Perspective
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“When you look at a field of dandelions you can either see a hundred weeds or a hundred wishes.“
What a lovely quote to prove a point about perspective. Our perspective is affected by our prior knowledge, upbringing or environment and will affect our actions and emotions.
Do you remember the TV advert for The Guardian in 1986 “Points of view” showing one a man rushing to grab another man in the street making you think he was going to hurt him. Then it showed the full view with him actually saving him from being crushed under building materials, very clever.
Someone who is feeling desperate about finances may feel that life is all about how much everything costs and therefore adding to thoughts of desperation. Someone who is trying to lose weight might just see all the sugar filled foods everywhere and not the delicious healthy food that they can eat. Someone who is feeling low in mood may just focus on the negatives around them.
With Spring here, try to look at the beautiful new green leaves, blossom on the trees and hedgerows, the baby off spring all around, signets and ducklings on the river, baby rabbits and calves in the fields. There is new life everywhere and it is time to enjoy the beauty of it all.
The daily news at the moment has very little positivity about it so much so I have started subscribing to a ‘positive’ newspaper. There are wonderful people doing wonderful things, fascinating and heart-warming stories but we rarely get to hear about them. We need to promote positivity in our own lives and our own families.
We can all change our perspective with the following ideas:
Start looking at things from another perspective by speaking to someone else and ask what they think about the issue.
Rather than being bogged down about something take ‘time out’ and look at or think about something positive.
Be grateful for something in your life.
Helping someone else or doing some voluntary work can take the focus away from the more negative perspective.
Smile more, even if you find it difficult.