Gripping

Definition

Gripping carries Focus from Directing toward Fixating when attention loses the ability to widen, shift, soften, or release from its target. The foreground remains active but becomes compulsory as the allocation loses its flexibility. Gripping is not concentration, importance, duration, precision, or intensity by itself. Even total absorption can remain Centered where disengagement and re-engagement remain available; the departure begins with lost attentional optionality.

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Orthography

case

capitalized-always

evidence

contextual

lowercase when

Used as an ordinary English action rather than to name the directed Icosa centering transition.

Usage

do not use for

The endpoint state, the inverse direction, a generic intervention, or a guaranteed sequence of change.

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use when

Naming one directed transition on an axis between an under or over pole and center.

Metadata

Axis

• axis.focus

Inverse

• path.releasing

Pole direction

center-to-over