>>> Operators

The 10 emotional tools of the CEF Method

 

Once you’ve shifted from awareness into action, the next step is choosing the right tool for your emotional movement.
In the Core Emotion Framework, these tools are called operators.

 

Operators are the functional movements of your emotional system.
They show you how you’re activated and how to move in a direction that restores clarity, connection, and alignment.

 

Each operator belongs to one of the three centers — Head, Heart, or Gut — and expresses one of three modes: Outgoing, Reflecting, or Balancing.

This page gives you a simple overview of all ten operators so you can choose the one that fits your current state.

 

Head Operators

The Head Center governs meaning, interpretation, and cognitive movement.

 

Sensing

Outgoing — Gathering raw data
You reach outward to take in information, stimuli, and signals without judgment.

 

Calculating

Reflecting — Analyzing possibilities
You turn inward to evaluate, compare, predict, and understand what the data means.

 

Deciding

Balancing — Integrating perspectives
You bring sensing and calculating together to form a clear, grounded direction.

 

Heart Operators

The Heart Center governs connection, emotion, and relational movement.

 

Expanding

Outgoing — Opening and including
You move outward with warmth, generosity, and emotional availability.

 

Constricting

Reflecting — Protecting and refining
You pull inward to create boundaries, precision, and emotional clarity.

 

Achieving

Balancing — Harmonizing competing forces
You manage, perform, and coordinate emotional demands with skill and care.

 

Gut Operators

The Gut Center governs action, boundaries, and instinctive movement.

 

Arranging

Outgoing — Structuring and organizing
You move outward to define roles, priorities, timing, and order.

 

Appreciating

Reflecting — Enjoying what exists
You pause to savor, accept, and value what is already present.

 

Boosting

Balancing — Sustaining and energizing
You support, maintain, and reinforce what needs strength or continuity.

 

Accepting

Cross‑center — Releasing and allowing
You let go of resistance and move with what is happening rather than against it.

 

How to Choose Your Operator

You don’t need to be perfect — just choose the operator that feels closest to your current movement.

 

A simple guide:

 

• Overthinking → Calculating
• Overfeeling → Constricting
• Overdoing → Arranging
• Collasping → Accepting
• Drained → Boosting
• Overextending → Expanding
• Disconnected → Appreciating
• Torn between options → Deciding
• Overstimulated → Sensing
• Juggling too much → Achieving

 

Each operator page gives you a clear, simple way to move.

 

Continue to the Protocols

Once you’ve chosen your operator, you’re ready for the step‑by‑step method.

→ Explore the Protocols

 

The CEF Method helps you:

• Identify which emotional center is active (Head, Heart, Gut)

• Recognize the dominant operator (e.g., Expanding, Boosting, Arranging)

• Apply structured protocols to modulate and complete emotional processes

 

Whether you're a practitioner, coach, therapist, or self-guided learner, this site gives you actionable tools grounded in the full CEF canon.