Will and Emotion

Will and Emotion

By espacioreal | elespacioreal | 1 Jan 2021


I often meet friends who constantly claim to perform actions "by his Will" but who chooses what is our will? Is this something "per se" that will guide our lives like a holy book or we can consciously modify it to adapt it? to what? To another more "true" will? or can we choose our most suitable will at all times according to objective criteria? In this article I will try to explore these new possibilities.

The human being acts ultimately motivated by his emotions; level
intellectual function basically serves to solve the problems that arise in order to achieve a desirable emotional state (Emotions = define goals and direction of action. Intellect = deals with how to get there). This system is basic and viable for survival throughout the animal kingdom Emotional motivators can be of a high level (expectations of happiness comprehensive and satisfaction of basic desires, satisfaction of the expectations that we have been instilled in the society in which we have been brought up, to avoid unpleasant feeling of bad conscience) or low level (satisfaction and pleasures momentary, flee from unpleasant situations, etc).
Are all of these top motivators adequate? Our objectives are "ours" or the semi-random result of combinations of emotional components created in partly because of the environment to which we have been subjected?

The Will is nothing more than the compendium of the dominant emotional motivators (high level). When we say that we have “willpower” to overcome something, we what we are really saying is that we have an internal struggle between two motivators and we have been able to change the initial preeminence of one for the other. In this sense we are puppets of our passions / emotions / desires, be they more or less"high", or well considered.

Most of the top motivators are related to instincts survival basics; our consciousness is compelled to run in one direction dictated by an "emotional background color". Our high intellectual capacity of Observation allows us (if we are careful enough) to realize this
process, although sometimes we do not like to admit it and this is an important factor in "Self-induced blindness".

We will not deal here with the how or why of these over-developed capacities, but rather only the fact that thanks to them we can access levels of understanding and evolution beyond what we know in the rest of life on this planet. Even so.

The basic motivators remain the same and quite possibly this is one of the reasons for the personal and species incongruity that for the moment characterizes and creates so many problems for us.

Achieving greater knowledge by scaling and building from below starts a process in which a new reality is created and uniting the densest with the most subtle.

Is it possible to consciously choose the motivators that drive us in our decisions? And if so, how can we choose them? and who chooses them? These questions have profound implications that go to the core of who and what we are, our personality and our various levels of self. 

The idea is to filter through the intellect the emotional components that canb becomemain motivators (our Will).

The ability to consciously create and modify certain emotional values ​​that we They drive is equivalent to ceasing to be bound by them; our consciousness expands access to a new level of our psyche by becoming creators of ourselves and hence of our universe.

This widening of consciousness in turn gives us access to a broader perspective, to new knowledge and greater independence. In this case, self-deception is not possible since the new vision
it can only be achieved by observing the objective changes in the
own Psyche.

Undoubtedly, a large part of the configuration of our body-mind complex is defined by the physical configuration received at birth and another important part is due to the experiences that we have had throughout life, however two of our innate qualities: our important quality of association and abstraction intellectual thought coupled with our substantial dose of curiosity may allow some of the higher-level motivators to be modified through the intellect.

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