Bio-Emotive Framework: Advanced Emotional Processing for Mental & Physical Health.

Process emotions, reduce stress, and improve relationships

The Bio-Emotive Framework is a new theory of the Emotional System that emphasizes emotional processing as fundamental to the mental and physical health of men and women. It reframes how we might approach marital and relational challenges, child-behavior challenges, and our society’s most common mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, addiction, and chronic anger. There is also evidence that many chronic illnesses can have emotional components rather than being strictly signs of genetic, cognitive, chemical, or behavioral deficits.

How does Emotional Processing differ from traditional therapy?

While the Bio-Emotive Framework can ultimately integrate with any existing therapeutic model, it distinguishes itself from other frameworks in many ways.

Some key examples are:

Emotions and feelings are different; feelings cause emotions
There are two types of emotions: social and survival
There are two types of feelings: interpersonal and core
Crying is a natural autonomic response to suffering
Emotions cause thoughts, thoughts do not cause emotions

How is the Bio-Emotive Framework used?

The Bio-Emotive Framework can be used in daily life to:

reduce emotional reactivity
problem-solve procrastination
better understand a relational issue
work-through issues like anger, stress, anxiety, depression.

It can be applied to positive psychology models to work with clients who are unable to shift into positive perspectives. The Bio-Emotive Framework can also successfully inform psychologists and trained professionals when working with clients who suffer from mental-illness and various clinical diagnosis’ including but not limited to: PTSD, OCD, BPD, schizo-affective disorder, chronic illness, IBS.

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Key Concepts of the Bio-Emotive Framework

Core-Feelings: These are the feelings that form the basis of the human emotional experience and all people experience the positive or negative version of them.

Social and Survival Emotions: Understanding the distinction between emotions related to social interactions and those related to survival instincts.

Updating Impressions: The process of revising one’s perceptions and beliefs based on experiencing new, positive, updated, emotional experiences.

Feeling Beliefs: Unconscious beliefs about one’s self that form from unprocessed feelings, which cause a generalization. They influence our perception, identity, emotions, cognitive distortions and behavior.

Emotional Processing: The idea that we must “process” our feelings and emotions, not just analyze, shift-mindsets, or change our behavior.

Chronic Emotional Activation: The concept that many mental and physical health issues stem from prolonged states of unprocessed emotional (autonomic) arousal, rather than being purely psychological disorders.