Designing a Strategy for Human Fulfillment – Leveraging the interaction between will, emotion and reason

Emotion is the most primal energy in man. It is the source of all beauty, all passion, all pursuit of ‘meaning’ in existence.

Emotion is also a product of ‘knowledge’ in terms of what tactics work in the pursuit of meaning. This ‘knowledge of tactics’ manifests as anger, love, jealousy, etc.

Embedded also in emotion are the “algorithms of pleasure” – the subtle cause-effect relationships that are determined from the experiential history of an individual consciousness.

Emotion is therefore the engine of human transformation.

Will is the driver, the chief operating officer as it were, that makes actions and fulfillment in existence happen.

Will, with its relentless and singleness of pursuit of a goal, can provide the necessary stability and cold structural moorings around which the waves of emotional energy can lash.

It is Will that ultimately becomes the anchor on which the ship of human stability can depend.

But it is also Will that becomes the source of obdurate and purposeless journeys of experience and action that can fritter away the potentialities in a human life.

Will is thus the ‘axle’ of the human car, on which depends the safety and well being of the occupants.

Cognition, on the other hand, is the chief strategist, the perceiver of opportunity within experience.

It represents the ability to perceive impersonal guides within the personality of life; perceive purpose within the matrix of form and function; the organizing principles around which the multiplicity of thought forms can be meaningfully organized for accomplishment in the world.

When Cognition is fused with Will, the effect is a quantum event. i.e. when the strategy and structure get aligned, the basic framework for success is already put into place.

Our conception of transformation uses the philosophy of using cognition as the mechanism to order willing effectively. The resultant Cognition-Will becomes the structural frame which we can transformation.

When this Cognition-Will is directed to a positive fulfillment strategy, emotion becomes, as it were, purified and purged of its impassioned longings and instead organized itself into a powerful current of fulfillment-enabling fields of thought, action, and perception of existence.