When thinking about the most important moment(s) of your life, do you still feel the full range of emotion associated with that memory? What if you keep recalling the same memory many times, does the intensity of emotion fade?
When thinking about the most important moment(s) of your life, do you still feel the full range of emotion associated with that memory? What if you keep recalling the same memory many times, does the intensity of emotion fade?
“Core memory” doesn’t mean emotional. It means formative. It’s something that makes you who you are, and emotion doesn’t have to be tied to that.
So exhausting the emotion doesn’t mean exhausting the core memory.
Strong emotion is most often a lack of processing. Once your brain processes something sufficiently, the emotion fades. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect who you are.