July 2026 Newsletter

Hello, and a joy-filled July to you!
Welcome, or welcome back, to my newsletter. Today's issue is about putting old no-longer-useful habits behind us. Enjoy!

Most of us have bad habits we'd like to put behind us, or behavior patterns which might have made sense in the past, but aren't serving us now. For me a central negative tendency (which can feel like an addiction) is the dependence on thick strong eyeglasses or contacts, and all the related restrictive ways of thinking and behaving which accompany high myopia.

When I see someone in thick glasses now, I feel deep sympathy at how those glasses trap the energy around their eyes and face, as if they're looking out from inside a cage, or upward to the light from being down at the bottom of a deep well. While I felt safer years ago in a narrow confined space, now I want those distant horizons, no frames fencing me away from the periphery, the promise of limitless opportunity and possibility.

Rather than claim "I am myopic" like it's a fundamental part of my identity, I've softened it with "I have developed some myopic tendencies (or habits)". Maybe these came about when I was a child trying to feel safer, or more in control in what felt like a chaotic environment. I could handle the words in the book in front of me, or the space immediately around me, but anything more than a few feet away felt dangerous and made me anxious.

The man peering closely at his laptop screen (even though he has his glasses on!) is a visual reminder of what I do not want to do, get closer and closer trying to see. Artists creating a work back away and view it from a distance to see "the big picture", and evaluate where their attention is needed next. One habit I'm focusing on putting behind me is just this, being convinced getting closer means I'll see better. The human eye is more relaxed looking far than when looking near.

In contrast to the trying-too-hard-to-see man with his face up against his laptop screen, the flying child makes me think of freedom and expansiveness and seeing easily and clearly from a distance. When I began to pay more attention to my dreams as I started vision improvement, it struck me that I was never wearing glasses when dreaming and could always see well, even far below on the ground when I was flying. Could I bring this unrestrained reaching-out energy into my visual habits when awake?

What behaviors or beliefs do you want to put behind you? If it doesn't fit your life now, why drag it forward into your present like a worn-out piece of clothing? Try saying "I used to be someone who ...." about it, and see how that feels. Exciting, or scary? Practice claiming an updated identity which feels more like who you really are, then feel yourself stepping forward to embody it. Why limit yourself unnecessarily? To quote Goethe, "Boldness has genius, power and magic in it". Let's all believe in magic!

One of my major negative vision habits has been trying too hard to see. To read more about this, click here.

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Let me know what you've wondered about concerning energy medicine or vision or dreams. I'll be glad to write a short article addressing that topic. Thank you to those who have sent me questions, or see a question you asked me in a private session written about here. You're helping many other people! Enjoy the start of this jiggles-out-the-grumpiness month of July. I'll write again in a few weeks. Take care!