Physical Intelligence and WillConsidering the number of books in print, there has been surprisingly little published about Will. There are different kinds of will, and for the purpose of this article, I'll refer to "lower will" and "higher Will." Lower will, like intention, concerns taking the time to do something that requires effort.Higher Will is not something we can train, but is something that appears after we'veworked to develop lower will. If we have a sense of inner peace and balance, and feelconnected to something greater than us, we are aligned to a larger purpose and can easily do the right thing.1A desire to change encourages us to develop our will. The effort is worth it if we'reinterested bettering our lives. After reading Roberto Assagioli's The Act of Will, Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ3, and Tara Bennett- Goleman's Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart4, it seemed to me that a crucial step was missing. It wasn't clear how the lower will could be developed so thatit would impact the ability to make lasting changes.As a kinesthetic learner with a background in professional dance, teaching, choreography,transpersonal psychology and the Enneagram*, I felt compelled to develop "PhysicalIntelligence"(PQ), a system that translates emotional energy into physical energy andteaches people how to train and trust the body's intelligence. (PQ represents one'sPhysical Quotient, rather than IQ which represents one's Intelligence [Intellectual]Quotient.)Common ways to develop lower will include exercising more, eating nutritiously, dailymeditation, yoga, or tai chi. Exercises in Physical Intelligence increase the ability to engage the will and develop emotional fluency. Emotional fluency is a form of Emotional Intelligence that gives us the flexibility to respond as each situation demands: in an Eight-like way when the situation requires you to be a leader and in control; in a Nine-like way when the situation requires you to be patient and to just listen.Applying PQ gives us tools for managing emotional energy so we can express ourfeelings in a timely manner with the appropriate amount of energy. This makes it easier to make a break between the impulse to take action and the action itself.In my experience, the missing link in the development of will is the relationship betweenpersonality and the body. Our mental states influence our physical actions as much asphysical actions influence our minds and moods. This means that we can make change bynot just thinking about it, or wanting to feel differently, but also by training the body tomove in ways that are unfamiliar.My students have reported making leaps in personal growth (from using PQ techniques)that were surprising to them, including a Five who found herself behaving in a verysocial, amiable way at her three-year old daughter's birthday party, a Two who found anew kind of courage in the face of fear after 9/11 that gave her the strength to support others.Our Enneagram types (see thumbnail descriptions at end) imply that we have certainstrengths that can also be our downfall due to overuse. Strengths become habits fromyears of experience. Their familiarity becomes a crutch as we react