Personality
Some of us live in a fairly steady state on the energy/tension scale, and we think this is our personality, character, identity, fate, or “just the way life is” and what we have to struggle with, and we develop a philosophy of life that features the kinds of Certainties that appear at that place on the scale.
Others of us have big swings in energy and tension, and we’re never quite sure who we really are, and we develop a philosophy of life that features Change and how you can never be too sure of anything.
Who we all are is the potential for all of it depending on our energy/tension state. We all have the potential to live in peace, love, and joy.
The energy/tension state is what determines our mood and our attitude, which is what determines our every thought and feeling, which is what determines our every speech and action. And everything in the fields of recovery and rehabilitation and healing, and everything in the fields of clinical psychology and criminal law and ethics and pastoral care that works, works because it raises energy and/or lowers tension. Seeing this gives us a clear focus on how to proceed.