This provides any necessary information or reassurance about the process and helps allay any concerns. This stage can be likened to the incision point which reaches the exact location in time when the event first occurred. The therapist can then identify the metaphors and associated imagery so biologically locating physiological feelings. When a feeling goes into a metaphor it becomes a foreign object which needs to be placed outside the body, not inside. The metaphor takes shape in the form of the stone.
Metaphors are always capable of being drawn, i.e. they are objects.
This is likely to have resulted in the client living aspects of their life from this frozen standpoint and explain behaviour or communication which is not a natural or helpful response to a given situation. Whilst the foreign object stays within the body, so the feeling remains unresolved. This can be likened to the process of antibodies fighting off bacteria. Quadrant II work does not bring the pain of the child into the adult body. The Physical Map of the Holding Patterns Quadrant III provides a birds eye view, mapping the perceptual space or the way things are perceived before they are spoken or discussed.