The #1 global problem is stress, which encodes circuits in the emotional brain that cause or exacerbate most mental and physical health problems and hinder our emotional and spiritual evolution.
Science has shown that these circuits are highly plastic. Emotional brain training (EBT) is a scientific method designed to empower people to rewire these circuits to experience optimal physiology, exceptional resilience, and deepened spirituality.
The clinical goal of EBT is to reverse allostatic load, the best predictor of disease and mortality, and establish a brain set point in homeostasis, as evidenced by awareness of higher purpose and the elevated emotions of love, compassion, gratitude, hope, forgiveness, awe, and joy. Using EBT to improve physical health creates a cascade of emotional and spiritual benefits that further enhance well-being.
The strategy of empowering people to rewire their stress response to promote optimal health is a new paradigm in healthcare. EBT has codified skills for the effective processing of emotions at each of the brain's physiologic brain states (“stress levels”). The method involves repeatedly applying these state-specific techniques to switch off maladaptive, allostatic circuits and activate adaptive, homeostatic wires until they are so strong and dominant that lasting changes occur.
Each use of the skills produces the experience of connecting to the deepest part of ourselves, others, and the most profound meanings of life. EBT is part of a new emphasis in healthcare on using science-based techniques to improve physiology and health that help us create joy in our lives and honor our inherent strength, goodness, and wisdom.
Our Vision
A world with emotional health for all, through the application of the science and the practice of emotional brain training.
Our Mission
To train professionals, educate the public, conduct research, and provide services to the underserved based on neuroscientific, evidence-based methods of rewiring the emotional brain.
Already, over half a million people have learned these brain-based skills. The Solution Foundation has developed a free preventive app. President Biden has included EBT as part of the Cancer Moonshot project and training of health professionals serving the underserved for smoking cessation has already begun.
Twelve peer-reviewed studies of EBT have shown immediate and long-term positive health and quality of life outcomes. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Kentucky will launch a collaborative research project on applications of EBT to mental and behavioral health in January 2025. A program for the Society of Public Health Educators and brief courses on the basic science and practice of EBT for health professionals are planned.
Currently, donations to the Solution Foundation support projects to train health professionals in emotional brain training and to conduct research to improve our understanding of the effectiveness of rewiring the emotional brain in improving health.