There is a quiet difference between people who are trying to succeed… and people who are becoming inevitable.

On the surface they may look similar.
Both take action. Both set goals. Both work hard.

But one is operating from Force.
The other is operating from Power.

And the difference determines whether success feels exhausting… or progressively effortless.

The distinction was originally mapped in Power vs. Force by David R. Hawkins*. What follows is a modified and expanded version of that emotional energy scale.

This is not about motivation.

It is about the internal energy state from which your life unfolds.

Power vs. Force

Force tries.
Power aligns.

And you can feel the difference immediately.

Discover What This Difference is Really About →

Force is effortful, reactive, externally referenced. It pushes against resistance.

Power is coherent, internally referenced, progressively effortless. 

Force pushes.

Power participates.

What this feels like in real life

You can usually feel the difference.

You push yourself to do something… and it feels heavy.
You try to stay motivated… and it takes effort.
You get results… but it doesn’t last.

And then there are moments where something shifts.

Action feels cleaner.
Decisions feel obvious.
Momentum starts to build on its own.

In those moments, it feels like less effort is required.

But look closely.

You’re operating from a different state.

Some emotional states are associated with greater reactivity.

Others are associated with greater participation.

As interference decreases, people often report feeling less controlled by circumstances and more capable of responding consciously.

The distinction between Power and Force becomes clearer when you understand how the mind processes experience, which we explored in How the Mind Works.

The Energy of Emotions — Power → Force Continuum (MYF Expanded)

Below is the expanded scale you’ve seen. It integrates:

• Emotional level

• Life view

• Conscious and unconscious processes

• Environmental feedback loop

• Creation mode

• Having / Doing / Being progression

As emotional energy stabilizes, people often begin discovering something deeper than success — a sense of purpose that emerges naturally rather than being forced, as discussed in Life Purpose Is an Outcome Not a Goal.

The Scale Is Not Linear

As emotional interference decreases, people often report that life begins feeling progressively less effortful.

Decisions simplify.

Recognition becomes easier to trust.

Internal conflict decreases.

What once felt difficult can begin unfolding naturally.

This is not because a person has attained a higher status. It is because less energy is being consumed by internal contradiction.

As emotional coherence increases, people naturally become more present — something we explored deeply in How to Become Fully Present and Why It Changes Everything.

Emotional Energy vs. States of Access

In a prior MYF article on Values, we explored how alignment changes how you relate to the environment.

The Emotional Energy Scale describes your internal journey.

Values levels describe your states of access that define your external integration journey.

Energy is internal coherence.
Value is environmental expression.

Chronic fear or shame can significantly reduce access to many of the qualities associated with mature participation, clear decision-making, and freedom.

Internal energy determines external maturity.

Having → Doing → Being

Notice how the toewards the lower part of the table it focuses on Having.

“I need to get.”
“I need to avoid.”
“I need to protect.”

Then at a certiain point, you recognize youa re working from the idea of Doing.

You act intentionally.

As emotional interference decreases, people often notice less attention being consumed by obtaining, defending, or proving. More energy becomes available for participation, expression, and simply being.

You no longer chase outcomes to define identity.
Identity generates outcomes.

This is where intention becomes coherent rather than effortful.

The Pitfalls near the bottom of the table

if too much energy is focused in theses areas people can more easily become externally programmable.

Shame and guilt can create identity instability.
Fear can creates threat scanning.
Desire can create dependency.
Anger can create reactivity.
Pride can create fragility.

Another factor is the dgree to which your environment dictates your emotional state.

Media dictates your attention.

Other people dictate your worth.

As emotional interference decreases:

• You become present.

• You become less manipulable.

• You become internally sourced.

• You become compelling — not because you are trying to be, but because coherence attracts trust.

This is what I sometimes call stepping into your divinely inspired purpose.

You become aligned… with yourself.

How Differnt Parts of the Table Can Influence Life Domains

Relationships

Force creates conflict cycles.
Power creates magnetic presence.

Business & Career

Force hustles and burns out.
Power builds sustainable leverage.

Health & Fitness

Force punishes the body.
Power aligns behavior with identity.

Family

Force controls.
Power models.

Spirituality

Force seeks certainty.
Power rests in awareness.

The Critical Warning

The scale is not a hierarchy of human worth, achievement, or spiritual attainment.

It is an observational model describing how different emotional states tend to influence perception, participation, and access.

If you have any recurring emotional pattern patterns that interfere with your life — even occasionally — it can sabotage the entire structure.

You may experience moments of Love or Reason.

But if Fear or Anger is unresolved and recurrent, it will pull you back down.

Persistent interference patterns:

• Distort perception

• Reinterpret neutral events negatively

• Trigger regression

• Collapse momentum

How to clear negative emotions that cause interference:

Continue to How it Works →

Concluding Synthesis

The best kind of success is typically not built through force.

It emerges from states associated with greater coherence.

The scale is not about judging yourself.

It is about recognizing where energy leaks occur… and sealing them.

As emotional interference decreases:

You become less reactive.
More free.
More present.
More internally guided.
More compelling.

Power is not loud. In fact, true power doesn’t compete. It doesn’t need to.  It operates gently in silence.

It is aligned.

And what is aligned rarely needs to be forced.

These ideas are part of the broader framework behind Manifesting Your Future.