-help self-esteem power misery happiness
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