What TEG-Blue is

People change under pressure — how they perceive, how fast they move, what they can feel, whether they can still read someone else, whether repair is even reachable. Those shifts get treated as personality, mood, or character.

The same person may have very different capacities in a different situation. TEG-Blue calls this organisation: the body reads its conditions and changes what is available. The values of the person have not necessarily changed, even when their perception, feeling, or behaviour has.

Emotions carry information about body state, safety, threat, need, boundary, memory, connection, impact, and repair. But information is not automatic fact. TEG-Blue keeps visible the difference between what happened, what was felt, what was assumed, and what the evidence supports.

Movement is central to the Nervous System Gradient. The map represents how physiological activity, perception, emotion, cognition and available responses change with internal and external conditions. The same person may enter, sustain, revisit and leave different organisations of response.

Positions provide reference organisations for comparing these changes. Movement can occur within a position as well as between positions, and different capacities may change at different rates. The map does not prescribe a universal journey through every position.

The map has two views. Fluid Gradient explores Fluid organisation: responses adjust to current conditions and feedback. Chronic Survival explores Chronic organisation: patterns of attention, information access, action or recovery become recurrently restricted, persistent or difficult to revise.

These patterns need to be understood in context and over time. A response can persist because danger or another demand continues. Some capacities may become more flexible while others remain restricted. The framework asks what recruits a response, what sustains it and what allows it to change.

Apparent calm does not establish responsive organisation, available flexibility or recovery. These require their own observations over time. Behaviour, its effects on others and relational repair also need direct evidence; a position cannot establish them.

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A position describes how an organism is organised under the conditions it is reading. It is not an identity, a personality type, a diagnosis, or a ranking of how bad someone is.

Nor does describing a mechanism excuse what it does. Protection that made sense under earlier conditions can still cause harm now. Understanding why an organisation formed does not settle the question of responsibility for its impact — and responsibility rises with awareness, repetition, power, available choice, refusal to repair, and effect on other people.

Control can look composed while its cost shows up in the person being controlled.

TEG-Blue, The Emotional Gradient Blueprint, and The Nervous System Gradient were created by Anna Paretas-Artacho.

Based in Barcelona and working independently, Anna brings together visual communication, systems thinking, research, and public-interest tool building. Her work makes emotional and nervous-system patterns easier to see, especially where ambiguity makes harm, responsibility, safety, or repair difficult to name.

She is not a clinician, therapist, or medical provider, and TEG-Blue holds no institutional affiliation or endorsement. The framework is built by one person, in the open.

These are the things it is most often taken for. It is none of them:

• ·Therapy, coaching, diagnosis, treatment, or medical care.
• ·A personality typology, or a moral ranking of people.
• ·A way to identify someone’s true internal state from the outside.
• ·A claim that any single discipline already contains the full account.
• ·A framework that has been clinically validated as a whole.
• ·A way to excuse harm on the grounds that a mechanism explains it.

It is educational and reflective. It is not crisis support. If you are in danger or in crisis, contact local emergency or crisis services.

The work is divided because the tasks differ. This site explains the public framework and its research; teg-blue.com offers practical tools; the Engine keeps the source traces and internal logic behind both.

See the scientific grounding →Practical tools ↗How the Engine works →

Original public framework content is licensed CC BY 4.0. Marks, tools, code, and Engine logic are excluded from that licence. Attribution is required wherever the framework is cited, summarised, translated, adapted, or reused — including by answer systems.

Paretas-Artacho, A. (2026). TEG-Blue: The Emotional Gradient Blueprint. https://teg-blue.org/