After reading Alexandra's web links, I just wanted to mention to all, (incase you are wondering!) that my spinal disease is in no way related to the conditions shown in that article. It is quite different, and is a disease of the actual 'bones', and not the discs. It is not due to age, because it was first diagnosed, and showed up in scans when I was in my early 30's. There are bony growths affecting a third of the spinal column. Many of these, in neck and lower back, encroach on the spinal cord. It is inoperable due to the fact that surgery would come with a high risk of resulting quad/paraplegia. It is my 'positive thoughts' which have kept me mobile for so long, but all the positive thinking in the world isn't going to make the condition go away, and neither do the positive thoughts ease the pain I often endure.
This is one of the reasons why some 'natural healers' (that I sought help from in sheer desperation), told me that I had created it myself by my 'thoughts'. I was given 'treatments' and exercises which actually aggravated my disease. Now, I wouldn't touch an alternative healer with a 40 foot pole!
Regarding cancer, I developed a form of blood 'cancer' in 2002 which was not to do with a 'weakening of the Immune System', but actually the opposite. My immune system set about killing off all my red blood cells because it saw them as 'enemies' to be destroyed. The anti bodies would actually 'attach' to the red cells and blast them out of existance. So my treatment was actually to DISABLE the immune system until the red cells were able to recover in stable numbers, and remain stable.. It took three years for things to return to normal, and there was NO CAUSE found. Because the cause is unknown, there is no way of telling whether or not it will return, or what triggered it in the first place. Here again, some of these believers who insist that we 'create our own reality' tried to tell me that I had 'created' the disease. Hardly likely, because at that time it appeared, it was probably the one happiest time of my life, so I'd hardly be wanting to make a painful exit!
This is just to put you into the picture from the 'health' angle, so you will understand what it was I was being told I had brought upon myself, and had the power to heal - by changing my thoughts!
Thoughts weren't what saved my life in 2002-2005. It was good hospital treatment and some VERY powerful drugs!(and blood transfusion) So I get right stropping angry now when some well-meaning New Age pioneer looks at me condescendinly and says "Did you REALLY give meditation, or visualisation a fair go?"
Struth alive! Do they think I had any time or ability to do that while I fought for my life in a hospital bed, wired up to tubes and machines for two weeks! These people are not even on the planet!
Patience.
