About yr Perspective
Perspective vs Perception
Perception is what you interpret. It is your understanding of a given situation, person, or object. It is the meaning you assign to any given stimulus: “inward”.
Perspective is your point of view. It’s the lens you see the world through and determines how you view yourself, others, and everything else around you: “outward”.
What comes first: your perspective (point of view) or your perception (what it means)?
The perception of our reality controls our perspective. Our perspectives come from our perceptions and our perceptions are created from our beliefs.
Beliefs are created through continously repeating something you learn/see/do, or from a dramatic emotional impact.
Besides using the timeless tools to improve your current status, why not change the perception about your life and yourself, if you want to feel and think different about your current life experiences?
Keep adopting other perspectives until you see the obstacle disappear and have a satisfactory feeling about something or someone, without changing or ignoring all the relevant facts.
Wouldn’t that make a lot of sense?
Not until I carefully studied certain facts and rules, and as a result flipped certain beliefs about myself and my world upside down, did I get a satisfactory feeling about it.
It also allows me to live every day in awe-filled appreciation for what was scripted for this day and how that fits in with everything else in my life. This kind of childlike anticipation of what comes next, gives me more feelings of freedom, peace and joy than any other approach to life.
unnatural 90° and 45°,
versus natural 60° viewpoints
Changing my viewpoint after an experience, allows my mind to open up to new insights that would otherwise be blocked by parts of me that need to hold on to:
Loser, be victorious!
When you change your perspective about the ‘Loser’ in you and command that part to lose whatever you do not want to carry around anymore, you get rid of what you do Not want and be left with what you Do want.
This way you appreciate, or even admire, the work done by the ‘Loser persona in you’, and allow it to feel victorious, instead of the usual perspective of depreciating the Loser.
Matthew 10:39 states: “He who finds his life shall lose it; and he who loses his life for My sake shall find it.”
The philosopher Patanjali, points out that when viewing the world, we see things as we’d like them to be.
Our own preferences, assumptions, and biases obscure a clear view and we see a mirror showing us a distorted image.
Philosophies both East and West consider this confusion or false perception to be one of the root causes of suffering. They explain that alleviating suffering is possible only when we are able to see things the way they really are, called:
‘the way of the heart’
How many dolphins do you see?
If you want to shift someone’s perspective on a certain issue, first understand why they have that perspective (what perceptions and beliefs are at play) by asking questions.
Keep asking ever deeper questions until they change those perceptions or beliefs.
