| Have you experienced the housing bubble, the one | | | | a "reality" that we don't really want just because |
| that created a perfect storm for the mortgage | | | | others are forwarding it. |
| meltdown? Now you're having trouble staying afloat... | | | | It's wise to create our own metaphors or find ones |
| and feel like you're on a sinking ship. | | | | that align with a soul-based, fulfilling life. Metaphors |
| We are awash in metaphors. The media, government, | | | | become guideposts for our lives. Instead of being |
| and business often use them to give an encapsulation | | | | "boxed in," why not "make room to grow"? Rather |
| of "reality." "Reality" has many levels, however, many | | | | than "keep running into walls," why not find an opening |
| unknown to the conventional authority sources, many | | | | and "take flight"? |
| mysterious to us all. | | | | In addition to the above metaphors we described, |
| Yet with some soul-based reflection, the picture can | | | | which ones influence you? Do you feel you "don't |
| change miraculously. As the Hindu text the Rig Veda | | | | have a clue" or are "out on the edge"? |
| notes, things look different from a higher perspective. | | | | Then it's time to explore find resources, both internal |
| The mainstream media tends to focus on negative | | | | and external ones. Meditate, journal, get counsel. |
| metaphors to frame problems. So we are "addicted to | | | | "A WONDERFUL JOURNEY..." |
| oil" which leads to an "energy crisis." ...It must be | | | | Finding your high-vibration metaphors lead to creating a |
| another "perfect storm." Even such environmentally | | | | life that becomes "a wonderful journey to explore." Life |
| helpful metaphors have their drawbacks. The problem | | | | won't be the same, much less of the "blues" and more |
| being that we are focusing on the problem, however | | | | cheerful coloring. You won't have to prepare for that |
| accurately pictured, not the solution. | | | | gathering storm or worry about being on "financial life |
| BUYING INTO CONSENSUS REALITY | | | | support." prepared for "a gathering storm." |
| There may be some truth to these metaphoric | | | | You will know that you can be infused with abundance |
| descriptions, but we want to be careful not to buy into | | | | and energy, with the "wind behind your sails" and the |
| them. Beware of just following the herd wherever we | | | | sun beaming down overhead. Then depressing |
| are told to go. Let's use the consensus-reality | | | | metaphors will no longer be running your life. Instead, |
| metaphors intentionally, but not exclusively and | | | | each day will be adventure. What a life it can be! |
| mindlessly. In other words, let's not automatically accept | | | | |