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BZE Reflection Tool

The BZE Reflection Tool is a structured way to think about your current psychosomatic state through the Biozygotic Framework. It invites you to consider four interconnected dimensions of your experience — your biology, your biographical accumulation, your current psychological state, and your environmental context. After you complete the inputs, the tool produces a synthesized reflection highlighting where you may be carrying the most strain and where you may be drawing support, along with considerations for further reflection.

This is a heuristic for self-inquiry, not a diagnostic measurement. Nothing you enter is transmitted or stored remotely — all processing happens on your device. The output reflects the framework's interpretation of what you've entered, useful as material for reflection or conversation, not as a conclusion about your psychological or biological state. For clinical concerns, please consult a qualified professional.

Nervous System Orientation

These three orientations help the tool consider how different nervous-system tendencies might shape the way the framework reads the rest of what you'll enter. They are not diagnoses — they are orientations that adjust how the tool interprets your inputs.

1. Cognitive Style — Precision Weighting & Temporal Simulation

How does your mind model the world? Some minds run simulations constantly — vivid internal imagery, future-casting, storytelling about what might happen — while others stay closer to what's immediately in front of them. Neither is better; they produce different strengths and different vulnerabilities. Minds that simulate heavily tend to integrate experience more richly, but they also ruminate more when things feel uncertain.

Concrete Thinker

You focus on facts, steps, and what's immediately in front of you. Minimal imagining of future scenarios. Steady under uncertainty.

Mixed / Balanced

You move between imagination and practical reasoning as situations call for each.

Vivid Simulator

Rich internal imagery. You integrate experience deeply, but also ruminate more when things feel chaotic or unresolved.

2. Sensory Gating — Environmental Permeability (Differential Susceptibility)

How much does your environment get through to you? Some people absorb what surrounds them — the tension in a room, the mood of a conversation, background noise, emotional atmospheres — while others naturally filter most of it out. This isn't about being strong or weak; it's about permeability. Highly permeable people feel the damage of bad environments more sharply, but they also receive more benefit from safe and supportive ones. The sensitivity works both ways.

Highly Gated

You naturally filter out background noise and atmosphere. Chaotic or emotionally charged environments affect you less — and so do calm or warm ones.

Standard Permeability

Typical environmental processing. Overwhelmed in high chaos but not unusually sensitive to relational warmth.

Highly Permeable (HSP)

You absorb both environmental stress and relational safety more deeply than average. Safe environments are a significant advantage.

3. Autonomic Default — Polyvagal Threat Bias

How does your nervous system respond when stress hits? Some people ramp up — racing thoughts, vigilance, action. Others shut down — energy drops, everything goes quiet. A well-regulated nervous system can do both appropriately, scaling its response to what's actually needed. Stuck patterns in either direction — always-on or always-off — both reduce your body's ability to recover.

Dorsal Bias (Shutdown)

Under stress, you tend to shut down — energy drops, detachment, fatigue, feeling checked out. The system withdraws rather than mobilizes.

Flexible Vagal

Your nervous system scales its response to meet what's actually happening. You activate when challenge calls for it and settle when it doesn't.

Sympathetic Bias (Reactive)

Under stress, you tend to ramp up — hyper-vigilance, anxiety, racing thoughts. The system stays activated even when rest would serve you better.

The Substrate (Sections 1 & 2)

Your Biographical Foundation & Biological Anchor. Inputs like Age, ACEs, and Resilience reflect relatively stable aspects of your situation. Approximate values are fine — this is a reflective tool, not a precise measurement.

The Dynamics (Sections 3 & 4)

Your Psychosomatic Experience & Context. Inputs like Agency, Coherence, and Weathering capture your current lived reality. Honest self-reflection here gives the most useful output — but remember the result is a synthesis to think with, not a verdict.

1. Biographical Foundation

Chronological Age 35 yrs
18100
Age:
Your age sets a baseline for how much accumulated wear your body carries. Two people with identical histories but different ages don't have identical loads — time itself adds weight.
Assigned at Birth Female
MaleIntersexFemale
Biological & Systemic Anchor:
Accounts for foundational hormonal baselines and the systemic structural friction (medical bias, societal load) statistically associated with biological sex.
Philadelphia ACEs Score 0 / 15
None (0)High (15)
Not sure how to score? Run the diagnostic.
Early Allostatic Load:
Your early-life stress load, measured using the expanded 15-point Philadelphia scale — which captures not only what happened in your household, but also what happened in your wider community and environment.
Earned Secure Attachment 50 / 100
FragmentedDeeply Secure
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Biographical Repair:
Regardless of your early experiences, have later relationships or therapeutic work rebuilt your baseline? Secure attachment actively buffers daily stress. If you identified as Highly Permeable (HSP) in the calibration above, this buffering effect is even stronger for you.
Active Health Symptoms 0 / 10
Subclinical (0)Severe (10)
Not sure how to score? Run the diagnostic.
Active physical or mental health conditions.
Managing ongoing symptoms costs real energy — energy that can't also go toward the work of living forward. This slider captures that daily cost.

2. Biological Substrate

Physiological Resilience 70 / 100
Exhausted / Slow RecoveryVital / Rapid Reset
Not sure how to score? Run the diagnostic.
Somatic Vitality:
Your baseline physical energy and how quickly your body recovers after stress. Further adjusted by the Autonomic Default orientation you selected above.
Sleep Architecture Quality 70 / 100
Poor / BrokenDeep / Restorative
Energy Input:
Sleep is the main way your body generates the energy surplus that everything else — thinking, feeling, acting — runs on. Poor sleep doesn't just make you tired; it starves the system of what it needs to function.
Physical Activity Level Moderate
SedentaryDaily vigorous
Metabolic Activation:
Regular movement builds your body's energy-production capacity at the cellular level. Consistent activity doesn't just burn energy — it expands how much energy your system can generate in the first place. Note on nutritional status: What you eat matters too. Vitamin D (clinical target: 40+ ng/mL), omega-3 intake, and gut microbiome health all shape your baseline metabolic capacity. Worth reviewing with your clinician if you haven't recently.

3. Psychosomatic Dynamics

Narrative Coherence 60 / 100
FragmentedIntegrated
Self-Continuity:
How well you hold your past and present together as a stable sense of who you are. A coherent life story doesn't mean a happy one — it means the pieces connect. Your Cognitive Style orientation adjusts how this plays out.
Forward Purpose (Telic Drive) 60 / 100
Drifting / ReactiveDeeply Driven
Not sure how to score? Run the diagnostic.
Forward Drive:
The forward pull of genuine purpose — whether it comes from personal direction, vocation, faith, or service to others. Clear purpose protects your capacity to act; its absence is what lets agency collapse under pressure.
Somatic Connection (Interoception) 60 / 100
Numb / Floating HeadDeeply Grounded
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Mind-Body Coupling:
How accurately you read your body's signals. A reliable connection between what the body feels and what the mind registers is what holds the whole psychosomatic system coupled. Without it, body and mind are both working — but not together.
Cognitive Dissipation 30 / 100
Calm / FocusedScattered / Anxious
Not sure how to score? Run the diagnostic.
Mental Dissipation:
How fast your mental energy scatters — through anxiety, sensory overload, or the kind of brain fog where nothing holds together. Vivid Simulators tend to dissipate more under chaotic conditions; Concrete Thinkers hold steadier.

4. Environmental Context

System Margin (Resource Scaffolding) 50 / 100
Survival ModeArchitect Mode
Calculate your resource scaffolding.
Resource Scaffolding:
Your structural resources — time, money, network, autonomy, stability. Resources don't just make life easier; they reduce the biological cost of surviving your environment. At 100%, the damage of weathering and chaos is cut in half. At 0%, the same conditions cost you fifty percent more.
Systemic Weathering 30 / 100
Supported / SafeHostile / Oppressive
Not sure how to score? Run the diagnostic.
Structural Burden:
The cumulative weight of living inside hostile conditions — poverty, marginalization, chronic environmental friction. This isn't about individual bad days; it's about sustained structural burden. Strong resources soften its impact; weak resources let it hit harder.
Relational Safety Index 70 / 100
Isolated / UnseenDeeply Secure
Biological Buffer (Resources):
Even one genuinely safe person dampens your stress response at the biological level. This isn't a metaphor — secure relationships regulate the nervous system. If you identified as Highly Permeable (HSP) in the calibration above, this buffer works even more strongly for you.
Environmental Predictability 60 / 100
Constant ChaosStable & Routine
Daily Unpredictability:
The day-to-day unpredictability of your life. Chaos costs more when you're Highly Permeable or a Vivid Simulator, since your system either absorbs it more fully or spends energy running simulations of everything that might go wrong. Strong resources buffer the cost; weak resources amplify it.

Reflective Considerations

These are reflective prompts based on what you've entered — not prescriptions. Your therapist, doctor, or your own judgment about your life are the appropriate filters for whether and how any of this applies to you.

Reflection Synthesis

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Initialising…
Adjust the sliders above to begin your reflection.
Mind-Body Connection
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Physical Resilience
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Mental Clarity
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Energy Reserve
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Forward Drive
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Wear & Tear
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Life Scaffolding
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