Link to originalEmotions are dimensions of our interests in the world.
It’s a geometric model of contraction/expansion, relating to valence, whether something increases or reduces tension.
“It’s easier to deal with something going this direction than that direction.”
The emotional configuration is the result of all those different alignment vectors that are pulling you.
But you can also transcend many emotions, turning them from unconditional reflexes to which you involuntarily react because you are pulled in a different shape into something that you understand more deeply, you understand “Where is this coming from? What does it serve? What is this part in a larger architecture?”, and if you manage to do this, your particular emotional reflex gets deconstructed and replaced by a decision-making process.