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What is Metaphor? We believe that there is a link between the mind and the symptoms and illnesses that our bodies express. The link that we use to examine the body through the mind is metaphor. This works because we are story-telling creatures and everything in our lives is part of our story.
With our physical symptoms our mind is telling a specific story. Our mind interprets the type of symptom that we have, describes the physiological dynamic that is going on and all of this has a certain meaning to us. This is our story about our body. This all means that we can look at the body as a script that the mind is writing.
We do this by identifying and interpreting the metaphor that underlies the physical symptoms that we express. There are many important aspects to examine with each metaphor such as the part of the body affected , the type of symptom that is being expressed, the medical dynamic causing the illness, duration of the problem etc.
By interpreting the story that the body is writing we can find the underlying psychological process of the mind. This is how the use of metaphor gives us insight into healing the body through the mind.
In Healing keys we are mapping the links between the underlying problem in the mind and the outward expression of the problem in the body.
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