Dr. James Hollis

That's a lot of activity.

Nature doesn't waste energy.

It's processing something.

And it's not just processing.

If we pay attention over time,

you begin to realize it has a point of view.

Another way of putting this is the psyche, which is the term I would use here, and that's the Greek word for soul, by the way.

The psyche has its own intentionality.

It's omnipresent, and it's commenting.

And it comments in terms of our feeling function.

You don't choose your feelings.

Feelings are autonomous responses to what has happened.

You can repress them, suppress them, anesthetize them, project them onto others, but you are, in the end,

You know, a creature that has an autonomous feeling response.

Secondly, we have energy systems.

If I'm doing what's right for me, the energy's there.

The flow is there.

We can mobilize our energy, and we have to in life, to get up and feed the baby at two in the morning or, you know...

put in our 40-hour week or whatever the requirements are.

But over time, forcing the energy system leads, as we know, to boredom and burnout and ultimately depression, often with self-medication attached to that.