Where Neuroscience Meets the Architecture of Resilience
The ZEABA Model is the first scientific framework merging quantum biology, molecular neuroscience, chaos theory, and polyvagal theory into a unified explanation of human behavior — from trauma to transformation.
What You'll Learn
This page introduces the complete Zeaba Model — a unified framework that explains every human behavior through five measurable variables plus time. You'll see the full equation, understand what each variable controls, and learn why behavior is an engineering problem with an engineering solution.
Three Questions That Changed Everything
The ZEABA Model was built to answer three questions that no existing framework could:
"Why do identical experiences create completely different memories in different people?"
Two soldiers in the same firefight. One develops PTSD. One doesn't. Same V4 (content), same V3 (environment) — but different V1 (existing engrams), different V2 (neurochemical state), different V5 (consciousness). The equation produces a different output.
"Why do identical experiences create different memories in the same person at different times?"
The same conversation that rolls off you on Monday destroys you on Friday. The V4 didn't change. Your V2 did. Depleted neurochemistry lowers every CTZ threshold in your system.
"Why do traditional PTSD treatments fail 70% of the time?"
Because they target the wrong variable. CBT targets V4 (content reframing). SSRIs temporarily modify V2 (neurochemistry). Neither touches V1 — the engram itself, where the negative CTZ is molecularly encoded.
"These are not philosophical questions. They are neurological ones — and the ZEABA Model answers all three."
The Solution: One Equation
After two decades of independent research, the ZEABA Model explains human behavior at the molecular level — why trauma persists, why memories form differently, and why most treatments fail.
The breakthrough: every synapse in your brain has a unique Critical Threshold Zone (CTZ) — a molecularly encoded electrochemical fuse that determines when and how each memory fires. By measuring and targeting the CTZ, the model enables individualized interventions based on each person's distinct brain chemistry.
The Five Variables of Human Behavior
V1: Software — Synaptic Engram Networks + CTZ
Neural memory clusters stored at the molecular level. Each engram contains a distinctive Critical Threshold Zone — an electrochemical threshold determining activation timing and intensity.
Traumatic memories encode with highly negative CTZ values, triggering easily under minimal stress. Healthy memories carry positive thresholds, activating only when genuinely needed. V1 is the foundation of the entire model — because every behavior you've ever exhibited was triggered by a physical structure in your brain. Not a thought. Not a feeling. A structure.
Explore V1: Software →V2: Mindset — Neurochemical State
Your brain chemistry at any given moment, operating across three branches:
| Branch | Name | Function |
|---|---|---|
| V2p | Physical/Polyvagal | Autonomic state — ventral vagal (safe), sympathetic (fight/flight), dorsal vagal (freeze) |
| V2e | Emotional | Emotional neurochemistry — negative emotions are exponentially more powerful |
| V2m | Mental | Cognitive framework — growth vs. fixed mindset, cognitive load state |
Stress-induced neurochemical depletion collapses positive memory encoding, leaving the nervous system vulnerable to negative CTZ activation. V2 is what fluctuates daily — and it determines how close you are to triggering every V1 program in your system.
Explore V2: Mindset →V3: Environment — The Attractor Field
The physical, social, and sensory context surrounding you at any moment. V3 is not about what you THINK about your environment — it's about what your nervous system DETECTS through neuroception, below conscious awareness.
Identical situations elicit completely different responses based solely on environmental conditions, making V3 a critical therapeutic intervention lever. And the most powerful V3 insight: a parent's chronic V2 state becomes the child's V3 — which is why ages 0-6 are the most critical developmental window.
Explore V3: Environment →V4: Content — The Signal Stream
The specific stimulus, trigger, or experience being processed. Here's what most people get wrong: V4 is often the LEAST important variable.
Content interacts with existing engrams and current neurochemical states, either reinforcing existing patterns or creating new neural pathways. But V4 is just the key — V1 is the lock. The same sentence can trigger completely different behaviors in two people because they have different V1 programs with different CTZ thresholds.
Explore V4: Content →V5: Consciousness — The Master Variable
Present-moment awareness and conscious attention operating in the NOW. V5 represents the only variable capable of overriding automatic responses and consciously reshaping traumatic patterns.
When fully engaged, the Witness collapses behavioral probability waves into deliberate choice, enabling neuroplasticity and permanent healing. Without V5, the other four variables operate on autopilot — stimulus fires, V1 activates, behavior runs automatically. No choice. No awareness. No change.
The V5 Paradox: It is simultaneously the most powerful variable and the most fragile. V5 requires the most metabolic energy of any brain function and is always the first to go offline when V2 is depleted.
Explore V5: Consciousness →ΔTime — The Sixth Dimension
Not a variable like V1-V5, but the neutral multiplier across the entire equation. Time does not heal. Time multiplies. It amplifies whatever direction the system is already moving.
- Positive trajectory + ΔTime = exponential growth
- Negative trajectory + ΔTime = deeper attractor basins
- Stagnation + ΔTime = slow degradation (entropy always wins without conscious intervention)
"These variables do not operate in isolation. They form a living, dynamic system — a chaotic basin from which all behavior emerges."
The Foundation of Everything
The Critical Threshold Zone — the electrochemical fuse governing every memory, emotion, and behavior.
Every stored memory in your brain contains an electrochemical fuse — the CTZ — that determines precisely when it fires, how intensely it responds, and whether it heals or destroys.
Think of it like a circuit breaker. A positive CTZ is healthy wiring that handles appropriate electrical loads without tripping. A negative CTZ is faulty wiring that trips under the slightest stress — flooding your entire system with emergency signals.
Traumatic memories encode with highly negative CTZ values (ranging -70 to -90). This is why minor stimuli can trigger disproportionate nervous system responses. And this is why traditional PTSD treatments fail 70% of the time — they target thought patterns but never modify the CTZ itself.
"The ZEABA Model doesn't treat trauma. It rewires it — at the molecular level."
Go Deeper
CTZ Algorithm
The mathematical framework that measures, maps, and transforms negative CTZ thresholds into positive ones — with precision. This is the clinical engine of the ZEABA Model.
App Partnership
ZEABA is collaborating with Kiwi Tech to develop a precision behavioral health application — delivering diagnostic and intervention frameworks to clinicians, coaches, and individuals globally.
The Present Is the Critical Year
The forthcoming book by Nazary applying the ZEABA Model to childhood development — revealing how early life forms the foundational behavioral attractors and offering actionable guidance for parents, educators, and clinicians.