All Is Well: Heal Your Body With Medicine, Affirmations, and Intuition (31 page)

If your weight has become life threatening, realize your power and

go to Chapter 6 to create balance in the third emotional center.

The most important step to take when addressing health in

the seventh emotional center is realizing the balance between

the power of the Divine and the power in you. Take action. Free

yourself.

From the Clinic Files: Cancer Case Study

Angelina is 50 years old. She has been tested in every way

someone can be—financially, physically, and emotionally—but

she is still standing. Her life has mostly been defined by ill health:

it has been one disaster after another. When she was a child, her

appendix burst, causing a serious blood infection that forced her

to be hospitalized. She had chronic headaches and back pain from

a car accident in her 20s. She had thyroid problems that led to

weight gain in her 30s. She had asthma. And in her early 40s, she

was diagnosed with breast cancer. She fought and won the battle

with breast cancer in her left breast, choosing to have a lumpec-

tomy followed by radiation. Physically Angelina was healthy

for probably the first time in her life. But emotionally she was a

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wreck—always on edge waiting for the next medical disaster. So

when she developed a persistent cough and her doctor found a

shadow on the mammogram of her right breast, she was sure her

breast cancer had returned.

By the time we met Angelina, her health history read like the

table of contents of this book. She had had a major problem as-

sociated with each and every emotional center: blood infection

(first), chronic back pain (second), weight gain (third), asthma

(fourth), hypothyroidism (fifth), chronic headaches (sixth), and

cancer (seventh). Whereas in the past she had seemingly endless

energy and a positive attitude that never wavered, now she was

exhausted, and for the first time she felt hopeless.

When we started pulling together a health plan for Angelina

she became overwhelmed, so we broke up her plan into two parts:

one short term and one long term.

We began with the short-term health goals. These goals all

dealt with bringing love and joy into her life. She needed to focus

for at least one hour each day on each emotional center, for a total

of at least seven hours of daily work. To help her schedule this, An-

gelina got a daytimer calendar and programmed her phone with

reminders to help her follow this new system.

Our goal was to inundate Angelina’s life with love and joy.

These emotions elevate opiates and natural killer cell activity, and

they decrease inflammatory mediators that maintain health prob-

lems. Here is a typical day for Angelina under our new plan:

• First emotional center (blood): Spend time with a

friend or family member over coffee (maybe decaf);

look at old pictures of family and friends during

pleasant times.

• Second emotional center (lower back): Make a date,

even if it’s just with a friend. Dress up and have an

evening out on the town. Buy a small gift and give

it to someone you love. Watch children playing at a

playground.

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• Third emotional center (weight): Allow yourself one

100-calorie treat before 3 p.m. Have a friend help you

reorganize your closet, and go to a makeup counter

for a makeover. Do aerobic exercise on a bicycle or

treadmill while listening to upbeat music. Dance like

a banshee.

• Fourth emotional center (asthma): Go to a funny

movie or watch comedies on TV. Your goal is to

laugh. Go to an art store and buy some watercolors,

crayons, or colored pencils and paper or coloring

books, and start coloring.

• Fifth emotional center (low thyroid): Go driving in

the car. Play the radio and sing at the top of your

lungs. Play with an animal, even if it belongs to a

friend.

• Sixth emotional center (headache): Remember

the deeds of loving people in your life and have

gratitude. Reflect on how you have improved from

last week. Learn a new language. Take dance lessons.

• Seventh emotional center (possible cancer

recurrence): Wake up each day with your first

thought being “I’m thrilled and grateful to be alive.”

Try something new, whether it’s a new station on the

radio, eating a food you have never tried, watching

a new TV program, or visiting a different place on

the web. Go outside and look into the sky and try to

reach your higher power.

During the other hours of her day, we addressed her long-term

health goals:

• First emotional center (blood): Go to an acupuncturist

and Chinese herbalist who can nourish your blood

with herbs, including angelica, gecko, Fructus lycii,

Paeoniae, and others. Take a pharmaceutical-grade

multivitamin that includes folic acid, pantothenic

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acid, riboflavin, thiamine, copper, iron, zinc, DHA,

and vitamins A, B6, B12, and E.

• Second emotional center (lower back): Take SAMe

and Wellbutrin given to her by her internist to

relieve back pain and a multivitamin for anemia. In

addition, to ease the pain of lower-back arthritis, take

grape seed extract and glucosamine sulfate. Also do

Yamuna body rolling to improve the flexibility and

pain in your spine and joints.

• Third emotional center (weight): Lose weight by

eating a big breakfast, a larger lunch, and a tiny

dinner. Every meal except dinner must have

sensible portions, 1⁄3 carbohydrates, 1⁄3 protein, and 1⁄3

vegetable. Dinner is simply a small piece of protein

and some dark, leafy vegetables. Also feel free to eat

half of a protein bar with a bottle of water at 10 a.m.

and 3 p.m. No carbohydrates after 3 p.m. Check out a

macrobiotic healing diet, which may help support the

immune system’s capacity to keep cancer at bay.

• Fourth emotional center (asthma): Use the Advair

inhaler she got from her pulmonologist and visit an

acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist for Crocody

Smooth Tea Pills, Andrographis, and respiryn to

further decrease shortness of breath. Also take the

nutritional supplement coenzyme Q10 for immune

system support.

• Fifth emotional center (low thyroid): Visit an

integrative physician to find out if it would help to

stop taking only Synthroid (T4) and replace it with a

thyroid hormone that is partly T4 and partly T3.

• Sixth emotional center (headache): Go back to the

neurologist to decide whether you want to take

migraine medication such as Imitrex or Topamax. If

not, visit an acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist for

weekly treatments and the herb Tian Ma Huan.

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• Seventh emotional center (possible cancer

recurrence): Get a second and third medical opinion

to verify results of first mammogram.

With these instructions, Angelina started on her new regi-

men. The first thing she did, because she was so scared about a re-

currence of her earlier breast cancer and thus a “life-threatening”

prognosis, was go for a second and third opinion. Fortunately,

after a biopsy was performed, both opinions suggested that this

was a second primary cancer, meaning that Angelina had a new

cancer in the right breast; it wasn’t a recurrence of the original

breast cancer. She had a lumpectomy and radiation again, but this

time, unlike her first occurrence, the cancer had spread to one

lymph node. Although he was concerned, her oncologist agreed to

continue to work with her after she elected not to do chemother-

apy. Since it was only one lymph node, he felt that his knowledge

could be of help—even without the typical treatments. But the

spread of cancer did something to Angelina: it made her realize

that she had to make
major
life-saving changes. She needed to

figure out her life’s purpose.

Angelina began to work with a vocational coach twice a

month, focusing on a long-range map of what she wanted her ca-

reer to look like at certain intervals—in six months, one year, two

years, and five years from that point. She made a list of all the

people she had “unfinished business with”—those people against

whom she harbored a grudge—and she immediately called them

to set up lunch dates and clear the air.

Angelina took a weekend solitary retreat at a friend’s cabin in

the woods to map out her future. She wrote a Life Grant Proposal

to her higher power, outlining what people and financial support

she needed to carry out her life goals. She put the grant in a jour-

nal and said a prayer over it.

Next, Angelina worked with a life coach to make sure she was

able to skillfully work with healing affirmations to optimize her

body’s capacity to keep cancer at bay. To address the underly-

ing thought patterns that were affecting her health, we had to

incorporate many affirmations. In addition to body-part-specific

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affirmations (for example, breasts and lungs), we also brought in

the affirmations for cancer (I lovingly forgive and release all of

the past. I choose to fill my world with joy. I love and approve

of myself); depression (I now go beyond other people’s fears and

limitations. I create my life); facing possible death (I joyfully move

on to new levels of experience. All is well); and chronic diseases (I

am willing to change and to grow. I now create a safe, new future).

By using all of these techniques, and working tirelessly to

bring joy and love back into her life, Angelina was able to over-

come her cancer and move forward with her life.

All Is Well in the Seventh Emotional Center

In this chapter we have explored seventh emotional center

health issues, which are some of the most devastating emotion-

ally and physically. If you have a chronic, degenerative, or life-

threatening disease, you will be tested in all sorts of ways you

may never have imagined. You may be forced to contemplate

your mortality and ask yourself “What is the meaning of my

life?” or “How can I find peace with a higher power?” How you

handle these difficult concepts may dictate how long you live

and how healthy and happy you are while you are alive.

To achieve and maintain health in the seventh emotional cen-

ter, search for your purpose in life, strengthen your faith, and strive

to keep learning and changing. If the negative thought pattern for

chronic and degenerative illnesses and cancers is “Why me?” the

new thought pattern is “In partnership with the universe, I move

through emotional conflicts to find a peaceful resolution. Listen-

ing to my own intuition, I simultaneously try to tune in to the

wisdom of a higher power.”

I have survived and thrived. All is well.

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PRobAble cAuse

NEW THOUGHT PATTERN

Abdominal

I trust the process of life. I am

Cramps

Fear. Stopping the process.

safe.

I allow my thoughts to be

Abscess

Fermenting thoughts over

free. The past is over. I’m at

hurts, slights, and revenge.

peace.

Inbility to speak up for

I release the pattern in me

Accidents

the self. Rebellion against

that created this. I am at

authority. Belief in violence.

peace. I am worthwhile.

Aches

Longing for love. Longing

I love and approve of myself.

to be held.

I am loving and lovable.

I am a Divine expression of

Acne

Not accepting the self.

life. I love and accept myself

Dislike of the self.

where I am right now.

Running from the self. Fear. I now discover how

Addictions

Not knowing how to love

wonderful I am. I choose to

the self.

love and enjoy myself.

Addison’s

Dis-ease

Severe emotional

I lovingly take care of my

malnutrition. Anger at

body, my mind, and my

See: Adrenal

the self.

emotions.

Problems

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Family friction, arguments.

Adenoids

This child is wanted and