The Power of Perspective

You have the power to make a simple, life-enhancing, change in the depth of your pain or unhappiness by shifting your perspective.  I say simple, but simple doesn’t mean easy.  It can be challenging to step outside of your current veiw and see tragedy from a new light.  However, it is very possible to find and follow a new outlook on your loss and it's significance.  Your adversity can become something meaningful and even valuable in your life as you come to recognize all the gifts your adversity has brought you as fair compensation for what you've lost (and there is always good to be found!).  The simplest way I can suggest to change your perspective, enough to create an entirely new experience as you strive to overcome grief, is to serve others.  When you do, you find purpose and meaning in your experience, and that changes everything!

There can be many ways to serve others, but one of the most effective and easiest ways I have found is to share your story!  By writing your story, including all you have experienced, bad and good, you provide an extremely important example we all need.  It is comforting for people to know they are not alone in their struggle.  As you write your story, you will have yet another opportunity to change your perspective because you are writing for the benefit of others.  There is space to step outside yourself and view the challenge from the angle of a researcher, in a new light, one which can allow you to see benefits and positive results from your experience as you strive to teach others. 

Melanie Davis
The Triumph Book Author
 www.TheTriumphBook.com