Joy is the core emotion that perceives, memorizes, automates, represents and manifests expansion and continuity.
Joy, together with the motive force, is the impetus for change and dynamism. It is directive and motivating, and thus nurtures the function of selection of objectives and interest.
It can be felt as a zest for life and being, which is activated when the individual focuses and becomes aware of the continuity of their life and their own identity.
This zest for life is complemented, but should not be replaced, by the joy of winning, derived from the successful acquisition of different types of resources, whose function is to help us move forward. It is also experienced as hope (fluidity) as we realize the possibilities for new future returns.
Joy can also be felt as vitality when one perceives the continuity and fluidity generated after acquiring adequate nutrition or when one is evolving symmetrically (expansion of learning, growth).
Joy is perceived as lightness and liberation when the expulsion of entropic and perverse contents takes place through the evacuation-elimination systems.
Joy likes freedom, movement, carefreeness and playfulness. It is felt as contentment, as the fruit of the unimpeded flow of energy-information. It facilitates the relaxation of tensions.
Joy governs the playful dimension of sexuality, which in reality promotes the biological command of reproduction and the continuity of the species.
Joy stimulates the search for alignment with the original self, that is, it fosters the expansion of oneself into the Spirit.
When the flow is interrupted, blocked or exhausted, joy changes phase, triggering fear.
The essential virtue of joy is motivation.
Joy is the daughter of recreation and the mother of fear. Renewal stimulates growth and expansion increases disorder.
Joy is controlled by love and in turn exerts control over sadness. Stillness controls dynamism and continuity limits fragmentation.
Joy and motive force are a couple. Together they form one of the three diagonals of the emotional core. They balance and complement each other, forming the transformative power whose meta-function is intent.
The synergy between the motive force and joy generates power and drive.
Without the intervention of the motive force, joy is expressed as dynamic inertia, it continues in the same direction and at the same speed.
Joy, together with love and recreation, forms part of the pleasurable core.
The emotional deviation of joy is expressed by maniac patterns. These are programs that activate joy while promote situations that are inherently harmful to growth or expansion.
Modernity has brought with it an increase in psycho-emotional complexity. This is due to the exponential growth in the stimuli and information coming from the external world, product of the universalization of education, music, art, scientific thought, technology, means of transport, tourism, medicine, the media and the flourishing of the consumer society, advertising, fashion, globalization, the Internet, social networks, occupational diversification of the workplace, changes in family patterns, new sexual paradigms, the emergence of new models of idolatry, accessibility of drugs, alcohol and medicines, among other factors. All this means that the emotional core is almost always flooded with information and data coming from the sensorial core that can saturate the individual's inner world, or at least hinder a cognitive integration that manifests itself in the form of a coherent, balanced and fluid experience.
In addition to being numerous, many of the stimuli to which we are exposed are often contradictory and dissociative. This can lead to increased individual and social unbalance and distress at different levels of intensity. Consequently, a good part of humanity lives with the feeling, more or less consciously, of being permanently struggling with the external world. The environment is a source of mixed feelings, some of which are pleasurable (increasingly derived from instant gratifications), and others less so (feelings of powerlessness, helplessness, or uselessness, frustration, anguish, anxiety, etc.). The difficulty in assimilating and balancing the external world with the internal world has increased exponentially in recent decades.
Attempts to escape, disconnect and compensate through the perverse inflation of joy are frequent in today’s world. Many of these compensations are socially accepted and even defended. They come in the form of all kinds of idle and addictive behaviours, which have become pervasive in our world. They are pathologically conveyed from motive force (reaction) to joy (expansion). The individual pursues the goal of achieving an artificial happiness over and over again, one that is so false and empty that they run the risk of falling into an existential demotivation, which, by itself, will be a source of new needs and problems (emptiness and dangers). The human being has a playful aspect that must be developed to promote emotional balance, but, like everything else, if the appropriate measure is surpassed, the good becomes perverse.
I do not intend to make moral judgments here but rather to point out how emotional energy is worn out or strengthened depending on many things, and one of these factors is our lifestyle. This is a work for spiritual aspirants who want to learn to recognize the obstacles that will be encountered in their path. And for that, the aspirant needs energy, wisdom and impeccability. If you want to have a romance with knowledge and life, you need to have enough energy, in fact, lots of energy, so you cannot afford to waste it.
The warrior of consciousness uses the strategy of giving strength to the idea that the true centre of joy must be the place where one feels one's continuity as a living being, a central point of convergence from which one perceives that one lives and exists. This place can be reached, for example, by frequently focusing your attention on the breath, the mechanism that allows the continuity and the flow of life. Breathing is a physical expression of the couple formed by motive force and joy.
On the other hand, unevolved joy seeks happiness as a means to escape pain. This search is an illusion, a chimera, a falsehood. Almost everyone knows this, but few want to acknowledge it.
Our life experience is formed by a sequence of successive bodily and mental states, intensified by emotions and tinged with pleasure or pain. However, these feelings and sensations are not always the most appropriate guidance. Sometimes we experience pain when we are doing well, and sometimes we enjoy something perverse. The search for happiness is fruitless, it keeps the majority of human beings entertained, permanently occupied in acquiring and possessing in order to be admired, attended to and loved. In this way, the collective deception of believing that when we have enough, we will be happy is maintained. It is the myth of salvation, of getting to the point where we no longer have to work and toil. Paradoxically, the search for happiness is the first source of suffering. We can choose to live like this, but then, we will have to accept that this option takes us away from a much nobler destination: the increase of the consciousness of being and the knowledge of oneself. We could also renounce happiness and learn to cultivate well-being. This has no end, because it is a process, it is an attempt to flow while accepting the effort that is required at each and every moment. Perhaps we realize that illusion is synonymous with falsehood. Maybe then we can become brave enough to, at least, sincerely try to get away from ignorance and live exploring our options, not just as people, but as luminous cocoons. Perhaps then, instead of going over and over the same problems again and again, the world would change direction and a new flow would be created. Now, that would truly be a cause for real joy.
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