The concept of force is an essential idea in this work. We must have force for the purpose of awakening. The Work says that we lose force in many specific ways, that we can save force working on them (exercise of non-identification) and that we create force by the act of self-remembering.

   The Work says that we begin to awake only after struggling against identification and mechanicalness imposed by life, which makes us remain asleep. Very early in life diverse acts mean we lose force, so that it is lost it in a mechanical way. It would be interesting to isolate us from certain influences of life and to explore the power of them. It is very difficult to see how we lose our force. We must see ourselves in the light of new knowledge with the purpose of understanding what is continuously happening. In the Work we begin to be aware of the necessity to face a huge amount of habits that are not us. It is necessary to value and to understand that this effort has a very concrete aim.

   Self-observation is a helpful technique to break the mechanicalness, but it is by non-identification that we prevent the loss of force. If we identify with everything that we experience, we will not have enough force left to do or to understand the Work that we are trying to carry out. The Work will remain in the distance like a cloud. Sincerity in the work is also of extreme importance because, although the causes of the loss of force are generalized enough in all of us, in each person it produces a specific effect that must be observed in detail individually and this demands a constant and conscious effort. If we lack sincerity regarding the Work, there can be no inner perception either.

   It is very interesting to observe the origin of the loss of force and the conditions that are related to its loss, but sometimes a lot of time is needed until we realize the cause. Often it happens that certain things that we consider inoffensive or admirable cause this loss.

   We must remember the other angle, that which creates force. It is the act of self-remembering that creates force. Thus we save force by each act of non-identification and force is created by self-remembering. In order for this work to take place we must start off from the feeling that another thing is possible, that we are extremely small in this Universe and that a possibility exists. We must try to remember ourselves every day because we are trying to awaken to another level of being. But to awaken we need to have force and not waste or misuse it at any time. Each person will have to explore through self-observation, which we will shed light on the causes of this loss. We must live life, not be devoured by it.