What is Your Motivation?
The lexicon of desire: words for the spectrum of human motivation.
addiction compulsion wanting needing wishing intending expecting hoping trying for craving pining longing lust greed hunger to gain narcissistic supply whimsy curiosity fear avoidance coercion delusion false hope wishful thinking habitual hazed compliance (normative abuse) love (what is that, anyway?) tenderness kindness rescue attraction attention-seeking fascination enthusiasm altruism "God's Will" desire obsession conditioned response wildest dream loyalty to upbringing even if destructive "I will feel anxious if I do not do it" "I am excited about" playfulness
Is your impulse externally or internally derived? Internally derived is a rising up of emotion or strength that carries action in the present, without needing a payoff in the future. Externally derived is "a means to an end" or an avoidance, such as "I will fee anxious if I do not do it."
The Question "what is your mission? or "what is your Wildest Dream?" invites an answer that is a description of material accomplishments. You can say your goals are this or that; this kind of house, that kind of job, etc. The Game and your teammates may become part of materializing that goal. (First it makes sense to apply an Ethics test, to make sure that somebody's goal is actually something "we" feel happy about promoting.)
The actual object of this part of the Game is to move you from the avoidance set of motivations, such as ("I will feel anxious if I do not do this") to the attraction set of motivations, to get you into the internally referenced category more and more of the time.
External accomplishments do not gratify long term. The fulcrum of happiness is internal. Do you ride the wave of positive inclination? Or are you compelled or enslaved by addiction or avoidance?
Foundation for good social relationships (bonds) is the first bond within the self, to Inner Guidance, the personal concept or experience of the sacred, inner peace, delightful ripples of attraction and guidance. Receive internally the experience of Love.
addiction compulsion wanting needing wishing intending expecting hoping trying for craving pining longing lust greed hunger to gain narcissistic supply whimsy curiosity fear avoidance coercion delusion false hope wishful thinking habitual hazed compliance (normative abuse) love (what is that, anyway?) tenderness kindness rescue attraction attention-seeking fascination enthusiasm altruism "God's Will" desire obsession conditioned response wildest dream loyalty to upbringing even if destructive "I will feel anxious if I do not do it" "I am excited about" playfulness
Is your impulse externally or internally derived? Internally derived is a rising up of emotion or strength that carries action in the present, without needing a payoff in the future. Externally derived is "a means to an end" or an avoidance, such as "I will fee anxious if I do not do it."
The Question "what is your mission? or "what is your Wildest Dream?" invites an answer that is a description of material accomplishments. You can say your goals are this or that; this kind of house, that kind of job, etc. The Game and your teammates may become part of materializing that goal. (First it makes sense to apply an Ethics test, to make sure that somebody's goal is actually something "we" feel happy about promoting.)
The actual object of this part of the Game is to move you from the avoidance set of motivations, such as ("I will feel anxious if I do not do this") to the attraction set of motivations, to get you into the internally referenced category more and more of the time.
External accomplishments do not gratify long term. The fulcrum of happiness is internal. Do you ride the wave of positive inclination? Or are you compelled or enslaved by addiction or avoidance?
Foundation for good social relationships (bonds) is the first bond within the self, to Inner Guidance, the personal concept or experience of the sacred, inner peace, delightful ripples of attraction and guidance. Receive internally the experience of Love.
