Wilhelm Reich, in describing the condition of armoring, sheds great light on how sickness operates. The armored person, he said, shuts himself off from nature, specifically by forming barriers against the impulses of life within his body. The armored body stiffens up and is inaccessible to feeling, and the organ sensations are diminished or subside. Then the person becomes lukewarm; he hates, but he doesn’t even know it. He is ambivalent.
