This stage can be likened to the incision point which reaches the exact location in time when the event first occurred. Quadrant II enables the therapist to know what there is to be worked with and literally to 'read between the lines'. 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.
The stone, represents the fear, needs an 'operation' to remove it or transform it from the tummy, where it doesn't belong, so that the fear is also removed. 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.