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Safety is an illusion. Imagine your Child Self—the snail—living deep beneath the earth. You are surrounded by layers of protective dirt. You are safe there, you tell yourself, because you cannot be eaten by a snake or a shrew. No gardener can scoop you up and dump you in a can of salt when you are “safe” underground. But your perceived safety perpetuates deception; it enables you to convince yourself that snakes and shrews and gardeners do not exist.
Little snail, they do exist. Your Mature Self has fled their jaws and their salt.
So how do you recapture the Essentialized Emotion-Chain of Safety that you experienced as a baby snail now that you are living your adult life aboveground?
Step 1 – Inversion of the Snail Shell: The first step to transforming the Illusion of Safety into a Manifestation of Safety is to remove your shell…