Editing Openai/6904e1b3-b1d4-8007-b938-da625cb3f2bb (section)

=== Assistant: Here’s a concise paragraph you could use: ===
Here’s a concise paragraph you could use:

From early childhood, the mind learns to associate play and pleasure with lightness, fun, and indulgence, while connection, care, and truth are linked to seriousness, obligation, and restraint. For the puer — the inner child — this creates a profound distortion: the natural energy of curiosity, play, and authentic engagement becomes entangled with avoidance and fear. The child seeks liberation through “fun” as a way to escape the weight of denied needs, while the deepest forms of love, trust, and presence are avoided because they feel serious, heavy, or unsafe. In this way, the puer’s vitality is both expressed and blocked, leading to the energetic patterns that underpin addiction, repression, and the dissonance between innocence and survival.

I can also draft a slightly more poetic version that ties it to EAM and energetic perception, if you want it to match the style of Book 2. Do you want me to do that?