How Faith Brings Your Vision to Life
by Irena Castle
FALSE EXPECTATIONS
The first thing you should accept when putting yourself on a journey of improving your eyesight through the change of your vision habits and self development of necessary visual skills is that you must commit to the process, not the results. It does not mean that the results don’t matter. Naturally, the reason why you practice your vision skills is to see better. However, in order to succeed, you have to practice from the point of total relaxation and ease. Being hung up on the results brings along tension, false expectations, and disappointment.
THE SEED SPROUTS UNDER GROUND
Vision improvement journey can be compared to growing a tomato plant from a seed. In the spring, you have some expectation for what the plant will look like when it is grown. You have the vision of the crop it will give you throughout the upcoming summer. And so you prepare the ground, and seed the seed in it. For many days, even weeks that follow, all you do is care for the seed, water it, and clear your garden of weeds. There is no proof of anything happening in the ground, no proof of plump tomatoes ever being ready for you to eat. Yet, you keep coming back and caring for the seed, for the invisible life below the surface. You trust that a miracle is happening there. Until one day, a sprout breaks through the ground, and one leaf at a time the plant starts to reach for the sun. Soon enough there are flowers everywhere, turning into lavishing fruit (or vegetables - that is for another discussion). All that was needed was you committing to the process, repeatedly taking the required action, lovingly caring, and demonstrating patience. Had you quit after the first few days of not seeing the plant sprout, your seed may have never come out, or it would have been weak and unable to deliver the crop you had envisioned.
YOUR CLEAR SEEING HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE NOT WATCHING
Improving the way you see with the help of vision practice techniques requires a similar approach.
You start with the vision for your future eyesight. You start with the dream of seeing clearly at any distance. You learn the steps and the techniques that you must follow in order to succeed, and then you take action. Day after day, with your dream in mind, you practice. Ten, fifteen, twenty minutes at a time. Results or not. Why? Because every single practice session is bringing you closer to the very first flash of clarity. Every day the eyes learn, the brain learns. Every day they try, they do the work, they do their best to figure out how to perform this new skill that you are so patiently teaching them. Until one day it all clicks. A new neural pathway gets created. At first you think it was a mistake, that it was not real, because it lasted only a split of a second. A few days later it happens again. Then again yet, but this time you see better for a little longer. The strength of your new skill is feeble, but if you keep going, if you keep helping your eyes and the brain with improving the skill, they will gain confidence, the skill will flower and you will receive the fruit of your work, the vision of your dreams.
MONTHS INSTEAD OF YEARS
Chances are that you allowed your vision to deteriorate for years, even decades. Does it then seem reasonable that you may need more than a few days to get it back? The time will seem short once you reach your goal.
So, create a habit of practicing your vision, create a routine, and practice daily, one day at a time. Project the vision of your dream eyesight, but execute patience while making this dream come true.
May your eyesight be boundless.
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