Jun 13 2009
A Green Perspective
Pioneering family therapist Virginia Satir once wrote something to this effect: Because each person in a family has a different position in it, their perceptions and experiences will significantly differ from other family members.
Perspective influences perception influences experience. As the ankle-level perspective of a yard plant above likely results in a different perception than had a used I ladder to snap a shot looking down on the 6ft plant.
Word use can also shape our perceptions/cognitions (there is a fine line between these) and experiences. Yesterday I mentioned an article that went by this title: People who wear rose-coloured glasses see more. When we are in a good mood our visual field is wider: we take in more information. But I wonder how my perception, cognition, and experience of the article would have differed if worded like this: People without rose-colored glasses more focused . . . Probably quite a bit, I imagine.
