{"id":17948,"date":"0209-01-10T19:27:07","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=17948"},"modified":"2016-03-27T18:11:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T23:11:33","slug":"i-get-a-great-lesson-in-the-power-of-my-beliefs-about-eyeglasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/i-get-a-great-lesson-in-the-power-of-my-beliefs-about-eyeglasses\/","title":{"rendered":"I get a great lesson in the power of my beliefs about eyeglasses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had a great lesson in the power of my beliefs this morning. As usual on final layout week, I spend extra hours at the computer, creating and revising ads, opening mail, logging in payments, seeing who\u2019s paid and who needs to pay, playing phone tag with a dozen new advertisers getting last minute details, making last minute adjustments to design and layout. So I work well into the night and get up early to begin again. And this morning was no different. \u00a0I woke up groggy, wishing I could have just a little more sleep, but excited about doing the final touches on the magazine. I note the time on the wall clock – 6:20 am – and sleepily make it into the office. I go over my To Do List and begin making my way down the list. I check email and get a final ad. I respond to a few emails. \u00a0I place the ad and am about to begin my Table of Contents when I notice my eyeglass case next to the keyboard in front of me. My eyeglass case. Empty, of course. Not because I have them on, but because they\u2019re in the living room next to the couch where I slept last night. Hmmm, how can that be?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I usually wear contact lenses; I use the disposable kind that I wear for a month or more at a time. Only a few times a year do I take my lenses out and wear my glasses for a few days. I\u2019m near-sighted and my vision is a minus 4, meaning without lenses, I can read a page held 10-12 inches away, and everything farther away than that is a nice, hazy blur.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019d been working so hard that I\u2019d forgotten I\u2019d taken out my contact lenses and put my glasses on. Obviously I took my glasses off before falling asleep. Upon awakening, I\u2019d forgotten about them and assumed my lenses were in, as usual. I saw the clock six feet away at 6:20 am. I did paperwork and computer work, sleepily assuming I had my lenses in.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The moment I saw my eyeglass case, and realized I didn\u2019t have my glasses on \u2013 and contact lenses were out \u2013 I could no longer see the words I\u2019d typed on the monitor and the clock was a blur. And no, I didn\u2019t sleep with my face scrunched into the pillow, squishing my eyes into a shape that let me focus. I slept face up, leaning back in a recliner.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The only thing I did different was to believe and expect that I \u2013 as usual \u2013 had my contact lenses in and could see fine, and behave as if that were so. Wow, huh?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t it be neat if we all went to sleep tonight and woke up forgetting that we\u2019d ever been unhappy, forgetting that we\u2019d ever had money worries or bad health? \u00a0Wouldn\u2019t it be neat to wake up and all we could remember was that we loved and were loved, that we were vitally healthy and strong, that we had everything we wanted?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a nice thought isn\u2019t it? It\u2019s something nice to daydream about when you find yourself worrying.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Andrea<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

RELATED:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 I once again forget I wear glasses and can see fine without them\u2026 until I remember I can\u2019t<\/a><\/p>\n

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