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Emotional Resolution

Viscero-somatic Quieting™

At the base of Emotional Resolution® or EmRes® is a precise process which we call viscero-somatic quieting®.

Hand touching a wall. Emotional Resolution discover and remove the origin of physical sensations causing unwanted emotional responses

What is EmRes®?
Our body keeps somatic traces of all our traumatic experiences. When exposed to a stimulus that reminds the body of a past danger, the viscero-somatic memory linked to this danger is reactivated, creating the base of a disruptive 
emotional reactions. It is a prediction from our brain.


EmRes® helps the body recognize that the perceived danger is nowadays obsolete. EmRes® allows the body to integrate traumatic information and to tune-in to our current reality instead of reacting through a past memory.


To do this, we commit to experiencing the viscero-somatic response, without controlling our physical sensations or our environment, until viscero-somatic quieting™.

How does EmRes® Work?
EmRes® connects you to the origin of a difficult emotion through your physical sensations and modulates the unwanted emotional reaction permanently. This simple yet rarely used physiologic capacity is innate to all human beings.

Our certified practitioners can apply EmRes® during a session or at the moment of an emotional resurfacing and lead you through the viscero-somatic quieting™process.

Putting EmRes® into Perspective.

Most of us live our lives with an awareness of the burden negative emotional patterns create for us.

Some of us try self-help, others turn to professional help, still others self-medicate. The burden may get intermittently lighter, but it stays with us and resurfaces with the next trigger. This leads to disruptive emotional patterns: anger, stress, jealousy, phobias, anxiety, shame, avoidance, to name a few.
We are
 here to tell you that it does not have to be this way. 

The body is wired to permanently resolve dysfunctional and negative emotional patterns... if we only allow it to go through a natural process without any interference. Our body has an innate biological capacity for self-emotional resolution. From the understanding of how the body constructs emotions, several protocols were designed by the Emotional Health Institute to naturally release disruptive emotional patterns and long-lasting trauma.
Our certified practitioners can apply EmRes® during a session or at the moment of an emotional resurfacing.

What Is An Emotion?

 

There are numerous theories about the origin and modulation of emotions. Until not so long ago, one unifying concept to all of these theories was that emotions are generated in subcortical brain centers in response to external stimuli. As early as the 1880’s, William James and Carl Lange posited their theory of emotion, in which they outlined how external stimuli elicit a set of physical responses which are processed by higher cognitive functions to yield an emotion. Subsequent works by neuropsychologists, such as James Papez, further expanded on this theory, implicating the "limbic system"—the hypothalamus, anterior thalamic nucleus, hippocampus, and the cingulate gyrus—in creating affect, which was then processed by the cortical brain to produce behaviors or emotional symptoms.

Contemporary work by Antonio Damasio incorporates
the notion that sensory responses are at the core of emotions. In his “Somatic Marker Hypothesis”, Dr. Damasio describes somatic markers as the body’s sensory responses to external stimuli or circumstances. It is these somatic markers, he explains, that comprise an emotion.

More recent work by Lisa Feldman Barrett illustrates that subcortical regions are not the sole origin of emotion they were once thought to be, but rather that emotions are constructed by the whole brain. Dr. Barrett's perspective, which she lays out in How Emotions Are Made, is that emotions emerge from multiple ingredients, including information from the brain, body, external circumstances and past experiences, and are not directly caused by any one thing.


The Emotional Health Institute's focus, viscero-somatic quieting, functions by connecting subcortically generated markers to higher cognitive functions in order to neutralize or integrate disruptive emotional responses and associated behavioral patterns.

Inside a Wave -Following our physical sensations consciously allows us to resolve disruptive emotional patterns.

Interoception:
A door to Emotional Resolution®

Interoception is contemporarily defined as the sense of the internal state of the body. This can be both conscious and non-conscious. It is the sum of all the physical sensations from our internal organs, tissues, hormonal signals, immune and inflammatory responses, and other processes in the body triggered by stimuli. Emotions are crafted as our brain interprets this interoceptive data through our personal lens of personality, culture, and experience. Interoception constitutes an entrance door to the origin of our emotional difficulties.

Interoceptive awareness during an emotional difficulty offers a door to the resolution of disruptive emotional patterns.
The precise process we are using, which we call viscero-somatic quieting™, serves as the base of Emotional Resolution®. Viscero-somatic quieting™ connects you to the origin of an emotion through your physical sensations and modulates the unwanted emotional response permanently.

Where do these physical sensations come from?

From the current understanding of neuroscience, these sensations are predictions of the brain, based on past highly stressful experiences. In her theory of how emotions are constructed, Lisa Feldman Barrett explains that “in every waking moment, your brain uses past experience, organized as concepts, to guide your actions and give your sensations meaning. When the concepts involved are emotion concepts, your brain constructs instances of emotion.”

EmRes® allows the brain to update outdated predictions by consciously observing the obsolete interoceptive prediction from a safe, present-day perspective.

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