As one’s emotional energy is frozen and shame-bound, the dominant (analytic) part of the brain is seriously biased and impaired. The will loses its power to envision alternatives; the will loses its eyes, as it were. Without eyes the will is blind. It no longer has resource data from which to make choices. Without resource data, the will has no content outside of itself. With only itself as content, the will can only will itself. This affects a pathological relationship to one’s own will. Such a relationship is mood altering.
