Live Life Fully
A dynamic is an urge, a drive or motivation; in this case an urge toward existence, which in its highest form is success, fulfillment, happiness. In Scientology, there are eight arbitrary compartments of life in which these dynamics are expressed. These are the eight dynamics as shown in this video or as presented in Scientology the Fundamentals of Thought.
In this blog we’ll look at how you can apply this information to understand these aspects of your life and their relationship, one to the other, to bring them into harmony and thus increase survival on all of them.
Let’s look at young couple, with a new family, who have started a restaurant and are striving to make it a success. Their work (the third dynamic) is taking over their lives to the point where their health (the first dynamic), their family (the second dynamic), and their marriage (also the second dynamic) are suffering. Unless they recognize that they need to create balance in their life by taking care of themselves and their family, they may get sick, they may get divorced, their children may be unhappy and rebel against them. When any of these happen it could destroy the dream of the restaurant that they are working so hard to create.
Another example would be a man who loves having and working on cars. He has a collection of cars that extends into the back yard and now into the front yard. He spends all his time in the garage working with tools on cars (matter, part of the sixth dynamic). His neighbors (third dynamic), once his friends are mad at him; his wife (second dynamic) is threatening to divorce him if he doesn’t clear out the cars and do some things with her. Although his sixth dynamic is strong, his life is falling apart.
In both examples, the key to a better life would be to look at each of the eight compartments in life to make sure none of them were neglected to the point that they were pulling the others down.
As shown in the picture to the left, you can draw each dynamic as an arrow with the length indicating the strength of that dynamic. Look at the low ones to see if raising them would help to create a better life; look at the high ones to make sure they aren’t interfering with others that are important to you. You can also do this by assigning a number to the size of each dynamic. You can even use negative numbers if it feels like your motivation on that dynamic is destructive.
Ideally, all of your dynamics should be at a high level, but the dynamics are not necessarily equal to each other so having them all at the same level is not necessary for a happy, successful existence. Each of us has areas in life that we have more affinity with and our success in that area can positively influence the other areas of our life. For example, success at work (3rd) makes us happy as individuals (1st), supports our family (2nd), gives us the ability to help others (3rd or 4th), and allows us to have the material things we want in life (6th).
