Change receptivity: when a system can receive what it is asking for
Change can be meaningful and still exceed someone's available capacity. NeuroFascial Flow® uses change receptivity to describe whether a system has enough presence, organization and support to participate in a particular change at a particular moment.
The aim is to develop a relationship with change that relies less on force and more on information, choice and integration.
Why more intensity can be less useful
When discomfort or limitation persists, the natural instinct is sometimes to push harder. Yet effort beyond available capacity can lead to renewed bracing, withdrawal or fatigue. The right dose can vary from day to day—and from minute to minute.
The NFFM® approach is to work on a therapeutic ramp: start with what is accessible, offer a small useful input and observe what happens. More intervention is considered only when the system remains able to participate.
Somatic Tuning
Somatic Tuning is the method's term for continuously assessing how much change is presently integrable. It involves noticing early shifts in body sensation, posture, breathing, attention, movement, voice, relationship to the environment and sense of agency.
The governing question is: How much of this can I do while still maintaining presence?
Somatic Tuning is an NFFM® clinical and educational construct. Its measurement properties and contribution to outcomes are subjects for future research.
The Window of Access
NFFM® uses Window of Access to describe a temporary state in which an experience or movement becomes more available. For example, grounding or proprioceptive input might make it easier for someone to participate in a practice that felt inaccessible moments earlier.
Temporary access can be meaningful. It does not necessarily mean a larger underlying pattern has changed.
The Window of Capacity
The Window of Capacity describes a person's broader ability to remain present, responsive and organized through varying levels of sensation, emotion, complexity and change. Expansion is considered in terms of agency and adaptive range, rather than simply enduring more discomfort.
Both window terms are part of NFFM®'s proprietary model; they should not be conflated with validated clinical scales.
Proprioception and presence
Proprioception is the nervous system's ongoing information about position, movement and loading. Within NFFM®, proprioceptive practices may support orientation and self-calibration. Different people—and the same person on different days—may need different inputs.
A temporary shift in how you feel after input is useful information. Integration calls for observing what carries into function, recovery and real life.
Less reactive, not less sensitive
NFFM® invites a distinction between being able to feel and becoming overwhelmed by what is felt. A broader adaptive range may mean increased sensitivity to signals while retaining more choice about the response.