five fun steps to overcome obstacles and reach your goals
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Five Fun Steps to
Overcome
Obstacles and
Reach Your Goals
in 2015
What to do when you’re
Caught Between the No
Longer and the Not Yet© 2015 Sharon M. Barnes, LCSW, PLLC www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.com
Five Fun Steps to Overcome
Obstacles and Reach Your Goals
Will─
o help you bridge between where you are and where
you want and need to go to reach your goals
o show you how to play your way past barriers to
your BIG Goals
o help you align Mind-Body-Soul-Spirit
o help you face your dragons and win them over
o be FUN to do
© 2015 Sharon M. Barnes, LCSW, PLLC www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.com
Who is this for?
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Those Who Are
Caught Between the
No-Longer . . . . And
the Not-Yet • Have you set goals this
year that are big enough
to be daunting?
• Does the Gap between
where you are and where
you want to go seem too
big to cross?
• Are You Betwixt and
Between- Caught
Between the No Longer
….. And the Not Yet?
What Goals Have
You Set for 2015?
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What Goals Have You Set
?
o Business/Career
o Financial
o Personal
o Health
o Family
o Spiritual
o Fun
o Social
Does a Black
Canyon lie
between you and
your goals?
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What Gaps do you
face?
o Knowledge
o Skill
o Resources
o Time
o Money
o ??
o How big are they?
Are You On a Quest to Fill this Gap?
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Necessity sends each of us on a
Quest Through The Deep Dark
Woods of Despair . We Must ALL
Face Our Dragon(s) BEFORE
We Can Find the Buried Treasure
BUT ─
Frontal assault won’t work
against a dragon. This calls
for:─• Creativity & Innovation
• being fully present in the
moment, grounded, centered &
focused
• Body, mind, soul and spirit to
be engaged and aligned
• Our Conscious and
Unconscious to connect and
cooperate
• A Secret Weapon
Myth and Fairy
Tale Show the Way
o Fairy Tale offers clear pictures and clear understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche
o Heroes & heroines in fairy tales are archetypal, universal figures who lead us to deep truths about life
o Myths contain universal life patterns that inform and instruct us in our Quests
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Science and Art Come Together
• Einstein was a scientist who
thought like an artist and a
philosopher
• “Imagination is more important
than facts/knowledge.”
• “The significant problems we have
cannot be solved at the same level
of thinking with which we
developed them. We must learn to
see the world anew”
• “Combinatory Play seems to be
the essential feature in productive
thought”
• Synthesizing information,
perceptions & materials
imaginatively & visually
• Later finding words to
express it© 2015 Sharon M. Barnes, LCSW, PLLC www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.com
How To Bridge the Gap
Between No-Longer
…And Not-Yet
• As we have become more rational, driven and materialistic, we have lost the power of the symbol, but not the need for … symbolic life. Carl Jung
• “We need new images if we are to change; images of other possibilities.” Pat Allen
• “The image is the father of the action:” Charles Poncé
• “Psychic energy can only be consciously apprehended and joined to consciousness through the image.” Carl Jung
• “Any transformation of … images affects … patterns of behavior” James Hillman
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Five Fun Steps to See the World Anew:
Combinatory Play, AKA Contemplative Handwork™
1.Connect
2.Identify
3.Create
4.Contemplate
5.Crystallize
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1. Connect
oBody
oMind
oSoul
oSpirit
oSelf
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2. Identify
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o Identify a current obstacle,
barrier or dilemma
o What does your mind go to
at stoplights, in the shower,
when your brain has
downtime?
o What sticks in your ‘craw’?
o If you had a Magic Wand,
what one thing would you
use it to change?
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3. Create
o Works by Inductive Reasoning
o There is no right or wrong approach
o Pay attention to what pictures pop into your mind’s eye
o Proceed with action: represent these image(s)
o Draw with Non-dominant Hand
4. Contemplate
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Stop, look, listen
o What do you see?
o Give it a voice: What does
it say to you?
o Have an imaginary
conversation with your
creation
o Focus this
conversation on the
topic at hand
o Follow the
conversation (in your
imagination) wherever
it leads you
5. Crystallize
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● What does it have to
say about the barrier,
obstacle , dilemma,
gap or challenge you
identified?
● Make a record: write,
draw, make an audio
or video recording of
what you have
received and learned.
Do You Want to
Experience MORE
Combinatory Play &
Contemplative
Handwork™?
© 2015 Sharon M. Barnes, LCSW, PLLC www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.com
Do You Want More
Help to Bridge the
No-Longer and
the Not-Yet?
Bibliography
Allen, Pat: Art is a Way of Knowing
Hadamard, Jacques: The Psychology of
Invention in the Mathematical Field
Hillman, James: Pan and the Nightmare: Two
Essays
Isaacson, William: Twenty Things You Need to
Know About Einstein (Article in Time Magazine)
Thursday, Apr. 05, 2007
Johnson, Robert A: Living Your Unlived Life
Jung, Carl: Two Essays on Analytical
Psychology
Poncé, Charles: Working The Soul
Reed, Jean Pruyn: Emergence
© 2015 Sharon M. Barnes, LCSW, PLLC www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.com
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