“And then you can do and have and be things that people once said that’s impossible forStory of the Miracle Man as stated by Morris Goodman:
My story begins on March 10, 1981. This day really changed my whole life.
It was a day I’ll never forget. I crashed an airplane. I ended up in the hospital
completely paralyzed. My spinal cord was crushed. I broke the first and second
cervical vertebrae, my swallowing reflex was destroyed. I couldn’t eat or drink,
my diaphragm was destroyed. I couldn’t breathe. All I could do was blink my
eyes. The doctors, of course, said I’d be a vegetable the rest of my life. All I’d be able to do is blink my eyes. That’s the picture they saw of me, but it didn’t matter
what they thought. The main thing was what I thought. I pictured myself being a
normal person again, walking out of that hospital.
The only thing I had to work with in the hospital was my mind, and once
you have your mind, you can put things back together again.
I was hooked to a respirator and they said I’d never breathe on my own
again because my diaphragm was destroyed. But a little voice kept saying to me,
“Breathe deeply, breathe deeply.” And finally I was weaned from it. They were at
a loss for an explanation. I could not afford to allow anything to come into my
mind that would distract me from my goal or from my vision.
I had set a goal to walk out of the hospital on Christmas. And I did. I walked
out of the hospital on my own two feet. They said it couldn’t be done. That’s a
day I will never forget.
For people who are sitting out there right now and are hurting, if I wanted
to sum up my life and sum up for people what they can do in life, I would sum it
up in six words: “Man becomes what he thinks about.” Morris Goodman’s story is truly inspirational for us all. He definitely
understood and used the magnet within him. Another individual who learned at
an early age about discovering his magnet was Dr. John Demartini. John was diagnosed as ‘learning disabled.’