a self-healing

Below is the inspiring story of a guy I met last week at an Abraham-Hicks meetup group. When I heard that he had freed himself of chronic pain after only a week of consciously disciplining his attention to focus upon gratitude, I asked him to write down how he did it so I could share it with you. He graciously agreed.

All of the Sudden

I woke on a Friday morning not wanting to get out of bed. For years I had been suffering with a form of arthritis called gout. This happens when uric acid levels are very high in your blood stream. I had tried several different prescription drugs at the behest of my doctor only to find the side effects were nearly as bad as the constant pain I felt in my feet. Some days I could not walk, some days I could not even get out of bed.

I focused on my illness to the point that I really did not feel anything else except the pain. A friend loaned me a copy of a movie called “The Secret” which I watched with my feet up.

All of the sudden I realized that I had many other feelings besides the pain in my feet. I had given up on all these feelings due to my overwhelming physical foot pain. [note from Karen: according to Dr. John Sarno and others, often the body generously provides us with physical pain to distract our attention from the uncomfortable emotions we are afraid of facing and feeling. Sort of like curing a headache by punching someone in the stomach .... ]

I felt stuck. So as instructed in the movie I began to examine my other feelings and soon realized that I had a lot of bad feelings about my personal life as well as my professional life.

This was a big step for me and I wanted to feel better so I began searching out what was right in my life. I found many things including my wonderful Dalmatians, my home, good friends and so many others.

Next I began being grateful for what was right in my life. It took several days of consciously checking my every thought for negativity and then when realizing I had a negative thought, consciously changing that thought to a grateful thought. [that night he explained to me that this was literally a full time job, and that at first he would have to correct his thoughts almost every 2 minutes because they would slip back into the old habit of focusing on what he did not want. Pain can be incredibly motivating!]

I noticed I felt better and my foot pain was better than it had been in a year. I continued this conscious willing of thought control for 6 days and found my foot pain gone.

Now I realize that it was stress both in my personal life and in my professional life that was causing me to lose touch with myself. The many bad feelings I had about my life were literally causing so much stress that I stopped listening to my inner self and focused on all that was wrong in my life with the idea that I was going to fix everything.

In order to do that I felt I needed to judge and manipulate all that was around me. Boy was I out of balance. It is a wonder I could stand without falling over, I was so out of balance. It seems so simple to say quit trying to control or fix things you can not control or fix. But that’s what I was doing and I probably would not have even heard these words if they were spoken to me.

It is also easy to be grateful for what you have but not so easy to always feel grateful.

You must commit to yourself.

Now after more than a week with no foot pain I have become a great believer in the human body. It was able to cure the pain when I simply de-stressed, focused on what is right in my life, and disciplined myself to stay feeling grateful.

It was The Secret that changed my life, and allowed me to see how to correct my path to the path of least resistance; to use the law of attraction to ask for what I want in life.

The only thing that is of top importance is that you feel good in all ways.

-R.E.

This stuff really does work, folks. This man is walking proof.
If he can do it, we all can.