IV.   Mind Development (PSYDEV)

An Emotional Template (PSYSET) is a relative mix of primordial emotions connected to a memory of a pattern that when this pattern is re-observed or experienced, causes the emotion template to be enacted

No memory is formed excluded from a PSYSET (emotional template).

Emotional templates affect the method of storage and the strength of storage of memory.

Emotional templates which include both strong positive and negative aspects can be triggered by extremes of either.

The learning of new memories depends not only on the nature of the information but the emotional context of previously acquired memories. Therefore, if extended periods of learning are acquired under mixed Emotional templates then new learning is inhibited unless the same contradictory conditions are re-created.

Extended periods of mixed emotional template experience, particularly as a child with adult role models will necessarily lead to the deliberate mimicking of the same conditions in adulthood.

As Emotional templates build on previous experience, changing emotional templates and therefore deep memories is only possible by remembering and re-experiencing non-threatening, non-exploitative recollections under a pure and stable sense of emotional state.