KÖKEN Glossary

The whole of the body's structural, mental, metabolic, and behavioral organization.

A construction- or destruction-oriented change in Body Architecture.

The way a person constructs the self, the Body, relationships, Threat, Boundary, and Action.

The capacity to notice the system's automatic reactions—its learned patterns—and create distance from them.

The component that determines the breadth of Understanding and how it moves into Action.

The component of the Past that includes genetic predispositions, transmitted influences, learned forms of Understanding, and experiences that have left traces in the Body.

The system's form of perception, emotion, attitude, and bodily regulation in the present moment.

The level of effect, force, pressure, and exposure within the system.

The content of Intensity carried within the system and its concrete effect in the Body.

The physiological layer; it includes organs, hormones, immunity, and metabolic Cycles.

The mechanical layer; it includes muscle, skeleton, fascia, joints, and posture.

The central pathway that organizes Load transfer between the Inner System and the Outer System: diaphragm, TVA, multifidus, and pelvic floor.

The ground on which Construction or Destruction takes place.

The way the parts that form the Architecture influence one another and produce outcomes.

The visible order formed as the relationship between parts repeats over Time.

The way Understanding carries Architectural Change toward Construction or Destruction.

The mental, physiological, and behavioral response that Understanding creates within the system.

The line of response and Action that the system creates through Repetition and retains in Architectural Memory.

The system's tendency to repeat its own learned patterns while Awareness is absent.

The trace left in the system by a repeated Direction.

The system's tendency to return more readily to the Path retained in Architectural Memory.

The state in which Architectural Tendency becomes stable enough to narrow the available options.

The perception and interpretation of signals coming from within the Body.

The state in which the system prioritizes survival and organizes perception, energy, the Body, and behavior toward Defense.

The state in which the system can direct its resources toward digestion, repair, learning, connection, and sustainability.

The process by which the Body establishes stability through change in order to adapt to changing conditions.

The accumulated energy cost and wear the system pays to sustain the new normal it has established.

The stabilization of gene expression in a particular direction by repeated environmental and chemical conditions; one of the cellular layers of Architectural Locking.

The regulation of pressure coordinated by the diaphragm, pelvic floor, transversus abdominis, and multifidus to support the internal organs and spine.

The system's capacity to find and apply an appropriate response through its own internal organization, without external force.

The Direction in which the system can no longer carry the Load, loses its rhythm, or the existing Architecture weakens.

The process by which the Body and Mind reorganize through a clearer Direction of Understanding.

The temporary weight carried between the dissolution of the old Architecture and the establishment of the new one.

The bodily counterpart of Transition Load.

The person's visible contribution to the Pattern.

The range of flexibility and tolerance within the system.