2. Indicators of embodied schema
UP/DOWN Motif
The following sentences have been extracted from a one-hour client session. They illustrate the client’s repeated use of the
UP/DOWN embodied schema. Because of the repeating pattern we would characterise this client’s Landscape as having an
up/down motif:
That’s me standing on top of a wave [about their desired state symbolic drawing]
I am able to achieve and fly high from a place of being more in touch with myself.
There’s a frequent sense of overwhelm.
I feel on top of things.
I want to take on the day without the day taking over me.
A lot of upheaval in the last year.
I want to be on top of my day.
I am building on ...
I want to raise others' awareness.
I'm up for it.
Checking up on it.
I need to be free of the heap.
[After a change had taken place in the client's Landscape — a "missing" symbol comes inside]:
It's like a pebble in the water dropping down in the whole of my core.
Now I'm sitting under a tree.
Dappled light drops down.
I feel calm and grounded.
Now I want to lie down under the tree and look up through the branches to the sky.
I feel settled in my gut, down here (hand on stomach).
It feels heavy in a positive settled way.
When I am in touch with the settled, grounded feeling it feels the natural thing to do.
Examples of verbs that indicate a FORCE embodied schema:
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Active |
Approach |
Attack
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Attract |
Bear
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Bond |
Break |
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Build |
Bring |
Can’t |
Capture |
Carry |
Cause |
Clamp |
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Close |
Clutch |
Collect |
Compel |
Control |
Cut |
Deliver |
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Detain |
Dive |
Do |
Drag |
Endanger |
Enlarge |
Fall |
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Find |
Fetch |
Get
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Go |
Grab |
Grapple |
Grasp |
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Hold |
Hug |
Hunt |
Immerse |
Imprison |
Influence |
Interact |
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Jam |
Join |
Liberate |
Limit |
Make |
Meet |
Move |
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Obtain |
Open |
Operate |
Overcome |
Perpetrate |
Penetrate |
Pick |
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Power |
Press |
Provide |
Pull |
Push |
Raid |
Reach |
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Refrain |
Resist
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Restrict |
Retain
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Seize |
Shake |
Snatch |
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Start |
Squeeze |
Stay |
Stick |
Stop
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Take |
Tense |
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Try |
Tug |
Wake |
Withhold |
Wound |
Wrench |
Wrestle |
