I need to write a paper, and the more time that passes, the more pressured I feel. I think first that I should just work like hell and get a lot done, so that I will feel less pressured. But the intense work adds to the pressure I feel. So then I think I should work a little harder to get more done, but not so much as to increase the pressure too much. This is an example of thinking mostly within the "Moving/Locomotion" cluster of metaphors, particular Speed and Ease.

a. A Story Set in the Source Domain: Put aside the Target Domain and think as much as possible only in the Source Domain. Something is pushing you on all sides making you feel squeezed, constrained... (whatever "pressured" feels like). Things are passing by, and the more this occurs the more pressured you feel, like you are being taken to a place you don't like. You want relief. What do you do? Maybe you struggle to crawl, walk or run away from the place you don't like. But you find that this, while reducing the threat of going to the place you don't like, doesn't relieve the pressured feeling -- in fact it seems to make it worse. How can you move yourself to improve this situation? Look at other sub-clusters, such as Path -- various steps towards a destination.

b. Switch Metaphor Clusters: In the Movement/Locomotion cluster, note the link to the Structure cluster. Continue the Source Domain story in another cluster.

c. Transfer to Target Domain:

This is one type of exercise to illustrate and practice the extension of operating metaphors. By "extension" we mean including other metaphor clusters naturally-related to those that are initially operating. (They all are related because they work together in the normal course of bodily movement and almost always have a corresponding function in whatever the Target Domain may be.) These natural extensions in the Source Domain can increase options in the Target Domain.

Example:
In their first mediation session to begin the divorce process, a father and mother spent a long time discussing how to live separately, tell the children, begin to divide things up, and they seems a bit disoriented and unsteady at the end of the session. I said they had driven their car up a steep hill, which was gruelling, and now they would be carried down hill for awhile. Since they were feeling so unsteady and ungrounded, would they be able stay on the road safely? One of them said, "Oh yes, of course we will be alright, because we know how to get back on the road if we miss some turns."