From the Publisher
DS Barron’s
There’s No Such thing as a Negative Emotion confronts one hundred years of psychological tradition in how its mental and physical body-based paradigm of the human condition screens out seeing the actual cause of the nature of wounding in childhood and how to treat that wounding in later life. Barron offers that neither traditional nor alternative forms of psychology and therapy have never seen the architecture of the human emotional body. As such, he offers EBE, or Emotional Body Enlightenment as more of a spiritual practice for the enlightenment of the emotional body.
For EBE, all categories of psychopathologic diagnoses in psychology and psychiatry see causes at either the physical, in terms of brain chemistry, or the mental, in terms of distorted maps or belief systems regarding the self and the world. As such, we are locked out of seeing the true causes that lie in the domain of the emotional body, the presence of which is rendered invisible to those still slave to seeing and experiencing the world through paradigms governed by mental and physical assumptions and parameters.
Barron offers there are three levels of change in human growth: self-improvement, transformation, and transmutation. Self-improvement is based in changing what we do behaviorally. Transformation occurs when we change the beliefs and attitudes that drive our behaviors. But only transmutation, the healing of the hidden emotional body congestions that drive why we possess the beliefs and attitudes that drive our behaviors, will lead to lasting and authentic personal and global change. He asserts it is now that time in history for both western revelatory-based and eastern ego-transcendence-based spiritual systems to see that their time in our evolution of consciousness is over, as both demonize the self’s journey through flesh-expression in profound and limiting ways. It is now time for a humanistic-based spirituality that teaches us how to live into our humanity as divine in itself within new paradigmatic guidelines of self-discovery whose authority lies within the human heart and not without.
--This text refers to an alternate
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From the Author
The premises of EBE enlightenment of the emotional body, discussed fully in Daniel Barron's
There's No Such Thing as a Negative Emotion:
1) At the level of human personality, we are emotional beings first, mental beings second, and physical beings third
2) All human activity is comprised of 4 elements: motivation-intention-action-outcome
3) There is no such thing as a negative emotion
4) The core of effective parenting is to give children the experience that a parent feels what the child is feeling at the same time the child is feeling it
5) Emotional body wounding takes the form of conscious & specific subpersona personalities that arise in a universal developmental sequence and express as the architecture of our unconscious shadow and its hidden motivations
6) Societally functional behaviors & lifestyles are just as based in unconscious wounds as woundedness as the nonfunctional, where unexamined happiness is a drug to numb inner conflict
7) Substance abuse is the substitute for the lack of emotional nourishment responsible for its use in the first place
8) Authentic self-love, or healthy egoism, is a radically different state of Consciousness than self-esteem, self-respect, & other strategic performance-based states of self-image
9) Human beings are incapable of non-self-interest, altruism an anti-self delusion that undermines healthy nourishment in relationship with ourselves, others, and Spirit
10) Traditionally rigid facilitant/therapist boundaries taught as necessary for sound therapy unnaturally prevent the heart connection necessary for true emotional healing
11) The way we transact romance always involves projection of unmet dependent needs from childhood onto an adult partner, and until those wounds are healed, no relationship theory or therapy will ever support healthy authentic intimacy
12) Committed monogamy is the only form of sexual expression that challenges our deepest fears of emotive surrender and risk, and in the absence of effective emotional body de-congestion, open forms of sexual behavior are an addictive unconscious flight from the terror of real intimacy
