A few years ago we had come to talk about the will, underlining the fact that, contrary to common opinion, the individual who has will is not the one who does well in doing what he likes, but the one who, on the contrary, he manages to do well what is not completely to his liking.
In fact, being able to do well what you like, even if only at a simply logical and rational level, does not actually involve a great effort of will, but going against your own impulses, needs, selfishness, to carrying out a pre-established task undoubtedly hides - from those who have to "do" - a considerable amount of willpower.
The discourse, then, had remained in rather superficial terms, worrying only about this aspect of the question, without observing what the will really is, whether there can be different types of will, what eventually supports the will, and which are its effects within the physical world.
Let's start, therefore, to broaden these arguments a little.
How then does the will manifest itself within the physical plane? There is no doubt that the will, within the physical plane, manifests itself, it must manifest itself with an action. In fact, the individual supported by the will cannot stop saying, as you do, alas, so often: "Io I want to do this and I will do it”, but go further, and say: “I want to do this, and behold, I begin to do it and I carry it on”.
Unfortunately, how many times it happens - observing your everyday history - that the individual stops only at a potential will: it is enough only to take your newspapers, it is enough to observe your rulers, it is enough to observe your religious, it is enough to observe also the gurus, spiritualists, and on and on and on!
How many as will, as words, as an act, understand the reality of society, the reality of the family, the reality of the individual, and say "one must have the will to do", "one must implement the will to help", "one must , if you follow a teaching of some kind, be mirrors of this teaching ». But the "must" usually continues to remain a "need"! Why this?
It certainly cannot be said that this happens only and always out of bad faith or bad intentions on the part of the speaker. The fact is that the will is made up of different components which interact with each other and often make it possible, not supporting a true intention, to prevent them from transforming into that action which, thus, remains only in potentiality. Scifo
Some time ago we hinted that the ego of each person can be considered, in some way, made up of three ego's, figuratively separate: a physical ego, an astral ego and a mental ego. In fact, in my opinion, the personality of an embodied individual - and, therefore, what is the manifestation of the ego within the physical plane - can always, in the end, be reduced to one of these three aspects, namely the gestural or physical manifestation within the matter, the emotional, sensitive, expressive manifestation, mimicry of feelings and desires, and finally the intellectual manifestation that is expressed through ideas and concepts and supports actions. [...]
This is how the various theories that presented different types of individuals were born in the past: think of the types of Galen, of Hippocrates, to get to those of Freud, to get to all the thinkers who, in some way, tried to force into classes more or less defined the types of character of the individual.
Now, if you went to observe, with a critical and analytical eye, all these types, you would see that - while presenting things under different names - they are always reducible to the three aspects that I have stated earlier:
- or how the individual confronts physical reality,
- confronts his wishes,
- how he confronts his thoughts.
All this long speech I made is to get to talk for a few moments aboutinfluence that the astral component has (i.e. the emotional component) on the will.
We said that the will is nothing other than the impulse to carry out an action towards a goal that has been set for itself. Now, of course, one of the reasons why this purpose doesn't just remain in place may be the desire that the intended purpose is achieved. This is how we can speak of a will moved, directed, mainly by feelings and desire. Think, dear ones, at times that you have fallen in love or infatuated with another person, think with how much will you have tried to do something to get this person's favors or graces!
It is clear that the individual in love is hardly governed by rationality: here, then, this will that pushes the individual to try to accomplish their purpose by conquering the loved one, is an example of will ruled by desire. , from emotion. Georgei
Then there is that will which is instead governed by reason. Consider, our brothers, those who under the impetus of an ideal construction - built by their own rationality - carry on, or try to carry on, with will, the prefixed purpose.
Just look around you: those who make, for example, a political or economic theory such a logical and rational construction that it may seem to them the only possible and logical way to carry humanity forward, and they act - when they are in good faith - all the way, to get to their purpose. This is an example, albeit somewhat nuanced, of will supported by the activity of the mental body.
I confess, brothers, that it is difficult to give a more precise example of this type of will, also because it must be borne in mind that when a will of a mental type is implemented - and therefore tends to manifest itself as an action within the plan physical - in order to get to the physical plane it passes through the matter of the astral plane, and then comes to unite with what it finds inside the astral body of the individual; she is thus polluted in some way by her desires, by his passions. Here, therefore, it will almost never be a primarily mental will, but a fusion of the two components of the individual, the emotional and the rational one, will be obtained.
This, perhaps, can be more evident in those idealists, in those great figures of idealists who have arisen over the centuries of human history. Think of how many great utopians have manifested themselves over the millennia and observe how their basic theory, rationally right and correct, was then filtered by their passions, their desires, and therefore it was distorted in some way, not reaching what it it was their real purpose.
This is the main danger, the main difficulty for those who want to carry out the will!
In fact, to really be able to act willfully,
- one must not only want,
- but it is necessary, first of all, to be sure of what you want to know and do,
- what are your impulses,
- know what it is that can oppose this will
- and therefore, ultimately, one must - as always happens when we talk about these things - get to know oneself more deeply.
Without knowing, in fact, one's desires and passions that can move away from acting, without knowing what one's thought is, one's true understanding, the will will end up manifesting itself within the physical plane in different, very different effects. , from those desired or, even, in blocks that then lead to behaviors judged absurd, if not psychotic, due to the internal contrasts of the individual. Andrea
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I thought that will was the ability to choose between two options, one of which was less inviting but more necessary.
I understand what the post means when it says that the achievement of a goal with the will is based on self-knowledge.
There is a field in which my will always falls and that is to limit myself with food.