Cognitive Hypnotherapy and Somatic EMDR Trauma Therapy
Integrative Trauma Therapy on the Norfolk/Suffolk border
If you don’t know where you’re going any road will take you there… Lewis Carroll
Traditionally, metaphor has been thought of as a poetic way of speaking, a way to make language more colourful and interesting. Well of course it is that, but it’s also much more. Far from being just a fancy way of speaking, some researchers of the human mind go so far as to say that metaphor plays a major part in defining our very sense of reality.
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We all know that stories are entertaining.
If a story interests us enough we’re hooked.
I’m guessing we can all remember that lovely feeling we had as a child whenever we found ourselves transported to another world – the world of story.
And as adults it’s the same thing. If we love to read it’s a wonderful thing to get lost in our imagination and forget the world around us for a while. And movies too take us on a journey into another reality, another life, another point of view.
But stories are so much more than that too. They hold immense power. They can change reality and they can win wars. Juries base their decisions on them, corporations increase their profit through them and we live our lives by them.