Emotional Stability Is Maintaining Position

- 1 He's on the edge

- 2 She came back from the brink

- 3 He went over the edge

- 4 I'm hanging on by my fingertips

- 5 I'm on shaky ground

Source Domain

location motion

Target Domain

emotion stability

Note: STABILITY IS BALANCE and EMOTIONAL STABILITY IS CONTACT WITHTHE GROUND

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