Power of perspective

How you perceive the world can depend on your temperament, background, experiences, trauma, upbringing, expectations and emotions.

Your perception is the way that you interpret reality, so no one can view the world exactly as you do.

It is because of this that the lines between perspective and objective reality often get blurred.

But a person with a healthy mind understands that their perspective is just how they view things, and not necessarily how things actually are; and that how others view things is just their perspective, not objective reality.

A wise person further understands that perspective and reality are intrinsically linked and that they can profoundly affect each other in different ways.

For instance, if someone perceives you to be a difficult person, that is just their perspective, which doesn’t necessarily make it reality.

Unless you genuinely need to work on your interpersonal skills, it sounds more like a ‘them-problem’ rather than a ‘you-problem’.

Now, I don’t believe that every opinion about you should be immediately dismissed without consideration. How you’re perceived can be a great way of understanding how you are presenting yourself to the world and the psychology of those around you as well.

But remember, just because a person holds a certain view of you, doesn’t automatically make it true.

In this scenario, their perception of you as a difficult person does have the potential to manipulate reality in different ways, depending on how it is handled.

If you don’t separate that person’s perspective from reality, then it may deeply affect you.

It may affect your confidence and self-esteem.

You may start to change yourself to appease them and any others who may also be in agreement behind the scenes.

Or you may actually start to embody the character of a difficult person, as retaliation.

On the other hand, if you are a person with a healthy mindset, you may reflect and consider the validity of their view point based on how you perceive your past interactions with them.

You’d be much less likely to immediately take it on board as the truth and would be more willing to gain real understanding.

From this one example you can see that although perception is not objective reality, it still has the power to change reality itself.

You can actively apply this principle in a positive way in your life.

I have spoken severally within the Be You Blog about the power of the mind (read all ‘MINDSET’ blogs here) and how transformation can take place once you take charge of it.

When you consciously adopt a particular perspective along with the behaviours to match, you are editing reality in real time.

The mind is an incredibly powerful tool.

If you decide to see yourself in a more positive way, your actions will follow suit and you will eventually – with time and effort – become the person you wish to be.

Even though you may start out knowing that your positive perspective is not accurate, you are trying to close the gap between your perspective and reality.

The smaller this gap gets the more perceptive you are and the more powerful you become as a person.

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