Accommodating different sensory styles

• Sometimes deepening your experience of yourself helps you find a way through.  Individuals can favour particular senses for experiencing and making sense of their world. 
• For instance one person might tend to take in information by listening, might evaluate it visually (eg seeing how it fits inner pictures) and store it physically (eg as a body sensation).  Another person might tend to focus on the visual details of an experience, feel how it sits in their body and file it away as words.    There are many combinations.

• I can suggest exercises using the arts (ie poetry/song lyrics, drawing, art postcards, music, modelling clay, movement etc) so that you can make better sensory connections in order to access, deepen and resolve your experiences.

• There is no need for you to be artistic or creative.

• Although some people find working in this way a little strange at first, they often then delight in the greater scope for expression and exploration that these methods afford.

Using the imagination and play

• Imaginative play is one of the best methods for getting to a solution "outside the box", precisely because it is unfamiliar and it encourages non-linear thinking and unexpected connections. 
• It may be a skill that you have lost touch with.  However, as we recover our capacity for play, we can rediscover our spontaneity, our creative problem-solving skills and our delight in the world.
• Some examples of how your imagination and capacity for play might be engaged are within the carefully boundaried tray of the sandworld, in imagework, in storytelling exercises, or even with hand puppets.