Premises
The twelve philosophical premises of EBE comprise the overarching paradigm of emotional body enlightenment practice. They represent a universally applicable emotional-based value system owing to the fact all human beings possess the same emotional body digestive system and the same emotional body nourishment requirements, despite any differences in culture, age, gender, sexual orientation, or spiritual belief systems. The degree these premises are not embodied as the governing dynamic of human life is the degree one’s own effort of change will be limited to cosmetic and not actual ground dynamical transformation.
The other aspects to EBE practice are the actual clinical steps of journaling and retrogression through which the facilitant moves; the specific themes of relatedness between the emotional growth facilitator and the facilitant; and detoxification from the false fuel or foods of life, many of which are societally approved, that allow the unnatural Heart of the strategic self-Image to remain in power over the being. All are necessary to heal the emotional body congestion and free up manifestation of the Heart of one’s authentic Personhood.
The premises of EBE enlightenment of the emotional body, discussed fully in the book 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