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Because so many people have asked what I am doing to continue living with my cancer, I am going to write a weekly blog, sharing some of my “treatments.” Since visualization has been part of my plan with most of my cancer diagnoses and recurrences (I quit counting at ten — three primary cancers and many recurrences), I will start with telling you about my current imagery.
I saw a PET scan of the tumor in my lung, that measured about 1.5 cm. last November. On the PET scan it looks like a bright circle of light. In my imagery, I see that circle of light. When I exhale, it gets smaller around the perimeter. When I inhale, some of it gets sucked out of the middle, into a transforming machine that allows it to become part of the courage and strength I need to shine my light brighter. As I inhale and exhale, I allow this tumor to gradually be incorporated into my strength and courage. Matter transformed into energy. This way it can still be part of me without destroying us.
In Lynne McTaggart’s book, The Intention Experiment, she describes several experiments that were done on healing cancer cells. One intention was to destroy the cancer cells; another intention was to acquiesce to God’s Will without a specific result or request being made; another intention was to fully accept the cancer cells exactly at they were. And finally, there was an experiment that was about requesting the cells return to their natural order.
What the researchers found was the intentions that were about acceptance of the situation or acquiescing to God’s Will had NO effect on the cancer cells. The intention to destroy the cells produced a small reduction in the number of cancer cells. However, the most effective intention in these experiments was the intent to return the cells to their natural order as described here:
The most effective healing intention has been framed as request, combined with a highly specific visualization of the outcome, but not necessarily a destructive one. With healing, the most effective approach may be not to destroy the source of the illness, but, as with other forms of intention, to move aside, let go of the outcome, and allow a greater intelligence to restore order. ~ page 152 of The Intention Experiment, by Lynn McTaggart.
Dear Jan,
I’m so glad to know about the Blog. It’s come at the perfect time of my life as I desperately need to see my self and my illness differently.
The visualization book you mentioned is on my list of to buys.
I’ve been wondering and wondering how you are…just you. Here you are.
Please know I’ll be on the journey with you. After all, …”we are all on the same Healing Journey”.
I think of you all the time…prayers your way, as always.
Love,
Carolyn
Glad to hear about blog and am very interested in visualization.
Hi!
I woke up this morning thinking about you and that I wanted to
call just to connect.
Golly, it’s wonderful to hear something of what you are doing.
I need some help subscribing to your blog. The link failed and I
couldn’t copy it to put in my search engine. So help! Can you fix that?
Love,
Dee
If anyone needs help subscribing to the blog, please email us at info@healingjourneys.org and we can subscribe you manually.
Thanks,
Georgia
Much love to you, Jan!
As a Certified Hypnotherapist Iam very aware of the power of visualization, in both my own life and in my clients’ lives. I’m so glad that you are utilizing it and that it is working so well for you. I’ll be looking forward to hearing about further steps on your healing journey.
Blessings,
Jenny
I look forward to your notes. Thanks for opening up and sharing. It will help visualize you visualizing!!
Jan,
Thanks for sharing this. It’s helpful and inspiring on so many levels.
Love and hugs,
Debra
Yea! It makes so much sense to transform what is destructive, the cancer, into what is constructive, courage and strength.
I shall pass this on.
AND I am joining you in the visualization, seeing your light and asking for the transformation.
Others visualized for me when I had cancer and I am sure it helped.
Dear Jan,
I think of you often and support your healing processes. My good thoughts are coming your way.
Much love,
Pam Berkon
Hi Jan,
Of course I am following you in this adventure. I know for certain that your strength in this area of life is so strong that you will surly “best” this situation as you have all of the others. Although I do suffer from cancer, I want to join you in your journey.
John Ravera
Jan,
It was good to see you at SLC. Your visualization process ties in beautifully with our 4-T lesson of Power vs Force. So much of the time we try and use force to change a situation. This results in a resistance or a reactive force. Power on the other hand is always present is still and does not create a resistive force.
Looking forward to hearing more about your adventure and seeing your light shine.
Namaste
Charlie Grix
Hi Jan,
What a great inspiration you are to me and I am sure, others. Thank you for sharing your journey.
Love and Blessings,
Kathy
Jan – I am thinking of you and sending you healing thoughts. I do so appreciate your work over many years and Healing Journey gatherings I attended that were so inspiring.
I believe strongly in visualization. It helped me enormously when dealing with breast cancer. In my case I imagined myself going to a PLACE that feels very healing to me – the Scottish island of Iona. When the therapist who taught me this technique asked me what the cancer cells looked like, I saw them as crabs invading the island. I saw the immune cells as seagulls plucking up the crabs, carrying them far away into the Atlantic and dropping them where they could no longer do harm.Of course, everyone’s visualization will be different but I do recommend beginning by going – in your imagination – to a place that is especially calming and healing for you. For an account of how this helped me, please see my book “Iona Dreaming: The Healing Power of Place”.
My thoughts are with you,
Clare
Blessing Jan
This idea matches perfectly with the theory of an integrative oncologist whom I interviewed in Japan for my Unexpected Remission research — he believes that cancer cells are actually just healthy cells that have been forced to breathe anaerobically (due to viruses, bacteria, toxins, or stress/lack of oxygen) and therefore must continually replicate in order to survive (by metabolizing glucose). In his oncology practice, he aims not to “destroy” his patients’ cancer cells, but rather to rehabilitate them back to their healthy state (i.e., back to breathing aerobically). Keep up the wonderful exploration, Jan!
Dear Jan,
Thanks for sharing your healing journey with this blog. I am a believer and strong supporter of the incredible power of visualization. I will visualize you doing your imagery process, seeing the positive results.
Monica and I used a visualization technique to help shrink the tumor that threatened her life and after each scan the doctors asked us to keep on with our work.
I will see you, seeing the success of your work.
Love to you,
Susan
bone cancer cells seem to be growing; i’ll get this book. thanks, jan.
hugs,
karin
How generous you are to share the lessons you are learning with the rest of us. I will continue to share them in gratitude. Thank you.
Aloha Jan,
Thank you for sharing this information.
I have long felt that acquiescing to God’s will wasn’t helping in my healing. It was when I turned to listen to the rhythms of nature and the rhythms of my body that I really started to heal.
On a practical note, I’d love it if you had a Tweet and Facebook Share button on this page, so I can forward your blog to my networks.
Blessings of Reiki, aloha and abundance,
Cymber Lily
Ah! There is so much we can do to help ourselves – we just need to remember instead of getting caught up in the “cancer word”.
Nutrition, meditation, visualization, joy etc are all there for us! Thanks for sharing your journey and giving us the opportunity to go along!
Dear Jan, This totally beautiful concept of working and moving mindfully with cancerous cells via a visualization process that comes from all that is whole within and invites them to rejoin the wholeness, changed back to their normal form, has my attention and respect and love. Thank you so much for sharing.
I’m going to join you; a CAT scan showed my met bone cancer has grown slightly. new scan set for July. let’s wow ’em.
Karin