In 1907, William James complains that psychologists have ignored the topic of "the energies of men"—that is, the practical stamina available for "running one's mental and moral operations".
Have good frameworks emerged for this in the past century?
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this isn’t a framework really, but jhana 1 is useful for proving to people they have hilariously more energy than they ever imagined. Out of nowhere you basically create an eruption of piti (body positive feeling vibrational energy) and it’s like woah I always have that??
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Yes, in fact, it's phenomena like that which make James's question all the more frustrating to me. Clearly we have these massive reservoirs of energy available! What governs their flow?
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I don’t know I think it’s a good question though
My suspicion is there’s something deeper than energy (eg qaulia object) and energy is one kind of object. To make it explode you 1. Select for it 2. Let go, stop blocking it with clinging
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Because say jhana 4 (super equanimity) also is about letting go and amplifying, you’re just selecting a different mental object than energy
But I don’t know for sure, just a guess
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Reich's armoring?
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watch the energy of the children in the first episode of 7-up, and compare to the energy of the 14 yr olds in 14-up...something happens in these intervening years, and I suspect it has something to do with school
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