In time, you will become more adept at interacting with energy and symbolic messages through the use of techniques such as journeying and dialoguing. Then, you can discard or replace the metaphors that you have outgrown or that don’t serve you anymore. By changing your metaphors, you usher in forces that can bring to life a new story, perhaps one of an adventurer, a nurturer, or a wise elder. You can stop telling yourself and others that you’re “swimming upstream” and adopt a new metaphor of “surfing the waves of uncertainty” or “going with the flow.”
