If you canrsquot see the wood for the trees, feel like a fish out of water, or are going around in circles, wersquove got good news for you: that saying is also a clue to where yoursquoll find the solution. Yes, you read rightmdashyou can use the language yoursquore using to describe the stuck situation to discover the solution. Itrsquos not even the language as much as the landscape contained within your description of the situation that can give you pointers. As Alison Smith explains, ldquoIf a picture paints a thousand words, then a metaphor paints a thousand pictures. In other words, the metaphor in the saying yoursquore using will provide a million words that will undoubtedly have the solution contained within them.rdquoThatrsquos what this book is all aboutmdashtaking these sayings that yoursquore using to describe being stuck and using them to get unstuck again. The language you apply provides clues to how you perceive the current situation. Subconsciously, you know the solution. Exploring the metaphors contained within your language allows your subconscious to communicate to your conscious awareness more easily. The metaphor reduces resistance and the barriers we put up to change. Itrsquos as if we enjoy exploring the metaphor and forget what it means in reality, and before we know it, we have a metaphorical solution that we cannot help but translate into real life.