This exercise is just right for you when you're stuck with something, problem, or matter.
For example, you may be faced with an important decision and need new impulses. Or maybe you're looking for a good idea for a project and you just can't think of anything.
Or you may feel like you're somehow standing still because you're too caught up in your daily routines.
Whenever it comes to getting new inspiration and impulses, this exercise is just right.
You can do the exercise at home with everyday materials. But it works best in nature – because there we automatically have good contact with our intuition and our creative side.
And this is how the exercise works:
- Take a few deep breaths to calm down and focus better.
- Think about your challenge. If the challenging situation you want to work with was a symbol, what would the symbol look like? Which symbol would it be?
- Take the first image that appears in your mind's eye. This image symbolizes your problem.
- Take a look around. What materials from nature are there around you that you could use to represent this symbol in real life on the forest floor? Of course, you shouldn't tear off any plant parts, work with what nature provides you with itself. Maybe there are spruce cones, leaves or small, fallen branches on the forest floor?
- Now intuitively and without thinking, place your symbol with the objects you have found on the forest floor.
- Look at your symbol and let it sink in for a while. How could the symbol be embellished? Are the distances right? Do the colors feel right? Can you add anything else to make the icon more beautiful?
- Now change your icon so that it feels better to you when you look at it. The symbol itself remains the same in this exercise, you just make a nicer variant out of it.
- Let the new symbol work its magic on you for a while.
- Thank nature for their help with this exercise and let yourself be surprised what new ideas come up in the near future that could help you solve your problem.
With the exercise, you set a new impulse in relation to your problem, so that the energy behind it can flow more freely.
This is how you bring more flow into the situation!
Admittedly, at first glance this exercise seems a bit unusual. However, I have made the experience that new insights and inspirations are often not long in coming after the exercise.