18.12
Journey of mind as the journey of emotional mind templates
 
  With the insights from the previous two sections, hopefully we may now see more clearly the incredible importance of emotions and memories of the mind. As discussed in Chapter 16 and the previous two sections, our minds may be viewed as series of emotional templates than form into "mind sets".  
  The journey of life (mind) can then be considered then not just a journey of flowing experiences, but the formation of unique collections of emotional mind templates- of mind sets.  
18.12.1 The growing complexity of emotional mind sets  
  While simple templates of pure emotions are crucial for our survival, they do not remain simple for long. Depending upon the environment and experiences in that environment, our mind templates usually become more "mixed" in terms of positive and negative emotions as we grow older.  
  Nowhere are the changing mixtures of emotions more evident than the Love emotion template range for all conscious humans (which we will discuss in a moment).  
  While the growing complexity of emotions and therefore mind templates is largely unavoidable given the social interaction of humans, there are several crucial insights in relation to mixed mind templates:  
 
(a) Pure negative emotions are the best emotions for recall. Unconscious negative emotions can immediately recall memories long since buried, or forgotten by a person's conscious mind.
(b) Pure positive emotions are the best emotions for learning new memories. Love is the strongest learning emotion, as it involves the conscious mind, which is usually critical for any analytical or language orientated learning.
(c) Mixtures of positive and negative emotions, lessen the minds ability to accurately recall memories and learn new memories. When two strong, but opposite emotions are learned in an environmental situation, such as love-hate, it creates strong unsettling behaviour over the mind and body, associated to a general lack of learning (therefore repeat behaviour).
(d) As more mind templates are created with mixed emotions, a persons ability to learn new memories greatly reduces. In a poor positive environment, strong learning may stop as young as 10, while in more positive household upbringings, learning may largely reduce at 20+. As the requirement for sleep to store new memories becomes redundant, a large proportion of the population over 35 require less sleep. (The 2nd half of sleep is about processing short term memory into medium term memory!)
(e) The learning of mixed emotional templates is principally the reason why as people grow older, their behaviour can grow more polar (i.e. signs of strong positive and signs of strong negative at the same time).
 
  Example of the mixing of love and hate into a mixed emotion mind template.  
 
You love cigarettes that cause a triggering of dopamine in the brain and a general sense of bliss. Yet, you hate that cigarettes make you drowsy and in poor health
 
  A mixed emotional template is formed.  
18.12.2 The love emotional templates  
  Pure Love is the conscious feeling of bliss, associated to a specific object or person. It is our most important positive emotion and the associated mind templates formed are fundamental to proper intimate interaction with other human beings.  
  However, an important physical and sociological difference emerges from childhood through puberty for males and females of the species.  
  Female Love Templates  
  With the onset of sexual relations, females usually develop new "love" templates based on the experiences with other males. As sex usually includes a period of sexual penetration, females are more likely to experience some degree of discomfort associated with the exhilarating feelings of love making. This may also include feelings of actual physical pain.  
  Over a period of time, these new "love" templates may include mixed emotional templates whereby a female may "expect" love to include feelings of pain and bliss. Depending on the experiences associated with love making, this may vary widely between females who actually "like" a degree of pain and those that "dislike" any feeling of discomfort.  
  While it might be argued, such sociological conditioning for pain might be important for developing tolerance ahead of such painful acts as childbirth, the development of mixed emotional templates has the negative aspect of making relationships more difficult for a large percentage of women as they get older.  
  Male Love Templates  
  As men develop into the role in sexual encounters as the penetrators of women, men can and most often develop a sense of "desire to inflict pain" in their more complex love templates as they grow older.  
  This might be skewed to the point whereby some men may become totally masochistic, while others may be turned off by the experience all together.  
18.12.3 The danger of mixed Love emotions  
  The danger of mixed love emotional templates is that the emotion of love is principally the strongest positive emotion for learning and feeling of well being. The more skewed the love templates become, the more skewed a persons behaviour in seeking ways to generate that emotion.  
  That all humans developed mixed emotional templates is neither accepted, nor understood by contemporary scientists. Certainly from a society viewpoint, leading figures who seek out methods of generating a mixed love emotional template through an affair, or casual encounters is frowned upon. The behaviour of such people is rarely understood, especially by the media.  
  The further danger is that as emotions happen automatically, complex love templates can only be unlearned through changed experiences. In others words, no amount of intellectual discussion can change a persons basic mixed love emotional templates until they know what it is like again to feel pure emotions.  
18.12.4 The concept of lying  
  The word "lie" in terms of the definition of falsity, misrepresentation and to deceive comes from several derivations of mid-European languages (e.g. Old English lyge) and appears around the mid-16th Century.  
  Consistent with Western philosophy, there is no attempt to make the words relative (i.e. what might be true to one person, could be false to another). Both words are regarded as absolute- i.e. that facts are facts, truth is truth and lies are misrepresentations of the facts.  
  Given the difficulty in recalling actually what happened, most conversations tend to be summaries of the perceived facts, allowing for the discrepancies of individual minds. However in this context, it is also possible and quite frequent that individuals will distort their recall, to suite the various situations.  
  Lies, leads to greater disharmony of emotional templates and hence leads to potential problems in health. Liars are not healthy people.  
  Being true to yourself first. You can never really be true to others without being true to yourself.  
  As we have seen in previous chapters, these underlying issues are most often "left out" the concept of not telling to truth and the need to tell the truth is regarded as fundamental to a healthy relationship between people. Yet we know that this goal is rarely met in our day to day relations with other people.  
     
 
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