How Are Emotions are Made
New findings in behavioral and neuroscience have found that emotions are not wired into our brains at birth or any time after. Emotions are predictions or guesses grounded in previous experience. They are triggered by current sensory information about what is happening around us, like what we see, hear, smell, touch and feel with our skin.
Predictions reflecting the past
Emotions are an aggregate of all physical sensations held in the body that are linked to specific predictions about the present moment. This creates the basis for our emotional experience. Fear, anxiety, anger, grief, jealousy, avoidance, PTSD, behavior patterns like OCD, stuttering, addictions and psychosomatic symptoms are all based on this link between held physical sensations and mental predictions about our current environment.
How does it work?
Our experiences are recorded on two levels: conscious (small capacity) and sub-conscious (endless storage). During high stress or trauma, we experience a kind of amnesia in our conscious mind as it disconnects from the situation. But our subconscious mind records everything. During the disconnection, memories of the experienced physical sensations are embedded in the body as a sensory pathway. This is particularly true during gestation, birth and infancy. These sensory pathways remain in place to be triggered by events as we go through life.
When elements of past trauma are presented from the five senses, and the subconscious mind can link it to an embedded sensory pathway, it predicts a similar outcome and instantly generates physical sensations. Most of the time, it's a false prediction. But an emotion has been triggered all the same.
False predictions throw the conscious mind out of balance. It can not reconcile the internal tsunami of physical sensations with the current external situation. The emotion becomes a tidal wave that sometimes blocks out reason and clear thought–it can be overwhelming and does not make sense simultaneously.
Removing triggered false predictions
Emotional Resolution, EmRes, is a natural and safe process to remove the subconscious link between the embedded sensory pathway and the memory of the past trauma. EmRes uses the body's natural ability to remove unprocessed emotions. With no stuck memories, the subconscious can't make false predictions, and emotion's physical sensations cannot be reproduced again—not now, not tomorrow, in 5 days or ever.
EmRes sessions are conducted around the world with repeatable results.
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