Glass Half Full

19Sep07

I have just completed my second perspectives class and I feel like I just went into a therapy session.   Just talking about shifting perspective and doing a perspectives exercise in class reminded me just how much control I actually have in the way I paint my life– not just circumstantially, but inwardly.  What lense do I see through?  This truly  makes a world of difference in how my world is created.  I can understand why shifting your perspective and helping the client shift theirs then makes coaching so effective.  It is like a miracle drug– change your thoughts and vavoom– you have a whole new outlook as well as an  entire new feeling in your gut.  Life all of a sudden opens up to possibility. 

  Perspective is the name of the game in life and in coaching.  It’s true, and with the perspectives exercise Joanna had us do last week– which was to take on a different perspective all week– I was amazed at how much it stretched me to pay attention.  Predominately to pay attention to my my old defaulted thinking.  My perspective I decided to take on for the exercise was “the moment is now”, or  in other words there is no other moment so be here now.  In doing this exercise  the  shift in my perspective was liberating– truly like a drug.  I felt as if everything in me soften and unclinched itself.  Though parts of me still struggled to want to jump to the future  or chew on  negative thoughts that have become habitualized, I was still able to look at those temptations or inclinations without judgement and simply notice what was going on.  Afterall, it is only natural for your habituated mind to want to go racing back to its usual programming.  I can’t expect to change my conditioning over night, but I can expect to  change my perspective every chance I remember  in which case I will eventually make living in the moment as easy as pie. We do have the control and it is truly the most liberating thing to know that  no matter where I am in life,  my life is just an illusion that I have painted through the lense in which I choose to look through.  That is it.  Circumstances may be as they are, but I define how I see those circumstances or how I feel about my life in spite of the circumstances.  So is my glass half full or half empy?Perhaps the container is just too darn big to hold the liquid all together?  Which do I see, and further more does it serve me? If my life is an illusion than why not pick the one that is most empowering, right?  All I know is that if my perspectives class had me feeling this good after words, I am thrilled to proceed with the rest of my schooling.  I have a feeling that by the end I will have experienced more, expanded and evolved more than what I initially bargained for.  The journey to my new  self is just beginning…  I look forward to the ride!

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