Do you ever feel like you are way too zoomed in to your own drama to actually see a path forward? Imagine you're on a Google document and you just can't see the whole table but you need to see the whole table to do the equation. And then you zoom out. Suddenly you’ve got access to all of the tools you need and you’re ready to go. What if I told you it’s possible to apply this phenomena to your own life?
I call it “The Snow Globe Effect” because, if you learn to observe your life from an aerial point of view (as if you’re peaking through a snow globe), you gain a whole new perspective. Think of it as your highest self peering down at your life. She can observe appreciate the moments of alignment and shake it up when she doesn’t like how things are looking.
A few years ago, I was going through a pretty rough break up (from a situationship LOL). At the time, my mom’s advice to go to the beach and switch up my routine felt totally inaccessible. But when I started to peer at my situation through the eyes of my highest self looking down at the snow globe, I popped a bubble of stagnant energy. Finally, I could feel my highest self looking down with pride. If you’re feeling the nudge the shake things up, this episode is for you!
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Chelsea: [00:00:00] What's up everybody? Welcome back to my Non-Expert Opinion. I'm your host, Chelsea Riffe, and I'm a podcast strategist who helps people launch, grow, and monetize their podcast. I have not done a solo episode in a hot minute, and I really wanna get into mini episodes. I'm a big fan of short, sweet, and to the point, and so let's not make this intro any longer.
Let's dive right in. I wanna talk to you about something called the Snow Globe Effect. Now, I don't know if I coined this. I have not actually Googled this term. That's probably horrible broadcast journalism of me, but it's essentially it term that I use to think about zooming out and reviewing my life.
Origin story here. I first heard about this on a podcast called Sex with Emily. It's exactly what you think it is. It's a sex therapist who talks about sex dating, relationships, et cetera. And I remember, this is honestly probably six years ago, [00:01:00] she had a producer on, I think they were talking about a breakup, and they were just comparing like male and female notes after breakups and.
Something that stood out to me was how he said he moved on versus how Emily was saying. She dealt with breakups and he said something along the lines of, I started picturing my future wife looking at me through like a snow globe or just like looking down on me from the sky. Something of that nature, right?