Adjusting Our Vision

By Greg Baer M.D.

October 20, 2022

For twenty years I performed surgery on people, mostly on their eyes and surrounding tissues. Sometimes I also improved their vision with corrective lenses. I was surprised to discover that in some cases, people had become so accustomed to bad visionā€”mostly from childhood distortions in the shape of the cornea, or the front of the eyeā€”that they could not tolerate correction of it.

I gave some of these people new lenses and transformed them from legally blind to a ā€œnormalā€ vision of 20/20, and yet they preferred the condition of visual disability. The correction was disorienting to them, sometimes even physically uncomfortable.

I have seen a similar phenomenon among people who are emotionally disabled. They are so accustomed to a terribly distorted vision of themselvesā€”usually taught by parents and othersā€”along with the accompanying pain and fear, that they cannot adjust to a correct perception of themselves and the world, a perception that could eliminate their confusion and fill them with joy.

Whatever we grow up believing to be normalā€”visually or emotionallyā€”can be very difficult to change. But many of us can make the adjustment emotionally, if we receive sufficient love and guidance.

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About the author 

Greg Baer, M.D.

I am the founder of The Real LoveĀ® Company, Inc, a non-profit organization. Following the sale of my successful ophthalmology practice I have dedicated the past 25 years to teaching people a remarkable process that replaces all of life's "crazy" with peace, confidence and meaning in various aspects of their personal lives, including parenting, marriages, the workplace and more.

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