Switch on/off a flow for "alarm"

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Hi All

I am very new and so out of depth its not even funny, but I have been playing around with tasmota/Mqtt and node red for going on to 6 months now and it is hectic! In this almost 6 months I have I have several switches on my dash board and a temp and humidity guage which I am extremely happy with. Then of course I started playing around wit sensors (sonoff's door/window sensors and motion detectors) I know sonoff's sensors is not the best as they only send one "code" to let the RF bridge know that there is movement but for now it is a start for me. So I got these in a flow and it is relatively easy to get to do things for example switch on a light and turn off again after x amount of minutes. BUT after a week now and trying to read and understand what is happening in the forum I cannot place a switch to stop and to start this flow. All I want is on the dashboard to display a switch whereby I can switch on that if a topic arrives from the sensors to what ever I want them to do and if I wish to stop it from " listening" to that topic!

My flow looks like this:

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ANY help will be really appreciated!

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This recipe in the cookbook should help
https://cookbook.nodered.org/basic/route-on-context
Use your ui-switch to set the state of the flow variable
Use the switch node in the recipe to route the flow onward when on and to an unwired output when off

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Thank you for time answering this, but this is well BEYOND my head I have spend the past couple of hours on this and the only thing I have to show is, the following realization: I Really thought I could "wing" this but ALAS I will need to start from scratch and learn the basics. Any pointers to get a proper foundation in the node red world? where to start as I have zero and I mean ZERO experience! I only got this far by copying and pasting and of course You Tube! the reason why I ask is with You Tube one can get side tracked VERY quickly! What would you suggest sir my mind tells me JavaScript first then something in node red?

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Along with the standard Node-Red docs, I found this site to be super helpful when I first started http://noderedguide.com

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