Originally Posted by
YesNo
I've been looking at "socionomics" recently. These people study what they call "social mood" in humans especially as measured in market behavior. For them a chart of the Dow Industrials is a "sociometer" measuring this "social mood". This social mood would be like an "underlying driving force". It is not the social mood that we normally think of. It flips causality on its head. A market drop does not cause people to have negative social mood. People with negative social mood cause the market to drop. They describe it as "unconscious", but something an individual can recognize and get of out of the way of or participate in very much like you are suggesting various ways to "control" or exercise "power". It also moves in a spiral form rather than cyclically which helps explain evolutionary progress.
The big question is: Does social mood exist? Does the underlying driving force you refer to exist? Those who don't want social mood to exist say that a market chart is a "random walk" or that evolutionary change is a random mutation of genes not something caused by the existence of a "species". Or everything is determined by something or other and there is no point in you trying to get any power in the first place. Why would someone introduce randomness (or determinism)? With randomness (and its pair, determinism) they do not have to assume the existence of social mood or your driving force.
So, I agree with you that such driving forces exist. They are "overlying" rather than "underlying", top-down rather than bottom-up, holistic rather than mechanistic, and that is why some people don't want them to exist. Their existence reminds them too much of angels, demons, muses or gods. It is a step in the direction of theism.
I am looking for ways to get this "power" as well and they are similar to the ones you mention. You mention "train your body". I think habitual good posture, that is, back straight, shoulders back, sitting or walking tall, is the first step toward that physical or somatic training. You mention "gain control of your thoughts". I think habitual use of short sayings or mantras keep the mind in line as well as paying attention to what is going on right now rather than getting lost in one's mind. Some call this mindfulness and it grounds your suggestion to "Become more attentive and loving towards your loved ones".