When I was 13 my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was discovered late due to basic negligence on the doctor's behalf and had spread all the way down her ribs as well as under her arm. Between the time of the discovery and the time of her operation, my mother not only applied positive thinking, as she has throughout her whole life, but she also gave a meditative outlet to her positive thoughts. She played an old computer game called Worms where little worm figures blow each other up and each time she attacked the computer she imagined it was actually the cancer she was attacking. By the time her operation came about the doctor's were surprised to learn that not only had the cancer not spread - it had shrunk. She had her left breast removed and a few glands under her arms, but she was saved from a lot of pain that she would have met with had the cancer stayed the same size or grown, as is usual. It's been almost ten years and she's been cancer free the whole time. I'm not saying it's going to cure cancer or heal someone with a terminal illness, but it can change the outcome enough to dramatically change your life, especially when you believe in it as wholeheartedly as my mum did and still does.
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When I was 13 my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was discovered late due to basic negligence on the doctor's behalf and had spread all the way down her ribs as well as under her arm. Between the time of the discovery and the time of her operation, my mother not only applied positive thinking, as she has throughout her whole life, but she also gave a meditative outlet to her positive thoughts. She played an old computer game called Worms where little worm figures blow each other up and each time she attacked the computer she imagined it was actually the cancer she was attacking. By the time her operation came about the doctor's were surprised to learn that not only had the cancer not spread - it had shrunk. She had her left breast removed and a few glands under her arms, but she was saved from a lot of pain that she would have met with had the cancer stayed the same size or grown, as is usual. It's been almost ten years and she's been cancer free the whole time. I'm not saying it's going to cure cancer or heal someone with a terminal illness, but it can change the outcome enough to dramatically change your life, especially when you believe in it as wholeheartedly as my mum did and still does.
November 13, 2009 - 7:53amThis Comment
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