If you’ve tried to change something or find a solution to a problem without success, you may be stuck in a pattern. Then the exercise developed by Ilka Hoffmann-Bisinger could get you moving.
1. Take a colored picture or sketch of the pattern you have failed with so far.
Let the picture work its magic on you.
2. Take a second sheet of paper.
3. Draw or paint the second variant.
Place the new picture on the floor in front of you on the right side, place the old picture on the left.
4. Draw a transition between the old and new images. Place the transition image in the center.
If you like, you can stand on the first picture and follow it:
5. Then stand on all the pictures one after the other.
If you are standing in the third picture, you can give advice to the person standing in the first picture.
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