The Emotional Ascension Model

The Human Emotions - More than you Thought

            The human emotion is the most powerful stimulus the universe has ever known. A single emotion has the power to not only influence self but can also influence powerfully others and everything else in and around our environments. It is through the power of emotions that has guided the human race to do all things that have been done, and will be done. No other force within the universe is as powerful as the human emotion, or at least until we finally meet our match with a face-to-face encounter with invading extraterrestrials that have the power to read minds and control thoughts. Unlikely as that may be, we must continue our forward focus in understanding this tremendous power.

            What’s to be done with this knowledge of emotions? Well, throughout history we’ve used our emotions to inform, to persuade, to request, to develop new ideas, to change the world, and we will continue using emotions to change everything around us until all things end.

            A lot of people have tried to figure out human emotions, a lot of people have failed, and very few have actually come up with credible insights.

            Below you will find Outstory Public Relations contribution to this emotional struggle. We have constructed a very useful emotional model that describes the 7-major emotions as never witnessed before. This model is extremely important because before this idea surfaced, people had basically thought of human emotions as consisting only of 7-major emotions. Academia itself still teaches incorrectly by labeling a person’s complex emotions as simply being that of either angry, sad, surprised, disgusted, in fear, in contempt, or of joy. We have found this way of thinking about the complexities of human emotions to be absurdly inaccurate, especially considering the many variables to a single true emotion.

            During one of our complex human emotional studies in 2012, we found that the 7-major emotions were actually impossible to achieve without first involving other important micro and ancillary-emotions, before truly ascending to and settling on one of the 7-major emotions, but then it didn’t just stop there. More interestingly, we found that once a stimulus event occurs in any of the major emotional groups, a person will naturally ascend through a series of ancillary-emotions before apex-xing and holding or pausing at a certain emotional level.

            How exactly does the human mind control and restrain itself while ascending through these emotions without going through the roof, well, we're not exactly sure about that, yet? But, we do know that while at the apex, the human mind will level off and pause to exhibit one of the emotions more predominately than the others. How long do people stay at these apex levels is determined by other internal and external stimulus events. Ascending through the ancillary-emotions can be either a slow process taking micro-seconds, minutes, days, or weeks, but then again, it could occur instantaneously, or last forever.

           The personal experience or self-recognition of the emotions experienced while ascending to higher levels may never actually become known to a person, or witnessed by others. The human mind has the power to apex anywhere, to hold and pause at, or to move on in any direction very rapidly without notice. 

           

How is this information helpful?

            This information is helpful because it allows us to understand exactly where people’s true emotions appear; it also gives us a realistic view of how they got there, and where they can go to next. To understand what a person will feel and experience before they experience it themselves is truly powerful knowledge. Simply knowing where we can successfully guide human emotions, from one to another, or conveniently to our desires, presents us with an incredible tool.

            Understanding emotions are extremely helpful in public relations, communications, writing, marketing, and the behavioral sciences.  If we had the desire to do so, we could formulate an article or some other written works that could precisely introduce certain stimuli and then progress a person’s emotions from the least to most extreme in any emotional group to accurately show by example how a person ascends the emotions. We could also use this model to pre-determine an audience’s emotional state, and then traverse their current emotions through an emotional path leading to our desired emotion.

            Every emotion listed in this model has been given a main word that signifies and represents the meaning attached to each emotion. It’s important to note that each main word also has equivalent matching words. Those equivalent words carry great similarities to the main words and when used have the potential to apply additional adequate meaning. This resemblance of word meaning allows us endless opportunities in writing, to traverse people’s emotions toward our desires.

How to read the “Emotional Ascension Model:”

           Starting from the stimuli (bottom green), emotions will progress upward to its most extreme level, the apex point, either halt, or pause and then begin to descend back down through the same ancillary-emotions until new stimulus has occured to veer off. Centered, are the 7-major emotions of anger, disgust, fear, surprise, sadness, contempt, and joy. All emotions begin at the stimuli and progress through ancillary-emotions until the emotional sense apex’s, halts, or pauses. Emotions have the power to fluctuate across other emotions. You will notice that the ancillary-emotion of shock exists in disgust, fear, and surprise. They exist at different levels and within different emotion groups. A person can experience all three series of emotional groups together, simultaneously, or singularly. However, a person can never experience the emotion of rage without first experiencing each-and-every ancillary-emotion listed below it, this also applies to every other emotional group. Depending on the strength of the emotion, a person can ascend gradually, sometimes noticeably, or instantaneously without notice. The human mind and body are so well adapted to emotions that most ascending emotions (ancillary-emotions) will never be realized without great care and insight to do so. 

         People often toss emotional labeling around without much thought, and most will say that a person is either angry, sad, or happy. But take a closer look at where those emotions actually appear. People must experience many other emotions before actually leveling off at one. Also, make it a practice for you to never misrepresent a person’s true emotion. To say that a person was in rage is really a serious emotional condition. Rage is the highest level of the emotional group found within anger. It almost always results in severe mental damage, death, or bodily harm to the person experiencing it, or others. Be sure to represent emotions as they are, not as you think they are, this will help you tremendously in all things you do when working with other people’s emotions, and of your own.

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First-Impressions are Important in Writing too

Let’s face reality for a moment. Let us realize that unless we are writing material for one of the very well-known mega-corporations like Coca-Cola, Amazon, Google, or Walmart, our writings will probably not be as recognized and accepted.

How do we overcome such difficult realism? 

The first thing we must understand is exactly how first impressions work. I say first impressions because technically we are strangers to our audiences. The chances of them knowing us, feeling comfortable with us and our material are far less than what they have known. The mega-corporations are people’s lighthouses, it is their reference points to all things, it’s simply what they know and what they can compare other things with.

If we consider writing to be a diffusion of communication among strangers, we can grasp the reality that first-impressions truly mean everything. I do not mean that the writer does not know his/her audience, in fact, the reader will know just about everything about his/her intended audience. Instead, what I mean here is that writing whether its design is to provide information, tell a story, to promote a business idea or product, or to persuade people toward certain points of view, all require a certain understanding and level of relationship fundamentals. Relationships, through our most basic understanding of them, must contain certain levels of trust and transparency, especially when considering maintaining productive relationship progress.

Just like in any face-to-face encounter, writer to reader encounter requires first-impression understanding. Not just an understanding, but also the ability to transfer into writing the thoughts and ideas of making the best first impression.

No matter how many books I read, I always stumble around during the first few sentences or paragraphs until my internal filter has settled and recognized the pattern of the writer. All writers have unique personality’s, tones, rhythms, and emotional signatures to be found in their words, as they would be found during a face-to-face verbal/nonverbal encounter.

It is the skill and the unique understanding of the writer who can provide his/her audience with the transforming verbal and nonverbal cues of clear, and effective writing, so that all intended audiences can relate.

Let us now look at the stages of first-impressions so that we can understand how we can better break-the-ice when we write as strangers, to strangers.

There exist 8-stages during the first-impression encounter. All are important.

1.       The Filter: The filter is a natural process whereby people scan their environment searching for reassurance (comfort). In writing, this is equal to a reader’s glance at the writer’s headline and/or first few sentences. This is the initial point where first impressions are formed. The mind will attempt to automatically establish

reassurance by evaluating the consistency of emotional impressions while comparing with senses and experiences.

2.       Initial Approachability Recognition: This is the natural process of determining and perceiving approachability, or the act of commitment. The mind will establish an initial impression of the basic emotions. The mind will continue to establish reassurance by evaluating the consistency of the emotional impressions while comparing with senses and experiences.

3      .Recognized Approachability: At this point, the mind has determined the need, want or desire to commit to the encounter.

4     Recognized Encounter: This is the point when the commitment of the encounter has occurred.

5       The Medium: This is the point when the reader has comfortably recognized and accepted the pattern of the writer. Understanding and relationship patterns strengthen and begin.

6  .    Imprint Evaluation: Once the reader has acknowledged and accepted a comfortable status by recognizing the pattern of the writer, the reader will begin the process of judgment. It is at this point where positive and negative orientation is assessed, interpreted, judged, and imprinted on the mind as an emotion.

7   .   Conclusion: The end or closure of an event or process. Here, the reader has completed downloading and interpreting the writer’s unique personality, tone, rhythm, and emotional signature patterns. The reader now understands what’s being said and asked of them, and stores this content into their mind.

8       The After Thought: The final stage or process of closure, and further reassurance. This is the point of no return, where the emotional imprint has been stored into the mind as a memory and can be retrieved for use at-a-later time.

Once the encounter has been imprinted on the mind as an emotion, there it will stay until retrieved for later reference. Ensuring that the right emotion will be imprinted on the mind, comes from the ability of the writer to do so. A writer who does not understand how to successfully make first impressions may inadvertently provide an avenue of negative emotional imprinting. To ensure readers receive the right emotional imprint, understanding the 8-stages of first-impressions is a great start.

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