Looking Through Rose Colored Glasses

A Perspective on Lenses

The saying “looking through rose colored glasses”— or “rose-colored lenses” — is familiar to all of us. Yet… how often do we stop and consider the lenses through which we are viewing the world and our lives?

Rose Colored Glasses Meaning:

Looking through rose colored glasses is to see the world as a lovely and gentle place. Optimists are often labeled as wearing rose colored glasses, and so not seeing the world as clearly or starkly as it is without a lens to filter it.

We’re all in favor of that. Imagine if more people were looking through the lens of optimism and positivity… of beauty and creativity…? What a wonderful world it would be! I mean, can you imagine such a thing as too much beauty and creativity?

What if you focused on the gains and not the gaps… on optimism instead of fear… on seeing without the limiting thoughts and beliefs that inhibit growth?

Start viewing your own life through the rosy lens of positivity and possibility, and… well… you’ll see more of that!

Do that which inspires you and it will uplift you and those around you.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder – iCreateDaily.com®

Table of Contents

• Audio Article – Rose Colored Glasses
• Colored by Environment
• The Lenses of My Daughter’s Worlds

Audio Article – Rose Colored Glasses

When Rose Colored Glasses aren’t so Rosy

Layers of Conditioning

Most people live unaware of the layers of conditioning that cloud our vision of truth. It is a part of the human condition. For anyone who has ever donned a pair of glasses of any kind, you know that you look THROUGH the lenses, not at them. That’s what happens with our conditioning.

Our beliefs and mindsets are more like contact lenses. They’re invisible and yet they affect our vision and thus our view of the world.

“We see the world through the lens we do not see.”
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com®

Colored by Environment

Environmental and cultural indoctrination is akin to having contact lenses installed at birth. We grow up unaware that they’re even there and we are certain that what we see is as it is. Conditioning helps us function in society. And yet such conditioning often also inhibits our greater expression of our potential.

What is inhibiting you from pursing greater meaning, creativity and joy in life?

We are epigenetically the creations of our environment. But as such, we can also choose a different environment and different set of beliefs. The study of Epigenetics has discovered that cells of one organ placed in the environment of another organ begin to take on the characteristics of that new environment.

It’s much the same with humans. This is good news because it means we can change state and fate by changing our environment and the thoughts that run the programs of our life.

“We cannot know what we cannot see.”
~Jay Shetty, former monk, author b.1987

What lens in your world today, if removed, would grant you greater freedom?
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

The Lenses of My Daughter’s Worlds

My daughter and cofounder of iCreateDaily, Devani, was born in a rural village in the so-called “backward state” of Rajasthan, India.

If she were there now, she would not know education beyond (possibly) basic elementary. Likely, she would not have electricity still and she would walk for a stretch of dirt road with a water vessel on her head to collect water.

Devani’s days would be spent in the fields of mustard. She would have several children by now. Likely married by at least age 17 if her family had enough dowry—perhaps a couple of water buffalo and a gold necklace—to marry her off.

Mornings and evenings, she would be squatting, cooking by an open fire making fresh chapati or naan with flour and water. Her weekends would be spent washing and beating the family’s laundry on the rocks at the nearby stream.

Her life would’ve been full of joys and sorrows, as is any life. It would certainly have been a simpler life, easier in some ways and much harder in others and vastly more restricted.

Perspective

Her lens of the world would have been dramatically different than her world today. The Devani of that world could not even begin to image her world today with the opportunities and freedoms before her.

In that parallel universe, She would not believe many of the things she believes. Her humor would be different, some of her food preferences, customs and dress, her spiritual beliefs, would all be very different. And yet she… that soul that is the beautiful being of Devani is the same.

The degree to which our life views are colored is inestimable. But far preferable to be looking through rose colored glasses than the prevailing lens of doom and gloom, fear and divisiveness.

What you believe will dictate your thoughts on a moment by moment basis.
David Bayer, CEO of David Bayer Transformational Programs

If you’re interested in more of that story, you can read that here. And you can see and hear more from Devani in our podcast.

Looking Through Rose Colored Glass

Better to consciously choose rose colored glasses for viewing your life and potential with optimism. Don’t doubt that you can achieve more and do more if that is your aspiration. Invariably, we can all push beyond perceived boundaries of limitation…. our own and that of others.

Conversely, we need to become aware of the layers of lenses that are shading out the good. As the dark and inhibiting constructs that have defined us, drop away one by one, we become more free to discover more of who we really are from the inside out.

Search for the good. The more you do the more it will find you too.

Here’s more on breaking free of programming, memes, conditioning and filters.

What opportunities lay on horizons hidden, which—if you can but remove a lens—will open vast vistas before you?
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder – iCreateDaily.com®

Rose Colored Glasses Quotes

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
~Ann Landers, advice columnist, author, 1918-2002

Seeing through rose colored glasses brings a positive perspective that is always welcome.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder – iCreateDaily.com®

“Thriller writers see a rose colored world through dark tinted glasses.”
~Carl Henegan, author – Darkness Left Undone

Looking through rose colored glasses is to look through the lens of love… to see things not as they are, but as we are when our heart is full.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder – iCreateDaily.com®

Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman/woman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by [wo]men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
~B.C. Forbes, founder-Forbes Magazine, author, 1980-1954

Looking through rose colored glasses doesn’t presume we don’t see what’s real and true, but it does mean we’re choosing a lovely hue for a more optimistic view.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder – iCreateDaily.com®

Shift into a Powerful Mindset

You will enjoy this powerfully inspiring conversation on Impact Theory with David Bayer and Tom Bilyeu on the power of choosing and changing our mental constructs.

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