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Metaphors allow us to live new possibilities

February 22, 2014

Mythologist Michael Meade describes sacred occurrences as those in which the “seal that separates the worlds” is broken and Spirit enters through that break. In Doorway sessions, clients go through a portal into a sacred, interior place where they tap into their own metaphoric inner wisdom. The messages from this realm are clear, direct and immediate. Once we’ve received an image, there is no further analysis or thinking that we need to do.

Valuing My Time: How a Metaphor Instantly Shifted Things

I’ve often felt uncomfortable setting limits and boundaries on my time with people. I’ve struggled with feeling that I was being callous, or it was my ego. But in a Doorway Session I saw fruit falling off my tree…and the fruit was my time. My tree was producing fruit and if I didn’t take care to harvest that fruit, it would hit the ground and be wasted. I had been acting like I had unlimited time and the image clearly showed me that I don’t. My tree won’t be producing fruit forever and it’s my responsibility to harvest it now.

After this image showed up, I had no energy about this anymore. Metaphors put an end to the stuckness, we’re no longer in our heads analyzing the various sides of the issue: “Is it better for my business if I do this or I do that?”  Instead, we experience immediate truth. We all have such metaphoric inner wisdom available to us for any issue that we struggle with.

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