The Eureka Moment Unleashes Incredible Amounts of High Level Emotional Energy That Can Be Utilized

The Diamond Faculty. 2023. By Karina + StarryAI

The end product of applied effortful high level thinking is a Eureka moment.

If you struggle to comprehend a difficult concept or solve a complex problem, eventually, if you persist long enough, you will have a breakthrough. Or at least most of the time if you persist long enough you will have a breakthrough. You will have a moment of revelatory understanding. You will have a Eureka moment.

There is something incredible about the Eureka moment. Of course there is the understanding of something new in the sphere of human experience. You grasped something. You solved something. You unlocked understanding. This is not a small thing. Even if the understanding is of a small thing, it is not a small thing. I am going to explain this in more depth later on. But there is something else. Something mystical. Something godly.

A Eureka moment unleashes incredible amounts of high level emotional energy. This energy opens doors. When you are flooded with high level emotional energy you don’t want to just sit on the sofa and watch TV. You want to run and share your understanding with like minded people. You want to keep working on your project now that you’ve overcome an obstacle. Maybe you want to dance.

Emotions are potent. Emotions permeate us and effect our constitution. Every emotion that we have triggers corresponding thoughts. In turn those thoughts evoke corresponding emotions. You can witness this in yourself if you are mindful and pay attention. For example: Anger invokes thoughts of revenge.

In anger your thoughts may go like this:

I can’t believe my boss did this. He has no respect for me. I should not show up at work tomorrow. I will just turn my phone off. And if he fires me I will sue the company.

Or:

She meant to hurt me. She was never a friend. There was that time she never showed up and I had to pay for her friends. I know what to do! I will meet her at a restaurant, order an expensive meal and then leave. That will show her!

The thoughts may be darker if experiencing trauma.

Beneath anger usually lies fear or sadness or loneliness. These are all low level emotions and they inevitably invoke low level thoughts. One may find oneself spiralling into rage or despair.

With higher level emotions, however, you can spiral upward to creativity and expansion. Gratitude, Awe, Love and the elation of a Eureka moment are higher level emotions.

The Elation of a Eureka moment is very potent. It releases exhilarating emotional energy. It evokes higher level thinking which further releases more exhilarating emotional energy. You will feel Awe at the revelation you receive and Gratitude for having received it.

When you are flooded with high level emotions like this, you can think clearly. All of a sudden higher concepts click. You can write for hours. You can think for hours. Things come to you. You get downloads of material. Whatever project you are working on flows. Solutions to problems make themselves clear.

So what I am proposing here is that you can use your intellectual faculty as a mechanism for releasing high level emotional energy. Energy that can be used to propel you towards your life purpose. Especially when you are stuck. Especially when you are feeling mentally lethargic.

I actually believe that mental lethargy in many people may be caused by a lack of intellectual stimulation. Of course there are other reasons for mental lethargy, such as not exercising, various health conditions, trauma, or a toxic environment, but intellectual understimulation may be an underlying or accompanying cause. Our intellectual apparatus wants struggle. But often we don’t give it.

It is possible to be intellectually understimulated and not realize it. I think what passes off as thinking for many people is the rehashing of other people’s ideas or even that of their own old ideas. The reality is that many people stop struggling to understand new ideas or solve hard problems once they finish school.

Some have careers that require high use of the intellect, like inventors. But many don’t. Those who don’t may not even realize the extent to which they are not using their intellect.

Often we only realize how impoverished our thinking was after we reintroduce intellectual struggle. If you have been intellectually idling for a while, reading only fitness magazines or inspirational quotes, and then finally sit down to digest Kant or quantum mechanics, you will realize how intellectually malnourished you were.

Now you may argue with me and say something like:

Sure having a Eureka moment after struggling with an intellectual concept unleashes energy, but you have to initially put in lots of energy to digest and think! I work all day with customers and when I come home I want to detach and watch cat videos. The last thing I want to do is engage with that pesky Kant.

Yes, thinking, like really thinking, takes effort. Yes, it is hard. Yes, you may have to initially force yourself to do it, especially if you have been working all day.

To induce intense intellectual struggle you need not necessarily read Kant. Besides if you are already familiar with Kant, it may not be sufficient intellectual stimulation. You must engage in something that produces intellectual struggle specifically in you. It may take math. It may take quantum mechanics. If you have never wired your home, figuring that out may be quite a nice struggle. The smarter you are the more complex it needs to be. Yes it is hard. But the payoff is grand.

Three Priceless Payoffs of Using Your Thinking Apparatus till Eureka is Achieved:

1. The Understanding of a New Concept. The understanding of something new is never trivial. If you understand something in one sphere of the human experience, and then another thing in another sphere, and then another in another sphere, eventually a cross understanding occurs.

Imagine wearing a blindfold. It is riveted to your head. You cannot take it off. One way of seeing through it is to poke holes in the material. If you poke enough holes eventually a scene emerges. The connections made equal more than the sum of their parts. A higher level of understanding unlocks.

Furthermore, if you observe your mind in the process of acquiring understanding you can come to understand the workings of your mind. You start to know thyself. Once you start to know yourself, you start to understand your relationship to reality. The next level is to understand your place in reality and your purpose.

2. The Release of High Potent Emotional Energy. There is no way you will be able to mindlessly scroll after solving something big. Eureka energy is inherently life propelling. It has a purity to it. It will propel you towards what is highest.

3. The Acquiring of Enough Faith to Move Mountains. When you reach new understanding or solve a hard problem you increase faith in yourself. Faith in yourself implies faith in the creation process that produced you. It is to believe that what was created is capable. It implies the creation is good. It implies purpose. The more problems you solve the more faith you have. The more faith you have the more purpose you feel. When you reach a certain threshold of faith you start to move divinely. You move on another level. When you move on another level, the world responds to you on another level. You see on another level. You become one with the force.

Not bad for deciding to call off the contractor and rewire the basement yourself? Good luck with the panel.

So What To Do:

Ask yourself: What do I want to understand but avoid pursuing due to the intellectual effort it requires? Pick something and pursue it. Run towards intellectual challenges. Conversate with people who think. Learn the math. Read. Reflect. Subscribe to my Substack (if you haven’t already).

The reward is Grand.

Thank you for reading.