Power of Metaphors!
What are metaphors? They are description what we use everyday to express how we feel about something. They help us to intensify certain feelings of ours. Recently when I was doing a personal coaching session with one of my clients who is a Director of Sales and Marketing for a leading MNC organization, I heard my client telling
I am totally tied up!
I asked, Tied up? By what and by whom?.
The reply was, By my work!
Can you move out of your chair right now? He was bit confused and told, Yeah! .
Then I told him which means you not tied up! He looked at me with an understanding and told me, Yeah what you are telling is right. I think I must stop telling it. I am not tied up actually but that is what I say every day.
The words we use affect the ways we think. They define how we feel and where we focus on. Words have the power to intensify our positive and negative feelings. We use metaphors to intensify our feelings. How to find out metaphors? We use the world like.
It is so hot, it is like a desert! - In desert you can’t walk but still we use it to intensify our experience.
I am so tired, it is like totally beaten up - No body beaten you up, you have never even experienced how you will feel if you get beaten up!
My Boss is like a devil - Have you seen a devil before?
My office is like a prison - In prison they don’t allow you to go home everyday!
Driving in traffic is like hell - In hell they torture you and don’t allow you to drive a vehicle!
When you are using metaphors next time do use them in the empowering way:
My home is like a heaven
My wife/husband is like my friend
Children are like angels of god
Boss is like a philosopher!
Office is like a place of worship
Use the right metaphors which can make your experience of the world better.
