Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health by Janov Arthur

Author:Janov, Arthur [Janov, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: New Page Books
Published: 2006-10-14T22:00:00+00:00

If the parasympathetic system is the prototype imprinted at birth, it may result in the need for removal and dissociation of the self from the pain. That is, there was no other behavioral options at the origin other than complete repression. This happens if disengagement is the principal and only possible defense at birth, against strangling on the umbilical cord, for example. If this experience is compounded by a lack of closeness to the mother right after birth, we can become detached from ourselves, and become emotionally aloof, even before we see the light of day. The impulse to extract ourselves from experience becomes a prototype. We become abstracted, and first distant from ourselves, then from others.

Conversely, if we are to become more social, we first need to come closer to ourselves. This helps us get closer to others. The parasympath is more likely to act shy and timid and hang back. He will be more reflective and less impulsive than the sympath, whose mode is “all-out.” As an adult, when someone gets too close, the parasympath will shy away because it can bring up the pain of never having had the closeness he needed. His shyness is protection against primal pain, a pain he cannot even recall but is registered in every part of him: his posture, facial expression, gait, cadence of speech (slow and methodical). All of those are aspects of memory. He has lost access to these memories, but the prototype remains as a memory of a past long gone. Who we are is memory incarnate.

The sympath focuses externally (one key function of the left prefrontal brain, while the parasympath looks inside, is more introspective and philosophical. The sympath is action oriented, as he has been since birth, because, in her mind, action equals survival. By contrast, the parasympath cannot react spontaneously, and constantly ruminates about her life. She is in the down-regulation mode biologically. Her vital signs are uniformly low. She is the depressive, feeling hopeless and helpless. But it is difficult sometimes for her to cry, as repression prevents it. She is slow to arousal, in sex and in general emotions.

The sympath is rarely, if ever, depressed. His physiology doesn’t lean that way. He is ambitious and constantly looking ahead, as this was stamped in at birth. Everything about him is in a rush—he feels the need to hurry, is impatient, and wants to get it over and done with. He has to keep going all of the time—plans, projects, and trips. The parasympath is rarely as manic as the sympath. She has been slowed down at the beginning of life, it is stamped in, and she continues on that way. She is wary and nonexpansive, less curious and adventurous; she does not seek out the new and is comfortable in her old routine.

The sympath is tenacious. He forces issues that he shouldn’t, because tenacity meant survival at birth. The unconscious formula for him from birth is that a lack of struggle, lack of push, means death.

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