Psychenoid, Is There a Way to Apply the Phases of Guard?

Psychenoid: What we've talked about here are the phases of guard. You could further generalize that and say that it's like the phases of problem solving, really. If you break things down mentally into engagement, maintenance, recovery, almost anything in life falls into that situation. Any battle that you can win at the engagement level before the problem has even actually flared up into a problem is where you want to be.