REIU Emotional Fitness
Training Program

A 26-week guided training program to learn the REIU Emotional Fitness daily practice.

A 26-week online program to build your emotional fitness

Explore our 26-week online training program that teaches a clinically-developed daily practice to:

  • Take control of your emotional system

  • Learn to untrigger yourself to become triggerproof

  • Face life’s challenges with confidence and positivity

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Program at a glance

Self-empowered approach
This is not something we do to you. It’s a skill that you learn to do for yourself.

Practical problem-solving
REIU is a 15-min/day habitual practice focused on resolving issues at the root.

Proven methodology
Clinically developed over 30+ years and used by thousands with lasting results.

Cost
Full program: Avg. $73/week (at full price)

Training time commitment
1st 13 weeks: ~4.5 hrs/week
2nd 13 weeks: ~2.5 hrs/week

Program components
60 support sessions: 34 1-on-1, 26 group
Online platform: Program tracking and tools

  • Skill Development
    Learn the Emotional Updating technique so you can independently untrigger yourself from outdated emotional responses, using the online Emotional Updating tool.

    Habit Development
    Build a 15-minute per day habitual emotional fitness practice that is sustainable for the long term after completion of the program.

    Emotional Fitness Education
    Develop a deep understanding of emotional fitness — what it is, where it comes from, how it impacts overall wellbeing, and the key components for building and maintaining it.

    Personal Insight & Agency
    Cultivate the ability to identify issues and opportunities to improve your emotional fitness, along with the competence and confidence to do so independently

  • Online Platform
    The program is primarily administered through the Vivir online platform where all assignments, forms, progress reports, tools, and content can be found. Appointments are held on Zoom.

    26-Week Intensive
    The program is a 26-week curriculum broken into two phases of 13 weekly units, preceded by an in-person or virtual orientation workshop.

    REIU Training Team
    The program is facilitated by a 3-pronged support team:

    • Emotional Fitness Coaching is provided by Dr. Peter Hercules to help students navigate their emotional fitness journeys. He holds weekly group coaching sessions, and each student also meets with him privately for 3 one-on-one sessions at key milestones of the program.

    • Habit Coaching is provided to help students develop comfort with and adherence to the daily habit plan.

    • Emotional Updating Training is provided by facilitators who teach students how to do the Emotional Updating technique and use the online Updating tool.

  • Membership Terms
    The full price for the program is $1895, or about $73/week.
    $585 is due at sign up, covering the orientation, onboarding, and first month’s tuition. Then dues are split into 5 monthly payments of $262.

    Program membership includes:

    • Half-day orientation workshop

    • 6 months of access to the Vivir online platform

    • Emotional fitness educational videos

    • 26 weekly group Emotional Fitness Coaching with Dr. Hercules, including video archive of past sessions

    • 3 one-on-one Emotional Fitness Coaching sessions with Dr. Hercules

    • 18 one-on-one Habit Coaching sessions

    • 13 one-on-one Emotional Updating training sessions


    Post-Program Membership
    Once students complete the program, they can enroll in a monthly, 6 month, or annual membership that includes access to the online platform and weekly group Emotional Fitness coaching sessions with Dr. Hercules.

    Individual sessions with Dr. Hercules, Habit Coaches, or Emotional Updating Facilitators can be booked à la carte.

Program overview

  • REIU – Rational-Emotional Integrative Updating – is a structured daily discipline for aligning the rational and emotional systems by updating both how one thinks and how one feels.

    It was developed over 30+ years by Dr. Peter Hercules, M.D. in his medical practice.

    REIU works in three phases:

    • Rational - Update thinking by identifying problematic thoughts and emotional responses, and choosing to change them. 

    • Emotional - Update feelings by changing the problematic triggered emotional responses using the Emotional Updating technique. 

    • Integration - When the rational and emotional systems are updated, both sides now operate in sync.

    This process is applied iteratively wherever misalignment between the rational and emotional systems appears, about 15 minutes per day.

  • Emotional Updating is an unconscious mental technique for untriggering outdated post-traumatic emotional responses at their root. This is a skill that must be learned.

    With Emotional Updating, a facilitator — either a trained Vivir practitioner or the online Emotional Updating technique tool — guides you into a relaxed state and establishes communication with the unconscious mind through ideomotor signals like finger movements.

    From there, a standardized series of Yes/No questions directs the unconscious mind to:

    • Identify the outdated emotional response and trace it back to the original traumatic experience.

    • Review that experience to understand the feelings and the reasons behind them.

    • Apply your current resources and understanding to address those feelings.

    • Update the response by resolving old feelings that are no longer necessary for protection.

    • Revisit the experience to confirm the feelings have been updated.

    The updated response then becomes the new, automatic reaction to the trigger.

    Once you know how to change a response with Emotional Updating, you can change any response, any time, for the rest of your life.

  • REIU is a habitual daily practice meant to integrate into your life, much like a dental hygiene habit of brushing our teeth every day. It is the on-going maintenance required to keep your emotional system healthy and strong.

    Motivation waxes and wanes. It's not a reliable foundation for change. What actually works is a structured, disciplined daily habit: a practice we return to regardless of how we feel that day.

About our methodology

  • B, age 48

    "The results over this past year have been phenomenal. The issues that once plagued me and were easily triggered by outside influences have simply dissolved! They no longer hold the same intensity of emotion and reaction they once did!"

  • S, age 26

    "I have tried many other methods for improvement of mental health symptoms however, this has been the only method that has shown me results where I no longer deal with things such as anxiety, which I’ve been trying to work through for years."

  • L, age 48

    "I feel after only three months I have achieved more than the several years of therapy and rehab I have endured! I feel generally happy, like I have never felt before. Like a huge weight has been lifted!"

  • E, age 39

    "Emotional Updating has allowed me to get better, to develop techniques for improving on my own, and to overcome the disabling psychological responses that had consumed my personal and work life daily."

  • J, age 43

    "I feel stronger, more confident and more comfortable in my own skin than I ever remember feeling. My life is still stressful but I am handling that stress much differently now. Emotional Updating is an incredibly powerful technique and I would recommend it to anyone."

  • S, age 58

    "I've become a much stronger person in that I believe/trust in myself more and I'm accepting that I am worthy. I'm also discovering who I am, who I want/could be and that yesterday is gone and that life's choices today are mine to make."

Our Process

Orientation

Introduction to the Vivir approach during an in-person or virtual group orientation workshop.

Onboarding

New student intake questionnaire and educational videos introducing key emotional fitness concepts.

Phase 1

13-week introductory intensive to build the foundation of an emotional fitness routine with twice-weekly private sessions and once-weekly group sessions.

Phase 2

13-week consolidation process to solidify independent practice with intermittent private sessions and once-weekly group sessions.

To have the best life possible, in its essence, is simple:
Always confront reality, always respond positively, and if you have out-of-date responses, always update them.

People aren’t broken. They’re blocked.

Emotional distress is always an opportunity for growth. It's data from within your system saying that something needs to change to get you back into a more balanced, calm, serene state.

The question is: Do you want to spend the rest of your life stuck in a state of distress?

People who have tried REIU have found it helpful for:

Anxiety

Addiction

Depression

Low Self-Worth

Relationship Issues

Codependency

Performance Disorders

PTSD

Stress Disorders

Psychosomatic Disorders

Abuse Related Disorders

Eating Disorders

OCD

Fears & Phobias

Body Image Disorders

This is a skill set, and we learn to change ourselves.
The sky's the limit in terms of emotional fitness. It just depends on how far we want to go.

Enrollment

Join an upcoming cohort and get started with an in-person or virtual Orientation Workshop.

Due at Signup: $585
Includes orientation workshop, onboarding, and first month’s tuition

Program Cost

Monthly tuition: $262
Five monthly payments beginning one month after enrollment

Total cost: $1895
About $73 per week across 26 weeks

Note: Services not available to residents of Ontario, Canada at this time.

Registration

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