Altitude.
You can't change a feeling you can't name.
Find where you are. Then handle the next level.
Tap the level you're on
Where S‑Types live
Pick the level that sounds like you right now.
Not where you want to be. Where you are.
Why it works
Name it.
Putting a feeling into words turns down the brain's alarm. The more precise the word, the more you can do with it.
Lieberman et al., Psychological Science, 2007
Talk to yourself by name.
"What's the move, Sam?" works better than "What do I do?" A little distance makes you wiser about your own life.
Kross et al., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2014
Reframe it.
Change what the moment means, not whether you feel it. Research finds it works better than pushing the feeling down.
Gross & John, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003
Questions
- What is Altitude?
- Altitude is Culturr's eight-level scale for naming where you are emotionally, from Frozen at the bottom to Present at the top. Name your level, then take one action under ten minutes that moves you up one.
- What are the eight levels?
- From the top: Present, Focused, Steady, Restless, Angry, Resentful, Afraid and Frozen. Overheated sits off the chart. It feels like the top, and it isn't.
- Where do S-Types live?
- On the top three levels: Present, Focused and Steady. S-Types don't stay higher. They come back faster.
- How do you move up a level?
- Name the level, say its sentence, then do one thing you can do now. On Restless, for example, you say: "I'm not overwhelmed. I'm impatient, because I care. What would make today count?" Then: Write down everything bugging you. Circle the one that makes the others easier. Give it 10 minutes.
- Why does naming a feeling help?
- Putting a feeling into words turns down the brain's alarm (Lieberman et al., 2007). The more precise the word, the more you can do with it.
- Is Altitude a diagnosis?
- No. Altitude is Culturr's own framework, built on published research on emotion. Every check-in helps us test it.
The full move from one level to the next has a name. See HANDLE
S‑Types don't stay higher.
They come back faster.
Your grain is how you're wired. Your altitude is where you are today. One tap a day for a week shows you three numbers.
Baseline
Where you usually are.
Floor
Where pressure takes you.
Recovery
How fast you climb back. This is the one you train.
Then start your 7 days. Your altitude check-in comes with every day.