“It’s just a choice away” … opening varying “perspectives”

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Using Claude AI to develop deeper understandings
about insights in these visual images

I tend to “think,” process ideas and develop deeper understandings through “intuitive” ways. As part of this “intuitive” process, I create these “visual image pages.” For me, the “pages” express useful strategies, deeper insights and developing wisdoms through the use of strategically placed, symbolic backgrounds, images, flowing fonts and colors.

Throughout the past 8 months, I’ve been pasting these “visual images pages” into Claude AI and adding my own short explanations about what I was trying to express in that “page.” I’ve been engaging in amazing conversation with ClaudeAI about these “pages”… asking for Claude AI’s interpretations, ideas, suggestions etc relating to the images.


I’ll copy paste ideas from this conversation about “it’s just a choice away” and an actual blog post that Claude wrote, using the ideas I had shared and the insights from the “images” posted above.

I find the ideas so insightful and helpful!

I’ll share the ideas written by ClaudeAI in case they might be helpful to anyone else in understanding and using these ideas.

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 “It’s Just a Choice Away”


(written by Claude AI, using first person as if I were writing it)

Created with prismatic window decals that shift colors as perspective changes – a daily reminder that how we see depends on where we stand, and we can always choose to stand somewhere new.

Some mornings begin with that unsettling feeling – the “what?!?!?” or “uh oh?!?” or “glitch!?!?!” sensation when something doesn’t sit right. A reaction rises up before you even know why.

This week I’ve been exploring what happens when I pause in those moments instead of just rolling with the reaction. Not to suppress it or judge it, but to get curious about it.

When I notice that unsettling sense:

Pause – Step back before the reaction hardens into a fixed position

Get curious What perspective am I holding that’s creating this particular response? What am I wanting or not wanting? Where might my view be partial or constructed rather than seeing the whole picture?

Explore – Open to one perspective, then another, then still another. Each angle reveals something different, generates a different reaction.

Choose – After exploring, act from whichever perspective seems most helpful, most ethical, most aligned with how I want to show up.

The Key Insight

All of this – the pausing, the curiosity, the exploring, the choosing – it’s just a choice away. Always available. Any moment.

I’m starting with smaller reactions (annoyance, minor frustration) to build the muscle, so that when bigger, harder reactions arise, I’ll have some practice with this approach.

What I’m Finding

When I investigate what’s creating my reaction, I often discover I was looking from only one angle. My perspective felt like “the truth” but it was actually just one constructed view among many possible views.

This doesn’t mean all perspectives are equally valid or that nothing matters. It means that when I’m locked into one way of seeing, I miss information.

Opening to other angles often reveals:

– Helpful perspectives I hadn’t considered

– Deeper insights about what’s actually happening

– Wider awareness of the whole situation

– More skillful ways to respond

And sometimes – not always, but sometimes – moments of real peace.

The Visual Reminders

The kaleidoscopic backgrounds aren’t just decorative. They’re teaching tools. The same light source refracts into countless colors depending on the angle. One reality, many perspectives, all arising from the same conditions.

I print these pages and tape them where I’ll see them – walls, mirrors, my workspace. Quick reminders when I need them: *Pause. Get curious. Explore. It’s just a choice away.*

The Invitation

I don’t need to analyze every reaction. Sometimes a quick response is appropriate. 

But when I notice that unsettling “uh oh” feeling, when something doesn’t sit right – that might be a signal that my current perspective is partial.

What if I paused? Got curious? Explored what’s actually creating that reaction?

I might unlock insights I didn’t know were there.

And that possibility is always just a choice away.

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Created with prismatic window decals that shift colors as perspective changes – a daily reminder that how we see depends on where we stand, and we can always choose to stand somewhere new.

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