Submitted by Dr. Robert F. Lane on
FOCUSING IS ESSENTIAL: RIGHT FOOT HOPE and LEFT FOOT ACCEPTANCE, AGAIN & AGAIN
Even while dealing with the hard stuff after the bell rings, find some time for focused, purposeful dreaming. It is important. It will help you get thru the near corner, the misery of a changing life and starting treatment, and it sets up running the backstretch once you are entering remission. Do not make the dreaming about forever, but about today, this week and next month. We will address forever later, but that cannot be the focus of the first stretch. You can't focus on hitting the ball out of the park until you focus on hitting the ball.
To begin with, .......
Focusing your dreams for now within the confines of your doctor’s worst prognosis does not mean giving-up, wimping-out or planning to die, but that you are taking the prognosis seriously every day until it doesn't happen.
If you don’t accept your doctor’s worst prognosis as at least possible for the purposes of planning and dreaming, you invite the Dragon to draw near enough to get its claws of denial and fear into your back. I've never seen anyone run well, and I mean no one, who has it on their back, clawing at their neck and whispering that foul breath in their ear. You can't focus all your energy resources on survival if you are expending it dealing with the Dragon.
HOPING IS CRITICAL –RUNNER'S RIGHT FOOT
Many stumble in the first stretch and it is only hope that can pick them up off the track and gets them going again and it is hope that provides the fuel to power them through the near corner. Somewhere beyond the pain and despair there is hope. Find the courage to embrace it. For now, it is better to ......
SO IS ACCEPTING –RUNNERS LEFT FOOT
Many tell me that achieving what they hope for and accepting what they need to is hard on their own. Some try, some don’t. Some ask God for help, some don’t. It always takes time and it always hurts. I am told that starting to work on it early lessens the pain in the long run. Go for it......see CANCER'S BELL LAP
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