The Influences of Energy

Creativity, emotion, environment, the condition of our body, and our needs and desires are all powerful influences on our ability to gain and lose energy, and so also our ability to survive and succeed within the forces of life.

To fully understand the effects of any one of these aspects in your practice they have to be considered in terms of their relationship to the other four aspects. They can each be either beneficial or detrimental to the overall resonance of your situation and your ability to gain and develop energy. If you consider the connecting lines of the above diagram as a type of blood flow and the aspects as organs, which either vitalise or draw on that blood, then you will find it easier to understand how to progress as both an individual and as part of the larger organism.

In Brief :-
Our Environment is the processes of Nature and the experiences of our life, Represented as the Uas staff its better known to us today as our knowledge of science or the Tao (Way of Nature).
Our Body includes our health and abilities (I.e. Nature/Nurture), the strengths and weaknesses we are born with, and those that we develop and strengthen. The physical body is known to us through the sensation of our five senses.
Our Needs are those things we cannot exist without (food, air etc), and Our Desires are those things we choose to spend our energy on.
Our Creativity is the 'quintessence' and the subject of Chi Kung and the Horian Way.
Our Emotion is the voice of our psyche, the record of our heart, and contains the driving force and personality of the individual.

Happiness :
Many of our decisions are made in the pursuit of happiness, and the sensations connected with happiness are extremely beneficial to our health. The volume or intensity of happiness can range from contentment to euphoria, and there are two basic types of happiness: - 'Temporary', the result of satisfying our basic needs or desires, and - 'Psyche happiness', the result of achieving our three higher needs: Self Esteem, Harmony and Freedom.

Harmony was known in Egypt as Ma'at, it is what Newton described as the 'perpetual miracle'. It includes such beneficial mysteries as gravity and the harmonious actions of the planets, generally it is those things which fill us with a joy and gratitude at the beauty of existence. Life however is not just a machine (as described in Determinism), but includes the possibilities and freedoms brought about by Seth and the chaos of energy storms, or as described in an Eastern saying; “Water that's too pure has no fish.”
Without the possibilities of chaos however there can be no creation or creativity. In any harmony there is a trace of chaos, but life can not exist in extreme chaos. The health of both our physical form and our psyche depends on the balance between the challenges of chaos and the rejuvenation of harmony.