It's a little harder to actually do it, of course, but let's postpone talking about that for now. Contractive energy creates discontentment, depression, and hopelessness. Active energy is vigorous but nondirected. It's energy in its raw, wild, untamed form. It's the energy of love, wisdom, and joy.
Feeling is water.
Selfish, contractive, low-energy feeling is stagnant water, like a fetid swamp. Active feeling is a snowmelt stream rushing wildly down a mountain gorge. Expansive energy is a broad-backed river, flowing powerfully and rhythmically between fertile banks, giving life to the beautiful farmlands that it passes. Will is fire. Contractive will is smoky and sputtering.