(1) because of its ability to create:

• immediate emotional awareness and understanding through its innovative pedagogy of reverse polarity  and 
• immediate participation through its skills sets that are simultaneously cutting edge and so simplified that adults and children learn them quickly and joyfully.

(2) because of its groundedness in:

• The Universality of the Experience of the Emotional Processes,
• The Universality of the Effect of Interpretative Thought on the Emotional Processes,
• The Apparent Universality Of The Effect On Interpretive Thought On Brain Chemistry,
• Hidden Treasures.    Hidden Treasures - A Mental Force Construct

The Universality of the Experience

of the Emotional Processes

Although there are degrees of intensity and awareness, the experience of emotional processes is universal.  It has been proven to be universal (1) from human experience (the most important basis) and (2) from the study of externally observable physiological responses, especially in facial expressions, developed over the past four decades by researchers such as those lead by Paul Ekman.**  It has also been proven (3) through highly advance bio-neurological studies of the brain.  Neurological studies confirm an underlying universality of the bio-neurological processes with regard to all emotional states such as anger, fear, anxiety, joy, surprise, etc...

The importance of the reality of the universality of the experience of emotional processes is that it bridges the gap between cultures, races, creeds, genders, ages, and nationality without diminishing cultural, creedal, racial, gender, age, or national importance.

The Universality of the Effect of Interpretative Thought***

on the Emotional Processes

A further advance was made during my coaching efforts to enhance the physiological experience of the emotional processes.  I achieved this by reversing emotional polarity.  To do this I would teach/coach one emotion and then introduce its opposite.  When I did this, I noted that everyone had the same physiological responses to the mental construct I used to achieve this reverse polarity.

On the one hand, whenever a person (child or adult) focused upon a set of positive mental constructs and, as instructed, held these to be truth about themselves without wavering, everyone had the same physiological responses (positive facial expressions and relaxed body language).  When asked how they experienced that process, they spoke of a sense of energy, a sustaining calm, and feeling good. 

On the other hand, when reversing the polarity of the truth to believe about themselves from a positive mental construct (+) to a negative mental construct (-), everyone had the same physiological responses (negative facial expressions and tense or depressed body language).  When asked how they experienced that process, they spoke of negative feelings, a sense of energy loss, or an escalation of energy; no one spoke of an inner sense of calm.  In other words, it created in them an experience of energy loss (like when one is depressed) and/or an uncontrollable energy increase to hit back and get even,  (as when one is angry).

This led me to formulate a postulate: “The Universality of the Effect of Thought on the Emotional Processes.”

Subsequent neurobiological studies led me to formulate a corollary: “The Universality of the Effect of Interpretative Thought upon Brain Chemistry.”

I also noted that by standing firm in positive mental constructs about one’s self, each person had more energy and was better able to channel their emotional processes to their most beneficial purposes.  This led me to formulate a positive mental construct.  This construct is called, Hidden Treasures, and is presented on the next page.

Moreover, given The Universality of the Experience of the Emotional Processes, the same positive core values in the Hidden Treasury must be true of others and hence applied to our thinking about others, other people, and other peoples.    

*  That everyone experiences emotions is a universal phenomenon.  Some people are more aware of their emotional experiences than others.  What triggers any emotion might be quite similar or diverse, but the experience, for example, of anger is universal.

** What the Face Reveals, Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (1997).