Motivation from Emotion, Interaction through Cooperation

Motivation from Emotion, Interaction through Cooperation

We have to change the world every day. We need to consume life to keep our life going, we need to nurture life to keep the world alive. If we only use effort to change the world we get little done for the amount of discomfort that we build. By leading with emotion and considering how our actions change a shared world, we add the strength of others to the changes we make. With more people and nature itself aligned to the changes we make to the world, we have to make fewer changes, the ones we make take less effort and we build less discomfort for us and our connections. But there is something between emotion and effort, an inner strength that drives and directs the changes we make, we call this resolve.

Our soul is changed by our physical connections, building understanding. Understanding our connections drives our motivations, building our resolve to change the world, building community. The soul uses our resolve to give our body drive, directing our efforts with cooperation, interacting in a way that affects everyone in a positive way.

Using the natural cycle of energy, our connections empower our interactions, through resolve.

Emotion into Effort Through Community (How positive energy combines through soul)

Emotion is electromagnetic energy that we share, it is the same energy as light and just like light it is just as nurturing and just as destructive. When we interact with emotion we give power to our interactions, capable of greater positive and negative impact, our resolve giving drive and direction. We use our bodies every day, if we push our bodies too hard it becomes harder to change the world in the ways we need to, we become irritable and a burden on those that care about us. If we take care of ourselves by eating right, getting sleep, exercising we are able to do more with less effort. By building the motivation to protect the connection we have to our own bodies we build resolve, we work with our bodies to change the world in a way that protects our health while still getting things done.

Our social energy (emotion) is driven by our understanding of our connections, when we interact with emotion we are making changes to the world that are based on that understanding. Our motivations, our reasons to make change to the world, pull in significant emotions, building resolve to change the world. Many of us have simple pleasures in life, it may be a stocked fridge, clean sheets, organized cabinets, morning coffee, whatever it is we change the world around us to protect that emotion. When something makes us upset, we also change the world to avoid that negative emotion. Both negative and positive emotions let us know what changes we need to make to the world and when those emotions come from others it lets us know if our community is going to support the changes we make or if they will simply be undone.

Once our resolve collects enough emotional energy it pushes cooperation with our connections to make changes in a direction that align with shared motivations, creating a world that helps us all. Changes that help everyone reduce the amount of interactions we all make, reducing effort and discomfort. When we gain the resolve to eat healthy and exercise we work with both our appetites and our muscles, changing our bodies to work better. When our bodies work better we don’t need to go to the doctors as much, we don’t need to change our homes to accommodate our poor health, when we weigh less, it takes less effort for our bodies to move.

Interact with Community (How positive strengthens attribute)

It has been shown that images of nature calm us, lower blood pressure and bring peace to our thoughts. Our neighborhood was in the country, a dozen houses scattered through a pine forest five miles outside of town. As a teen I wanted to have clothes that fit, new books to read, money to do things outside of family activities. My first job was at a fast food restaurant in town, I would bike the five miles there and back to work my shifts. 

The best part of my day was the bike ride. The grasses would turn into a blur along the shoulder, the soundtrack of gravel under my tires playing to their passing. Trees close to the road would grow and shrink to note my progress. Scents of nature were landmarks leading the way. Past the pasture, the swamp full of life, the clump of scented pines, the field that somehow gave a scent to sunshine. 

The symbiotic trance was only broken by the trash and debris thrown out by people that decided their lifestyle was the rest of the world's burden to bear. I wasn’t the only one that wanted the peaceful views that healed the mind, when our neighborhood adopted the highway (volunteered to clean it up) I was one of the first to join. Cleaning up the side of the road may be pointless, people saw it like a trash can so it would always be trashed, but that wasn’t completely true because the amount of trash alongside the road became less every year. We showed we cared, that our community was willing to spend the effort to create a meditative drive for everyone and many people respected that. It might have just been that the people that did the work tried harder to keep it clean, but I think that even the people that didn’t live on the road stopped seeing it as a trash can and simply interacted with the world with a little emotion, bringing benefit to all of us and making our job a little easier. By interacting with emotion we came together as a community, creating a better place for everyone that lived there or passed through.

When we interact with the world we are changing a shared place, changes done to the world will undo changes made by others. When we use emotion to understand the motivations of our connections and share our own motivations we build our community. By creating a community with aligned motivations, when we help ourselves we help the community and when we help the community we help ourselves. By the time we have to interact with the world we will find that many of the changes we need to make have already been done and the changes we make will be strengthened by others. Using emotion to interact, through our community, we will have to interact less, the changes we make, the meaning we create, will last longer.