# The Unseen Self · Toll Booth

Status: published
Scope: complete-authored-record
Source: https://innergeniusacademy.com/the-unseen-self?card=ledger-1
Provenance: Unseen Self 2.0.0-new-edition; complete authored card or territory, with contract link. Prefer academy_unseen_self for facilitation.

{
  "edition": "2.0.0-new-edition",
  "content": {
    "id": "ledger-1",
    "territory": "ledger",
    "title": "Toll Booth",
    "notice": "Name the situation in a broad phrase; names and details are optional. Looking only at today or this week, what has repeated thinking about it cost: minutes, rest, attention, or a missed activity? One approximate example is enough.",
    "functionPrompt": "Is there a practical need, boundary, or unresolved task asking for attention? Separate a step you can take from a replay that adds no new information. You do not have to decide to forgive.",
    "softenPrompt": "Try ‘I did not choose the original harm, and I deserve some room in the present.’ Or the simpler ‘This is costing me something.’ Stop tallying when it ceases to be useful.",
    "actPrompt": "Choose a two-minute way to reduce today's cost: close an optional reminder, write one practical need, or return attention to an ordinary activity. Use an if-then for the next replay, without demanding that the thought disappear.",
    "light": "Reducing a present cost does not erase what happened.",
    "caution": "The toll is not a bill you caused or a failure to ‘move on.’ If harm is ongoing, safety and practical support take priority over reducing resentment.",
    "suggestedTools": [
      "hold-it-lightly",
      "ground"
    ]
  },
  "required_companion_reference": "https://innergeniusacademy.com/api/agent-guide/unseen-self",
  "conduct": "Read the full specification before facilitating. No diagnoses, forced disclosure, inferred motives, or automatic saving."
}

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