Life will bring you pain all by itself.
Your responsibility is to create joy. -Milton Erickson, M.D.
Milton Erickson was a farmers boy. When he was 17 he got polio. The doctor told his mother he would die. He asked his mother to slide the dresser in his room at an angle so he could use the mirror to watch the sunset in the other room. He did not want to miss a single sunset. While watching the sunset Milton blocked out all the visual obstacles and only saw the sun set. I can imagine the subtle pinks and yellows turning to vivid fuchsia and lavender as he drifted off to sleep. After Milton did, in fact, recover from his illness, he was no longer strong enough to be a farmer so he became a hypnotherapist and as it turned out a very good one.
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