Muscular dystrophy is a condition characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness encompassing more than 100 diseases in it. The most general symptoms of the condition are progressive muscular weakness, poor balance, frequent falls, walking difficulty, waddling gait, calf pain, limited range of movement, respiratory difficulty, drooping eyelids, curvature of the spine and inability to walk.

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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The heart chakra, fourth among the seven chakras, is located in the contracted muscular rigidity of pectoralis minor, which pulls the shoulders in.

Heart Chakra: Half Way through Seven Chakras

What makes us contract our pectoralis minor?

Mental hurry is the culprit! If we are ambitious, we will always be in a mental hurry to achieve our ambitions as soon as possible.

Check it for yourself. Whenever you are in a hurry, don't you pull your shoulders in to move forward immediately?

As we start doing so unconsciously in a habitual manner, we narrow our chest and, in the process, our heart also.

We turn a self centered, narrow-hearted person.

We are no more able to love others unconditionally. We only want to get it from others. Love becomes more a give and take business than a way of life.

Our pulled in shoulders give us a defensive stance against a stranger as well.

We want to win, as if we are fighting a war!

Are we really fighting a war living here on this planet?

In fact we are fighting it against our own self!

Winning (against ourselves!) becomes our reason to live.

Society hails us for it.

We start living in the world of slogans like How to Win Friends and Influence People and You Can Win more than the world of .

We live on an isolated island in the midst of the sea, alone. We don't allow the sea to wet our land though we need the rains from its clouds as much as our life.

We go lonely among a huge crowd of our fellow humans on earth.

We want to win.

We want to be successful.

We want to be rich.

We want to be famous.

The rich and the famous - isn't this the core that the whole slogan of winning is woven around?

No one is our real friend here, so we search for a few to call them so creating groups of interest as well as groups of identity.

The moment our self-centered motifs clash with those of even the closest friends, we don't hesitate stabbing them in their back too.

We find ourselves very insecure in the kind of society we have designed for ourselves.

So we want to keep our muscular armor in our pectoralis minor intact.

Unconsciously!

Our pulled in shoulders keep our muscular armor ever ready in a state of unconscious anxiety in our mind, just for no reason at all.

We do not live our life, we rather live a hell!

Our shining bright eyes lose their luster and go scared as well as bitter in their appearance.

The fourth chakra has established itself!

Energy gets trapped at the heart chakra in the way of seven chakras starting from root to the crown and the flow of energy through the body is immediately stopped turning us into a lifeless soul more dead than alive!

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