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About 4 ½ years ago, I decided to surprise T, by running the 3 or 4 miles to where she worked.  I planned my run so I would get there just before she got off for the day, so we could ride back home together.
     
It was a beautiful, blue-sky day, and I had my mp3 player on, listening to some energizing music, and trying to eliminate some of the traffic noise. As I was running, I passed a woman who was smiling at me. When I went by, I thought how nice it was that she was standing on the sidewalk, really enjoying the sunshine and the gorgeous weather.

Unbeknownst to me, the woman I had just passed was T.  She got off work early, and driving home, had seen me running.  So she turned her vehicle around, and was waiting for me at the corner before the bridge.

As mentioned, I ran right by her.  She wasn’t expecting me to not recognize her, so in shock, she called after me. But I couldn’t hear her, as I had my mp3 player  on and my music playing. When I didn’t stop or turn around, she took off running after me, only to pull a calf muscle on her second or third step. At first, she didn’t even know that was what happened. As she put it, it felt like someone had thrown a big rock square at the back of her calf.
 
She limped back to her vehicle and drove back to work to meet me. She got there just as I ran into the parking lot. I was totally oblivious to what had just occurred.

Imagine my shock and embarrassment, running within a foot of her and not recognizing her.

Imagine her surprise at the recognition of how blind I really was…

How ‘bout it?
     

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In the early spring of 1997, when I was first diagnosed with RP, it was a very hard concept for me to process: that there is no cure for my kind of eye disease. The specialist that I saw in Tucson told me I would slowly lose more of my vision, and probably all of it, eventually.

I grieved for awhile, and I came to accept the diagnosis that I had an incurable disease. They had evidence that I was going blind; they showed me scientific proof. We have been trained to accept those things that we are shown as absolute truth. And the reality is that it was the truth, and I had no reason to challenge it. Why would I? They showed me all of the test results.

So of course I believed the diagnosis; I allowed the results (the fact that it was harder for me to see in combination with all of their proof), and I accepted those results. I allowed those results to determine my beliefs. I believed it: I was going blind. And of course it was true. My reality was that I was going blind.

They said it.
I accepted it.
I believed it.
Therefore it was true. It was my reality.
It was true because I believed it to be true.

About ten years after my diagnosis, we watched “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne. That started an incredibly radical paradigm shift for me, and really got me thinking about what I wanted to attract into my life. Well of course the first thing I wanted was my eyesight back. Duh….

As we started watching “The Secret” over and over, and listening to it on CD, and studying the Law of Attraction, I began to realize that for all of these years I had been attracting things into my life by default. That is, by not consciously thinking about what I truly wanted, I got what I got by default. As a society, we have a very strong tendency to focus on what it is that we don’t want. For example, “I don’t want to be late.” “I don’t want a bad haircut.” “Don‘t get dirty.“ “I hope my food doesn’t spoil.” “I don’t need any more bills.” “I wish I could pay off all this debt.” “I don’t want to spill food on my new shirt.” “Traffic is always terrible in that part of town.” “Don’t get into a car wreck.” “My kitchen is a mess.” “Don’t do that; you’ll break it.” and on and on and on. We’re always focused on things that we don’t really want. And what kind of energy are you sending out into the world? Well, let’s see: late, bad haircut, spoiled food, more bills & debt, food spilled on your shirt, terrible traffic, car wrecks, messy kitchens, broken stuff, etc.,

My partner had migraines all the time. Her big thing was “I don’t want a headache.” “There’s a low pressure system coming in; I hope it doesn’t bring on a headache.” “I can’t eat that (or drink that) cause it’ll give me a headache.” Headache, headache, headache. How many times do you think you can toss the concept out to the universe, and not expect that it’s going to draw? Once she started focusing on “relaxed and comfortable, strong and healthy always”, she has practically cured herself.

As the Law of Attraction indicates, we get what we focus on. If we’re focusing on all of the things that we don’t want, or not really focusing on anything at all, we get what we get by default. That was an insanely uncomfortable and difficult truth to accept: that I had attracted this eye disease into my life. And my vision was getting worse, because that’s what I was focusing on, that‘s what I was expecting. I would tell people all the time that I couldn’t see well because I was going blind. As I studied more, I knew it was what had happened to me. They diagnosed me.
I never challenged it because
I never thought to challenge it because
I never even knew I could challenge it.
Because that’s what they said it was, that’s what it was.
I accepted it. I believed it, and consequently, it was.

But the more I studied, the more I began to realize that I didn’t have to accept that as my reality. I didn’t like the results I was getting, so I decided to shift my thinking. I changed the way I was thinking about my eyesight. I had previously let outside circumstances define my reality for me, instead of allowing myself the ability to determine my own reality.

Of course, now I know that I can create a new reality, one in which I have perfect vision and health. I just have to envision it. And while I’m at it, I might as well manifest a brand new red Toyota Highlander Hybrid that I’ll be able to drive as soon as my vision returns, right?

So think about what it is you want.
How ‘bout it?

Vision Runner

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