PM 5 — Center Rebalancing Manual

0. Purpose and Canonical PositionPM-5 is the fifth Practitioner Manual in the CEF applied series.Where:• PM-1 teaches operator-level work• PM-2 teaches facet-level differentiation• PM-3 teaches structural disassembly• PM-4 teaches fusion & overflow correctionPM-5 teaches practitioners how to detect, correct, and prevent center-levelimbalance, the deepest and most consequential structural distortion in the CEF.PM-5 is the applied companion to:• TS-7 — Structural Psychopathology• TS-8 — Neurodiversity Calibration• TS-10 — Therapeutic Structural Disassembly• TS-11 — Facet ArchitecturePM-5 does not provide clinical treatment or diagnosis.It defines structural, modality-agnostic protocols for center-level rebalancing.1. Practitioner Orientation1.1 What Centers AreCenters are the three primary emotional domains:• Head — perception, evaluation, commitment• Heart — relational openness, precision, harmonization• Gut — readiness, drive, acceptanceEach center contains a fixed set of operators and facets.1.2 What Center Imbalance IsCenter imbalance occurs when:• one center becomes dominant• one center becomes collapsed• centers lose modulation reciprocity• transitions become unidirectional• emotional work becomes center-lockedCenter imbalance is structural, not personality.1.3 Why Center Rebalancing MattersCenter imbalance distorts:• operator activation• facet ordering• transition pathways• modulation responsiveness• emotional flexibilityIt is the root cause of rigidity, fragmentation, and chronic fusion.