Emotional Stability Is Contact With The Ground

- 1 She has her feet on the ground

- 2 Don't let yourself get dislodged/disconnected

- 3 He felt uprooted

- 4 She's drifting

- 5 I'm up in the air

- 6 He's treading water

- 7 I've just had the rug pulled out from under me

- 8 She's flipped

Source Domain
contact ground

Target Domain
emotion stability

Note: EMOTIONAL STABILITY IS BALANCE, and EMOTIONAL STABILITY ISMAINTAINING POSITION

J. Long (185, '89), Alan Schwartz

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