Reich viewed all living systems as pulsating.  In the mammal, there are many individual pulsations encompassed within the overall pulse of charge with energy, and discharge with energy.  There is the heart's pulse, the lung's pulse, the gastrointestinal pulse, the brain's pulse, and so forth.  Armoring narrows the pulsation from aliveness to all aspects of existence to, in the worst case, living at a level of near existence.  The heavily armored individual fears expansion and pleasure gives him anxiety.  Armoring blocks the flow of natural impulses and bends them to new purposes, just as light is bent when it hits glass or water, so armoring bends impulses that come from our core and changes them into another direction.  For example, the natural aggression of a child whose parents cannot tolerate that aggression and punish him for it turns, when he armors, that punishment into anger, hatred, sneakiness, or other manifestations which Reich called his secondary manifestations.  And these are covered over, by what Reich called his superficial layer, that is, the layer that meets society.  Therefore, his secondary layer might be covered over by compliance, politeness, by characterlogical rigidity, or other kinds of cover-ups.  Thus the orgonomist uses the term personality not in terms of id, ego and super ego, but in terms of core impulses, secondary layer, and superficial layer.  In our therapy, we treat patients going in the opposite direction - from how it was formed.  We start with treating character as it's revealed in the superficial layer.  When we reveal that and uncover that, we get to the manifestations of the secondary layer and, if we can manage to unburden the individual of the secondary layer impulses, we finally arrive at the natural core.