Principlev1
When emotional flatness persists across contexts and you
When emotional flatness persists across contexts and you cannot generate proportional responses to objectively significant events, reduce regulation frequency and allow emotions to register at their natural intensity before intervening.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from multiple axioms about emotion as signal (Emotion as Systematic Cognitive Modulator, Emotional suppression increases physiological stress and) and somatic markers (Emotions manifest as physiological changes in the body). Prescribes specific corrective action when over-regulation has eliminated signal access—it's an intervention protocol grounded in understanding emotion's information function.