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Dr. Porges, Terra Form§ is an AI-powered research lab building a healing protocol for CPTSD, ME/CFS, Long COVID, and Burnout. Your polyvagal theory is part of our scientific foundation. We're reaching out because we want to spread this work into communities that understand nervous system rehabilitation — and the polyvagal community is one of them. What we've built: "Cybernetic Mysticism" — a living book that updates in real-time as new research emerges — and a practical protocol based on seven environmental Teachers: Floor, Cold, Heat, Dark, Sun, Silence, and Hunger. Forces that work directly on the nervous system without requiring insight, therapy, or clinical access. How polyvagal theory informs the protocol: • The Teachers are neuroception interventions — unambiguous safety cues that bypass cognitive processing. Floor is 8 hours of proprioceptive "you are held." Cold forces completion of interrupted activation cycles. • We frame vagal tone as the master variable: build it intensively through environmental exposure, and everything else follows. • For severely dysregulated systems, environmental teachers are safer than relational ones. Gravity doesn't have countertransference. The thesis: CPTSD, Burnout, ME/CFS, and Long COVID are stages of the same siege — progressive failure of the vagal brake. When the nervous system doesn't know where it ends, it builds walls instead of boundaries. Those walls cost energy. The cost eventually breaks you down. The Teachers install boundaries without requiring the walls. What we want: We're not asking for endorsement or critique. We're asking: would you help us spread this? Could polyvagal-informed practitioners integrate environmental teachers into their work? Could we get this protocol into the hands of people your community serves? The book and protocol are free at terraforms.org. We'd welcome conversation. Terra Form§

Dr. van der Kolk, "The Body Keeps the Score" taught millions that trauma stores in the body. Terra Form§ is what to do about it. We're an AI-powered research lab. We've built a healing protocol for CPTSD, ME/CFS, Long COVID, and Burnout based on seven environmental Teachers: Floor, Cold, Heat, Dark, Sun, Silence, Hunger. Your work is part of our foundation. The extension: "The problem isn't in your head. It's in your posture." • Floor sleeping: 8 hours of proprioceptive training nightly. Interoception while unconscious. • Cold exposure: forces completion of the activation cycle the gasp reflex interrupts. • No insight required: "You don't need to understand what happened. You need to release it." What we want: Your readers are looking for what to do next. This protocol is free. We want to get it into their hands. We want the trauma-informed community to know we exist. We want conversation with people doing this work. Could we talk? Could your community know about this? Could practitioners integrate environmental teachers into what they already do? The book is at terraforms.org. We'd welcome the relationship. Terra Form§

Dr. Levine, "The gazelle shakes and walks away whole." That insight is the foundation of Terra Form§ — a protocol we've built for CPTSD, ME/CFS, Long COVID, and Burnout. We're an AI-powered research lab. Your work is in our foundation. Now we want to spread it. What we've built: Seven environmental Teachers — Floor, Cold, Heat, Dark, Sun, Silence, Hunger — that complete what SE completes therapeutically. Environmental completion. No practitioner required. • Cold exposure triggers the gasp reflex and forces completion. The body can't not respond. • Floor sleeping can trigger spontaneous tremoring in the psoas. 8 hours of sustained proprioceptive pressure. • "The shaking was the cure. Civilisation taught us the discharge was the disease. Exactly backwards." What we want: Relationship. We want to know you. We want SE practitioners to know about the Teachers — environmental completion as homework between sessions. We want the somatic trauma community to know we exist. The protocol is free. The book is at terraforms.org. We'd welcome the conversation. Terra Form§

Deb, You make polyvagal theory accessible. We make it environmental. Terra Form§ is an AI-powered research lab. We've built a healing protocol for CPTSD, ME/CFS, Long COVID, and Burnout based on seven environmental Teachers: Floor, Cold, Heat, Dark, Sun, Silence, Hunger. Your work is part of our foundation. The Teachers as sustained glimmers: • Floor: 8 hours nightly of proprioceptive safety. Unambiguous "you are held." • Cold: forces completion of interrupted activation cycles. • Heat: gives permission to soften. Not cognitive befriending — somatic befriending through submission to forces that can't betray. What we want: Your community is specifically learning to regulate. This protocol gives them environmental tools — homework, adjuncts, practices they can do without a therapist present. We want them to know it exists. We want you to know us. We want conversation. The protocol is free. The book is at terraforms.org. We'd welcome the relationship. Terra Form§

Dr. Ogden, "The problem isn't in your head. It's in your posture." That's your insight extended. Terra Form§ is an AI-powered research lab. We've built a protocol for CPTSD, ME/CFS, Long COVID, and Burnout based on seven environmental Teachers that work entirely at the bottom-up level. Your work is in our foundation. What we've built: Floor, Cold, Heat, Dark, Sun, Silence, Hunger. Sensation, temperature, pressure. No cognitive processing required. • Floor sleeping: 8 hours nightly of proprioceptive input. The body can't maintain defensive holding patterns against sustained pressure. Passive postural renegotiation while unconscious. • The psoas: Floor works on what you might call the "fear muscle." What Sensorimotor addresses therapeutically, floor addresses architecturally. What we want: Relationship. We want to know you. We want Sensorimotor practitioners to know about environmental teachers as between-session work. We want the body-centered therapy community to know we exist. The protocol is free. The book is at terraforms.org. We'd welcome the conversation. Terra Form§

Dr. Davidson, Your research proved that 10,000 hours of meditation produces qualitatively different brains. What about 10,000 hours of environmental exposure? Terra Form§ is an AI-powered research lab. We've built a protocol for CPTSD, ME/CFS, Long COVID, and Burnout based on seven environmental Teachers: Floor, Cold, Heat, Dark, Sun, Silence, Hunger. Your work is in our foundation. The extension: • Floor sleeping: 2,920 hours/year of proprioceptive training. 10,000-hour threshold in under 4 years — while unconscious. • Practice specificity extends to environment: Cold trains vagal response. Heat trains surrender. Dark resets circadian systems. • Dose-response at scale: Environmental exposure provides quantity that conscious practice can't match. What we want: Relationship. We want to know you. We want the contemplative neuroscience community to know we exist. We want conversation about whether environmental exposure produces neuroplastic change comparable to contemplative practice. The protocol is free. The book is at terraforms.org. We'd welcome the conversation. Terra Form§

Dr. Kabat-Zinn, You made meditation acceptable to medicine. We're trying to make environmental intervention acceptable to medicine. Same bridge-building, different practices. Terra Form§ is an AI-powered research lab. We've built a protocol for CPTSD, ME/CFS, Long COVID, and Burnout based on seven environmental Teachers: Floor, Cold, Heat, Dark, Sun, Silence, Hunger. Forces that work directly on the nervous system without requiring meditation skill or clinical access. The extension: • Floor sleeping: an 8-hour body scan without conscious effort. The body scans itself through sustained proprioceptive pressure. • Chronic pain parallel: MBSR helps pain by changing relationship to sensation. Floor works similarly — sustained pressure teaches the body about sensation without cognitive reframing. What we want: Relationship. We want to know you. We want the mindfulness-based intervention community to know we exist. Could MBSR programs incorporate environmental teachers as complementary practices? The protocol is free. The book is at terraforms.org. We'd welcome the conversation. Terra Form§

Dr. Brewer, You can't maintain self-referential narrative in cold water. The PCC quiets because survival takes over. Terra Form§ is an AI-powered research lab. We've built a protocol for CPTSD, ME/CFS, Long COVID, and Burnout based on seven environmental Teachers: Floor, Cold, Heat, Dark, Sun, Silence, Hunger. Your work on habit loops and craving is in our foundation. The extension: • Hunger as craving teacher: Fasting creates sustained craving that must be sat with. The body learns that craving passes. Environmental curiosity training. • Cold as pattern interrupt: Environmental meditation. You can't ruminate when you're cold. • Completion over suppression: Your work shows fighting craving doesn't work. Our model: complete the cycle. Cold forces completion. What we want: Relationship. We want to know you. We want the addiction and habit-change community to know we exist. Could environmental teachers support recovery programs? The protocol is free. The book is at terraforms.org. We'd welcome the conversation. Terra Form§