Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Your Absolute Mind where we explore mental health

and ways in which we can all become mentally healthy. I'm your host Paula Sweet and today

we're looking into a topic that's both intriguing and incredibly useful and it's one that I've

stumbled upon whilst listening to a brilliant conversation between Stephen Bartlett and a former

CIA operative,

Andrew Bustamonte. Now, these clips from Stephen's episodes have become viral and I wanted to jump on and add a key piece that I think has been missing. So Stephen and Andrew were discussing

a tool that Andrew calls perception verse perspective. And as I listened, I realised that this

concept is strikingly similar

to a well-known therapy tool in NLP that's called perceptual positions. Now, this all came about

when Stephen asked Andrew about the most useful tools from the CIA. So let's break it down in this

episode in a way that's easy to grasp and actionable for you, so there's no more CIA and NLP therapy

speak.

Now, Andrew Bustamonte describes perception versus perspective as a tool that helps us to see

situations more clearly by differentiating between what we perceive and the various perspectives

that can be applied to any given situation.

So imagine this.

You're at a party and you see someone across the room who you think is giving you the

cold shoulder.

Now that's your perception.

It's immediate and it's raw and often it's emotionally charged.

But then you step back and consider different perspectives.

Now maybe this person's had a bad day, maybe they didn't

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