Or should that be – everything is Metaphor???
This week one of my clients sent me a link to a very satisfying BBC radio programme about using metaphor for healing and I responded with the story below. Having written it I thought it was worth blogging…
A couple of years ago on the celebrity dancing thing, Kate Garraway from GMTV was a contestant and performed really badly. She began with an injury (which could well have been an indication of unconscious resistance) and then went through the motions of flopping around for a few weeks and being consistently criticised by the judges.
During her last week she developed a mystery back problem – it was very painful for her but the medical professionals we unable to find anythting wrong.
Regardless, she had her back strapped up with what looked like loads of strips of plaster and bravely took to the dance floor to dance the tango on the night. The music started – It was The Killers, ‘Somebody told me’.
There is a repetitious lyric in the song: “Breaking my back just to know your name…”
She must have heard those words a thousand times that week like a mantra – and the conscious being consumed with the trance induction of learning a dance – surely it could easily have gone in at a deep level.
Here’s a game for you… think of your late teens – what was the song lyric that echoes around in there??? Is this interesting? Better still – are you aware of the simple mantra-like phrases that you run like operating software in your system?
