About Us
My name is Joseph Arpaia, MD, but I go by Joe in most circles. I am the founding host of the Academy of Consciousness. During my 30 years of practicing psychiatry, I developed the Unease Modulation Model. Based on Western cognitive psychologically, medical science, Buddhist meditation practice, and advanced mathematics, the Unease Modulation Model redefines how the we respond to stress, interact with each other, and even our notion of the self.
I have recently shifted away from medical practice to focus on coaching, corporate consulting, and other educational avenues to share the transformative power of the Unease Modulation Model. I have never felt comfortable with how mainstream psychiatry applies the medical model to anxiety, depression, and several other supposed mental illnesses. The patients I saw were experiencing anxiety or depression from stresses such as overwork, relationship difficulties, financial insecurity, moral injury, or physical limitations due to illness, and their their “disorder” was a reasonable response to an unhealthy environment. Instead of a treatment orientation where I was supposed to diagnose and fix a person who was inherently sick, I shifted to a training orientation in which I was working with a person who was healthy and who needed to learn some skills.
The theories, skills and techniques I teach here have been honed over decades of medical practice, tested by heart rate variability data, and used by individuals at the top of their field, including Olympic athletes, SWAT teams, CEOs and pilots.
What We Offer
A place to learn some of the most powerful and cutting-edge methods for personal and social transformation. With the Unease Modulation Model, a revolutionary new model of stress, and precise techniques to train our minds, here we work to create the Self we want for our lives.
Here we do not seek to discover our true self but to build the self we desire the same way we may exercise to train our bodies. The brain is just another body part and we can train our minds as well as our muscles.
This academy offers both courses to teach members these mental skills, with techniques that can be adapted to any level and any goal, and a community where we can help each other on this journey of transformation.
Our course subjects include:
The Unease Modulation model: Understand the theory and how it applies to our lives.
Meditation: Learn specific mental skills that can be applied to our relationships, performance, health and spirituality
Heart Rate Variability apps: use our cutting edge apps to monitor your progress and accelerate your growth, watching in real time the positive benefits of the techniques you learn.
Continuing education courses for medical and veterinary professionals.
A Big Thanks
We thank all who contribute their time, energy and resources in the service of helping each other grow and create ourselves anew.
