Learn to untrigger yourself with Emotional Updating.

Our Methodology

Emotional Updating is the prorietary unconscious mental technique developed by our founder, Dr. Hercules, M.D., that allows people to change outdated triggered post-traumatic emotional responses, eliminating the need to avoid, cope, or suffer from past trauma.

Unconscious Mind Engagement

Emotional Updating is a mental technique that works by accessing the unconscious mind, acknowledging that it is the storehouse of our deepest emotional responses and memories.

This access is crucial for achieving true change, as it addresses the root causes of emotional distress. This is important since many key traumas occur in early childhood before we form conscious memories.

Updating Out-of-Date Responses

Central to the Emotional Updating method is the process of identifying and updating "out-of-date" emotional responses that no longer serve the individual's present needs or circumstances.

The process enables people to replace their outdated reactions with more appropriate and beneficial responses, aligning their emotional reactions with their current reality.

Self-Empowerment Through Independence

Emotional Updating is designed to be a learnable skill. Once individuals are familiar with the process, they can apply it independently, using an app designed to guide them through the algorithm.

This self-practice aspect ensures that individuals can continue their healing journey independently, making the use of Emotional Updating a sustainable practice for life-long emotional resilience

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Applications of Emotional Updating

A versatile technique that can be used to support emotional fitness in a variety of ways:

Reactive Use
Individuals can apply the technique soon after encountering a trigger, updating their response in real-time.

Proactive Use
Before facing a known trigger, individuals can preemptively update their responses, preparing themselves for a healthier reaction.

Habitual Use
Regularly practicing Emotional Updating can help individuals continuously refine their emotional responses, maintaining emotional fitness and resilience.

How The Emotional Updating Technique Works

Access the unconscious mind

A facilitator - either a trained practitioner or an app - guides individuals through the Emotional Updating process, helping them access their unconscious mind using relaxation techniques. Communication with the unconscious mind is established using ideomotor signals, like finger movements, allowing a non-verbal exchange of information.

The technique utilizes the concept of the 'Affect Bridge' to trace back the current emotional responses to their original traumatic events, reducing reliance on external support, even if these are not consciously remembered. This engagement allows for a direct and profound change at the root level of emotional responses.

Update the response

Once the unconscious mind is engaged, the Emotional Updating process involves individuals going through a standardized series of Yes/No questions. This algorithmic approach helps identify and update the outdated emotional responses. Through this process, the unconscious mind actively performs the following steps in real-time, directed by the responses to the Yes/No questions:

  • Identify the outdated emotional response that needs updating and trace the feelings associated with this response back to the original traumatic experience.

  • Understand the feelings and the reasons behind them by reviewing the traumatic experience.

  • Utilize your current resources and understanding to address these feelings and reasons.

  • Consult the unconscious mind to determine if the old feelings are still necessary for protection. If the old feelings are deemed unnecessary, find a way to let go of them.

  • Revisit the traumatic experience to ensure the feelings have been updated.

The updated response then becomes the new, automatic reaction to the trigger.

Benefits of Emotional Updating

  • LEARNABLE SKILL

    Emotional Updating is a learnable skill that can be practiced independently on our app once mastered, with no need for on-going sessions unless desired.

  • HEALING, NOT COPING

    The Emotional Updating technique addresses trauma at the root to permanently change triggered responses, removing the need to avoid, cope, or suffer from emotional distress.

  • COMFORTABLE PROCESS

    Emotional Updating does not typically involve intense reliving of past trauma, allowing for a more comfortable way of tackling challenging issues.

  • ADDRESS ANY TRAUMA

    Emotional Updating does not require you to be able to remember the root experience, making it highly effective for trauma from early-childhood.

  • NON-CLINICAL

    The Emotional Updating technique is non-medical and non-pharmacological, and can work alongside any clinical, therapeutic, or naturopathic treatments.

  • UNIVERSAL TECHNIQUE

    The Emotional Updating process uses a standardized algorithmic approach that is universal for updating any out of date response.

5 Key Measures of Emotional Fitness

Within the program, our goal is to help our clients to consistently confront reality and respond positively. To do this, we focus on helping them cultivate these five key measures of emotional fitness:

  • VITALITY

    Having vitality means living everyday life with vigor, fully alive in the moment and actively engaged with the world around us. When we have vitality, we can fully appreciate, respond to, and influence our day-to-day experiences.

  • POSITIVITY

    Positivity is the ability to confront reality with a constructive and optimistic attitude, regardless of the circumstances. It involves seeing potential and opportunity in challenges, rather than just obstacles, drawbacks, or downsides.

  • RESILIENCY

    Resilience is the capacity to bounce back quickly from difficulties. It's about recovering strength and confidence after setbacks, failures, or rejections. Resilient individuals not only withstand adversities but also grow from them.

  • ADAPTABILITY

    Adaptability involves the flexibility to adjust thoughts and behaviors in response to changing circumstances. It is about being open to new ideas and different ways of doing things, and smoothly transitioning strategies when the situation demands.

  • SERENITY

    Serenity means maintaining a state of calm and tranquility, even in the face of turmoil. With unwavering inner stability, serenity allows for clear thinking and decision-making, free from the disruptive influences of anxiety and stress.

 FAQs

  • Using the Emotional Fitness technique you can improve and potentially eliminate the issues you wish to address by freeing yourself from the post-traumatic emotional discomfort causing or contributing to them.

  • No. When doing the Emotional Updating process, you are typically in a daydream-like state during which you are able to better access the information and processes of your unconscious mind. Most clients report being more alert than they had expected.

  • No. While doing the Emotional Updating process, although typically quite relaxed, you are always in control. The process in its entirety will be explained to you prior to doing anything to ensure that you are comfortable.

    Apart from general suggestions to encourage relaxation, this approach does not involve suggestion (unlike what one might encounter with other unconscious techniques). Instead, we use a question and answer format to help clients achieve change.

  • The Emotional Updating method focuses on helping people change learned limiting emotional responses from past traumatic experiences. These responses operate at an unconscious level within our minds. To most effectively change them, it is important to be able to directly access unconscious information and processes. Emotional Updating is a technique that does exactly that.

  • Your will meet with you Emotional Fitness Coach and they will ask you to explain the nature of your issues so that we can set objectives together for your sessions.

    They will provide you with a detailed explanation of the concepts behind and the process of the Emotional Updating method.

    Once you understand and are comfortable with the process, we will begin doing the Emotional Updating technique to address the changes you’d like to make.

  • While these other therapies can be helpful, our approach at Vivir has some definite advantages. The Emotional Updating technique addresses problems directly at an unconscious level which offers distinct benefits over more conscious options.

    These other therapies typically involve learning to cope with and manage learned post-traumatic responses. Our method on the other hand, enables one to eliminate dysfunctional responses at their root. As a result, coping with and managing emotional challenges becomes unnecessary. Furthermore, our method enables one to address issues due to trauma that occurred at any time in one’s life, even early childhood and prenatal trauma.