Settled Nervous System

Which of the Six Wounded Children Lives in You?

Core path · Experiment 4 of 20

✦ CORE PATH

From the six portraits, choose the one or two that produced that bodily catch. Write down, privately:

  1. Which child(ren): ______

  2. My earliest memory carrying their flavor: ______ (an image is enough; details optional)

  3. The sentence they still believe: complete “I am…” or “People always…” ______

  4. Their favorite manager (which guard runs hardest for them?): ______

  5. Their favorite firefighter (what drowns them when they break through?): ______

Keep this page. It is the first page of your personal map, and Chapters 7 through 11 will build directly on it…

Check your reaction to having done this: many people feel a tenderness arrive unbidden: toward themselves, of all directions. Let it. That tenderness is Self-energy showing up for roll call. It was waiting the whole time.

If you feel flooded: feet on the floor, eyes open, name five things you can see, breathe out twice as long as you breathe in. That is skill, not failure. This site is education, not therapy — in crisis, contact local emergency services (US 988 · FR 3114 · QC 811).

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Experiment 4 is one of 20 core-path experiments in Settled Nervous System — the book that interlinks IFS, polyvagal theory, the six colors and the birth matrices into one daily practice.

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