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connected. In addition, once the emotion of meeting the Queen has
dissipated, then Perceiver thought will find it much easier to reconsider
facts about me. Eventually Perceiver strategy will gain sufficient
confidence to assert that me and the Queen are not connected. It will know
that this link is false. This Perceiver separation will lead to an emotional
letdown in Mercy strategy, because now when Mercy thought thinks about
me it is no longer reminded, by the warped Perceiver „mirror,‟ of the
emotional memories associated with the Queen. The result will be a true
self-confidence: Perceiver thought will have the confidence to know which
experiences are not me. But, what is true is not necessarily good.
The same mental process can occur when we
„worship God.‟ The emotional intensity of the
religious experience mesmerizes Perceiver thought
into 'believing' that me and „God‟ are connected.
This will lead to a pleasant self-image, almost like
having a personal audience with the Queen of
England. However, once I leave the religious service,
common sense associated with my physical body
will slowly convince Perceiver thought that me and
„God‟ are not related. By the end of the week, I will
feel quite distant from „God‟ and be ready for
another „worship‟ session.
We can see now why the feelings of self-image
are often confused with the facts about self-image. If 'facts' are
programmed by using Mercy emotions to mesmerize Perceiver thought,
then the same emotional experience which creates a good Mercy feeling
for me will also convince Perceiver strategy of the 'fact' that this
experience belongs to me.
Let us summarize this process with the help of the diagram below: 1)
Me is the group of Mercy memories which continually comes to mind. 2)
The Perceiver part sees these repeated Mercy memories and decides that
there is an object called me. Notice how the facts about me within
Perceiver thought tie together the individual experiences within Mercy
strategy which are me. 3) Attention focuses on some fantastic Mercy
experience. 4) The strong emotion associated with this experience
overwhelms Perceiver confidence in self-image. The result is that
Perceiver information about me contains a mixture of logical facts and
emotional 'facts' which tie together the various fragments of me. Perceiver
thought is fooled into accepting the 'fact' that the fantastic experience
actually belongs to me. The original emotional experience becomes a
defining experience, because it defines 'truth' within Perceiver strategy.
This 'truth' attaches the defining experience to me. 5) Finally, Mercy
thought notices that me feels better. The strong positive emotion of the
defining experience colors the feelings of the other aspects of me.