Chapter Two
The Process of Falling in Love
Because our goal of seduction is
to make your targeted person, the one you fall in love with, to fall in love
with you, we first need to understand how individuals fall in love. To better
understand how people fall in love, I would like to ask you to think about your
first love experience (if you have experienced one already). The first love
experience is the most natural and uncontaminated love experience. After the
first love experience, people generally have tried to use their cognition to
interfere with their natural process of falling in love. The experiences after
the first one, therefore, are less natural, more complex, and psychologically
contaminated. If you observe a first love experience, the natural process of
falling in love is plain to see.
In a broad sense, everyone is
self-centered by nature. Our mind gathers information based on our sensors. Our
sensors sense stimuli that are most relevant to us. Our feelings, thoughts, and
actions are all based on the interpretation of the information we gathered. The
feelings are what “I” feel. The thoughts are what “I” think. The actions are
what “I” want to do. In our everyday lives, everything is about “I” or “me”. I
have friends because “I feel” that I like them. I avoid certain people because
“I feel” that I do not like them. I eat because “I feel” hungry. I sleep
because “I feel” tired. I argue with you because “I think” I am right. Our mind
is consistently and primarily focused on “I” or “me”. “I” or “me” is where our attention primarily
focuses on.
Most people are able to give some
of their attention to other people to understand what other people feel. When
that happens, those behaviors are praised as caring and loving. However, there are individuals who seem
unable to ever divert their attention from themselves to other people. Those
individuals are generally described as egocentric, narcissistic, and uncaring.
People naturally avoid being around those individuals because of their
inability to care or to love.
When people start to fall in
love, their attention gradually switches from themselves to their lovers. Their
focus is not only on themselves any more. As they are falling deeper in love,
people give more and more attention to their lovers. They pay more and more
attention to what the other one is doing or is feeling. When people are
absolutely in love, their focus is only on their lovers. They do not care about
themselves any more. They only care about the other one. They have lost
themselves and they are lover-centered. They feel that they are just their
lovers’ followers or satellites.
Some people argue that the
totally lover-centered state is not a state of love. They argue that it is
rather an infatuation. Some “mature” people try to disregard infatuation and
remove it from the category of love. Believe it or not, it is an extreme state
of love and it is also the most enjoyable state of love, in which “I” has lost
its own entity and follows another entity completely. It is, fundamentally,
similar to extreme religious feelings, in which people completely give
themselves to God and totally believe that God is giving the best lives to
them. It is more enjoyable than using psychotropic drugs, in which people only
follow the flow of their feelings.
The only reason why some “mature”
people disregard that state as love is simply because in that state they find
that they have lost control over themselves, have behaved irrationally, have
endangered themselves of being misled, and most importantly have been deeply
hurt when their lovers left them. All in all, they are scared. After a failed
love experience, people either disbelieve in “love” completely or redefine
“love” to exclude the real thing. After all, locating our attention primarily
on ourselves is a precondition for our self-protection and our survival.
Switching our attention onto someone else makes us vulnerable. When objectively
observed by a third party, however, the period of time when people are in the
state of “infatuation” is probably the happiest period of time in their lives.
The process of falling in love is
actually the process of switching our focus and attention from ourselves to
another person. Our minds change from a self-centered state to a lover-centered
state. In situations when love is reciprocal, both lovers take care of each
other, put the other one ahead of themselves, and
enjoy the presence of the other person. Gradually, it develops into a state
that the center is neither one of them. Rather, the center is both of them. A
new entity is formed by melting both individuals together. The focus,
attention, and concern are the whole of the both rather than each individual.
The new melted entity is more important than either one of them. “Team” is the
word people often use to define a healthy relationship, in which both lovers
have become one unit. This new unit’s life then becomes the most primary.
Sometimes, people have no feeling of one’s own life at all. Rather, they only
feel the feeling of that one unit’s life.
When you fall in love with her,
you lose your sense of yourself. You primarily focus on her. To make her fall
in love with you, first you need to make her switch her primary attention from
focusing on herself to focusing on you. Gradually, you need to make her lose
her sense of herself and locate her primary attention on you. Then, willingly
and happily, both of you work together and form a new entity that both of you
will focus on.
Before proceeding onto how to
make that switch of attention occur, the next two chapters are designed to help
you psychologically prepare yourself before starting your seduction
process.