Perhaps you can identify a situation between yourself and another person where you would like to be more resourceful. It may be a relationship that has slowly drifted. A tension you circle but never move toward. A conversation that keeps arriving at the same stuck place.

And there is another way through—not through judgment or distance, but through perception itself. A core distinction in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is that we navigate life through three primary perceptual positions.

Awareness is the capacity to notice, present throughout the body, and all around us…. If a sound happens on one side, you would hear it automatically without effort. If a gentle breeze brushes your body, you’d also be aware of it effortlessly. And even when our eyes are closed, we can notice a sense of space all around. It may feel like spaciousness… like presence. It has no center or edge … And you can notice all of this, simultaneously, right now …