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Michael, if you lose your vision and your dream, you'll lose
your will to live and you may never get out of this
wheelchair.
You have to see light at the end of the tunnel. You must be
able to comprehend that you'll walk again. You have to see
yourself dancing. You have to see yourself on stage,
Michael. You must see yourself healed. You have to picture
it... If you can't picture it, your physiology can't create
it. Even if it seems impossible right now, you have to see
the impossible becoming possible.
I gave Michael a special videotape and told him to watch it
as many times as it took for him to see light at the end of
the tunnel; to see himself walking and dancing. I said, "You
have to hold in your mind's eye a virtual reality that is
greater than your physical reality." And he cried and put
his arm on my shoulder; he pulled me toward him and we held
each other. At that moment he saw light at the end of the
tunnel. With tears in his eyes, he said, "I'm gonna walk
again."
The videotape I gave Michael was about Morris Goodman, who
is called the "Miracle Man." After surviving a plane crash
that broke almost every bone in his body— including his
skull—and resulted in his becoming paralyzed, he eventually
learned to walk again. His story is one of the most
inspirational stories of healing I know.
When Morris was first taken to the hospital, no one believed
he would live. But he did. Though in a coma, he kept hanging
on. His family knew that he enjoyed Zig Zigler and his
philosophy of life so they brought in a tape recorder and
played Zigler s tapes and inspirational messages over and
over again for Morris. When I met him, Morris told me that
while
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