So recently I was reading an account of a near death experience by a guy who had suffered some truly traumatic experiences and health issues. The experience allowed him to release his fears and trauma and make significant improvements to his health and his life.
This alone is not an uncommon theme, many people who have claimed to have had such experiences reveal that afterwards they no longer fear death and their lives improve in many ways. The most prominent of these at the moment is Anita Moorjani, who describes in her book ‘Dying to be Me’ how she came back from the brink of death to cure herself from terminal cancer. It is a great book that I recommend to many people.
But the thing that struck me around this guy’s story was his subsequent approach to medical appointments. Because he now believes that he knows the truth of his existence, including the causes of physical disease, he has been able to release the fear around such appointments which, for many people, are extremely fearful situations. He now responds to so-called ‘bad news’ from his doctors by saying “That’s not my story”.
It’s as simple as that, rather than take their words, opinions, tests results and adopt them into his reality, he decides what is ‘his story’, staying empowered over his own health. This is really important, because how often do we let others define us, either by their opinions of our appearance, personality, status etc? We are giving our personal power away, no one should define us other than ourselves.
The same should apply to our health. Most people would agree that stress can make us ill, so where does the stress come from? Our thoughts. And how do we create our thought patterns? From our beliefs. So if someone else is defining our beliefs around our health and that belief system is negative…what will happen? Our health will decline. How many times have we ‘googled’ symptoms and convinced ourselves that we are going to die or start developing the symptoms as we align ourselves to them? Now I’m not suggesting for one minute that we stop going to the doctor or getting treatment, but what I am saying is how much you let diagnoses and medical opinion define you is up to you.
This life and journey is ‘your story’, don’t let anyone else write it for you.
Shirley Blanch is a Mindfulness & Wellbeing Coach, for information on her services/workshops please visit
www.getmindful.co.uk
This alone is not an uncommon theme, many people who have claimed to have had such experiences reveal that afterwards they no longer fear death and their lives improve in many ways. The most prominent of these at the moment is Anita Moorjani, who describes in her book ‘Dying to be Me’ how she came back from the brink of death to cure herself from terminal cancer. It is a great book that I recommend to many people.
But the thing that struck me around this guy’s story was his subsequent approach to medical appointments. Because he now believes that he knows the truth of his existence, including the causes of physical disease, he has been able to release the fear around such appointments which, for many people, are extremely fearful situations. He now responds to so-called ‘bad news’ from his doctors by saying “That’s not my story”.
It’s as simple as that, rather than take their words, opinions, tests results and adopt them into his reality, he decides what is ‘his story’, staying empowered over his own health. This is really important, because how often do we let others define us, either by their opinions of our appearance, personality, status etc? We are giving our personal power away, no one should define us other than ourselves.
The same should apply to our health. Most people would agree that stress can make us ill, so where does the stress come from? Our thoughts. And how do we create our thought patterns? From our beliefs. So if someone else is defining our beliefs around our health and that belief system is negative…what will happen? Our health will decline. How many times have we ‘googled’ symptoms and convinced ourselves that we are going to die or start developing the symptoms as we align ourselves to them? Now I’m not suggesting for one minute that we stop going to the doctor or getting treatment, but what I am saying is how much you let diagnoses and medical opinion define you is up to you.
This life and journey is ‘your story’, don’t let anyone else write it for you.
Shirley Blanch is a Mindfulness & Wellbeing Coach, for information on her services/workshops please visit
www.getmindful.co.uk