Matter & Force

A useful distinction is between emotional matter and emotional force, creative matter and creative force. In a way quite similar to how physical matter differs from physical forces. Matter is what is moved, force is the thing that moves. Emotional matter is the current or historical content of your emotional life, how you were socialized, the environmental, biological and cognitive dispositions of your psyche. Emotional force is the actual and immediate experience of emotional drive, the willed or allowed emotional response to internal or external stimuli. Your emotional force can be used to charge physical or mental motion, it coats motion with its particular expression of force. Creative matter is what we feed our mind before it embarks on its trains of thought. The information we digest, the preparation we undertake, much life a fighter that spends years elevating and practicing their craft before entering the ring. Practice is an analytical process of refining our techniques, of absorbing information and enriching our tool sets, when it comes to the actual fight however, there’s no long room or time to think, we must feel with the living force that surrounds us, feel our spring partner, and remain presently responsive to the moment of execution.