In the process of describing supports and hindrances for the exercise participants describe supports and hindrances for the real situation. I didn't like it then because. . . We talked about what I could do if I felt like that in real life. I can try doing this differently. People's natural resistance to change can also be alleviated in identifying uncomfortable feelings and developing strategies for coping with them.
Some people are unaware of their emotional reactions, or the causes for their stress behaviours.
Denial, sadness, anger, guilt, fear, jealousy, frustration, exhaustion and fatalism are unproductive stress reactions that can occur for some people in some physical analogies. Some physical exercises generate these reactions. The analogy can then be made to the change processes being undertaken. Sometimes people are reluctant to participate in physical analogies. Simple, low-impact, low threat exercises are effective starting points.