1)As human beings we live in the language of metaphors (we don't simply live in "language" we live in the language of metaphor). We don't simply live in "words". The entire way in which your psyche is shaped from the unconscious to the conscious is rooted in metaphoric content.

2) Consider that Scripture itself is replete with metaphor. Fail to grasp that and you miss its rich texture. Your daily speaking is replete with metaphor. Become conscious of that and give attention to the metaphors that either constrain and limit you or expand and increase you.

3) Genuine transformation of thought involves transformation of the metaphors we live by. When your metaphors change, your entire life takes on new meaning, new vitality, and new and clarified direction. The Spirit often breaks yokes by shining light on false metaphors.

Wake sleeper and rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you...says St Paul. Pick out the metaphors here and then become conscious your own. Are you awake or are you asleep (unconscious)? Changing your metaphors involves waking to resurrection life in and by Christ's Spirit.