THE BIG PICTURE Macrocosmic...

The steps 2 and 3 from SORTING to EMOTIONAL RESPONSE are nothing but CREATION, the first of the four principle cosmic forces, in action in the inner world in response to an outer world event (cheating). We must understand though that the emotional response generated suffering, emotional outburst, anger etc... have not been created by the cosmic force of CREATION rather they have been generated (as seen in the previous discussion) with the help of Susan’s own mental-setup which is an inherent part of her SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The force of CREATION is universally and unconditionally available and at work in our inner world. Which part of the inner world gets to harness it the INNATE INTELLIGENCE or the SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE depends on the use or misuse of our FREE WILL. In the present scenario Susan, in her unawareness of working of the mind, has BY DEFAULT chosen her MENTAL-SETUP (a part of SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE) to harness the energy of the cosmic principle of creation. When we repeatedly and continuously use a particular faculty of our inner world it becomes our DEFAULT SETTING. That is unless we become consciously and intensely aware of what is going on inside us and exercise the power of FREE WILL within us and consciously choose to use or harness a different faculty of our inner world (for example innate intelligence instead of mental setup) the DEFAULT setting faculty would automatically and continuously be operating through us even without our knowledge. So now we clearly appreciate that though a pure cosmic force (CREATION) harnessed wrongly by the use (rather abuse) of our FREE WILL it has created negative emotion and experiences in us.
An analogy to make this phenomenon clearer, in a cinema theatre light is being projected from the projector on to the screen. If we were to place the film rolls containing beautiful sceneries of tulip gardens, mountains, sunrise etc then beautiful images would come to life on the screen but if we were to place film rolls containing ugly images of crime, war, violence etc detestable images would spring to life on the screen. Similarly the cosmic force of CREATION is the continuously switched on PROJECTOR LIGHT and the MENTAL FACULTIES (innate intelligence or the social intelligence etc) are the FILM ROLLS placed in front of it. Whatever the faculty we use in front of it so is the imagery of the experience generated within us.
Once created the thought (right from sorting to the emotional response) comes with its own power of MAINTENANCE that is its capability to hang around in our inner world. But it would not remain the same all through it would undergo CONSTANT CHANGE (EVOLUTION). With this constant change it would generate a myriad multitude of responses and emotions in our system. Finally the cosmic principle of DEATH (REJUVINATION) would come into action and remove the thought, its modifications and its emotional responses as well. That is why we say “TIME HEALS ALL WOUNDS”. We must understand here that it is not the time that heals all the wounds rather the cosmic force of REJUVINATION that removes the old thought and its associated responses from our system to make way for fresh ones. But here again we misuse our FREE WILL, we do not allow the cosmic force of DEATH & REJUVINATION to enter and cleanse our system instead we repeatedly abuse the forces of CREATION and MAINTENANCE and hang on to the event gone by constantly and hence multiply our own suffering and misery.