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

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

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© 2015 Sharon M. Barnes, LCSW, PLLC www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.com

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

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