Wilhelm Reich saw the normal muscular system as victim to a kind of muscular dystrophy caused by its rigidity all over the body, in turn causing the skeletal muscle weakness though in its diluted form, which could be taken toward much greater flexibility and strength by dissolving the muscular armor that the human body had developed owing to the stress of hard pressing repressed emotions in the mind.

He shifted his psychoanalytical system from addressing the mind to addressing the muscular armor of the body. He would press hard on his patients’ muscular armor with his thumb or his palm pressing on their jaws, necks, chests, backs, or thighs dissolving their muscular, and hence their character rigidity.

This dissolution of the muscular armor recalled the unconscious repressed memories of the childhood taking the patient toward overall health more efficiently than classical Freudian psychoanalysis had ever done. As the armor dissolved, waves of pleasure moved through the patients’ bodies in a series of spontaneous, involuntary movements relaxing the total muscular system. Reich called the flow of energy that he said he observed in his patients’ bodies, “bio-electricity”.

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Wilhelm Reich was a pioneer psychiatrist who worked with Dr. Sigmund Freud, first as a student and later as a colleague. In the course of time, the two started having differences of opinion as far as the question of psychic pathology was concerned.

Freud worked along the concept of “libido”, it supposedly being the life energy – the energy that is the source of all human urge including the sex part of it along.

Reich took the concept a step further linking it with the physical expression as much as it was supposed to have its expression as a pure psychic one and thus made a bridge between the body musculature and emotions in the mind.

He named it CHARACTER ANALYSIS describing the mass pathology of the animal man consisting of a chronic rigidity of human musculature responsible for obstructing the movement of energy resulting in emotions getting stuck and thus creating stress in the mind. He also named it the psychic or emotional underpinning of mankind’s universal sickness.

Later he took the concept much further and as deep as seeing it as sub-stratum energy of the cosmos bringing it to existence as such, which we shall discuss when we compare it with its Indian counterpart in our next posts to come.

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Yoga and tantra both have their different specialized ways to achieve the said goal; Yoga advocating austerities, yoga asanas, pranayama techniques, visualizing colors and forms, and chanting mantras whereas tantra advocates doing the very basic acts of daily life with the energy of passion and awareness into them including tantric sex among others.

Now, what energy is this?

It seems to be the sub-stratum energy of the universe that brings it into existence. It’s also the energy that gives us life. If we are more alive we have more of this energy in our body as well as in our total existence. It’s the energy that makes us interested in doing what we do. It’s the energy that makes us interact with others with either more or else less passion in our interactions with them.

It just is! And it’s not static. It enters the body at one point and leaves it only at another to re-enter the same point again and thus close the loop. Resembles the flow of electricity through a closed circuit!

We always find there are some persons who are more energetic than others, not in their muscles but in their passion for life! Why is it that others are not as much as they are so?

May be they don’t hinder the path of energy passing through their bodies.

We should check kundalini awakening through kundalini yoga as well as chakra balancing through dissolving chakras in their greater depths, I feel.

We should also check for the similarities between kundalini energy and orgone energy in the body.

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The former in Sanskrit literally means “coiled”. It has not only been conceived but also sensed as a libidinal force – that is the source of all life energy – sitting coiled at the base of the spine like a sleeping serpent in hibernation, forced to do so by the introduction of chakras in the body, which do not allow it to remain dynamically active.

As the Kundalini energy is awakened, it rises through a subtle channel at the spine up to the head, enlightening both – the body as well as the mind. Tantric yoga does it by dissolving chakras through physical, respiratory and mental maneuvers; whereas tantra does it by dissolving chakras through special sex games called tantric sex.

In the western world, Wilhelm Reich in 1930s conceived of a new form of energy, which he claimed to be the source of the Freudian concept of libido. He also went up to the extent of claiming orgone energy as a universal bioenergetic force responsible for being the creative substratum of the basic cosmic existence and constructed accumulators to store the same.

The said energy was conceived to be a variant of sexuality making it the basic expression of life. The name was intentionally made to rhyme with orgasm, conceived to be the basic parameter for measuring the level of psychological health.

We can very well see some striking similarities between the two descriptions that the two bodies of knowledge are presenting while trying to deal with the source as well as the expression of energy that governs all life on earth!

We shall go into the details of both in our next posts to come.

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…Let me sum up everything written here in this blog till date in a very precise manner as the gist of the whole thing.

As I said in the very beginning of starting writing this blog:

“The higher level of energy we live at, the more sensitive and the more enjoyable does our life go!”

“I am embarking on a new journey of framing rules of energy as they either dominantly control our eyes and life in a dull way or get controlled by them…”

The problem with us, the humans, is that we lack energy of passion that stops our body and mind from operating our magic button as well.

When we try to set our body right, the energy-less mind stops the way. When we try to set our mind right, the energy-less body stops the way.

We badly need summoning up energy in our life – both, in the body and in the mind, simultaneously.

How can we break through into the channel of energy for once and for all?

We need doing something radical…

…Are you ready?

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1. The first is the problem of premature ejaculation in males. If so, the insertion should be suspended temporarily making body-to-body contact and foreplay the final target of the game keeping the excitation at a constant level. As the performance fear goes, also goes along the anxiety associated with it which is the first step toward treating not only the premature ejaculation but also the stress in life along with the dullness in the eyes. This relaxed attitude tends to cure both in the due course of time.

2. The female partner sometimes feels pain upon insertion. At times it tends to turn into a continuously repeating pattern adding woes not only to the sex life but also to the life in general, it being indicative of turning oneself closed to any outside stimulus. Again avoiding insertion while keeping the excitation continuously up at a constant level is the key to developing an active state of relaxation that tends to cure the problem sooner than later.

3. Impotence of the male partner is a depressing problem that has its very close counterpart in the normal life as detachment from action. Again simply enjoying the body-warmth of your partner without expecting to perform at all is always taken care by nature and the problem reverses faster than expected.

4. Vaginismus in females is the next stop after painful insertion, which categorizes itself very close to impotence in men. Again, avoiding the insertion and maintaining the constancy of excitation through creative maneuvering does the needful to cure the problem.

Sex problems and signs of stress turning bright eyes dull must always be seen as the two sides of the same coin and the treatment procedure should always take care to make a bridge between the two!

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Sexual excitation imparts this energy to the mind along with the sparkle of a laser-like focus to the bright eyes in order to beat stress at its very root where it takes its birth. Only the mind should be able to hold it in. The more the excitation, the more the energy summoned up in the mind turning it highly aware of everything around! But alas, the mind also cannot keep it held up after a certain habitual threshold and falls into the trap of losing its awareness by getting discharged at a ridiculously low level.

Emotions prepare this trap for the mind keeping the energy of passion inhibited turning our mind energy-less through blurring the focus of its attention at one single point of action.

The mind must know how to retain passion as it gets filled with tremendous amounts of energy when it tends to focus on the joy of sexual excitation. For this purpose we need training its awareness in its sensual perception taking them all, one at a time.

1. Do you feel the touch of your breath when you take it in? … And also when you take it out? Sit quiet and feel the both passing through your nostrils to your lungs and back; and before long your mind will start to calm down increasing its awareness manifolds!

2. Give a soft touch to one of your own body parts. Where do you feel the touch – in the body part only or in your hands as well? Feel both the touches simultaneously and you will have increased your awareness tremendously!

3. This time give a soft touch to an inanimate object. Your hand is sensing the touch of the object. Now can you imagine transforming into the object yourself, feeling the touch of your hand as well? A great awareness booster!

4. Do you feel the touch of others’ hands while shaking hands with them? And while doing so, can you also feel the touch of your own hand from the perspective of others? Do it and increase your awareness!

5. Undress yourself and sit in a chair. Feel the touch between the body and the chair. Are both the buttocks exerting equal pressure on the seat? You will discover it not to be so. Equalize the two, re-equalizing f overdone to either of the sides. Before long you will find yourself sliding in a tranquil state of mind, which is going to be highly aware of everything around.

The technique belongs to Tibet from where spiritual practitioners brought it to the world outside from inside that idyllic Shangri-La!

6. Mentally scan your body to find if it is having any sensation of an itch in any part of it. Surprisingly you will always find it in some part or the other. As you do, observe it there without scratching it at all. In a few moments it will disappear over there only to raise its head in another part of the body. Keep observing without doing anything and increase your awareness as much as you want!

7. The process of seeing is that of sensing the contrast between the object to be seen and the background around. The background can either be lighter or else darker than the object. I n both the cases can you see the background around the object appearing lighter (or darker, as the case may be) than the rest of the background. The object will start appearing darker (or lighter, as the case may be) than it did before.

This increases the visual awareness in a real effective way!

8. Hear the sounds falling into your ears, all together, as many as you can and you will wonder as to how large their number is, which you never paid attention to.

You will greatly increase your auditory awareness by this maneuver.

9. Have you ever tried to smell a stone? Yes, almost everything smells although it may do so much less in some things than the rest. Try smelling everything that you easily can and you will have developed a proverbial educated nose raising the level of your awareness beyond bounds!

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Sexual excitation imparts energy to the body along with shine to the bright eyes as they are. Only the body should be able to hold it as such. The more the excitation, the more the energy summoned up into the body! But alas, the body isn’t able to hold it after a certain threshold and hence it gets discharged at a ridiculously low level. The rigid muscular armor that we have in our bodies does this to us.

Why do we keep our muscles contracted in our bodies? Once they are contracted beforehand, they simply cannot be contracted to their full extent as and when a real need arises to do so; nor can they be relaxed completely that is so very much essential in order to hold the energy that sex summons into the bodies.

The muscles must know how to remain relaxed as the body gets filled with tremendous amounts of energy when it tends to relax with the joy of sexual excitation. For this purpose we need training them from toe to head, taking them all one at a time.

1. We have conjugate pairs of muscles in our body. As one of them in a particular pair contracts, the conjugate gets stretched. We can play very interesting games with each one of those pairs in the body. Let’s take them pair by pair. Contract one so that its conjugate gets stretched. Take it to the extent of starting paining in both. Now reverse the contraction-stretching to be stretching-contraction in the same pair, again to the extent of starting paining in both. Now leave both of them relaxed. They will have broken their rigidity to an appreciable extent by now, which by continuous repetition will reduce the rigidity a lot.

2. Sit quiet and use your mind’s eye to sense the subjective feeling that each of your body muscle is offering to your awareness. The more you sense the muscle deep, the more it sheds its rigidity off.

3. The state of flow – so famously known among dancers and athletes to be relaxing all the muscles in the body in one single go – can easily be achieved by starting doing any aerobic exercise and reaching the first threshold of fatigue. As the threshold sets in, you need ignoring the same and continue with your action. Soon the second threshold of extreme fatigue will set in when you will start feeling that you cannot move a single step anymore. Break this threshold as well and continue with what you are doing. Now comes the state of flow in which all the fatigue disappears and you start feeling so energetic that you will vouch you can go on doing what you are till eternity. Again keep doing what you are. After a long gap of time there will be a state of your being when your body automatically falls down on the ground in absolute relaxation. As it happens so, just keep lying and enjoying the state of total relaxation to your body and your mind.

4. Extreme adventure sports like bungee jumping, sky diving and mountaineering do the same to your body, i.e., bring it to a state of flow and hence to the total relaxation of muscular armor in the body.

5. A vividly clear imagination can do exactly the same what physical action does to the body. But only if the imagination is as clear as in the mind as is the real physical action to the actual eyes! Imagine that you are standing on the top of The Empire State Building. Look below and jump down! Be with yourself as you are falling down fast to hit the ground hard. Your breathing will tend to stop and your body will be go totally relaxed.

6. Can you imagine with all your existence into the imagination that your bed has no ground under it as you are lying down on it? Where will the bed go?

Wherever it does but you will certainly reach a new dimension of relaxation in your body!

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1. Check your mental hurry in whatever you do, be it eating, breathing, walking, writing, reading, talking, or any other action of yours. Why will you not do it in sex when you are doing it in all walks of your life? You will not want to spoil them. Is it? Hurry should not be confused with the swiftness in action. Hurry is always there in the mind that turns your action clumsy rather than swift. Take eating the very first. Can you play the game of not being in a hurry to gulp down the morsel in your mouth and enjoy it there leisurely as much as you can? You will be elated to have discovered a new avenue of enjoyment in your life!

Breathing can be the next in order. Watch your breathing! Every emotion has its own peculiar breathing pattern, and the more you observe your breathing the more you understand your emotions causing stress in your mind and clumsiness in your actions. Sooner than later breathing as such will become a source of enjoyment for you – very much conducive to the cool sex that you are going to practice – and the hurry will have taken the back seat in your car of your life!

2. The 180 degree opposite to hurry is lethargy in life as well as in the sex performance. It reflects in every walk of life like eating, breathing, walking, writing, reading, talking, or any other action of yours. Again do not confuse lethargy with the leisurely performance of an action. Doing what you are really interested in seems to be the break-through into this ugly pattern of stress, and what better break-through can there be than sex that almost everyone is so much interested in? The very interest turns into the intent letting you be interested in whatever you are doing whether you like it or not!

3. Can you carry a glass of water filled to its brim swiftly without spilling a single drop out of it? You cannot until you make yourself interested in doing the same without either being lethargic or in hurry, which requires focusing your total intent on to the action without any stress including handling a live body in the game that you are going to play in order to spontaneously build up the graph.

4. Picking up the utensils in a kitchen taking care not to make a single sound as well as keeping them back again without making any sound balances your body and your actions as a preparation to the games of sex that you are going to play without any stressful imbalance in both, which in turn will skyrocket the same exponentially on its own.

5. Here is a technical innovation that you can use in order to inculcate control in your body and your actions for the sake of the games you are supposed to play without any stress and with your full control over them. A thick copper wire is fixed between two ends. A ring just a size bigger than the thickness of the wire circling it is supposed to pass through it without touching it on its way through its length. The ring is connected to one point of a remote switch operating a cordless remote bell whereas the copper wire fixed between two ends is connected to the other point of the switch. Switch the power on and pass the ring over he wire through its length. In case the two – the ring and the wire touch each other, the bell will start ringing as you are taking the ring over the wire. Do not let the bell ring and you will have started inculcating control in your personality, which will get its reinforcement automatically once the games take over the preparatory exercises done for rolling the ball.

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1. Are you familiar with each and every line and curve on your partner’s face? Close your eyes and ask it to yourself. Register the image that comes in front of your mind’s eye in the memory of your mind. Now open the eyes and look at the face intently. Check for the differences between the two. You will be surprised to note how little you knew about the details indicating how little you knew your partner. Repeat the procedure until the two pictures coincide. You will discover the beauty you had never done before.

2. What is your partner feeling like? Can you feel it? Yes, there IS a way. It’s an interesting game. Imitate the shape of her/his lips on to yours and her/his visual expressions in her/his eyes into yours. You will immediately come to guess existentially what kind of feelings the other is going through. You will start feeling her/him from within her/himself. This deep penetration of awareness will also turn you more sensitive and vulnerable as well as turn your bright eyes into sparkling bright torches of light!

3. Are you feeling a chemical pull toward your partner? Or is it only a bio-sexual tension that wants to get a release with whosoever is there in front of you? Check it for yourself by closing your eyes and replacing your partner with someone else in your mind’s eye. If the pull increases, stop playing with her/him and go for the other instead.

4. Are you interested in your partner’s body only or her/his total personality as such? How can you check? You can easily do that by denying to yourself her/his touch during the session and checking it for yourself if you still enjoy being with her/him as much as you would, had you not denied the touch to yourself. If you find there is a difference, don’t stress yourself and stop your sex games here to search for some other partner instead.

Once you steer clear through these playful challenges of deep penetration into awareness that you yourself posed in front of your bright eyes gone dull and your mind afflicted with stress, you will have qualified for moving on to the second set of preparatory steps before you jump into playing the sex games into their depth head on!

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