Picture a landscape.
In this landscape the sky is a bright blue and the sun is brightly shining on the snowy mountains peaks, which are in the background of a rundown farmhouse and a bubbling brook.
The farmhouse is more of a shack as some of the boards have loosened and they no longer run in perfect horizontal lines.
The chimney that is pumping out smoke is slightly leaning away from the house.
There is small rainbow just above some rocks that are embedded in a creek as that water comes crashing into them.
The overall perception of the scene is calm and peaceful, the type of scene that Thomas Kinkade might create.
But is the scene really an image of peace and calm? Enter your perception.
First, evaluate the mountains.
The mountains and valley would not even exist if there had not been some kind of geological shift far beneath the visible surface.
Also there had to be a snow storm for the mountains to have their snowy peaks.
At the time of these events it was not calm or necessarily peaceful.
If we were to scratch beneath the surface of the earth or the paint would we see the unrest of the ground and the brush strokes? Second, clearly someone is living in what looks like a shack.
As we try to imagine the people inside the worn down home we might assume that the people living in the home do not have much money, are isolated and are fighting the wintery elements.
But change our perspective and we can see the smoke coming from the chimney to symbolize the love and passion that is shared within the home.
Therefore the residence's perception of life might be one of wealth and abundance because they have shelter, love, and wood to keep warm and to cook their food with.
Thirdly, there is brook in our picture and what could be more peaceful than the sound of water running though rocks and even creating a small but beautiful rainbow in its misty wake? But change our perspective and we see that the rocks act as resistance to the water's flow, causing the water to find another way around the stones.
Sometimes the friction causes the water to crash against the stones' edges creating the rainbow.
Other times the water's constant flow rubs away the rocks' edges.
As a result, by changing our perspective we have totally changed how we saw the picture.
We can view what we see as a positive or a negative attribute to the scene in our mind.
We can do the same thing with the picture we have of our lives.
We can look at things that we think are bad and still find good; or just as easily, we feel bad about good things in our lives.
By changing our view of our lives, we can arrange the big picture of our lives.
Through a big picture perception, we can view our daily situations and our lives in ways that empower us.
We enable ourselves to handle small stresses and view some larger stresses as smaller, and less overwhelming.
So the next time you are stressed out or something bad happens, step back and view the event with your new, big picture perception.
In this landscape the sky is a bright blue and the sun is brightly shining on the snowy mountains peaks, which are in the background of a rundown farmhouse and a bubbling brook.
The farmhouse is more of a shack as some of the boards have loosened and they no longer run in perfect horizontal lines.
The chimney that is pumping out smoke is slightly leaning away from the house.
There is small rainbow just above some rocks that are embedded in a creek as that water comes crashing into them.
The overall perception of the scene is calm and peaceful, the type of scene that Thomas Kinkade might create.
But is the scene really an image of peace and calm? Enter your perception.
First, evaluate the mountains.
The mountains and valley would not even exist if there had not been some kind of geological shift far beneath the visible surface.
Also there had to be a snow storm for the mountains to have their snowy peaks.
At the time of these events it was not calm or necessarily peaceful.
If we were to scratch beneath the surface of the earth or the paint would we see the unrest of the ground and the brush strokes? Second, clearly someone is living in what looks like a shack.
As we try to imagine the people inside the worn down home we might assume that the people living in the home do not have much money, are isolated and are fighting the wintery elements.
But change our perspective and we can see the smoke coming from the chimney to symbolize the love and passion that is shared within the home.
Therefore the residence's perception of life might be one of wealth and abundance because they have shelter, love, and wood to keep warm and to cook their food with.
Thirdly, there is brook in our picture and what could be more peaceful than the sound of water running though rocks and even creating a small but beautiful rainbow in its misty wake? But change our perspective and we see that the rocks act as resistance to the water's flow, causing the water to find another way around the stones.
Sometimes the friction causes the water to crash against the stones' edges creating the rainbow.
Other times the water's constant flow rubs away the rocks' edges.
As a result, by changing our perspective we have totally changed how we saw the picture.
We can view what we see as a positive or a negative attribute to the scene in our mind.
We can do the same thing with the picture we have of our lives.
We can look at things that we think are bad and still find good; or just as easily, we feel bad about good things in our lives.
By changing our view of our lives, we can arrange the big picture of our lives.
Through a big picture perception, we can view our daily situations and our lives in ways that empower us.
We enable ourselves to handle small stresses and view some larger stresses as smaller, and less overwhelming.
So the next time you are stressed out or something bad happens, step back and view the event with your new, big picture perception.
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