On the Today Show, recently, I saw a story about a woman who had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). The story was about how the woman was living the last year or two of her life with her friends and family. This story hit home because I was diagnosed with ALS years ago and it hard to see her so weak.
When I was diagnosed with ALS, I was told that the disease was incurable and terminal. I did not focus on or believe that I was going to die. I went to the health food store for vitamins and continued with natural therapies like chiropractic and acupuncture. I was introduced to energy healing and the idea that our thoughts have power. I continued working part-time, working out, cooking and riding my horse. At the beginning, the disease progression was very slow. I attribute this to many things, I always believed that I would find a way to heal, I surrounded myself with alternative practitioners who supported my beliefs, I continued to do things I enjoyed with people I loved. I continue to believe that my horse, DJ, is a huge part of why I am still alive because being with him made me so happy and brought me close to nature and the earth. See my posts on the healing power of love and pH, electrons and Earthing. As I discuss in pH, Electrons and Earthing, electrons flow from a high voltage system to a low voltage system. The earth is a very high voltage system, so being in contact with the earth and nature gives your body the energy to heal. Think about a 100 lb. person in poor health on a 900 lb. healthy animal who spends all day and night in contact with the earth. It’s my belief that riding him and being with him at the ranch was beneficial to my health on many levels.
It was after a period of a marital problems, pending divorce and financial worries, that my symptoms got much worse. I got weaker and weaker, lost muscle and my speech got more garbled. I was trying so hard to do everything I learned about with the Law of Attraction, but I made it worse because my focus was on fixing myself. I did better when I kept busy doing the things I enjoyed and didn’t focus on the disease, physical limitations and what needed to be fixed. At the lowest point, I lost so much muscle you could see all three sides of the top of my shoulder; it was difficult to understand me when I spoke and I could only take small steps. I really should have used a walker because I fell often. I fell in the office and my employer, at that time, told me they needed a note from a neurologist specializing in ALS stating that I was able to continue to work. That doctor told me I should be using a scouter, a tool that spoke for me and a lift seat to help me stand. I decided to leave my job as Tax Manager, CPA because of the stress. It wasn’t the job or tax deadlines that was problematic; it was the stress from being self-conscious about how I looked and sounded, the fear of falling and the frustration towards my body that was the chronic stress. See my post of Cause of Illness.
I decided to learn everything I needed to so I could heal, especially energy healing. Energy healing I was absolutely determined and knew I would succeed, somehow. I was considered to be a stubborn child, they made that sound like that was a bad thing, it’s not. I tried so many things that reportedly healed others miraculously, but didn’t instantly heal me or helped only slightly. I kept trying new energy healing and natural techniques and became a teleseminar junkie. I discovered what techniques worked for me and developed an energy healing strategy that is working. Everything in my healing strategy has the goal of eliminating stress, increasing the vibrational frequency in my body and increasing the energy or voltage in the cells. See my post on How to Heal from Illness; I use many things like Quantum Touch, earthing or grounding, meditation to name the big ones. Now, my body is healing, I am stronger, more balanced and am building muscle. People can now understand me when I speak. I am still rebuilding my body but I am making progress every day.
Not only is my body healing, but I have made tremendous emotional and spiritual growth. I am not the same person I was before I noticed symptoms. I was very unhappy, held emotions inside and buried them. Even before my body weakened, I was very unkind to myself and unforgiving. I learned many important things, two things came from The Release Technique, the first was emotions come up when they want to leave, so let them go. The second thing is to stop beating yourself, talk to yourself like you would talk to a friend. If you met me now and looked into my eyes, you would see someone full of life and love. You would not see someone with ALS, an “incurable” “terminal” illness, that’s not who I am.
Dawn mcCrea
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