1.1 — The Now — Equipped With Agency

Use it when Fill this in on a calm day. Then run the protocol whenever you need it.

It is done when You have written your own warning signs and a three-step reset you can do from memory.

Watch it

The same teaching, narrated — what the tool is, why it works, how to run it, and what usually goes wrong.

Where it stopsFor a small number of people, sensory grounding briefly increases distress or a sense of unreality rather than easing it. If that happens, stop. Move gently instead — stand up, walk to another room — and use WB 2.15 for the state you are actually in.

The page

Print this, or copy the prompts onto paper. A page you half-filled counts as filled.

How do you know you have left the present?
Where do you feel that in your body?
Your three-step reset
One step you can take when it is too much
Anything you would change to make it yours

Check what stayed 2 questions

Answer in your own words, out loud or on paper. Nothing is scored, nothing is marked, and nothing is stored — this is for noticing what you have, not for anybody to grade.

WB 1.1 — The Now. When do you build this page, and when do you use it?
What the material says
Build your version of this page once, calmly. Then run the protocol in real life whenever you notice you have left the present.
Where this comes from — Use it when
WB 1.1 — The Now. What does finished look like on this page?
What the material says
You have named your own warning signs and written a three-step reset you can do from memory.
Where this comes from — It is done when

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The session that uses it: Session 1 — The Now The tool it practises: The Now Protocol 1.2 The Body →

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