Good Juju and Things Woo Woo

Using metaphor as a learning tool can be a very valuable approach. Metaphor is a really helpful way of getting from an analytical and a more zoomed in approach to a wider and more experiential approach. 

A good example is in the complicated subject of energy or chi. These can be concepts so far outside our everyday frame of reference we get caught in trying to understand what it is before we are willing to have an experience with it.

How do we get out of our heads and into the experience?This is where metaphor can be helpful.

Metaphor allows us to move, imagining that it is real and allows us to notice what follows. How does moving as if it is real change the quality of how I move? What is gained or lost when adding new language or imagery? What am I able to notice when I shift out of seeing things structurally to something more intangible?

If we go too quickly into our own conceptions of movement, we will continue doing what we've always done, but if incorporate metaphor, we can dance with a new idea right from the beginning.

It may not be long lived or even something that we continue. But it gets us out of the right and wrong part of our brain and moving in such a way that in the end, we might not even care.