Hacking Your Emotionhal Firewall 1.0

Hacking Your Emotional Firewall v1.0 8/1/2024

@[email protected] John Sawers Associate Director of Product Engineering at Privia
Health https://emotionalapi.com @[email protected] he/his/him

@[email protected] What’s Coming •Station Wagons •Descartes •Firewalls •TCP Handshakes •This
One Weird Trick for Successful Therapy •Algorithms For Emotional Connection

“I feel like my body is a station wagon in
which I drive my brain around, like a suburban mother taking the kids to hockey practice.”[1] — Douglas Coupland, Microserfs

@[email protected] A Firewall •Let’s imagine there is a fi rewall
between our minds and our bodies •Mind on the inside, body on the outside •The cause of the disconnect

@[email protected] Illustration

@[email protected] How A Firewall Works

@[email protected] How A Firewall Works DENY DENY DENY DENY

@[email protected] Taught To Ignore Our Bodies The signals are blocked

@[email protected] How It Gets Built

@[email protected] How It Gets Built •Cleaning Your Plate

@[email protected] How It Gets Built •Cleaning Your Plate •Going To
The Bathroom

@[email protected] How It Gets Built •Cleaning Your Plate •Going To
The Bathroom •Hugging a Relative

@[email protected] •Cleaning Your Plate •Going To The Bathroom •Hugging a
Relative •Emotions We Don’t Understand or Can’t Process How It Gets Built

@[email protected] How It Applies To Adults •Overwork •Exploitative Work •Abusive
Relationships

@[email protected] The Solution Is Connection “You will be able to
have increased willpower, stronger rationale, and the ability to respond to the present-day situation with behaviors that are most reasonable.”[2] — Dr. Douglas Tataryn

@[email protected] A Detour Into TCP

@[email protected] Transmission Control Protocol “TCP is connection-oriented, meaning that sender
and receiver fi rstly needs to establish a connection based on agreed parameters; they do this through three-way handshake procedure. The server must be listening (passive open) for connection requests from clients before a connection is established.”[3]

@[email protected] TCP Handshake SYN SYN-ACK ACK

@[email protected] Your Body “Emotional Response s are activated in the
body, in response the the world around you.”[4] — Dr. Douglas Tataryn

@[email protected] Body and Society We didn’t start the fi rewall

@[email protected] Descartes No, that’s not him

@[email protected] “This is Descartes' error: …the separation of the most
re fi ned operations of mind from the structure and operation of a biological organism.”[5] —Antonio Damasio

@[email protected] Serotonin The gut provides approximately 95% of total body
serotonin[6]

@[email protected] Gut-Brain Axis The gut-brain axis is a bidirectional communication
network that links the enteric and central nervous systems. The … nerves within the gastrointestinal tract, all link the gut and the brain, allowing the brain to in fl uence intestinal activities, including activity of functional immune effector cells; and the gut to in fl uence mood, cognition, and mental health.[6]

@[email protected] HOWTO Connect To Our Bodies How do we overcome
this conditioning that tells us our bodies are separate? How do we overcome the alienation of these parts of ourselves? How do we receive the valuable messages from disconnected parts?

@[email protected] Peeking Around The Firewall

@[email protected] I found a good algorithm Two, actually.

@[email protected] NEDERA The Nedera Process is resonance-based emotional processing. Emotional
responses are activated in the body, in response to the world around you. You then interpret those emotions through your unique, personal lens of interpretation, and create a story about what it means and how you should react to it.[7] — Dr. Douglas Tataryn

@[email protected] Focusing Created by Dr. Eugene Gendlin, Focusing is a
process that integrates feeling and thinking, body and mind.

@[email protected] The Felt Sense •The determining factor in therapeutic success
•Body Based •Compassionate •A Learnable Skill

@[email protected] My TODO List

@[email protected] Focusing 1. Clear a space 1. Space cleared

1. Clear a space 2. Felt sense @[email protected] SYN Focusing

1. Clear a space 2. Felt sense @[email protected] SYN Focusing
1. Space cleared 2. Felt Sense appears

1. Clear a space 2. Felt sense 3. Finding a
handle @[email protected] SYN Focusing

@[email protected] 1. Space cleared 2. Felt Sense appears 3. Handle:
Spikey Iron Ball 4. Worthless, then a shift 1. Clear a space 2. Felt sense 3. Finding a handle 4. Resonating 5. Asking 6. Receiving SYN-ACK SYN ACK Focusing

@[email protected] SYN-ACK SYN 1. Space cleared 2. Felt Sense appears
3. Handle: Spikey Iron Ball 4. Worthless, then a shift 5. Powerless, then a shift 1. Clear a space 2. Felt sense 3. Finding a handle 4. Resonating 5. Asking 6. Receiving ACK Focusing

handle 4. Resonating 5. Asking 6. Receiving @[email protected] SYN-ACK SYN ACK 1. Space cleared 2. Felt Sense appears 3. Handle: Spikey Iron Ball 4. Worthless, then a shift 5. Powerless, then a shift 6. Hopeless, then a shift Focusing

handle 4. Resonating 5. Asking 6. Receiving @[email protected] SYN-ACK SYN ACK 1. Space cleared 2. Felt Sense appears 3. Handle: Spikey Iron Ball 4. Worthless, then a shift 5. Powerless, then a shift 6. Hopeless, then a shift 7.“I can never succeed”, then a shift Focusing

@[email protected] ACK

@[email protected] SYN City

@[email protected] What’s Next There are great things ahead for you
when you do this work. Purpose, wholeness, con fi dence The Bodymind, this treatment of the body as an essential part of the self is a part of many different therapeutic approaches, because it works.

@[email protected] Paths Forward: Focusing Focusing is an experiential, embodied and
evidence-based practice of self-re fl ection.[8] https://focusing.org/

@[email protected] Paths Forward: Bio-Emotive The Bio-Emotive Framework advocates for the
healthy acknowledgement, understanding, and expression of emotions, for all people.[9] https://bioemotiveframework.com/

@[email protected] Paths Forward: Polyvagal Polyvagal Theory emphasizes the role the
autonomic nervous system plays in regulating our health and behavior.[10] https://www.polyvagalinstitute.org/

@[email protected] Paths Forward: Somatics Somatic Therapy holds that the body
is a largely untapped resource for psychotherapy[11] https://somatics.org/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/somatic-therapy

@[email protected] Internal Family Systems: combines systems thinking with the view
that the mind is made up of relatively discrete subpersonalities, each with its own unique viewpoint and qualities.[12] https://ifs-institute.com/ Paths Forward: IFS

@[email protected] TCP is connection-oriented

Be Like TCP Be Connection-Oriented

Hacking Your Emotional Firewall Thank You So Much! https://emotionalapi.com/after-the- fi
rewall-talk/ •References •Slides •Videos, including “Hacking Your Emotional API” •Links •Workshops Visit this link for:

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