Metaphors can be a great way of delivering a message in such a way that the listener interprets it in exactly the right way for them. So if you ever enjoy relating metaphors and language patterns to the seasons you might like this autumnal peice: (credit to Dorothea Read, Clinical Hypnotherapy School)
Autumn arrives cool and crisp to freshen us up from fading warmth of summer. The trees, once cloaked in the every shade of green from lime to emerald to olive, give way to a firestorm of colour—fiery reds, burnished golds, and soft oranges that dance in the gentle breeze. Each leaf, in its final flight, seems to tell a story of letting go, of embracing change with calm confidence.
Autumn is nature’s way of taking a deep breath in and out, releasing the stresses and strains we no longer need to carry.
The sky is painted in softer tones of cool blues reflecting a calmness that invites you to do the same. It’s a season of release, where the weight of past issues falls away like the leaves, drifting down to join the earth.
In this season of transformation, there is a calm beauty in the act of letting go. Autumn shows us that there is a time for everything, a time to hold on and a time to let go. The past, like the fallen leaves, nourishes the soil for future growth, to make space for new beginnings. Autumn, with all its majestic colour changes reminds us of the beauty there is in change, in the natural cycle of holding on and letting go, and in the peace that follows when we finally release what no longer serves us and take that one small hope-filled step into our future.
Calm, confident and in control.
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