Blog 62. The Six Emotional Attitudes

Motivation tangibly manifests itself in the individual through certain emotional attitudes which describe the emotional content of the positive core. The purest expression of motivation is in the untransmuted component of the ascribed untransmuted constructive contact rebus. Motivation also exists in transmuted contact rebuses, but in these, the emotional attitudes are partially concealed by transmutation (Motivational Work, Part 2: Motivational Relationship, pages 3 – 7).

Genuine Emotions

The most important quality of the emotional attitudes is that they must be genuine, meaning they are untransmuted and arise from the motivational worker himself. He cannot manipulate them into existence.

Charging a Car Battery

The motivational worker conveys to his client emotional attitudes that he is generally lacking and needs to receive externally. The function of these attitudes is most simply explained by way of illustration: If you were trying to start your car and discovered that the battery was dead, you would hopefully receive help from outside. A neighbor, for example, might assist by using jump leads from his car to start yours, thus transferring power to the dead battery so that the engine can start.

We can view the motivational relationship in a similar way. Motivational workers impart life energy to their clients so that their motivation increases and their engines can start. What separates motivational workers from other providers of life energy is that the latently motivated client has a huge need of life force. There is thus an enormous imbalance in the direct exchange of life energy.

The Client’s Rejection

The client will not outwardly show genuine gratitude for what the motivational worker does, instead reacting through his contact rebuses such as aggression, withdrawal or compliance. It can be likened to happily and willingly going to pat a dog despite being alternately licked and bitten time after time. A motivational worker can also be seen as someone who, just as hopefully each time, asks someone to dance despite being rejected every other time and despite never receiving an honest response from his dance partner.

Finding Positive Confirmations

By detransmuting the client’s transmuted contact rebus, the motivational worker receives positive affirmation in the same way as with other ascribed untransmuted contact rebuses. By way of his values and theoretical knowledge, he thus facilitates a maximization of the indirect life energy he can receive from the latently motivated client.

Six Emotional Attitudes

There are six different emotional attitudes contained in the motivational relationship, something the author has come to understand through the personal experience of motivating clients and supervising other motivational workers. The six attitudes are as follows: commitment, hope, faith, respect, understanding, and honesty. We can see these six attitudes either as separate entities or as the components of one multi-faceted, composite emotion.