What we carry within ourselves influences how we perceive reality
What we carry is the result of our past experiences, what impressions they left in us, and how well we have (or have not) processed the emotions that those past experiences activated within ourselves. When that load is high due to a significant intensity of unprocessed emotions–and is slanted towards distorting our perceptions due to being rooted in feeling beliefs based in those unprocessed emotions–our lives are likely to be chock full of unnecessary conflicts, inexplicable physical ailments, and (seemingly infinitely) repeating patterns of dysfunctional relationships.
How do we release this load? Through healthy emotional processing. What is healthy emotional processing and how do we do it? Well, our guest for this episode, Dr. Douglas Tataryn teaches exactly this. He is the originator of the Bio-Emotive Framework.
Dr. Douglas Tataryn received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1991 from the University of Arizona. He was a research methodologist and statistician for 20 years and left his position as a professor at the University of Manitoba in 2001 (faculties of Medicine and Nursing) to become a full-time Clinician and Performance Coach. He is also also a long-time meditator (45+ years) and the founder of the Bio-Emotive Framework. He conducts seminars in it, integral theory, sports psychology, and the integration of psychology and spirituality and becoming a popular guest of podcast platforms and radio networks.
His Bio-Emotive Team is creating online programs to teach healthy emotional processing for people around the world, and prior to Covid-19 Dr. Tataryn was beginning to travel internationally to host workshop intensives. He is presently working with advanced meditators and spiritual teachers, entrepreneurs, and professional athletes on removing emotional barriers to goals and helping them live a healthy and balanced life. He does his Coaching work using his own version of Integral Theory (EBIQ Integral-presented at the 2010 Integral Theory conference) and the Four Facets Model of Human Transformation.
The Bio-Emotive Framework is an approach to our emotional lives that enables us an ability to understand the root of our distorting emotional load and how to release it (emotional processing) in a way that allows us to step into a new way of being in the world. It gives us the tools to not only identify and delineate the core feelings directing our behaviors, and an understanding of what is standing in the way of a happy, fully-embodied life, but also a practice that supports us in the actual healing of our past and stepping into that happier life.
These are topics that we will not be discussing at length in this interview since they were already covered in the first one. Instead, Dr. Tataryn is on the show to deepen our discussion on the Bio-Emotive Framework by contextualizing it within his Four Facets Of Human Transformation.
Wake Up
Clean Up
Grow Up
Looking Around
The Four Facets Of Human Transformation is based in Integral Theory and this interview explores these four facets, how they develop (or don’t develop) over time, what roles those facets play, what it looks like when one is more developed than the others, and how we might develop those facets in a way that leads us to removing perceptual distortions and living happier, healthier, more embodied lives within ourselves and within our relationships.
This is an excellent resource for Dr. Douglas Tataryn’s work. It has tons of free and paid content for you to dig into to learn more.
You can use this free link to find core feelings that are causing you distress (we tend to carry our core feeling around inside us, as out emotional baggage): http://tinyurl.com/BEFcore
Use this free link to find inter-personal feelings causing you distress (these are good for communicating your distress to others): http://tinyurl.com/BEFstress
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What we carry is the result of our past experiences, what impressions they left in us, and how well we have (or have not) processed the emotions that those past experiences activated within ourselves. When that load is high due to a significant intensity of unprocessed emotions–and is slanted towards distorting our perceptions due to being rooted in feeling beliefs based in those unprocessed emotions–our lives are likely to be chock full of unnecessary conflicts, inexplicable physical ailments, and (seemingly infinitely) repeating patterns of dysfunctional relationships.
His Bio-Emotive Team is creating online programs to teach healthy emotional processing for people around the world, and prior to Covid-19 Dr. Tataryn was beginning to travel internationally to host workshop intensives. He is presently working with advanced meditators and spiritual teachers, entrepreneurs, and professional athletes on removing emotional barriers to goals and helping them live a healthy and balanced life. He does his Coaching work using his own version of Integral Theory (EBIQ Integral-presented at the 2010 Integral Theory conference) and the Four Facets Model of Human Transformation.
