Imagine yourself in the waiting room of the emergency center at a large hospital. As you wait, you begin to look at the faces of the people around you and recognize several acquaintances of yours among the patients. Match a person in you life with each of the following trauma cases:
Head swathed in gauze.
Face heavily bandaged.
Leg in a cast.
The symptoms you associated with various people in your life show what you perceive as weakness in those people’s characters.
1. Head swathed in gauze.
The head is a symbol of leadership and the ability to take command of a situation. The person you named as having a head injury is someone you feel you cannot trust or follow.
2. Face heavily bandaged.
The face represent the personality itself, and a person you imagined as facially disfigured is someone whose personality you have difficulty accepting or someone you just can’t get along with.
3. Leg in a cast.
Legs represents stability and forward movement. The person you saw with a leg in a cast is someone you see as slowing you down or holding you back, either through sluggishness or simple clumsiness.
Did you feel some of these diagnosis of yours were a bit severe? or maybe it’s just uncomfortable to have the truth out in the open. But as all doctors know, the only way patients have a chance of getting better is by recognizing that they are sick.
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