The motive force is the core emotion that perceives, memorizes, automates, represents and manifests the contractive aspect, pressure, effort, impulse and reaction.
Motive force, together with joy, is the catalyst for change and dynamism. It is manifested as action and reaction, which can take the form of attack or flight, movement or resistance.
The motive force is in charge of implementing the strategies and programs selected by sadness. It does not organize, nor does it design, nor does it decide – it only mobilizes and implements.
The motive force reacts and collaborates in setting limits for the surroundings, for example by saying "no" when this is what is required. In order for this function to be well adjusted, it is necessary for the motive force to be correctly controlled by fear and appropriately activated by sadness.
As soon as a position is conquered by means of effort or work, the motive force stimulates love to help the individual find their place, through the consolidation and integration of the new state and the location that they occupy.
Motive force is experienced as effort, tiredness and heaviness. It is the emotion that has to set in motion the functional energy needed to change from one state to another, or to go from one place to another. When the motive force adequately stimulates its counterpart, joy, then the sense of effort is compensated by a feeling of power, strength and vitality.
The essential virtue of the motive force is persistence.
The energy of the motive force is the daughter of sadness and the mother of love. Losses stimulate reaction and work generates stability.
The motive force is controlled by fear and, in turn, exerts control over recreation. Limits can slow reaction, and contraction makes renewal more difficult.
Motive force and joy 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, which bestows power and direction.
In the absence of joy, motive force can be felt as wear and tear and powerlessness.
The motive force forms part, together with fear and sadness, of the painful core.
Emotional deviation from the motive force are addictive schemes. They create a kind of tension in the form of anxiety. This feeling puts pressure on the individual, pushing themself to carry out energy-consuming actions, which do not generate continuity or stability, but quite the opposite.
Motive force allows for endurance, drive, strength and power on an emotional level. This is the capacity to strive. The strength generated by love is structural, as opposed to that which comes from the motive force, which is functional. Resistance by force is very draining from an energetic point of view. For this reason, we need to develop structural symmetries, since these enable a greater efficiency in functionality and, at the same time, consume much less energy.
When balance is not restored or the desired effect is not achieved through the execution of the chosen strategy, it is because this was poorly designed, or also due to the fact that the resources available for its correct application were insufficient. It can then happen that the motive force is worn out, leading to fatigue and pain. It may also enter a vicious circle, hyperactivating itself over and over again as a desperate reaction, resulting in frustration, helplessness, anxiety, anger or hatred. Tiredness, pain, frustration, feelings of helplessness, anxiety, anger and hatred are negative by-products of the malfunction (above all) of the motive force; in Emoenergetica they are identified as the fourth source of suffering.
The feeling of rejection is very common in human beings. On the one hand it is part of a natural instinctive reaction to what can be dangerous or harmful. Nevertheless, it is sometimes over-magnified or simply appears in an incorrect way, for example, when the motive force reacts on its own or is stimulated instead of correctly controlled by energy derived from fear. This may be due to the inoperativeness of sadness, inefficiency, inexistence or non-use of appropriate strategies, which is to say a lack of learning (automatic processes) or bad decisions (volitional processes). The feeling of offence or being offended is the brother of rejection. This is a product of the stimulation of the motive force by perverse energy derived from recreation, in the form of a feeling of personal importance, which sometimes malignantly propels joy, and then becomes a feeling of superiority, and other times, that perverse energy goes towards sadness, and then becomes a feeling of inferiority and self-pitying. These four feelings (offense, personal importance, superiority and inferiority) are the pillars of the ego, which, in turn, feed on emotional dependencies generated from distorted needs for attention, affection and support. Feeling oneself to be very important, getting angry, feeling inferior or superior hurts or limits your ability to perceive true love towards yourself (self-esteem). As a result, it encourages the emergence of a lack of love and fear of loneliness, which will once again feed back into emotional dependence.
As I was saying, the feeling of rejection frequently turns into hatred. In reality, this is an involuted reaction to injustice. It is a feeling that tries to react against the maligning activities of others by increasing its own. Later on we will deal with the malignizations in a separate chapter, but, in general, it can be said that they are patterns of behaviour in which we participate individually and socially through which we spread evil in ourselves and in the world. They feed on emotional dependencies and the pillars of the ego, and are a failed attempt to control our own destiny and that of others. These actions are common, to varying degrees of intensity, to all of us. They reflect the lamentable state of human consciousness, which still remains fixed at a bestial level by the framework of dominator-dominated. That is why we need greater emotional symmetry, to stop using that vital impulse to hurt each other and, instead, work together to create a better reality.
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