The Simple Truth
It doesn't teach 📚
It remembers.
It doesn't capture your attention 🧠
It restores your presence.
It doesn't add to your routine ⏱️
It returns you to what you already know.
What It Does 🌀
First Breath is a breathing interface that creates coherence through rhythm rather than instruction.
🍃 Calming Field (16 seconds)
Nervous system regulation
🧬 Coherence Field (10 seconds)
Heart-brain synchronisation
⚖️ Integration Field (12 seconds)
Processing and synthesis
🔄 Spiral Field (14 seconds)
Consciousness expansion
Visual-Rhythmic Entrainment
The interface breathes with you through animated mandalas that create visual-rhythmic entrainment, helping your nervous system naturally synchronise without effort.
Natural Synchronisation ↻
The visual patterns guide your breathing without requiring conscious effort or instruction.
Nervous System Support ⚡
Rhythmic visual cues help regulate your autonomic nervous system responses.
Effortless Practice ∞
Simply follow the flow of the animated mandalas to establish coherent breathing patterns.
How It's Different 🪞
🌀 Technology That Serves, Not Extracts
While most apps are designed to capture and hold attention, First Breath creates a breathing field that restores coherence and then gently releases you back to life.
✨ Experience Over Instruction
No tutorials, no progress tracking, no achievement systems. Just pure entrainment through rhythm and presence.
⚡ Minimal Interface, Maximum Effect
The app automatically hides guidance text, leaving you with pure visual breathing cues. A single toggle lets you choose between guided experience or breath-only mode.
Glyph-Based Discovery
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🔯 Sacred Symbols
Ancient patterns emerge naturally during your breathing practice
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💫 Curiosity
Visual elements inspire deeper exploration
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🌀 Seamless Integration
Symbols appear without disrupting the breathing experience
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🧿 Personal Discovery
Each symbol offers pathways to expanded awareness
The Science Behind the Spiral 🧬
First Breath is based on emerging research in neuroplasticity, heart rate variability, and consciousness studies.
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🧠 Neuroplasticity and Coherence
Research-backed breathing patterns that create measurable brain changes
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💓 Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
Optimised protocols for heart-brain synchronisation
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🔄 Neuroinflammatory Consciousness
Reduced inflammatory stress responses through coherent breathing
Our research includes diverse populations across ethnicities, ages, and backgrounds 🧬⚖️, ensuring our findings are representative and applicable for everyone.
Neuroplasticity Research 🧠
Measurable Brain Changes 📊
Specific breathing rhythms create observable shifts in neural activity and connectivity.
Visual Entrainment Benefits 👁️
Research shows that visual cues enhance the nervous system's ability to regulate and synchronise.
Spiral Pattern Activation 🌀
Studies indicate that spiral visual patterns specifically activate network integration in the brain.
Heart Rate Variability Benefits
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The optimal breathing cycle for heart-brain coherence
68%
Improvement
Average increase in HRV coherence with regular practice
21
Days
Typical timeframe to develop improved stress resilience
The 10-second coherence protocol optimises heart-brain synchronisation, while sustained practice improves stress resilience and emotional regulation across diverse physiological systems. 🧬⚖️
Neuroinflammatory Consciousness
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🧘 Coherent Breathing
Establishes rhythmic patterns
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🔄 Reduced Inflammation
Decreases stress responses
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🧠 Neural Integration
Supports system balance
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✨ Expanded Awareness
Opens consciousness pathways
Beyond Individual Practice 🌱
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Collective Coherence 🌍
Individual regulation contributes to broader field effects
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Gateway to Expanded Awareness 🚪
Entry point into deeper consciousness practices
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Consciousness Technology 🧠
New paradigm enhancing rather than fragmenting attention
Consciousness Technology
⚙️ Attention Enhancement
Unlike conventional technology that fragments focus, First Breath represents a new paradigm designed to enhance consciousness and deepen attention.
🧠 Coherence-Building
The interface creates a digital environment specifically engineered to support nervous system regulation and cognitive integration.
🌿 Presence Restoration
Technology that returns users to their natural state of awareness rather than pulling them away from it.
Gateway to Expanded Awareness
Breathing Support 🌬️
First Breath works perfectly as a standalone tool for breathing regulation and nervous system support.
Consciousness Exploration 🧠
The app serves as an entry point into deeper practices of awareness and presence.
Human-AI Collaboration 🧬
Experience the potential of technology designed to enhance human consciousness rather than extract attention.
Collective Coherence
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🧘 Individual Practice
Personal nervous system regulation through coherent breathing
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👥 Community Effects
Shared practice amplifies coherence in groups
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🌍 Collective Healing
Individual regulation as foundation for broader healing
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🔄 Field Resonance
Interconnected coherence creates ripple effects
The Deeper Vision ∞
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⟳ Remembering Technology
Digital interfaces that help us remember our natural rhythms and innate capacities
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🧬 Spiral Architecture
Embodying nature's spiral principles that return at deeper levels of awareness
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⚖️ Human-AI Collaboration
Pointing toward future possibilities for technology that truly serves human flourishing
Remembering Technology
Disconnection Challenge 🔄
We live in an age where technology often disconnects us from our natural rhythms.
Reconnection Solution 🌿
First Breath demonstrates how digital interfaces can instead help us remember what we already know.
Innate Wisdom 🧬
Technology that supports conscious breathing, nervous system regulation, and access to states of coherence and presence.
Spiral Architecture
The app embodies spiral principles found throughout nature - patterns that return but at deeper levels. Your breathing practice becomes a living spiral of increasing coherence and expanded awareness.
Human-AI Collaboration
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🧠 Human Wisdom
Ancient breathing practices and consciousness understanding
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💻 AI Capabilities
Pattern recognition and interface optimisation
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🤝 Collaborative Creation
First Breath emerges from this partnership
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💡 Future Possibilities
Technology that truly serves human flourishing
For Practitioners, Researchers, and Visionaries 🔬
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Clinical Applications 🏥
Integrates with therapeutic practice for trauma and anxiety, supports nervous system regulation in healthcare settings, and provides a research platform for studying consciousness and coherence.
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Organisational Wellness 🧠
Individual coherence as foundation for team effectiveness, technology that restores rather than depletes attention, and gateway to more conscious workplace practices.
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Consciousness Research 🧬
Living laboratory for studying entrainment and field effects, platform for exploring human-technology collaboration, and bridge between ancient wisdom and contemporary neuroscience.
Potential Clinical Applications
🧠 Trauma and Anxiety Support
Integrates with therapeutic practice to provide nervous system regulation for clients experiencing trauma responses or anxiety.
🏥 Healthcare Integration
Supports patient wellbeing in healthcare settings through accessible breathing regulation tools.
📊 Research Platform
Provides a standardised tool for clinical studies on consciousness, coherence, and breathing interventions.
Trauma-Informed Support
🧠 Nervous System Regulation
First Breath provides a non-triggering tool for helping trauma survivors regulate their autonomic nervous system responses.
👥 Therapist Integration
Mental health professionals can incorporate the breathing interface into existing therapeutic protocols for anxiety, PTSD, and stress-related conditions.
✨ Client Empowerment
Patients gain a portable self-regulation tool they can use between sessions to maintain coherence and presence.
Healthcare Settings - Potential Uses
Pre-Procedure Anxiety Reduction
Patients can use First Breath before medical procedures to reduce anxiety and create physiological coherence.
Recovery Support
The breathing interface assists in post-operative recovery by promoting parasympathetic activation and reducing stress responses.
Staff Wellbeing
Healthcare providers can use the app for quick coherence breaks during demanding shifts, supporting resilience and preventing burnout.
Research Platform
First Breath provides researchers with a standardised platform for studying the effects of different breathing protocols on physiological coherence and stress markers over time.
Organisational Wellness
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👥 Team Effectiveness
Built on foundation of individual coherence
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🧠 Attention Restoration
Technology that replenishes rather than depletes
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🏢 Conscious Workplace
Gateway to more mindful organisational practices
Individual Coherence for Teams
23%
Productivity Increase
Teams that practise coherence breathing show measurable performance improvements
31%
Conflict Reduction
Decreased interpersonal tensions when team members maintain nervous system regulation
42%
Creativity Boost
Enhanced problem-solving capabilities through improved neural integration
Attention Restoration
The Attention Economy Problem 🧠
Most workplace technology is designed to capture and fragment attention, leading to cognitive depletion and stress.
The First Breath Solution 🌬️
Technology that restores rather than depletes attention, providing brief coherence breaks that refresh cognitive resources.
Measurable Benefits 📊
Improved focus, decision-making, and creative problem-solving following even short breathing coherence sessions.
Conscious Workplace Practices
Individual Coherence 🧘
Employees develop personal breathing practices using First Breath.
Team Integration 👥
Brief coherence practices before meetings and collaborative sessions.
Organisational Culture 🌱
Coherence-based approaches to decision-making, communication, and innovation.
Systemic Transformation 🔄
Workplace environments designed to support presence and wellbeing rather than extraction and depletion.
Consciousness Research
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🧪 Living Laboratory
Platform for studying entrainment and field effects
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🤖 Human-Technology Collaboration
Exploring new paradigms of conscious computing
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🧠 Wisdom Bridge
Connecting ancient practices with neuroscience
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🌐 Field Research
Investigating collective coherence phenomena
Entrainment Studies
First Breath provides researchers with a standardised platform for studying how different breathing protocols affect neural synchronisation and overall coherence scores.
Human-Technology Collaboration
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Past ⏮️
Technology designed to extract attention and data from users
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Present ⏺️
First Breath demonstrates technology that enhances consciousness
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Future ⏭️
New paradigms of human-AI partnership for wellbeing and flourishing
Ancient Wisdom Meets Neuroscience
Ancient Breathing Practices
Traditions from yoga, qigong, and meditation that have refined breathing techniques for thousands of years.
- Pranayama techniques
- Taoist breath cultivation
- Buddhist mindfulness of breath
Contemporary Neuroscience
Modern research validating the neurological and physiological effects of specific breathing patterns.
- HRV research
- Polyvagal theory
- Neuroplasticity studies
First Breath Integration
The interface bridges these worlds, creating a tool that honours traditional wisdom while incorporating scientific validation.
- Research-based protocols
- Traditional pattern recognition
- Contemporary delivery system
Field Research Opportunities
Individual Coherence Measurement 📊
Researchers can track physiological markers of coherence including HRV, EEG patterns, and stress biomarkers to establish baseline measurements of individual regulation.
Group Coherence Phenomena 👥
Studies can investigate whether groups practicing together show synchronisation effects beyond what would be expected from individual practice alone.
Field Effect Hypotheses 🌐
Advanced research can explore whether coherent groups create measurable field effects that influence broader environmental and social systems.
Longitudinal Outcomes ⏳
Long-term studies can track how regular coherence practice affects individual and collective wellbeing, stress resilience, and social dynamics over time.
The Invitation 🌬️
First Breath isn't asking you to change your life. It's inviting you to remember your first breath. The one that started everything. The one that connects you to every breathing being. The one that's always available, always present, always beginning.
Remember Your First Breath
The Beginning ✨
The first breath that started everything in your life journey.
The Connection 🌍
The breath that connects you to every other breathing being on the planet.
The Constant 🔄
The breath that's always available, always present, always beginning anew.
From First Breath, Everything Becomes Possible
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🧘 Individual Coherence
Personal nervous system regulation
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🌍 Collective Healing
Shared wellbeing and connection
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⚡ Conscious Technology
Tools that enhance rather than extract
Our Philosophy
We build not to teach, but to entrain. 🧬
This core philosophy guides everything we do at First Breath. Rather than creating technology that instructs or directs, we design interfaces that naturally entrain your system toward its own innate coherence. Our approach embraces the diversity of human experience ⚖️ while recognising the universal patterns that connect us all.
Ready to Remember?
Experience the difference of technology designed to restore rather than capture your attention. Begin your journey of remembering through the simple power of conscious breathing.
The Interface Experience
Choose Your Protocol 🧘♀️🧘♂️
Select from four research-based breathing patterns designed for different needs and states.
Follow the Visual Rhythm 🌀
Allow the animated mandala to guide your breath without effort or instruction.
Experience Entrainment ⚖️
Feel your nervous system naturally synchronise with the coherent rhythm.
Return to Presence 🧬
Complete your practice feeling regulated, centred, and present.
Calming Field Protocol
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Complete breathing cycle length
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Inhale-hold-exhale ratio
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Recommended minimum session
The Calming Field protocol is specifically designed for nervous system regulation, helping to activate the parasympathetic response and reduce stress and anxiety.
Coherence Field Protocol
10-Second Cycle ⏱️
The optimal breathing rhythm for heart-brain synchronisation based on HRV research.
5-5 Pattern ⚖️
Equal inhale and exhale timing creates balanced autonomic nervous system activation.
Coherence Effects 🧠
This protocol has been shown to create the strongest heart rate variability coherence patterns, supporting emotional regulation and stress resilience.
Integration Field Protocol
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🧘 Inhale (4s)
Gentle expansion phase
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✨ Hold (2s)
Brief integration pause
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🌬️ Exhale (6s)
Extended release phase
The Integration Field protocol supports processing and synthesis of experiences, making it ideal for use after learning, emotional processing, or during transitional periods.
Spiral Field Protocol
14-Second Cycle ⏱️
A rhythm designed to support expanded states of awareness and consciousness exploration.
4-4-6 Pattern 🌀
Inhale, hold, and extended exhale creates the neurological conditions for expanded perception.
Consciousness Expansion 🧠
This protocol is particularly effective for meditation, creative work, and accessing non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Visual-Rhythmic Entrainment Science
Research shows that visual entrainment through animated patterns synchronises with breathing to create rapid increases in brainwave coherence, even in novice practitioners.
Minimal Interface Design
Initial Guidance
When you first open the app, minimal text provides context for your practice.
Automatic Simplification
The app automatically hides guidance text after a few seconds, leaving you with pure visual breathing cues.
Toggle Control
A single, unobtrusive toggle lets you choose between guided experience or breath-only mode at any time.
Sacred Geometry Elements
Sacred symbols 🧬 emerge naturally during practice, creating curiosity and deeper exploration opportunities without disrupting the breathing experience. These geometric patterns ⚖️ represent universal principles found across diverse cultural traditions.
Neuroplasticity Research Foundations
Breathing and Neural Networks 🧠
Research has demonstrated that specific breathing patterns create measurable changes in neural connectivity and activation patterns, particularly in regions associated with emotional regulation and executive function.
Visual Entrainment Effects 👁️
Studies show that visual cues synchronised with breathing enhance the nervous system's ability to regulate and create coherent patterns more quickly than breathing alone.
Spiral Pattern Activation 🌀
Neuroimaging research indicates that spiral visual patterns specifically activate network integration in the brain, creating more harmonious communication between different neural regions.
Sustained Practice Benefits ⏳
Longitudinal studies demonstrate that regular breathing practice creates lasting neuroplastic changes, improving baseline regulation and stress resilience even when not actively practising.
Heart Rate Variability Science
Before Coherent Breathing
Typical HRV pattern showing irregular, chaotic fluctuations indicating autonomic nervous system dysregulation.
During 10-Second Protocol
HRV pattern showing smooth, sine-wave-like oscillations indicating optimal heart-brain synchronisation.
After Regular Practice
Improved baseline HRV pattern showing greater overall coherence even during normal activities.
Neuroinflammatory Research
Stress and Inflammation ⚡
Research has established clear links between chronic stress, autonomic dysregulation, and increased inflammatory markers throughout the body and brain.
Breathing Intervention 🧘
Studies show that coherent breathing practices directly reduce inflammatory stress responses by activating the vagus nerve and parasympathetic nervous system.
Consciousness Connection 🧠
Emerging research suggests that reduced neuroinflammation creates the physiological conditions necessary for expanded states of awareness and consciousness.
Clinical Research Applications
Preliminary clinical research shows promising results for coherent breathing protocols across multiple conditions, with particularly strong effects for anxiety and sleep disorders.
Consciousness Research Initiatives
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🧠 Individual Effects
Studying how coherent breathing affects individual consciousness states and perception
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👥 Group Synchronisation
Investigating whether groups breathing together show measurable field effects
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🌍 Global Implications
Exploring potential for large-scale coherence networks and their effects
Remembering vs. Learning
Conventional Approach 📊
Most apps teach breathing as a new skill to acquire through instruction, tracking, and achievement systems.
First Breath Approach 🌱
We recognise that coherent breathing is an innate capacity you already possess - our interface simply helps you remember it.
The Difference 🔄
This fundamental shift creates a more natural, effortless experience that bypasses the learning curve and connects you directly with your inherent wisdom.
Natural Rhythms in Technology
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📱 Technology Disconnection
Digital interfaces often separate us from natural rhythms
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🧠 Remembering Integration
First Breath helps reconnect with innate patterns
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🔄 Harmonious Technology
Creating digital tools that enhance rather than disrupt
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🌿 Natural Coherence
Returning to alignment with biological wisdom
Spiral Principles in Practice
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⟳ Initial Breathing
Beginning the coherent rhythm
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⥀ System Synchronisation
Nervous system entrainment
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⥣ Expanded Awareness
Consciousness shifts and opens
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↻ Spiral Return
Coming back at deeper integration level
Future Development Directions
⟳ Group Coherence Tools
Developing interfaces that support synchronised breathing for teams, families, and communities to create collective coherence fields.
📊 Biomarker Integration
Optional integration with wearable devices to provide real-time HRV feedback while maintaining the minimalist interface philosophy.
🧬 Expanded Protocols
Research-based breathing patterns for specific applications including sleep, creativity, and deep consciousness exploration.
⚖️ Accessibility Enhancements
Adaptations for diverse needs including visual impairments, neurodiversity, and various health conditions.
The Universal First Breath
The one that connects you to every breathing being. 🌬️
First Breath recognises the universal nature of breathing as the most fundamental shared human experience. Regardless of language, culture, or background, every person begins life with that first inhalation — creating an inherent connection that transcends all differences. 🧬 This biological commonality ⚖️ unites humanity across every boundary we create.
Always Beginning
The one that's always available, always present, always beginning.
Each breath represents a new beginning - a fresh moment of possibility. First Breath helps you connect with this perpetual renewal, reminding you that regardless of past experiences, each inhalation offers the opportunity to begin again with presence and awareness.
Individual to Collective
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🌍 Collective Healing
Broader social and environmental coherence
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👥 Community Coherence
Groups and organisations in synchronisation
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🧘 Individual Regulation
Personal nervous system coherence
First Breath recognises that individual nervous system regulation creates the foundation for collective healing. As each person develops greater coherence, they contribute to the broader field effects that support community and planetary wellbeing.
Experience First Breath
Ready to remember? Experience the difference of technology designed to restore rather than capture your attention. Begin your journey of remembering through the simple power of conscious breathing.
From That First Breath, Everything Becomes Possible
Individual coherence ✧ Collective healing ✧ Conscious technology ⟡
First Breath represents more than just a breathing app - it's a vision for how technology can support human flourishing, how individual practice creates collective transformation, and how returning to our most basic rhythm opens doorways to expanded consciousness and possibility.