Sentimental State

Archetype: Poet/Painter

The best concept to describe the focus of this state is Feeling.

Physical: Abstraction

Focus on introspection and away from physical activity; impulses not driven by sensorial response, but from thoughts or feelings.

Rational: Instinction

Focus on instincts and intuition, and not on rationality; insights not resulting from rational analysis.

Emotional: Valuation

Focus on emotional commitment; developing, following, and favoring respect, values, and bonds.

It is the state of sensibility and affection. It represents a psyche that is physically and rationally relaxed, but emotionally tense. We are in this state when our actions and decisions are dictated around our feelings, and when we are taken over or captivated by appreciations that escape our reason and exalt our ideas, senses or actions.

By definition, this is the state of focus in abstraction, instinction and valuation. Its main characteristic is valuing our inspiration and empathy to determine emotional bonds, and avoiding physical and rational stress. This offers us the ability to feel an unavoidable connection or rejection, love or phobia, for things and ideas. These values seem to escape our senses or reason.

People who have a strong tendency to this state focus on their feelings and their inner life. They are likely to create strong bonds and rejections, developing clear ideas of what is beautiful and ugly, good or bad. In fact, their world tends to find meaning through their passion, desires or fears. They do not have interest for industry or activities that deviate from their passion. But they derive tremendous joy from executing activities, or appreciating things; if these carry their values, the pleasure is intensified. This tendency to form connections, fascination and pleasure has a delicate line when it points to things that may oppose their morals; this could have them looking for constant reaffirmation.

People that are strongly sentimental create strong connections with those that share their passions, and develop admiration for those who embody them. They maintain emotional bonds with distant and even lost ones or things. They are respectful of moral values, but do not tend to rationalize them. Judgment and wisdom is intuitive for them. They look to rest only when things feel right, blessed or good. They tend to get involved in activities passionately.

Tendencies towards introversion:

Abstraction cultivates timidity and awkwardness; prompting self-reliance.

Instinction cultivates arbitrarity and rebelliousness; prompting self-confidence.

Valuation cultivates particularities and sensibility; prompting self-absorption.