Can You Choose to Shift Your Perspective?
Yes, because your perspective is yours to control.
Have you ever watched a movie or TV show and wondered why they chose to shoot the scene at the angle they did? Did you experience an overwhelming desire for them to tilt the angle of the shot in one direction or another, zoom in or out, and otherwise change the perspective?
The problem with this is that you can’t change the perspective that was chosen unless you tilt your head a certain way. Even then, it’s not truly changed (and still showing you what the director of the program/film wants you to see). The film or TV show in question is the presentation of someone else’s vision and perspective therein.
Likewise, this applies to all images. Camera angles chosen or the design of graphics are also presented with a specific perspective the creator of them chose. So, every billboard on the highway, image on social media, and photograph presents a perspective someone wants you to see in a specific way.
Constant exposure to this can have an unexpected and unfortunate effect. Subconsciously, you begin to see perspective as something presented by another as the norm. You start to believe, because your subconscious believes, that how the world is presented to you – via imagery and the like – is how the world is. When that’s what you’re presented with, and your brain absorbs without analysis, it sinks in and becomes a belief.
This is not the truth, however.
Your mileage may vary
You are one of 8 billion people on the planet. Every single person on Planet Earth perceives the world in their own, unique way. This is influenced by external matters like the nation they live in, their environment, the people in their lives, and on and on. It’s also influenced by internal matters, including beliefs, values, habits, and such.
Hence, everyone takes in the perspectives shared by others and subconsciously absorbs them. Then, from there, based on their existing biases, prejudices, beliefs, values, and the like, their subconscious mind applies it and adds or rejects it.
That is, unless you apply conscious awareness to it.
Rather than allowing all the external perspectives to be subconsciously absorbed into your inner being, you can pause and look at them. Consciously, here and now, you can look at the image/video/person/place/thing being presented to you and ask yourself:
What is this? Why is this? What does this mean to me? Is this something I agree or disagree with? How does this make me feel?
This is part of how you can examine any and all outside perspectives presented to you and decide what impact, if any, they will have on you.
You can choose to shift your perspective
You have far more control over your life experience than you probably realize. However, many of the “powers that be” – as in other human “authorities” of varying types – prefer you not to believe this. Why? So that they can control you.
For example, a certain politician wants you to believe that everything is broken and the only way to fix it is to break it even more thoroughly. They and their cohorts want you to see that certain people -who are in no way responsible for any of those problems – are to blame for them. And they bombard, inundate, and thoroughly overwhelm everyone with messages to that effect.
When you pause, take a breath, and engage active conscious awareness, you can see for yourself if that perspective is genuine or skewed. You can choose to shift your own perspective to what matches your beliefs, values, habits, and the like. (IMPORTANT NOTE – You only can control YOUR perspective. You have ZERO control over what others believe, value, and do. Ergo, you can only change yourself and your perspective.)
How? By engaging active conscious awareness via mindfulness.
This is done by becoming consciously aware, rather than letting the subconscious do the driving. It begins by asking yourself what you’re thinking, what and how you’re feeling, what your intentions are, if you’re approaching things from a place of positivity or negatively, and what actions you are or aren’t taking.
Why does this work? Because you are the only one in your head, heart, and soul. Recognizing that, you can see how you alone get to ultimately choose who, what, where, how, and why you are.
Self-awareness at its most basic
There is a backlash against self-awareness that doesn’t make any sense. This concept of “wokeness” being a bad thing is utterly ludicrous because the opposite of being “woke” is being asleep and unaware.
Basic self-awareness, at its core, is all about looking inside yourself and engaging your conscious mind with your subconscious mind. That informs you about who, what, where, how, and why you are. From there, you can decide if you are okay with what you find – or – if you desire to alter it.
This is where you have all control. That’s why “they” – the aforementioned “authorities” – prefer you not be truly aware of it. Because when you are, you get to choose and decide your perspective of life, the universe, and everything for yourself.
Your perspective is yours to control. All you need to do is use your conscious awareness – mindfulness – here and now, at this moment, to look at your subconscious beliefs, values, and habits. Then you can see if your perspective is truly what you desire, or if you would like to shift it. That’s wholly yours to control when you make active choices and decisions to do that.
Choosing to shift your perspective isn’t hard
It’s all about practicing mindfulness of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and approach to direct your actions.
When you recognize and acknowledge that you’re the only one in your head, heart, and soul, you can choose to engage mindfulness to look at your subconscious, see if your perspective on things is what you desire it to be, and if not, change it. Knowing that you can shift your perspective as you see fit – and choose to accept or reject the perspectives of others – you can take more control over your life experience.
This empowers you, and your empowerment can empower others around you.
Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity – from the vast cylinder that exists between them – shifts life in a way that opens greater dialogue. From that broader dialogue, you can recognize, explore, and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you here and now.
Choosing thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions for yourself employs an approach and attitude of positivity for realizing amazing potential and possibilities for your life.
The better aware you are of yourself here and now, the better you can choose and decide what, how, and why your life experiences will be. When you empower yourself, it can spread to those around you for their empowerment.
Thank you for coming along on this journey.
This is the five-hundred-and-seventy-fourth (574) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog, and spread the positivity.
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