Glossary

Final Edition language. One loop, one vocabulary.

BRAKE: Catching autopilot in the gap before an impulse turns into a move.
NOTICE: Registering body, thoughts, feelings, urges, and situation, without following them yet.
DROP: Letting go of a single grip, in body or mind, so Friction eases. It is not giving up, agreeing, or ceasing to care.
RESET: A brief way back toward Baseline through the body: look around, feel support, move, or breathe softly.
ZERO: Just enough room inside that the reaction no longer gets to decide your next move alone.
CHOOSE: Making the Next Right Action from the clearest state you can reach right now.
FRICTION: Added drag, inside or around you, that eats Bandwidth and slows your return.
BANDWIDTH: How much capacity you have left for attention, feeling, thought, and decisions.
BASELINE: How you normally function when you are not strongly activated.
RETURN TIME: The time from a trigger until you can make a useful choice again.
HOLD TIME: How long you stay steady after returning, before reactivity pulls you off again.
NEXT RIGHT ACTION: The smallest step you can own right now. Not the ideal step, and not the full fix.
TIME COMPRESSION: Practising at Macro, Micro, and Nano scales so slower work feeds the one-second skill.
FLUX LAG: The gap between the moment things change and the moment your mind catches up.
RESISTANCE: The extra struggle against what is already here or already over.
DATA VIEW: Stating the facts of what happened before they become a story about who you are.
HOOK: Something you care about that now feels like a condition for being okay.
ALIGN: Closing the gap between your words, your actions, and what you can truly support.
FOCUS: Cutting needless scatter and practising bringing attention back.
EXIT STATE: The state you take with you when one situation ends and the next begins.
ZERO LOOP: BRAKE → NOTICE → DROP → RESET → ZERO → CHOOSE.