Empower Yourself Through Illness!
Author: Wendy Bowles Coble

I was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 41.
There is nothing to pull the rug out from under you like a cancer diagnosis. It causes you to stop in your tracks and reflect upon life. It causes fear of death. Fear of leaving your family. Fear of treatment.

You go through a grieving process. A "letting go" of your life as it was before because it will never be that carefree again.

After a period of feeling really, really sad, you start to look around you for hope. "I want to live!", I thought.
"Breast cancer does not define me, it is NOT who I am. I will not be a victim!"

I started searching for survivor stories. How had others lived with this? What did they do to change their lives?
One thing I learned through this was that every day is worth living. Life is so precious. Nothing should shatter that feeling for you--even a diagnosis that isn't good concerning your health.

Through this article, I will explain steps I took to make sure my cancer never came back. Steps that empowered me and aided my healing.

Cancer transformed my life into the life of one playing out
their"sacred contract" as author Caroline Myss explains in
the book of the same name. My cancer was a part of my
spiritual path and I chose to see it as a blessing. A chance to rethink my life. A chance for others to rethink their lives.

I yelled, I ranted, I raved, I cried. I reached such a depth in my faith, that i knew I would survive. I had to.
I had work to do.

I studied healing works and became a Reiki healer. My spiritual writing took precedence as I had a book published, fufilling my desire to serve God and others. Today, I remain cancer-free and fully convinced that the steps I took in my life aided my healing process and should be shared with others.

Do not despair at illness. See it as a wake-up call to change your life in a positive way. Someone once said that
our life is God's gift to us, but what we do with that life is our gift to Him. Take your diagnosis and empower yourself.

I cannot be so presumptuous as to say the following guidelines are a cure for any illness. They are, however, empowering suggestions for those going through a difficult
diagnosis affecting your health. They are based on my own experience of healing through breast cancer.
Recommendations for Healing:

1. MEDITATE: Do this upon awakening and at night when you go to bed. If you don't know how, there are many books on this. Also, various yoga centers in most towns offer classes on this. Basically, after doing three cleansing breaths, meditation means being still while you feel the presence of God. It will give you serenity when your world feels like utter chaos right now. It will ground you and make you peaceful through a trying time.

2.NUTRITION AND VITAMINS: Read any book by Dr. Andrew Weil
for guidance in this area. Not only does he offer suggestions for vitamins to prevent illness, he offers
recipes for healthy food combinations. Read his books until they are second nature to you.

3. EXCERCISE: Do yoga, walk, or whatever form of excercise you like. JUST DO IT! Thank God for this body you have by taking care of it. I recommend 30 minutes each day or 1 hour every other day, but you'll want to check with your doctor about what is right for you.

4.WATER: It is ideal to try and drink half your body weight in ounces a day to purify the body. Eliminate those toxins that have built up inside you all these years. Water will make you feel grounded and clear-headed as it flushes out your body. Realize it is bathing and washing all of the cells in your body, ensuring good health.

5. MEDICAL HYPNOTHERAPY: Run, don't walk to your nearest
medical hypnotherapist. You need to find out why your body manifested illness in the first place. What issues are you not dealing with? Medical hypnotherapy will help you get to the core of any emotional issues you might have by regression, and can help with positive visualization techniques for coping with illness and treatment. The body's natural state is perfect health. For something to penetrate your protective etheric body to your physical body is powerful indeed. Find out what your emotional issues are and deal with them. Forgive yourself, your past and anyone in your life for anything they've ever done to you. Medical hypnotherapy will help you with this, and therefore, help you take charge of your healing. Stay with it until you are cured.

6.BE SPIRITUAL: Feed your soul by reading every spiritual book you can find, learning about and having a relationship with God. Surround yourself with others who feel the love of God that you desire to feel. Immerse yourself in prayer in order to tap into God's healing energy.

7. LEARN FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE: How can you learn from your experience? How can you help others who are going through the same thing? It is very healing to share your thoughts and feelings with others. Take what you've learned and share it with others in order to grow from the experience of your illness. See your illness as a life lesson that can only make you stronger for having gone through it. You are powerful!

8.NURTURE AND LOVE YOURSELF: Realize that God is for you,
not against you. You can tap into God's healing energy for
healing yourself and others. Discover Reiki healing and other healing arts such as masssage therapy or medical hypnotherapy. Learn of healers in your area who can help you on your path to total well-being. Pursue and experience different aspects of alternative healing and use it IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CARE OF YOUR DOCTOR.
Do things for yourself like getting a manicure and foot massage. Buy a gift for yourself for no particular reason. Surround yourself with beautiful music, flowers, candles and framed pictures of loved ones. Create a sacred space in your home where you can retreat to and be surrounded by the things you love. You will begin to heal as you love yourself. Go ahead, you deserve it!
Do these things and you will empower yourself through illness!






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Wendy Bowles Coble is a third degree Master of Reiki, the ancient Japanese art of hands on healing. She is a Life Coach, Medical Intuitive and Breast cancer Survivor as well as being the author of "In His Grace, as told by GOD THE FATHER to his servant" available at PUBLISHAMERICA.com.

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