We’re laying it bare. Stripping it down. Peeling back perspective.
In this monthly round up you’ll find the Life Lensesâ„¢ blog posts laid bare for the month of August.
Get bare, dive in deep and take a full look around or simply take a peek. It’s up to you. Regardless, your perspective will thank you.
It’s a matter of perspective.
If you’re rule bound, rigid, needing to cover every possibility, fear based and controlling, you may create a sign such as above.
If you’re coming from a place of common sense, kindness, flexibility and faith, you may create an entirely different sign.
Please be kind to the animals.
What’s your perspective? What lens do you look at the world through? (And what effect does that lens have on your perspective?)
When we’re in conflict we tend to do more of whatever it is that’s not working. Yet simply changing your perspective can change the whole game.
What if he’d simply turned around?
Wang Chien (AD 756–835) eloquently wrote the above when he heard his friend was coming back from the war. It came my way recently from a dear friend (thanks Michelle for your muse).
It got me thinking about what creates distance and what creates closeness.
Distance is more than being physically far apart, it’s:
Perspective will do that. It can be cannily inclusive or highly elusive. Shrinking the surface of the world and bringing us together is about a mutually understood perspective. Being able to see ‘other.’ Being able to include ‘different’.
Like a Destination Life Lensâ„¢ taking into account a Journey Life Lens’â„¢ need for processing.
Like a Stop Life Lensâ„¢ holding his breath and jumping in, for the sake of a Go Life Lensâ„¢.
Like a Carrot Life Lensâ„¢ knowing not to step in and ‘fix’ what appears a mess, as things do really work out in the end for a Mountain Life Lensâ„¢.
Like a Head Life Lensâ„¢ trying really hard to listen and trust their intuition because she’s seen it work so well for a Heart Life Lensâ„¢.