Mental Map of Living: 11-18-2025

1. Event or environment.
2. Filter directing focus (survival, security, salient, expansive, pleasure, pain, memories, habits, conditioning, training).
3. Focus sensing on some environmental signals based on the filters (interpretations) used.
4. Sensations from sensing select signals.
5. Filters used to determine sensations as benefiting, not affecting, or harming us, our life, our family or group, and our ego, and those interpretations determine how the sensations will be regarded.
6. Based on our sensations being regarded (interpreted) as positive, neutral, negative, or mixed, we will have positive, neutral, negative, or mixed feelings.
7. Based on our positive, neutral, negative, or mixed feelings, we will have positive, neutral, negative, or mixed intentions regarding them.
8. Based on our positive, neutral, negative, or mixed intentions, we will have positive, neutral, negative, or mixed thoughts regarding them.
9. Based on our positive, neutral, negative, or mixed thoughts, we will have positive, neutral, negative, or mixed responses to the perceived (calculated, imagined, interpreted) causes or sources of the sensations we interpret.
10. Based on our positive, neutral, negative, or mixed responses, we will receive back positive, neutral, negative, or mixed responses from others, groups, and whatever we respond to, to varying degrees (feedback), depending on their sensations of our responses.