When as children we’re faced with frightening or abusive people or situations that are beyond our ability to handle, often the only way we can cope is by tightening our bodies, holding our breath and turning our attention away to some dream reality. This is called Body Armouring and as children, we do this automatically and unconsciously in our attempts to protect ourselves from an abusive outer reality.

The greater the level of abuse and dysfunction in our outer world; family, school, peer groups, neighbourhood, the more we need to defend and protect our fragile inner world.

This process of protection – tightening and tensing the same group of target muscles and organs is called Armouring, and occurs below the level of our conscious awareness.

Read More