Anger 3: infant and adult reactions [A27]

In seeking answers to your questions, all you have to do is shift your attention between what a given situation causes in you and your inner reactions; on the outside, inside, outside, inside, in a circle which little by little leads you to come to understand your mechanics and your real needs, your real needs.

That is, the method is that, there is no way out, it is very simple above all. Every time you interrupt this circle because you don't face a situation or because you don't want to be honest with yourself, or because when you bring it inside you transform it to make it different from what it is at the start, in that moment the circle breaks and here the problem is not solved at all. It seems so clear to me…

D – Reactions are repeated because we are always the same.

But it's not true! You are always the same when you crystallize in certain inner things, and then yes you tend to repeat the mistakes you have made in the past but, even when you crystallize, a part of you still transforms; you are never the same from one moment to the next, however that may be. If not, all the discussion that we have brought so far would no longer make sense!

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D- Ri remember a constant from my childhood was getting into fights. What is it, are you born there already? Do you carry it as a legacy from other lives?

We said it just recently, it is part of that character base that the individual has when he is born and which, therefore, is part of the DNA. Certainly, then, the manifestation should change over time depending on the experiences made. In fact, certainly your anger then is not your anger now; I don't think you go around hitting people!

Q – Is the physiological manifestation of anger the same since one is a newborn, is this already the case in a child?

If we want to talk about this anger in relation to the physicality of the individual, the simplest thing is to find those moments in which the expression of anger occurs with the least possible influences. And, certainly, one of the moments in which there are no influences is the moment in which the individual has just been born.

The newborn does not yet have the influence of transient archetypes, he hears Permanent Archetypes but only very far away because he hasn't connected the akasic body yet, he doesn't have a Io still structured, his thinking is limited to: "I'm hungry, I'm cold, I have to pee", so he doesn't yet have a large amount of elements that can condition the manifestation of his aggression. So, if we want to try to understand what the physiological reactions of anger are, the best way is to just observe anger as it is expressed in a newborn.

So, since you've been in contact - more or less - with newborns, tell me, among all, what are the behaviors with which the newborn expresses anger.

D – I cry.
Cry.
D – They are the same ones with which he expresses everything else, probably.
No, it is not said; when he's happy he doesn't seem to cry!
D – It stiffens the body.
He stiffens, clenches his fists, makes a physical effort: he shakes his hands, turns purple, if he had teeth he would grind them, but he doesn't have them, and he screams.

So, these right here are the essential elements of anger manifestation. Over time, then, clearly, all of you would be ashamed to act out these symptoms; the fact remains that much of these manifestations, even now, that you are physically (if not mentally) adults, tend to manifest them. Think for a moment when you are angry, what do you do?

Usually you raise your voice (like the newborn), you stiffen (like the newborn), the facial expression (like the newborn), if you don't get what you want you resort to crying to get it, you tend to increase the movement of your hands or, at the limit, the movement of your whole body moving nervously back and forth, sometimes you run to the bathroom to avoid making a bad impression; and therefore in reality you manifest - even if in a moderate way from your ego - the same physiological reaction that the newborn presents. The blushing of your face, or in other cases, the pallor of your face is also a symptom of your anger; sweating is a symptom of your anger. This, therefore, on a physiological level.

If we want to go a little further down, there is clearly a whole chain of other biochemical elements, or physiochemical elements, as you prefer, which come into play, which are put into action when anger occurs; for example, the increase in the rate of adrenaline, the blood flowing faster; any doctor present among you can give you a fairly complete list of these elements that are part of the physicality of your race.

D – So everything we add later, or take away, is for the outside? That is, out of fear or out of agreement with the outside world?

Everything that you don't manifest or that you manifest in a different way on the outside happens in that way or doesn't happen because there are other elements – which the newborn does not have – which influence your reaction towards the outside.

D – Yes, can these inhibition mechanisms be positive – perhaps as regards not harming others – or can they be negative when perhaps one wishes to safeguard one's own image?

Sure, certainly.

Q – But if there is a physical disability, is the manifestation the same?

They are the same, obviously. More often than not, when there is physical disability and even more so if it is psychic, the reactions are much closer to those of the newborn, for example; also because the other influences are much less strong.

[...] In the child, crying is a way to attract attention and when the ego begins to be a little more formed, it is a way to try to get what it wants; doing what you usually do: stimulating the sense of guilt in the other to get the things you wish to have.

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