Expanded States

Neutrality …The function of Neutrality is to face into what is.

Acceptance …The function of Acceptance is to accept what is

Appreciation …The function of Appreciation is to orient to the positive qualities of what is.

Love …The function of Love is to join with the energy of the universe to co-create.

Joy …The function of Joy is to celebrate life.

Peace …The function of Peace is to exist as one with all that is.

Contracted States

Pride …The function of Pride is to solidify the status of the alpha.

Anger …The function of Anger is to directly establish and maintain the status of the alpha through
pure, direct, mobilized aggression.

Agitated Fear …The function of Agitated Fear is to get to safety

Frozen Fear …The function of Frozen Fear is to stop forward movement so as to orient to and assess
threat, and to find and obey the alpha.

Sadness …The function of Sadness is to protest the loss of valued connection and create
reconnection

Despair … (immobilised sadness) The function of Despair is to abandon protest about lost connection
as the body shuts down in its initial preparation for death.

Guilt … (immobilised fear + anger) The function of Guilt is to immobilize one’s own impulses so as to
regain the alpha’s good graces (and, in turn, access to the alpha’s resources) and to avoid the loss
and negative “correction” from the alpha or their lieutenants.

Shame … (immobilised anger + fear + sadness) The function of Shame is to energetically freeze self-
expression (anger, sadness, and fear, as well as sexual and joyful energies) in order to ward off
aggression and/or loss of the alpha.