The power of reframing: There are two people walking down the same street. There is an apple tree that is big and growing over the sidewalk, with some branches and leaves into the sidewalk. One person is busy and late for work, hungry because they skipped breakfast, and while looking down at their phone, trying to schedule meetings and reply to emails - they run into one of the branches. That person mumbles "stupid tree, someone needs to cut those branches", while rubbing their forehead, then continues on head down, walking with urgency. The other person is hungry and slightly low on cash until their next paycheck, so they decided to skip breakfast to get lunch. They are walking to work, but in no rush because they like the feeling of the sunshine on their face. They come to the point of the sidewalk and see this apple tree merging with their path and think "wow what a beautiful tree". In the moment that they paused to admire the tree they see hidden under the one branch was an apple. A big shiny red apple. Continuing onto work, that person had breakfast in their hand. The two people in the story are a metaphor for two mindsets/perspectives. We all have the two people. We all have the duality, the spectrum of perspective. We all have been both people. The story is to paint the picture of how different those two individual's days would be just from the mindset in a moment. Reframing is the practice of having the awareness of when we are in the first person's mindset, pause and shift into the second person's mindset. Less rushing more seeing the apple's. This can be the difference between creating obstacles and cultivating healing.