Elevate Your Perspective

Elevation or ascension means to rise from where you are, not to be above anyone or anything but to give you the vantage point of a new and different perspective. Everything looks different when you either pull back away from or rise above, elevate, or hover over. It gives clarity and ease. The change in view or perspective allows you to see a larger slice of a picture, but even more magnified.

Consider hovering over a word in a document with your mouse and how it jumps out at you and even provides more definition. If you were on or surrounded by the jumble of words in a document, the meaning of it wouldn’t be clear. Elevating gives a summary of a situation rather than a detail. As has been said, you can’t see the forest for the trees; that is the same idea or notion. Being on the ground, you see only the individual trees, which may be nice at times unless you felt surrounded by what could feel foreboding, say if you didn’t know your way out. Elevate and you’d see the forest, the end of it, and possibly even the path to getting out.

Elevate over any situation or problem and you’ll find the answer, often without seeking it, but by seeing and feeling the whole rather than focusing attention on anything you may not want. Alternatively, if you’re happy and joyful, filled with glee at the relation you have on the ground, up front and personal, then by all means, truly, stay with that perspective until the feeling becomes staid or stale. Then rise above until you see something else that garners your attention. Chew the gum while it has the flavor, then move on until you spot something else.

You only need to spend your energy, in the form of time or attention, on things that bring you the desired feeling. People, situations—it doesn’t matter. Enjoy, and find joy in, the task or situation at hand. Do it by changing your perspective.