My daughter Shannon suffered from a Traumatic Brain Injury at the age of 11 months. Her injury is considered acquired from her rare autoimmune disorder known as Opsoclonus Myoclonus Syndrome (OMS). She ended up having a Traumatic Brain Injury from ataxia caused by the acquired brain injury.
She also had Neuroblastoma, Stage 1, in form of a tumor that had to be fully resected through emergency surgery. She has been through a lot, right? I know a big key to her success is the fact that this is all she has known. She is an overcomer. When tough times arise, she assumes she will overcome because she always has. She has no idea how lucky she is that her thoughts and words are always those of the positive and not the negative type.
Now that she is getting older, I am learning how much her thoughts and words have begun to shape her life. I understand how important it is to make sure that she speaks truth of the life she intends. Whether she is pulling truth from scripture or truth from her creator (universe), she is speaking and thinking what her future holds for herself. She is learning to say enough times that things are not going well – things will not go well. She often reminds me, these days, to remember to think positively.
Once she speaks and thinks what is expected, she quickly moves into action and begins to move towards what she is expecting. For example, lets take something like her homework. She expects to get through her homework, successfully and independently. She expects to show quality work and be improving her ability to learn.
She will speak words like. "I am going to do my homework well now." I can do my homework by myself. I love doing my homework. My cursive writing is beautiful. I love my teachers. I love my school. I am doing a great job. Then, she moves swiftly into action and begins to set up her homework area and start working her way through her homework.
She reaches to me when she needs help. She will take a break if she gets too overwhelmed. She wants and expects to do a great job. She knows what she wants to see as her end goal and keeps her focus on just that. Her end result is success in getting her homework done and doing it well. She gives thanks that her homework is completed and it is done well.
Why not try this yourself? Visualize your end goal. Practice visualizing your end goal for about 2-5 minutes a day. Maybe you just want to have a great homework session with your child? Focus on seeing you and your child getting through homework well. Speak about the homework sessions with your child as being the way you want them to be as if they are already happening. Catch yourself when you start to think bad thoughts when you getting close to homework time. Feel good about working with your child.
Now you need to act on faith. Believe that your homework session with your child (or whatever your end goal) will come to fruition. Go with your intuition. Maybe you are being led to offer your child some down time while doing homework. Offer frequent breaks during your session or offer a small snack during this time. Keep your faith on your end goal and follow how you are led to help your child. Just as Shannon prepares the way for successful homework, you can prepare the way for your end goal to show itself.
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