Thinking in Images

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Thinking in Images is the foundational work behind IAMPR.

It began with a precise observation:
human suffering persists not because people lack understanding, but because agency is displaced. 

At the center of this work is a distinction between two ways behavior is governed: one oriented toward present-moment action and another toward protecting a memory-constructed identity. When identity-protection dominates, agency is overridden.

As a result, action narrows. Choices feel urgent, personal, and constrained. Life becomes organized around avoidance, defense, or repetition—not because danger is present, but because emotional memory predicts it.

Thinking in Images explores how this identity-based loop forms and why it continues even in objectively safe environments. The problem is not emotion itself, but misidentification:  the output of the emotional system is unconsciously treated as who one is, rather than recognized as a protective mechanism generated by the brain. 

This work does not aim to regulate emotion, reframe thoughts, or improve identity.
Its purpose is to make the emotional loop visible as it operates, so participation in it can stop. 

When emotional memory is no longer mistaken for present reality, the loop loses reinforcement. As attention and reaction withdraw, the system weakens naturally. What returns is not a new identity, but agency — the capacity to act, pause, choose, or not act without being driven by emotional prediction.

From this understanding emerged IAMPR — Identity Awareness & Memory Perception Redirect.

IAMPR is not a technique described in the book. It is a framework that grew out of the same insight: that restoring agency does not require strengthening the self, but interrupting the identity-based system that overrides action. By distinguishing present experience from emotionally generated interpretation, authorship reappears at the level where it was lost.

This page exists to mark the origin of the work.

Thinking in Images is not therapy, self-help, or belief-based philosophy.
It is an exploration of how agency is structurally displaced—and how it becomes available again when identity is no longer confused with the self.

The aim of Thinking in Images is the restoration of agency by revealing the difference between identity and awareness.

Thinking in Images: A Path to Being
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1312060298