About EBT
Welcome to Emotional Brain Training
About Emotional Brain Training
When the emotional brain is out of balance, we naturally develop problems with mood, relationships, behavior and health. EBT focuses on the root cause: stress in the emotional brain. Instead of forcing yourself to change your behavior, you use a unique, proven method to ease stress in your emotional brain. Mood, relationships, behavior and health naturally improve.
Begin by learning the basic tools to change your emotional brain so that you naturally process stress in a highly effective way. Once you have improved the way you process the daily stresses of life, then the 6 EBT Kits will guide you to creating lasting change, all because you have create balance in your emotional brain.
The Process of Learning EBT
1) Sign up for a Free Consultation Phone Call
2) Complete Wired for Joy in a Telegroup or a Local Group
3) Complete Kit 1, Kit 2, Kit 3, Kit 4, Kit 5 & Kit 6 in either :
- an All Kits Telegroup or a Local Group
4) Become an EBT Graduate, help others and keep feeling great.
What's Emotional Brain Training?
Imagine training your emotional brain for optimal fitness
EBT is a program designed to give you the power to rewire your own emotional brain.
This "self-directed positive emotional plasticity" is directed at the powerhouse of the
emotional brain.
What is the emotional brain?
The emotional brain is made up of the lower two areas of the brain, the mammalian
brain and the reptilian brain. It is the center of our emotional connections and our
pleasure drives and manages how we process daily life. When the emotional brain is in
balance, everything improves - thoughts, feelings, relationships, behavior and
health.
We can rewire our own emotional brain
The emotional brain is highly plastic by necessity allowing us to adapt to an ever
changing world - the basis for the survival of the species. However, rather than
changing by insight or knowledge (thinking brain processing), it changes most
effectively in response to experience in real time. EBT provides those
experiences in the form of carefully designed courses ("EBT Kits") that have been
developed through 30 years of testing.
The brain has an emotional set point
The emotional brain responds to whatever environment we're in and over time
establishes a set point based on that way of living. If we've had a lot of stress,
it assumes that more stress is on the way, so it prepares itself by establishing a set
point in stress. That stressed out state feels "safe" because the brain prefers
a known state to an unknown one. However, that set point in stress spawns
problems in nearly every aspect of life. A set point in balanced, positive states
promotes health and happiness.
The goal of EBT is to move up that set point.
The goal of EBT is to train the brain to switch from stressed states to states
of well-being so that the brain's set point begins to move out of stress and return
to its natural default state of balance and well-being. As the set point improves,
stress symptoms tend to fade and the rewards of a life in balance become
more abundant.
The method provides a mind, body spirit approach to health care
The program integrates these powerful brain fitness tools with a healthy lifestyle
and effective health care. Since the brain craves meaningful rewards, the tools don't
simply result in an absence of stress and downstream health problems, but lead
to states of intense pleasure and the rewards of a purposeful life.
What training brings the best results?
You begin training your emotional brain based on six courses or kits. Each one
includes a journal (workbook), and corresponding videos, audio programs and web-based
support. Each course builds on the tools and rewiring accomplished in the previous kit,
with a special concentration in one of the rewards that have a powerful chemical impact
on the brain.
For best results, you access community and support. The emotional brain is the
social brain, and it changes most easily and quickly with a small group of people
working in community. The EBT Kits are the fitness workouts for the emotional brain,
and the weekly 90-minute small group sessions provide the inspiration, know-how,
connection and fun to move through the courses effectively.
You can choose to enroll in a group in your community. Just check the On Site EBT
Locator for providers near you or see the schedule of upcoming EBT Telegroups.
Whether you choose the telegroups, one-on-one coaching by telephone and local groups,
you will have the guidance of a certified EBT Professional Coach, a health professional
who has completed extensive personal and professional training in the method. Our
groups are so powerful that those who enroll in groups have 10 times higher success
rate (completing the program) that those who use the method on their own.
What's an EBT group like? The class meets weekly, usually for 90 minutes, with 6 to
12 people in each group - plus the EBT Coach. Each session starts with brief meditation
and relaxation. Then several people who feel stressed are coached through using the
tools in real time - switching up their brain to the optimal state as others
observe.
With each use of the tools, the brain moves to the optimal state of joy, and that
joy is catching. So by being present in the group, not only do participants learn how
to use the tools more effectively, but they experience moments of joy. In addition,
there is plenty of time for sharing accomplishments and challenges and setting goals
for the coming week.
EBT groups are scheduled in 12-week sessions with a week or two between
sessions. Most people re-enroll in the same group and stay with their small community.
They deepen relationships and have the thrill of watching one and other transform. The
enthusiasm and shared experience of the EBT community adds to program effectiveness and
the pleasure of the training.
The EBT Kits
Our EBT community includes people from every walk of life, as the emotional brain
training is the same regardless of age, gender, race, sexual orientation or income.
This aspect of the human brain is universal and the process of rewiring it crosses all
boundaries, providing an important shared experience.
These courses have now been updated to include video support, membership in an
online community, downloadable audios and 24-hour access to web-based tools. Our goal?
To make moving through these courses one of the most powerful and rewarding experiences
of your life! What follows is a description of each EBT Kit:
EBT Kit 1: Sanctuary
Use the tools to process stress in a highly effective way, so that you can move
through stress and create a sense of peace and power from within, while moving up your
brain's emotional set point.
EBT Kit 2: Authenticity
Deepen your skills in really knowing and accepting yourself and learn how to rewire
your first circuit ("a survival circuit") so that it is easier to create habit changes.
Give yourself surges of pleasure from the experience of feeling whole.
EBT Kit 3: Vibrancy
Now that the set point has moved up significantly, learn to make lifestyle changes.
They are easier to make now, and you can create a lifestyle of intense natural
pleasure. Productivity improves. Rewire your second circuit ("survival circuit") to
release unbalanced emotions and make it easier to experience highly rewarding
moods.
EBT Kit 4: Integrity
Tell the story of your life, and whenever you hit a stress circuit during the
telling, rewire that circuit to experience a fresh new sense of clarity about your
life. Identify your purpose in life and the ideals that are most important to you.
Rewire your third circuit ("survival circuit") to eliminate distancing or merging and
pave the way for easier access to more moments of intimacy in daily life.
EBT Kit 5: Intimacy
With your set point in the range of balance, rewire your emotional brain for
emotional connection with others, sensual and sexual pleasure and the joy of loving
companionship. Intimacy is the most rewarding aspect of life and a natural stress
breaker.
EBT Kit 6: Spirituality
Having rewired your emotional set point for a state of intense natural pleasure,
appreciate the abundance of rewards you experience. Nourish your growing compassion and
spiritual awareness - however you define it - that naturally appears when the emotional
brain is in balance.
Lifelong Emotional Brain Fitness
Physical fitness is a lifelong process. So is emotional fitness. Many people stay
connected to the EBT community after completing the six courses. Even thought they have
moved up the mood set point and have a full complement of tools, they choose to
continue to access more of the method's rewards.
All in all EBT offers the vision, the tools and the community to move up your
emotional set point and create a new level of health and happiness in daily life. Join
the revolution in health care: train your emotional brain for optimal fitness! Start
today.
