OUTCOME
The person knows what they want to make true.
HUMAN OUTCOMES
From intended outcomes
to sustained outcomes.
Next Premise helps people define the Outcome they intend, identify the coherent nervous-system State required to support it, and use creative Action through The Yoga of Creativity to establish, restore or maintain that State. Evidence verifies what is working. Recalibration preserves coherence as conditions change.
INTENDED OUTCOME
SUSTAINED OUTCOME
WHY IT MATTERS
The Outcome can be clear. The State may not be.
A person can know exactly what they want, understand what they need to do and still be unable to move forward. Human OSA™ starts from a simple premise: when the nervous system is not coherent, the State required to support the Outcome is not available.
STATE
If the nervous system is not coherent, the State needed to support the Outcome is not available.
ACTION
Creative Action is used to establish, restore or maintain the coherent State required to support the Outcome.
Creative Action is used to establish or restore coherence. Daily creative Action then helps maintain that coherence proactively so the person can continue moving toward and sustaining the Outcome.
EVIDENCE-INFORMED
Active creative engagement has been associated with measurable changes in autonomic nervous-system activity and physiological stress markers, including heart-rate variability and cortisol.
This evidence supports the Human OSA™ premise that creative Action can influence the physiological State from which a person acts.
Art-Making + Heart-Rate Variability
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Active Music + Autonomic Modulation
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Art-Making + Cortisol
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Creative Arts + Stress, Systematic Review
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APPROACH
Start with what must become true.
Next Premise applies our proprietary OSA™ framework, Outcome → State → Action, to connect the Outcome a person intends to the coherent nervous system State required to support it and the creative Action used to establish, restore or maintain that State.
OUTCOME
What do you want to make true?
Define the intended Outcome and the evidence that will show whether it is being achieved and sustained.
STATE
What State must exist to support the Outcome?
For Human OSA™, the Required State is a coherent nervous system.
ACTION
What will establish, restore or maintain that State?
The Yoga of Creativity is the central Action methodology. The creative medium may vary, but the purpose of the Action does not.
STATE
The State determines what becomes possible.
For Human OSA™, the Required State is coherence: a nervous system capable of directed action rather than reaction. State is not another process to complete. It is the condition from which a person acts.
OBSERVED STATE
Where is the nervous system now?
Read the current State and determine whether it can support the Outcome and the level of Action being asked of it.
REQUIRED STATE
What State does the Outcome require?
The Required State is coherence sufficient to support directed Action and continued movement toward the Outcome.
READ THE STATE
State is measured, not assumed.
Human OSA™ reads two things: the level of coherence available now and the conditions under which Action is most likely to break.
STATE SCORE
Is there enough coherence for what is being asked?
A recurring measure of current nervous-system State establishes how much can reasonably be attempted and identifies when State has fallen below what the work requires.
STATE PROFILE
Where is Action most likely to break?
The profile identifies the conditions under which a person’s creative practice is most likely to fail, allowing the Action to be adapted before movement stops.
THE MOS METHOD™ · METHOD OF SELF-COHERENCE™
The MOS Method™ is the proprietary Human State methodology used to diagnose the Observed State and guide movement toward coherence.
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Diagnosis
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Regulation
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Integration
04
Self-Coherence
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Embodiment
State tells us what the nervous system can currently support. It does not tell the person what to do. Action changes the State.
ACTION
Creation runs all eight limbs of yoga.
In Human OSA™, Action is The Yoga of Creativity: deliberate creation used to establish, restore or maintain the coherent State required for movement toward the Outcome. The methodology is built on a specific premise: the act of creating runs the eight-limbed architecture of yoga as an integrated practice.
CREATIVE ACTION
Make something.
Creation is the practice applied to the current State.
COHERENT STATE
Change the condition from which action occurs.
The purpose of the practice is to establish, restore or maintain coherence.
DIRECTED MOTION
Move toward what matters.
A coherent State supports continued movement toward the intended Outcome.
THE YOGA OF CREATIVITY
The act of making becomes the practice.
Yoga here is not synonymous with physical postures. The Yoga of Creativity maps creation across the eight-limbed system of yoga, bringing ethics, self-discipline, body, breath, sensory withdrawal, concentration and absorption into the act of making.
YAMA
How the maker operates in relation to the work, the self and the world.
NIYAMA
How the maker cares for and disciplines the self within the practice.
ASANA
The body settles into sustained posture and holds.
PRANAYAMA
Breath changes as the maker settles into the act.
PRATYAHARA
The environment recedes as attention turns toward what is being made.
DHARANA
Attention holds to one object across time.
DHYANA
Attention becomes increasingly unbroken and absorbed.
SAMADHI
Not claimed. It remains where the yogic tradition places it.
CREATION DEFINED
Not every activity qualifies.
Human OSA™ defines creation by three conditions. The quality of the artifact is not the measure; what matters is what occurs during the act of making.
SOMETHING IS MADE
An artifact exists that did not exist before the practice began.
ATTENTION IS SUSTAINED
The maker remains engaged with the act rather than merely consuming or observing.
THE MAKER CARES
The person is invested in what is being made. Talent or expertise is not required.
THE MEDIUM CAN CHANGE
Writing · Painting · Photography · Pottery
The medium is the vehicle. The Action is creation.
The artifact is evidence that the Action occurred.
The purpose of the Action is the State the act of creating is intended to establish, restore or maintain.
Action changes State. State enables movement toward Outcome.
SUSTAINING COHERENCE
Practice before you need it.
The Yoga of Creativity is not only a response to a nervous system that has already shifted out of coherence. Creative Action can restore State when coherence has been disrupted, but the practice is designed to be used daily so coherence can also be maintained before movement stops.
RESTORE
When coherence has been disrupted.
Creative Action can be used to re-establish the State needed for directed movement when stress, disruption or changing conditions have reduced the person’s capacity to act.
SUSTAIN
Before coherence is lost.
Daily creative practice helps maintain the State required for continued movement, making it possible to respond to changing conditions before dysregulation becomes the point of intervention.
PREEMPTIVE, NOT ONLY REMEDIAL
The practice does not begin only after coherence is lost.
Human OSA™ uses ongoing State evidence to notice change early. The purpose is not to eliminate disruption, but to preserve enough coherence to keep moving, restore it when necessary and recalibrate before the intended Outcome becomes unreachable.
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READ STATE
Observe what the nervous system can currently support.
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CREATE
Use creative Action to establish, restore or maintain coherence.
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VERIFY
Use evidence to determine whether State is holding and movement continues.
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RECALIBRATE
Adjust the practice, pace, support or Outcome as conditions change.
The goal is sustained movement, not permanent calm. Coherence is maintained, restored and recalibrated in service of the Outcome.
THE FLOW STATE™
Experience Human OSA™ in practice.
The Flow State™ is a guided, practice-based introduction to Human OSA™. Participants bring an Outcome or work they want to move forward, read the State they are acting from, support a shift toward coherence and use creative Action to begin moving again.
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ARRIVE
What do you want to move forward?
Bring an Outcome, piece of work or meaningful next step that has stopped moving.
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ASSESS
What State are you acting from?
Read the current nervous-system State and identify what the nervous system can support now.
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REGULATE
What helps restore coherence?
Use breath, gentle movement and attention practices to support a shift toward a more coherent State.
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CREATE
What becomes possible from the changed State?
Create from that State and experience the relationship between creative Action, coherence and directed motion.
FROM EXPERIENCE TO PRACTICE
The workshop is the door. The practice is the room.
The Flow State™ introduces the relationship among Outcome, State and creative Action. The longer-term value is a repeatable practice a person can use to establish, restore and sustain coherence beyond the workshop itself.
The aim is not a one-time feeling. It is learning how to work with State deliberately so movement toward the Outcome can continue.
Interested in hosting The Flow State™ workshop? Contact Next Premise to start a conversation.
HUMAN OUTCOMES
The Outcome does not have to be creative. The Action is.
Human OSA™ can be applied to any human Outcome. The Yoga of Creativity is not the destination. It is the Action methodology used to establish, restore or maintain the coherent State from which a person can move toward what matters.
BEGIN
Something meaningful that needs to start.
MOVE
Something important that has stalled.
CHANGE
Something that needs to become different.
SUSTAIN
Something worth continuing over time.
The Outcome changes. The Required State does not.
Across Human OSA™, coherence remains the Required State and The Yoga of Creativity remains the central Action methodology used to support it.
Creative Action serves the Outcome. The Outcome itself does not have to be creative.
START WITH THE OUTCOME
What do you want to make true?
Human OSA™ begins with the Outcome, reads the State from which a person is acting, and uses creative Action to establish, restore or maintain the coherence required for movement. The Flow State™ is a practical way to experience that relationship.