Hypnosis Metaphor For Changes

This is a metaphor, courtesy of the British Institute of Hypnotherapy, about making changes in your life.

One Christmas I was given a present of a jigsaw about 150 pieces, but you know I was so annoyed. Because they didn’t have the box, I just had all the pieces in a plastic bag and I didn’t know what the picture was going to be. I was so furious and I never realised then what a great learning experience that would be, a great learning experience.

Some people start with the frame. They put in all the edges first to get a sort of acceptable outline of what the picture might be, one piece at a time putting it all together, and it gets to a point where you really start to see things, you really start to notice and recognise, really start to get a picture of what that picture is all about, and then each time you start to recognise the picture forming the next piece is easier to put in place, and as you put each piece in plan so the picture forms faster and faster, and gets more exciting, and somehow that relationship between that picture and the person completing the jigsaw, you know you can take time completing the picture a piece at a time and you only need to put each piece in when it’s right for you, each piece in your own time and you know that can happen all by itself, automatically, the changes from within.

Metaphors are often used by hypnotherapists to gently give suggestions to the unconscious mind.

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