I remembered how my first year battling this disease that I always relied on meditation and visualization to keep my mind in the right place:) Over the last few months I would do a bit here and there, but I needed to step it up to a daily practice once again. Health is not just eating organic, whole foods, supplementation and planning your day wisely, it's also what we put into our thoughts and soul. This is one of the visualization techniques I am doing at night now, which I wanted to share with those of you out there who may be in this precarious stage, like me. It's the time when the battle gloves need to come off because I am nearing my last chemo treatment this week and I'm tired of the strong fight from the past two years. As a friend who created an awareness group called "Fighting Fabulously" Shauna, I agree and I think I have, but now it's time to relax with the calm knowing that my cells will know what to do to heal and purge the many toxins I have assaulted upon my immune system in order to knock down the beast! Time to breathe and know that my cells will do their job as I rebuild and keep my mind calm. I have a few of these I have written myself and recorded in the studio along with some of my music on www.ReverbNation.com under "Rachel Petz Dowd" if my readers want to take a listen to my own stuff . But this other one I found a short meditation/visualization on YouTube and seems perfect for those moving out of battle mode into the resting/building stage. It can be helpful for any disease or condition I think.... I hope you enjoy and benefit as well!
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Sorry I've been out of touch the past few weeks. I guess it is almost 2 years since I started fighting this damn C thing, and finally the side effects of chemo have reached me and affected my body. All the prevention, dietary support and supplements to alleviate symptoms worked for the most part...until now. After my 3rd treatment I was able to avoid taking the additional anti-nausea scripts thanks to acupuncture patches, but after 2 days my feet began to go numb and I also have nerve tingling up my left leg as well. In addition, I went to a lymphatic specialist who told my my left arm has some swelling as well as my lymph nodes in my neck and left leg because of the "war zone" going on in my body at the moment. This time coming out of radiation and complete depletion was not a good way to begin the last phase of chemo in year two, but I am almost finished.
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