I Know Me
The seven stories in I Know Me lead you on a journey, from conflict and stress-filled metaphors that keep you emotionally reactive; through grounding, connection, and safe space metaphors (roots out your boots; one with the sun; bright light bubble); on to self-reflection metaphors; and ending with metaphors teaching you how to trust your intuition.
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The Anchor That Pulled Us Under
What does it mean to be reasonable? Are you certain your choices and actions are not based on hidden emotions or biases? How can you get it right (even if “right” means something different to someone else)?
Set in the court of public opinion (CPO), and using the shocking Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Ward v Quebec as a backdrop, The Anchor That Pulled Us Under (tentative title) explores the mental shortcuts and embodied emotions that all-too-often lead us to biased decisions.
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LDT™: Where it came from and how it works
LDT™ helps you to quickly:
- Locate the stress or conflict in your body
- Describe the feeling with metaphor and imagery
- Transform your metaphor into something more positive
LDT™ Transform Worry, Stress and Conflict With 3 Simple Steps
LDT™ Conflict and Emotions: How One Leads To Another
Intensity and Complexity of Emotions
Are you a little stressed, or a lot? Is your situation or decision fairly simple, or extremely complex?
Whatever your answer, your scenes or metaphors are likely to match your emotional intensity and situational complexity.
Intensity = Proximity
More intense emotions may feel more wrapped up in your body. While discomfort can be felt to broadly hover around you, dislike starts to make its presence known. While disdain oozes out of you toward others, hate is fully embedded in your being.
The above illustration of a body and four concentric circles uses colour to support the metaphors:
- Yellow is the largest circle around your body. It is low intensity emotions that you are keeping at bay.
- Yellow-Orange is for medium intensity emotions. Closer to your body, you are feeling the pressure.
- Orange-Red is your high intensity emotions. The circle is tight; the impact is direct. The stress or conflict is pressing against you.
- Red marks your extreme intensity emotions with a circle embedded in your core body. You have become wrapped up in your emotions or situation.
Fire Metaphor
Using a fire metaphor, you may describe your emotions as follows:
- low intensity emotions, you may be seeing smoke signals
- medium intensity emotions, you are feeling the heat
- high intensity emotions, you are putting out fires
- extreme intensity emotions, you are going down in flames
Complexity = Density
More complicated situations may present as more dense and complex metaphors. The cobwebs below are one example.
Cobweb Metaphor
Low Complexity
Medium Complexity
High Complexity
Extreme Complexity
Roadblock Metaphor
The roadblock metaphor offers another example of different complexities.
Low Complexity
Medium Complexity
High | Extreme Complexity
The Grid
Can you place your emotions on the 16-part intensity-complexity grid? Your metaphors and scenes may help.
