Understanding What Motivates Us: A Core Element of EIVSOM

EIVSOM explores what truly motivates us by integrating existential meaning, our innate need for belonging, ethical alignment, and energetic awareness to support clarity and lasting contentment in modern life.

At the heart of the EIVSOM Process is a simple but essential question: what motivates us? Not merely what drives productivity, but what gives us a reason to get up each morning. This question is where existential psychology, emotional intelligence, values systems, and lived human experience meet.

Existential psychology reminds us that humans need meaning in order to exist. Alongside this sits what can be understood as the prehistoric psyche: an inherited need to be useful and to belong. Long before modern society, being valuable to the group meant survival. That same psychological need still shapes our sense of worth and direction today.

Another key element is the categorical imperative, drawn from Kantian ethics. It proposes that we possess an innate understanding of right and wrong. When our decisions conflict with this internal moral structure, contentment becomes difficult, if not impossible. Motivation that ignores this alignment often leads to inner tension rather than fulfillment.

EIVSOM considers the role of energy in his model, informed by philosophical interpretations of quantum theory. Across psychology, philosophy, and spirituality, there is a shared language around attention, intention, and connection. At its most basic level, this perspective helps explain how our internal states influence how we experience life. EIVSOM helps us reconnect with what moves us at the deepest level, so we can live not just driven by habit or pressure, but guided by meaning, coherence, and a sense of inner truth.