White Paper 1: Recreating Primitive Nervous System Signals

Discover the groundbreaking neuroscience review that redefines how we understand and influence the most fundamental emotional responses in the human body.

In this white paper, you’ll explore:

• Why traditional practices like mindfulness and psychotherapy treat the effects—not the source—of emotional reactivity.
• How cutting-edge research is beginning to map and manipulate the primitive circuits of fear, safety, and reward at the neural level.
• The latest in non-invasive neuromodulation, brain-computer interfaces, and synthetic emotional feedback.
• A clear-eyed look at the ethical, scientific, and philosophical implications of recreating emotional feeling states artificially.

Read this if you:

• Work with trauma, anxiety, or emotional reactivity and want a deeper understanding of their neurological roots.
• Are curious about the emerging intersection between technology and emotion.
• Seek evidence-based insight that bridges contemplative wisdom and modern neuroscience.

White Paper 2: The Influence of Subtle Muscle Activity on Emotional and Cognitive Nervous Systems

What if tiny, often imperceptible muscle contractions could shape your emotional state, regulate your nervous system, and even sharpen cognition?

This white paper explores the emerging science of micro-movements—the subtle muscle activity beneath facial expressions, posture shifts, and breathing patterns—and their measurable impact on emotional regulation and neural function.

In this white paper, you’ll explore:

• How micro-contractions act as bidirectional signals, influencing brain networks involved in emotion, attention, and executive function.
• The scientific basis for traditional mind-body practices, now understood through the lens of embodied cognition and interoceptive neuroscience.
• Why deliberate engagement with subtle movement may offer a powerful, non-pharmacological method for calming the nervous system, managing reactivity, and enhancing mental clarity.
• A framework for integrating muscle-based micro-interventions into therapeutic, contemplative, or daily practice.

This paper offers a new way of understanding the body’s role in emotional transformation, rooted in modern neuroscience and supported by clinical insight.

Read this if you:

• Work with somatic practices, mindfulness, or trauma recovery and want to deepen your scientific grounding.
• Are curious about how small movements can generate profound change.
• Seek practical, physiology-informed methods for shifting mood, focus, or internal state in real time.

White Paper 3: Manually-Induced Micro-Movements (MMPM) – A Somatic Intervention for ADHD

Can micro-movements—so subtle they’re almost invisible—help regulate attention, emotions, and behaviour in ADHD?

This white paper introduces Manually-Induced Micro-Movements (MMPM), a novel, neuroscience-informed somatic method designed to modulate nervous system activity. It explores how consciously generated micro-movements may influence the body-brain interface and support emotional regulation, executive functioning, and sensory integration in people with ADHD.

In this white paper, you’ll explore:

• The neurobiology of ADHD, including executive dysfunction, catecholamine imbalance, and sensory processing challenges.
• How micro-movements can recalibrate proprioceptive and interoceptive signalling to improve emotional and cognitive regulation.
• The proposed mechanisms of MMPM, including vagal modulation, predictive coding, and thalamic filtering.
• How MMPM compares with mindfulness, Polyvagal approaches, Feldenkrais, and biofeedback.

This paper bridges modern neuroscience with practical somatic tools, offering a unique, low-effort method for bottom-up self-regulation and attentional control.

Read this if you:

• Live with ADHD or support others who do—therapeutically, professionally, or personally.
• Are curious about body-based regulation methods grounded in science.
• Want a detailed, readable overview of how micro-movements can affect the nervous system.

White Paper 7: The Error That Heals – A Neuroscientific Framework for Emotional Reprogramming Through Predictive Coding

Can deliberate micro-movements disrupt ingrained emotional patterns and prompt the brain to rewire itself?

This white paper presents a detailed neuroscientific model for how Manually-Induced Micro-Movements (MMPM) may reprogram emotional responses by leveraging the brain’s predictive processing system. It explores how subtle, intentional bodily shifts can generate ‘prediction errors’ that signal the brain to revise outdated emotional expectations—without the need for intense cognitive effort or emotional reliving.

In this white paper, you’ll explore:

• The predictive coding model of emotion and how emotions are generated by internal models, not external triggers.
• How interoceptive and proprioceptive signals shape emotion via the “body budget” and how MMPM alters these inputs to foster change.
• The three core mechanisms proposed for MMPM: prediction error triggering, interoceptive modulation, and Hebbian neuroplasticity.
• How MMPM compares with top-down methods like CBT and mindfulness, offering a novel, bottom-up somatic intervention for emotional regulation.

This paper bridges computational neuroscience, emotion theory, and embodied practice—providing a compelling theoretical foundation for using micro-movements as tools for emotional transformation.

Read this if you:

• Are interested in emotional healing approaches that bypass re-traumatisation or complex talk therapy.
• Want to understand how the brain constructs emotions—and how to influence those constructions with physical action.
• Seek a readable, science-grounded explanation of how the nervous system can be re-patterned from the bottom up.

White Paper 9: Recalibrating Primitive Threat Responses — A Neuro-Systemic Approach Using Multi-Modal Present Moment (MMPM) Safety Loops

Can we retrain the body’s deepest threat circuits without revisiting the past—or talking them into change?

This white paper sets out a rigorous, readable account of how MMPM Safety Loops can recalibrate subcortical threat systems (brainstem–limbic) by supplying new, multi-sensory evidence the nervous system trusts. Grounded in predictive coding, affective neuroscience, and autonomic physiology, it shows how pairing moments of activation with reliable “safe signals” (breath, touch, gaze, tone) generates controlled prediction errors that update maladaptive priors—shifting the baseline from vigilance to embodied trust.

In this white paper, you’ll explore:

• The primitive safety architecture: how PAG–amygdala–hypothalamus circuits, interoception, and neuroception shape moment-to-moment threat appraisal (Panksepp, Porges, Damasio, Solms).
• Predictive coding in the body–brain loop: why emotions are read-outs of internal models—and how targeted sensory evidence drives model revision.
• Positioning within the field: how MMPM complements and differs from top-down approaches (e.g., CBT, mindfulness), offering a bottom-up, somatic protocol for durable recalibration.
• MMPM Safety Loops as mechanism: the three-phase loop (notice–pair–stay), precision weighting of safety cues, and experience-dependent plasticity in subcortical networks.
• From base safety to generalisation: establishing a stable vagal platform, then extending safety across contexts without re-traumatisation.
• Measurement and markers: practical indices of change (HRV, sleep latency, recovery curves, relational tolerance) and their neural correlates.

This paper brings together computational neuroscience, affective theory, and embodied method—offering a coherent framework for updating the primitive layer where safety and emotion are first decided.

Read this if you:

• Want a science-grounded, non-retraumatising route to nervous system change that works below language.
• Are curious how breath, touch, tone and visual field can act as precise inputs to reshape threat predictions.
• Seek a clear bridge between theory (predictive processing, polyvagal, somatic markers) and a reproducible practice you can test and track.