Have you ever noticed how your belief about an event from the past changed immediately and radically
once you received more information on the same subject? This has happened to all of us. Sometimes, the
new information leads to negative feelings (anger, a sense of injustice, doubt, disgust, sadness), and other
times, it leads to positive ones (relief, hope, joy, pleasure).
This is where our power lies: the ability to change situations toward the desired outcome, or as close as
possible to it. Let me give a simple example.
The Situation: A little girl disturbs her mother every night because mosquitoes are biting her, and she cries
because it hurts. She gets angry because she doesn’t understand why the mosquitoes are doing this, and
she’s afraid to sleep.
The Solution: The mother has tried all the safe ways to keep the mosquitoes out of the room, but with no
success. She then decides to learn more about mosquitoes to understand their behavior. The next night,
she talks to the little girl, who is afraid to sleep.
“I want you to understand that mosquitoes feed on ower pollen. The ones that bite you are all female.
They take very little of your blood to feed and grow their eggs, their babies. They’re not bad insects that
want to harm you; they’re mothers protecting their babies, and you’re helping them.”
The change was evident in the following days, as the little girl still had some fear of sleeping and pain from
the bites, but the anger and complaints were gone, replaced with hope and pride.
“Grandma, I’m helping the mosquito mothers grow their babies,” was the key phrase the mother heard
and realized that the perspective of the problem had permanently changed for her daughter for the better
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