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she was more frightened than she had ever been, because her lungs were filled with fluid and blocked by a tumor, and she could barely breathe. She was waiting for her doctor to call her back, so she wanted to get off the phone right away. I told her I would do a healing meditation for her, and said good-bye. |
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I continued to sit in that vibrating altered state of consciousness until the feeling of a current flowing through me ceased. At that point about twenty minutes had elapsed, and I phoned the woman again. She again answered the phone after the first ring. She said that her doctor had still not telephoned her, but the emergency had passed. Her lungs now felt unobstructed, and she was able to breathe fully again. |
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Before I hung up, I told her that I hoped she continued to feel better. I later heard that it had been a holiday, and her doctor never returned her call that day. I was gratified to have been called upon to help in a way that surpasses my understanding. |
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The last story I'll relate is about the healing of my co-author, which resulted in our collaboration on this book. It was another remarkable adventure in which I was glad to participate. |
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The Healing of a Physicist |
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As mentioned in the introduction, my co-author, Russell, was diagnosed with metastatic cancer of his liver in the winter of 1992. Spots appeared on the CAT-scan plates of his liver and intestinal cavity, and the radiologist told him that it was a recurrence of a cancer that he'd had eight years before. He looked sickly pale and had been losing weight when I began to work with him. Nonetheless, I told him he was not sick, and he should not say he was sick, or that he had cancer. All we knew, I declared, was that there were spots on some film. By that time, I was aware of the self-hypnotic effects that repeated affirmations of illness could produce in a person. I taught him to reframe the situation to one which posed a problem that he was learning to solve. He was not powerless: There are always many things a person can do differently to enhance the activity of his or her immune system, and |
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