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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Before similarities between kundalini and orgone, let's see how our muscular system obstructs the flow of both through our body.

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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