and other power in your body
The body reaching, taking up space. Power before it becomes a stance, still pure drive.
VIGOROUS. Your body's yes, arriving ahead of any plan. The life-force surge that doesn't yet know it's a stance. Researchers call it the expansion of self (Frijda) or somatic dominance (the PAD model of emotion). The body claims its space and lets the reasons catch up.
WANTING. The body reaching toward what it wants to take in. Hunger and desire share this floor. Sometimes the reach is for food. Sometimes for another body. Sometimes for the object the hand has decided it wants. If the reach hits an obstacle, the want often turns to frustration or anger.
AROUSED. The body lit up. Charge running through the system, sometimes sexual, sometimes just amped without a target. Wider than the colloquial sexual read. The engine has started but the destination hasn't been chosen.
POWERFUL. Your body at its full size. Walking into a room without shrinking for it. The same word names this whole family of feelings; here, it's the specific somatic experience of taking up your space.
PRIMAL. Body without language. STRONG. The body capable of holding its weight. ACTIVATED. Body switched on. READY. Leading edge of motion. INVIGORATED. The body re-energized. HUNGRY. Wanting in the gut. RAVENOUS. Hungry past patience. BURNING. Wanting with intensity. DESIROUS. The reach toward a specific want. AMPED. Body charged up. ELECTRIC. Body alive with current. TURNED-ON. The body wanting sex. HORNY. The body sexed up, no euphemism. GIGIL. Tagalog. The squeeze impulse for something too charming. POTENT. The body unmistakably present.
This arc asks what power is for. It starts as raw drive, learns direction and follow-through, and ends given away to something larger than the person holding it.