گفتگوی فعال (In the Zone)-2

Time either slows down or there is no sense of time at all. This is
how Diane runs. Without thinking or worrying, she is completely
in the moment.
When Diane was younger, she wasn’t always ‘in the zone’, but
she was always a successful athlete. As a small child she played
on a boys baseball team and used the name Dan.

In high school and college she played basketball and became a
champion tennis and golf player. After college, she became a
professional tennis player. She spent four years traveling the
world and competing in tennis tournaments.

She always ran to stay in shape for tennis, but running was not
her main sport.
At the age of 21, suddenly Diane began to have seizures.

She had epilepsy. Epilepsy is a serious condition that affects one
percent of the population. Sometimes Diane would lose
consciousness and fall down.

Other times, she would have much worse seizures. Her body
would lock up and her arms and legs would shake. She would
lose complete control of her body. Diane was an athlete and the
mother of three children.

With epilepsy, her life completely changed. She could have a
seizure at any time. With each seizure, there was a chance of
death. Many people die from seizures all the time, but she
refused to give up.

She continued to do sports and she continued to drive, but her
children had to learn to drive from a young age. If she had a
seizure when driving, her children needed to be ready to take
over the car.

Many people with epilepsy feel auras before a seizure. An aura is
often a tingly feeling or a feeling of floating.

This feeling is a signal that a seizure is coming. Diane found an
unusual way to stop her seizures. When she felt a seizure
coming, she would put her shoes on and start running.