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Date Published: 05-01-2018
Publisher: Phenomenal One Press
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Building Your Empowered Steps
By LM Preston
Empowered Steps Series
Excerpt
Key Triggers That Change Your Perception
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein
The experiences in our lives, our environmental noise and conditioning, all contribute to our perception of the world around us. It’s how people who live in other places of the world find peace and joy in things we may find repulsive or depressing.
- Are you ready to assess your current perceptions about your environment, your life, and what contributes to your perception of them?
- Get out and explore the diverse views of others by meeting new people, going different places, and even watching videos on others’ opinions of experiences that you are interested in exploring. Listen with open ears so that you understand others’ point of view. Ponder on what people with different perspectives share, and think how it can relate to your personal interests. Absorb the things you find valuable and discard information you don’t want to compromise on or don’t find helpful.
- When you find perceptions that call to you, that you want to experience for yourself, write them in your journal to do further discovery. Find others who are living that perspective; observe, and emulate them.
Perspective.
Your attitude in response to your perception of the world around you.
It is the way we view the world. The thing about perspective: it is a powerful way to manipulate our emotional and responsive make-up towards our current environment or situation.
Controlling perspective can be done from internal thoughts, feelings, responses, or external peer pressure, interpretation of circumstances, and voices from others.
The mind is a powerful and underutilized tool that we were gifted with. When we realize that we are the owners of our thoughts, we are free to fill our thoughts with what feeds us. If we used our minds to change our perspective, then our experiences in life will gain us peace and contentment or motivate us to move forward like never before.
For instance, I grew up poor. My mother had to work three jobs and get aid, yet in my mind, we were rich. I was satisfied in a way that I don’t think I would have understood or accepted if I was an adult. I didn’t even feel as though my parents should be married because I was happy with the one-on-one time I got to spend with either of them during my allotted visitation time. It wasn’t until I was older, a teenager, that I questioned this perception. After understanding that many shows on TV had two parents—a mom and dad who lived together—I started to wonder if the definition of family I had wasn’t the ‘right’ form of family.
The influences that changed my positive perspective of family came from external sources. Therefore, that perspective change seriously impacted my emotional wellbeing. It made me ashamed of my family circumstances, and I took on sadness associated with that. At that time, I never realized that what I considered a contented existence wasn’t considered a happy existence by the majority of the world.
About the Author
L.M. Preston, a native of Washington, DC. An avid reader, she loved to
create poetry and short-stories as a young girl. She is an author, an
engineer, a professor, a mother and a wife. Her passion for writing and
helping others to see their potential through her stories and encouragement
has been her life’s greatest adventures.She loves to write while on
the porch watching her kids play or when she is traveling, which is another
passion that encouraged her writing.
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