Five fun steps to overcome obstacles and reach your goals

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?


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?


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?


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?


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


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


Five Fun Steps to See the World Anew:

Combinatory Play, AKA Contemplative Handwork™

1.Connect

2.Identify

3.Create

4.Contemplate

5.Crystallize


1. Connect

oBody

oMind

oSoul

oSpirit

oSelf


2. Identify


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?


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


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


● 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™?


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
