Emotional Intelligence Redefined

(Page Updated 11/8/25)

Emotional Intelligence (EI), a cornerstone concept in modern psychology and personal growth, has traditionally been designed and approached from a fragmented perspective. While somewhat helpful, it has unintended consequences of a dubious nature that frequently isolate emotional experiences from their integral connections with physical and ethnic sensations and the evolution of intelligence, limiting human development.

The Optima Bowling coach sometimes embodies the role of a guide, offering foundational leverage. Translated, that means: My research for my development can become a resource for your self-research for self-development. What is helpful and somewhat hidden here is a redefinition of Emotional Intelligence that integrates past-stream wisdom, mainstream practicality, and future-stream visionary ideologies within a robust framework of systems-of-systems. The result is that emotion and intelligence, as a holistic developmental practice, can profoundly embody an expanded scope and effectiveness.

An Integrated Systems-of-Systems Perspective

Central to the redefinition of emotional intelligence is knowledge of the upper and lower levels of emotional development, attractive and repulsive, the key pivot point in the Optima Bowling ideology. Attractive emotions, such as joy, enthusiasm, fulfillment, and love, serve as critical indicators signaling alignment with one's purpose and integrity, affirming choices and actions that actualize latent potentiality. Conversely, repulsive emotions, including fear, anxiety, frustration, dissatisfaction, and hate, play an equally crucial role by indicating misalignment, prompting necessary perceptual and behavioral realignments. By understanding and harnessing these emotional signals within the broader context of potentiality and actuality, individuals can achieve greater emotional coherence and a greater capacity for self-realization through purposeful action and lifespan performance activations, thereby sustaining personal growth.

The LPPC Model

Moving Beyond Fragmentation

Mainstream interpretations of Emotional Intelligence generally emphasize emotional regulation, self-awareness, and interpersonal skills as practical tools primarily designed for efficiency and effectiveness. However, this viewpoint often overlooks the integral role of emotions within the broader architecture of human development and holistic self-realization. To transcend this fragmentation, Optima Bowling research situates Emotional Intelligence within an integrative approach deeply rooted in the Psychology of Lifespan Performance and Perceptual Control (LPPC model).

The LPPC model provides a vital foundation for understanding how emotions interact dynamically with perceptions of physical sensations (physical-etheric dimension) and intelligence (mental-causal dimension) to drive human behavior. According to Perceptual Control Theory (PCT), behaviors are not merely reactions to external stimuli, but rather proactive mechanisms through which individuals control their perceptions to maintain inner harmony and balance. Emotional Intelligence, viewed through this lens, becomes an internal perceptual feedback system that enables individuals to align actions with purpose and self-realization.

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Purpose, Integrity, and Experience: The Way of PIE

At the heart of redefining Emotional Intelligence lies the systemic PIE Coach-Play Perspective, emphasizing Performance as The Way of PIE (Purpose, Integrity, Experience). Unlike traditional EI frameworks that focus narrowly on emotional management, the PIE model embeds emotional intelligence within a structured developmental pathway:

  • Purpose: Identifying the "why" behind the emotional experience and performance, thus guiding authentic actions and livelihood development.
  • Integrity: Representing the wholeness achieved through harmonizing the physical, emotional, and mental-causal dimensions of being human, the "how" to approach a balanced emotional state.
  • Experience: Manifesting as the active integration of emotional insights into real-world contexts. The "what" actions taken, who is involved, where interactions occur, and when performance is activated.

Within this integrative approach, Emotional Intelligence serves not merely as a skill set for managing emotions but as a developmental journey toward wholeness, authenticity, and sustained purpose-driven growth.

Four Steps to Performance Authentication

Lifespan Performance and Emotional Intelligence

The Four Steps to Performance Authentication (Performance Management, Performance Development, Performance Versatility, and Performance Optimization) demonstrate how Emotional Intelligence unfolds throughout a lifespan. Individual lessons begin by learning to manage basic emotional responses, progressively develop nuanced emotional insights, attain versatility in adapting emotionally across various contexts, and optimize emotional integration for overall well-being. The clarification of emotional impact will enhance the effectiveness of performance activation. 

This systemic progression of self-consciousness development relies on Emotional Intelligence as another measurement, catalyst, and consequence of intentional growth, deepening self-awareness, and expanding innate capacity to transition from potential to actuality.

Multidimensional Levels of Being Human

According to the Optima Bowling systemic perspective, Emotional Intelligence must acknowledge and influence the integration of humanity's multiple levels of being human: Visible-Physical, Physical-Etheric, Emotional Repulsive-Attractive, and Mental-Causal. Emotions are pivotal connectors, linking physical sensations with mental interpretations, thus playing a vital role in navigating the crisis that is this crazy world of ours. Please understand why determining the controlled perceptions (variables) before performance activations is crucial in navigating life's complexities. As the saying goes, development always follows research.

Awareness of repulsive and attractive emotional responses offers powerful guidance. Attractive emotions signal alignment with purpose, affirming developmental choices, whereas repulsive emotions indicate misalignment and the need for adjustments to perceptual goals at the relevant levels. By repurposing self-awareness and self-regulation practices inherent in Emotional Intelligence, individuals can actively refine their perceptual controls through evolving self-realizations, achieving greater coherence within their multidimensional selves.

Hybridizing Ideological Streams

An essential action during our redesign of emotional intelligence was to incorporate insights from three ideological streams: Past-Stream, Mainstream, and Future-Stream.

  • Past-stream wisdom and philosophical context emphasize the causal-level will to unity.
  • Mainstream practices provide validated, practical strategies for immediate use. 
  • Future-stream perspectives integrate advances in neuroscience, integral consciousness theories, and emerging psychological frameworks.

As attractive emotions become humanity's vehicle for deeper self-realization and the unity of universal connectedness through common sense. Ideological hybridization will expand the current coalescence of emotion and intelligence beyond traditional boundaries by supporting the individual's transition from fragmented sensationalism to an integrated, whole, systemic awareness.

Integrating Fragmentation and Wholeness

Another essential objective of redefining Emotional Intelligence involves overcoming artificial boundaries imposed by fragmented, low-level, deductive inferential thinking. Fragmented thinking creates perceptual and conceptual barriers, screening emotional awareness and leaving physical health, mental clarity, and causal-spiritual growth in a prolonged state of development. Recognizing and resolving artificial divides stimulates a comprehensive, integrative perspective where Emotional Intelligence becomes central to holistic human development.

While working to harmonize fragmented perceptions into an integrated whole through systems thinking, Emotional Intelligence can offer the pivot point, empowering individuals to unlock previously ignored dimensions of their latent innate potential capacities. Achieving this harmonious integration facilitates emotional depth, cognitive clarity, and purposeful actions aligned with universal interconnectedness and unity.

Emotional Intelligence as Systems Thinking

Embracing Emotional Intelligence from a systems-of-systems perspective requires activating the highest level of human intelligence, systems thinking. This advanced form of mental self-consciousness transcends discursive inference, principle, and perspective thinking, emphasizing the interconnectedness of emotional insights within the larger developmental framework, specifically, the Optima Bowling ideology being discussed here.

Systems thinking enables individuals to appreciate how emotions integrate with other dimensions of experience, clarifying the dynamic interplay between the emotional dimension and the physical sensations and mental interpretations of one's causal-spiritual purpose. This holistic view of Emotional Intelligence enhances practical emotional abilities, enriching life's meaning and purpose through an understanding of being, systemic coherence, and self-realization.

Emotional Intelligence Situated

The Optima Bowling approach redefines Emotional Intelligence by embracing a systems-of-systems perspective that profoundly integrates the emotional, physical, and mental dimensions to assist humanity in taking a stand on the causal-spiritual level of being human. Central to this redefinition is a deepened understanding of the essential role played by attractive and repulsive emotions. Attractive emotions affirm and energize the pursuit of authentic purpose, driving the actualization of latent potential into concrete achievements. Repulsive emotions, on the other hand, provide invaluable signals of misalignment, offering essential feedback to guide individuals toward coherence, balance, and integrated wholeness.

By fully acknowledging these emotional dynamics, Emotional Intelligence is transformed from a mere toolkit for managing feelings into the pivot point of the developmental pathway to personal and collective evolution. Optima Bowling positions Emotional Intelligence as the essential practice of balancing an individual's consistent navigation of life's complexities and transitions, fulfill their potential authentically, achieve sustained well-being, and meaningful growth as self-realization and single-pointed purposive action toward the causal will to unity.

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