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Muscular Armoring
in Children
A lot of little children really respond to constant griping
by pulling in their neck more and more. That kind of yelling really does give
you a physical pain in the neck and that may go around for the rest of their
lifetime; pulled, kind of with their muscles, arms, or shoulders pulled up
and hunched up and carrying a lot of tension—armoring themselves against this
constant pounding by verbal abuse. In Radix, for instance, you work on
loosening up those muscles and the feelings that were
defended against and locked up in there for a long time and suddenly
the feelings come forth. Bit-by-bit you can get rid of the feelings that were
never long-discharged. They were being held there
for a long, long time since childhood. I mean, you can carry around stuff
like that for fifty, sixty, seventy years. Of course, it takes energy in
order to keep those muscles bound up like that and that diminishes the amount
of energy you have for doing something creative or useful
or happy.
And with Radix, you do not necessarily have to go
through the conscious remembrance. Just getting rid of the feelings saves a
lot of time and a great deal of money and we are very much interested in what
is effective and accomplishes the job.
The Great Virtues are very valuable and very readily useable for
overcoming the bad habits that we have learned from our culture. All the
things we have seen done around us from the time we were children, which were
not necessarily the right way of doing things, are something you can change
by seeing a better way and then developing a habit which supercedes the old
habit.
But, as I said before, the neuroses are hidden from
us—we are not able to deal with them consciously so we are not able to change
them very well. Once we get them up on the table and see what they are, we
can get rid of childhood embarrassments, which we have been carrying around for
a long time and, in view of our adult understanding, just allows them to fade
away. There are some fantastic “ah ha’s” a person
can have when you suddenly see the connection between something like that.
Q: Is this
something a person can do on themselves?
RK:
Hardly.
Q: Or should
they find a practitioner?
RK:
Right. It is almost like making
love to yourself. I mean you may not find that very
satisfying and useful. It seems like whoever put us together kept putting us
in or driving us into situations where we need other people and that by
interaction with one another we seem to provide the greatest satisfactions in
solving our problems. Infants are totally dependent
upon being held in-arms and being touched and cuddled and things of that
sort. If they do not get that they never grow up to
be proper human beings. As a matter of fact, they
may not even grow. So, it seems like that lasts for
all our lives. We always need other people to be better. As
a matter of fact, we need other people just to verify our own sanity. (04-1983)
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