Pleasure, Power, Meaning, and Beyond: Towards a Biosemiotic Model of Wellbeing

This theoretical paper presents the Bioenergy Economy-based Health Improvement (BEHI) model, which adopts a biosemiotic perspective on health by integrating psychodynamics, behavioral economics, and transpersonal psychology. The BEHI model seeks to optimize investments through the free energy principle and pragmatic contextualization of thoughts and behaviors. It views the interconnected systems of body, mind, society, and culture as meaning-making entities shaped and directed by energetic, material, symbolic, and reflective signs. By focusing on energy-information reprocessing in four key domains- body economy, narrative economy, relational economy, and intentional economy- the model offers strategies for cultivating autotelic happiness and embodied wisdom. Incorporating principles of nonduality and wholeness, the BEHI model aims to minimize free energy, maximize value creation, and promote unconditioned salutogenesis. Empirical evidence and clinical studies confirm the BEHI model's effectiveness in addressing psychological, medical, and educational challenges. This integrative approach provides a framework for integrating current psychological methods into systemic clinical and educational settings, paving the way for innovative pathways toward sustainable development of happiness.