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Searching For Alternatives…
Brad Cullen
Without going into all the stresses which included long hours working as a nurse and from which she continually commented that she was dying to take a vacation, the woman contracted breast cancer that spread to her skull, spine, ribs and pelvis. The doctors gave her a poor prognosis and basically said they would do what they could to make her comfortable – which generally means chemicals called painkillers, and of course which would be administered simultaneously with another chemical standby; that is, when doctors don’t know what else to do, they recommend chemotherapy which sometimes only exacerbates the discomfort and causes more problems than cures.
The point is that the diagnosis performed by medical equipment and doctors provided no solution – only a prognosis of impending doom and death – a situation that is all too typical, that is, a diagnosis that condemns a person to thinking and believing that a medical solution, which is doomed to fail, is the only solution. A LIMITING BELIEF …there are alternatives.
In this particular case the above referenced woman’s son was an NLP therapist and here we find ONE alternative …look at the results and gain hope. The following is her son’s description of what he did to overcome the problem. Does this prove that the medical diagnosis was incorrect? NO, but it certainly proves that the medical prognosis created a limiting belief.
[Quote]… My mother and I spent four long days working with her beliefs about herself and her illness. I used every NLP technique that seemed appropriate. It was exhausting work for her. When we weren’t working she ate or slept. I assisted my mother in changing a number of limiting beliefs and helped her integrate major conflicts that had developed in her life because of all the life changes that had occurred.
Is it time to get out of our "belief rut"?
As a result of the work we did with her beliefs, she was able to make dramatic improvements in her health and elected not to receive chemotherapy, radiation treatment, or any other traditional therapy. At the time of the writing of this book (7 years later) she is in excellent health, and there have been no further cancer symptoms. She swims one-half mile several times per week and is living a happy full life that includes trips to Europe and roles in TV commercials.
She’s an inspiration for all of us about what is possible for people with life-threatening illnesses. [End quote]
A point I make frequently is that there are myriad ways to affect cures. On this website we talk about spiritual causes and spiritual cures from the SOURCE of everything. The above example is a mental cure which I am quick to say is also from the SOURCE. I believe that NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming is an excellent tool and will work if you have a patient motivated to get well and particularly, in this case where the patient’s therapist was motivated by love to be involved in an alternative cure.
Inspirational of course, but please be willing to look at the story from a different angle. The publisher of Brad Cullen articles and books and the webmaster of this website, Ryan Bruce, has had some training in NLP and has seen its effective use. Ryan has also been healed by spiritual means – he will probably choose to correct me during the accompanying podcast – because of my own limiting beliefs that NLP is mental and not spiritual, from my perspective. Don’t forget to click on the link below to listen to one of our arguments …or see if maybe we actually agree …but first:
What about the challenges affecting your life? Do you have limiting beliefs? Some people are so resistant to things I say and write that they simply are locked into their own opinions. Particularly this is true when a doctor has diagnosed a problem. Some think that that I am arguing with the diagnosis. I am not, I will argue vehemently that going to a medical practitioner of whatever stripe will tend to limit your thinking that hers or his is the only solution. Is it? Well, we opened this little treatise with a story about ONE alternative that overcame both the diagnosis and the prognosis.
Don't take a diagnosis that leads to this!
If there is another cause of your particular challenge, which may either be mental or spiritual, why get a diagnosis of what the mental or spiritual block caused? Don’t miss what I just wrote here …I believe it is divinely inspired, yeah, Ryan, I am saying that it came from the SOURCE. I will say it in a different way: By getting a medical opinion we become fixed on the obvious and missing the cause, whether mental or spiritual. By focusing on the diagnosis we tend not to search for alternatives.
One of my favorite passages in the Bible is where Jesus called his disciples (literally, that is, accurately translated) a bunch of faithless perverts. He said this because they had been unable to do something he had clearly expected them to be able to do. Then he told them that if they did have enough faith they could have done it and oh, so much more. “Nothing will be impossible to you if you believe enough.” This passage changed my life …I’ll not go into the specifics here, but it can change your life too. Or just read again the opening story about the nurse who was condemned to die by diagnosis …her prognosis was changed because her beliefs about the diagnosis and herself were changed.
Will you open your mind to an alternative? One thing Ryan and I are both agreed upon is the need to get wisdom directly from the SOURCE …we hope that you will listen to the following and hear some ways how we do that …oh yeah and find out whether and how much we argue or agree.Podcast 44 Dec 5 2010 Searching for Alternatives
In Freedom,
Brad