‘You can’t see the wood for the trees!’

How many times do you hear this saying and your mind immediately defines it according to the first time you heard it, which was probably when you were much younger. What does it actually mean in the context of your own life? In your relationships with yourself and others?

It is when you are soo involved with the details of a problem that you are not aware of the problem as a whole. By focusing on the detail, you loose perspective of what is important.

We need to take a few steps back and look at something from a different angle and consider the wider picture. Like a drone lifting off the ground and high into the sky. Our expanded view gives a different and ironically a more focused perspective.

My daughter recently has been over dramatising little bumps and bruises. My involvement in the detail is cleaning and plastering (4 times a day) and reassuring they will heal. My bigger picture perspective is ‘she is feeling a little out of control inside and needs to be held more emotionally.’

Apply this saying to your everyday life happenings and see what a difference it makes in your thought processes and eventual behaviour. Powerful!

Much love!