The Centers are part of us we rarely separate, Moving Center, Emotional Center, Intellectual Center, Instinctive Center.
These basic four all use different speeds or degrees of Attention or lack of Attention. They can be divided into Automatic (no Attention), Captivated (Outside Fascination), or Highly Focused. ( Attention directed by Will). The playing cards of old , in past times, was used to illustrate this. Think of the Queen of Hearts statement, "Off with their heads." Emotion works at a faster speed than the Intellect often grasping more sides of a problem or more likely focusing on just one aspect of a problem with great strength depending on the force of the emotion. Emotion uses much energy.
Negative emotion like anger, fear, sadness, self pity are emotions that consume energy otherwise used by positive emotions. To get a negative emotion usually involves some real or imaginary Instinct Center awareness of Threat.
This is just the barest surface scratching of the complex and well integrated ideas of Gurdjieff. One precautionary note. We usually have preconcieved ideas of what words mean so dismiss ideas out of hand. I suggest letting his other words define his meaning.
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