BAJAN SUN MAGAZINE
DEC 2014
The Value of
Perspective
Norma T. Hollis
America’s Leading Authentic Voice Doctor®
Mentor, Transformational Artist ~ Visionary
Advocate of the Human Spirit
By Norma T. Hollis
P
erspective is like an elevator ride. When you start
out on the first floor some of the challenges you
may be dealing with are right there in your face.
Sometimes they are like mountains that you have to walk
around or climb over. Sometimes you have to sort
through a crowd to get to the heart of an issue - that is if
you can find your way through the crowd. And when
struggling through the crowd there’s lots of distractions
to take your attention away from your objective. These
are the perspectives when you are on the first floor and
standing face-to-face with whatever challenge you may
be facing.
But get into an elevator and ride up a few floors. When
you get to the fifth floor and look down to the first floor
you can still see the same challenge but you see it in a
new view, a new perspective. You feel better because the
challenge is not confronting you directly. You can look
down on it and as a result you see it differently. It is often
even easier to find a solution to the challenge because of
the new perspective.
Then travel up a few more floors – to the 20th or 30th
floor. Now look down and the challenge that you thought
you could not overcome looks like something very
insignificant from this new perspective. You have risen
above it and therefore can see solutions more clearly.
Certainly you are not affected emotionally in the same
way when it was confronting you directly.
This is the advantage of perspective. It seems to change
as we grow. Our view of a situation at age 20 is different
than the way we see it at age 40 or age 60. This is why
we seek the counsel of elders to assist us to resolve
challenges. As we get older we have more experience, we
can better predict cause and effect, we make decisions
that have a longer reaching impact. And in the process we
hopefully also grow wiser.
This view of perspective is similar to the view of
authenticity or even alignment. As I am growing in my
understanding of authenticity and the ‘assignment’ that
I’ve been given to help people understand authenticity, I
am watching my understanding deepen and my view
expand. Where I thought that uncovering authenticity was
the end product of my journey I now understand that it is
the foundation from which many other aspects are
emerging. As my perspective grows I can see how
authenticity has led to a new view of alignment. For years
I talked about how important it is to ‘tweak’ a part of
your life to become authentic. Now I understand that this
tweaking leads to a person creating alignment in their
life. And I’ve learned that alignment is important to
overall life satisfaction. We benefit when we align our
lives.
Now my perspective is growing more. It took a few years
for me to see the transition from authenticity to
alignment. Then it only took a few months to make the
transition from alignment to vibration. I realize that as we
move up the elevator and change our perspective we are
also changing our vibration. This term ‘vibration’ is one
that I will be discussing frequently as we move forward.
It refers to the energy that we emit and how we relate to
energy th at comes into our space. Vibration is related to
perspective. Just like our perspective changes as we move
up in an elevator our vibration changes too.
I’m loving these new perspectives and look forward to
sharing more with you. Look for more in the next weeks.
In the mean time consider the perspectives you are living
with and how your perspectives are changing as you age.
On what floor is your elevator? Is your elevator moving
up or down? And how are you adjusting to the
movement?
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