MIMECC Model: An Integrative Approach to Understanding and Transforming Emotional Distress Through the Mind-Body-Brain Connection

In the context of increasing demand for more integrative clinical models to address emotional suffering, this article presents the Integrative Mind-Body-Brain Model (MIMECC) as an innovative approach to understanding and transforming emotional disorders. Through comprehensive bibliographic research and a preliminary study involving 263 online patients, we argue that psychological distress cannot be understood or treated in isolation—mind, brain, and body must be seen as dynamically interconnected systems. MIMECC conceptualizes the mind as a narrative generator, the brain as an emotional regulator grounded in the present, and the body as the expressive channel of unresolved inner conflicts. The main findings of this analysis indicate that combining techniques such as mindfulness, cognitive restructuring, grounding exercises, and guided imagery significantly reduces somatic and emotional symptoms, improving emotional regulation and self-compassion. The principal conclusion of this research is that effective intervention in emotional disorders requires the synergistic integration of narrative, neurophysiological, and somatic processes, understanding symptoms not as errors but as complex signals of unmet internal needs. MIMECC thus offers a flexible, applicable, and deeply humanizing clinical framework that empowers patients to reframe their emotional suffering and reclaim personal agency.