Bioenergy economy
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Bioenergy Economy (BEE) is an integrative care model towards the sustainable development of happiness. This model is focused on how to optimize energy investments in a timely manner to maximize functionality. Bioenergy Economy develops body awareness and mind-body integrity by moderating bodily, cognitive, behavioral, and mindful modalities. Integrated energy investments are then attuned to the realization of salutogenesis..[1]
As a meta-diagnostic care and psychoeducation approach, Bioenergy Economy aims at evolving consciousness to a state of nonduality, through adopting a top-down organization to facilitate health and healing. Whole-body experience, and nondual value system, are the main strategies of this approach.
Overview[edit]
Bioenergy Economy was developed by Farzad Goli M.D., a psychosomatic psychotherapist and faculty instructor at Energy Medicine University. It was initially applied as a consciousness evolution and salutogenic program. Bioenergy Economy-based Health Improvement (BEHI) was initially coined to emphasize the health promotion aspect of the approach. Bioenergy Economy-based Health Improvement has been gradually developed into an evidence-based meta-diagnostic care system.
It integrates psychodynamic and bioenergetic approaches into biosemiotics as a systemic meta-model of embodied cognition and integrative care.[2][3] From this viewpoint, the human body is a complex meshwork of meaning-making systems[4]. Within these systems, mutual information flows in the form of the material, energy, symbolic, and reflective functions.[5]
As a nondual model that aims to manage the physical, mental, social, and spiritual aspects of an individual’s life via integrating the multilevel embodied mind, the Bioenergy Economy meaning-making system has four levels:
- Body (the physical)
- Narrative (the symbolic)
- Relationship (the communicative)
- Intentionality (the reflective)
Bioenergy Economy practice is not problem-focused, rather it intends to change the individual’s problem by changing the meaning-making contexts. Therefore, BEE is more focused on the top-down approach than the bottom-up. It is a consciousness-based model of care within the field of medicine[6]
BEE adopts a contextual approach and tries to optimize free energy in the four "R" steps:
- "Releasing" the blockages
- Psychophysical "Reprocessing"
- "Resonating" biofield
- "Rising" energy from the lower levels of BEE to higher levels
The lower BEE levels are releasing and having pleasure, where the higher levels demonstrate constructing and being pleasure.
To actualize holistic health in all aspects, BEE employs a systematic, evolutionary, and clinical approach. It introduces a feasible model to cohere body-mind, self-other, human-nature, and treatment-life dichotomies.
Basic Concepts[edit]
BEE can be observed and defined in four levels. It aims to guide individuals to direct their bioenergy investment from the basic levels of economy into more sustainable ones. The four major levels of BEE are:
- Releasing level: This is the basic level of the Bioenergy Economy. At this level, information processing is at a minimum. Individuals tend to find the most accessible way to satisfy their needs by the instant release of their tensions. Therefore, they experience the lowest level of the energy economy. In releasing economy, pleasure is made by drives, ancient mind modules of our brain, and conditional learning. These ingredients are activated in a specific situation followed by interpreted signs in the environment and formed behaviors.
- Cumulative level: At this level, the individual has to be able to overlook and inhibit instant pleasure for the sake of more pleasure. To reach more release and pleasure over time, individuals must postpone their searching, digestive, and phallic drives to an appropriate time. This helps overcome the inertia of the physical body. The individual has the opportunity to consume available resources (having pleasure) but not satisfaction (meeting pleasure). Although this level is more advanced than the Releasing level, it causes some dissatisfaction due to obeying behavioral ethics. Individuals are always stuck in the dilemma of selection between happiness and goodness (Hedonic dilemma) or between their own and others’ benefits (Altruism dilemma).
- Proactive level: At the proactive level, the individual is the elector between instant and higher pleasures but knows these two levels are insufficient for producing sustainable pleasure. A mature mind at this level tends to build their selves and the meaning of their lives by “constructing” new resources and approaches.
- Agapistic level: At the agapistic level (unconditioned level), the individual understands that they must turn their attention from objects to the bodily attunement of self and desire. The sustainable development of happiness as a more intrinsic and contextual pleasure is raised from the proactive-bodily extension of the “self” to a boundaryless and nondual identity. Consciousness is directed towards harmonizing its construction with “being.” This is achieved by developing a relational and proactive understanding of the “self.” At this level, the aim is to harmonize consciousness and self through mindful cathexis for sustainable development of pleasure and deconditioning of happiness. It is a transition from a state of happiness about something to “being” happiness.
Four Fields[edit]
To reach the last level of Bioenergy Economy and therefore develop sustainable happiness, the individual must organize their bioenergy investment in the four fields of the mechanical body (physical body), symbolic body (narrative), interpersonal body (relation), and transpersonal body (intention), respectively. Body awareness is the basic strategy used in all BEE fields for making investments more timely and more optimal in the present. Body awareness and its integration in each field both enhances its function and helps other bodies to become harmonized and integrated.
Efficacy[edit]
The effectiveness of Bioenergy Economy has been proven in clinical trials, empirical studies, and case studies conducted in varied contexts, including improvement of mood, reduction of anxiety, pain control in migraine patients,[7] treatment of autoimmune disorders such as ulcerative colitis and pemphigus,[8] improvement of psychological and physical symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome,[9] amelioration of tethered cord symptoms and signs, improvement of anxiety sensitivity and attention bias,[10] teaching performance, presence experience, self-concept of body, and obesity.[11]
This model was effective in reducing anxiety, depression, and heart rate, and enhancing the quality of life in post-MI patients.[12]
See Also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Vinje, Hege Forbech; Langeland, Eva; Bull, Torill (2017), Mittelmark, Maurice B.; Sagy, Shifra; Eriksson, Monica; Bauer, Georg F., eds., "Aaron Antonovsky's Development of Salutogenesis, 1979 to 1994", The Handbook of Salutogenesis, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 25–40, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04600-6_4, ISBN 978-3-319-04600-6, PMID 28590660, retrieved 2022-06-23
- ↑ Goli, Farzad (2010-08-16). Bioenergy Economy: A Methodological Study on Bioenergy-Based Therapies. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 978-1-4535-3867-8. Search this book on
- ↑ Jacobson, E (1938). "Progressive muscle relaxation". J Abnorm Psychol. 75 (1): 18.
- ↑ Bogusławska-Tafelska, Marta (2019). "A culture of consciousness': An ecolinguistic perspective on the conceptual-terminological plane of the proposal. A pilot study". The Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education. 12 (2): 11–153.
- ↑ Hutson, Michael; Ward, Adam, eds. (2015). Oxford Textbook of Musculoskeletal Medicine. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/med/9780199674107.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-175213-1. Search this book on
- ↑ Benor, Daniel J (2004). Consciousness, bioenergy and healing: Self-healing and energy medicine for the 21st century (2 ed.). Wholistic Healing Publications. ISBN 9780975424803. Search this book on
- ↑ Derakhshan, A (2016). "Effect of a bioenergy economy program on pain control, depression, and anxiety in patients with migraine headache". International Journal of Body, Mind and Culture. 3 (1): 30–45.
- ↑ Goli, Farzad (2016). Biosemiotic medicine: healing in the world of meaning. Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-35092-9. OCLC 956278089. Search this book on
- ↑ Safavifard, S., Comparative effectiveness of bio-energy economy with cognitive therapy based mindfulness on depression, anxiety, and physical symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome in psychology. 2018
- ↑ Keyvanipour, Maryam; Goli, Farzad; Bigdeli, Imanollah; Boroumand, Amirreza; Rafieinia, Parvin; Sabahi, Parviz (2019-09-23). "The Effects of a Bioenergy Economy Based Program on Attention Bias Modification in People With High Anxiety Sensitivity". International Clinical Neuroscience Journal. 6 (4): 133–139. doi:10.15171/icnj.2019.25. ISSN 2383-1871. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Ghassemi, Z; Vahedi, S; Tabatabaei, S. M; Alivandi-Vaf, M (2020). "Developing and Studying the Effectiveness of Bioenergy Economy Program in Body Self-concept and Weight Loss of Women with Obesity". International Journal of Body, Mind and Culture. 7 (3): 126–139.
- ↑ Naji, F; Rahnamay-Namin, M; Roohafza, H; Sharbafchi, M. R (2020). "The Effectiveness of Improving Body Awareness Skills on Anxiety, Depression, and Quality of Life in Patients after Cardiac Surgery". International Journal of Body, Mind and Culture. 7 (2): 89–97.
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