The medical profession will often tell you that there is no cure for many diseases or problems that we have in Western Society, but my own belief it that in many cases there is often a way to alleviate symptoms or get rid of the problem all together.  Please don’t think me trite when I say this, but I do happen to believe it’s true.  My friend happened to mention that simple physiotherapy can really help in something called Osgood Schlatters disease and there is a video below which explains the technique:-

You can find out more at Jenny’s website www.cureforosgood-schlatter.com

This poem was written by one of my Internet Consultancy clients, Anne Orchard of Families Facing Cancer.  It is specially relevant for me as my brother died of cancer when he was just six years old, a long time ago now I grant you, but it took me a few decades to reach that sense of peace Anne talks about in the second to last stanza.

There was no sign or warning
No writing on the wall
A day like any other …
When cancer came to call

It grew inside your body
A tumour, starting small
In time the doctor told you
That cancer came to call

I fight against the knowing
“It can’t be true,” I bawl
But I can’t mend you, though I try
For cancer came to call

The things I thought were certain
Seen in my “crystal ball”
Now lay, hopes dashed and broken
Since cancer came to call

I let go of my feelings
Let all my barriers fall
I must make my own journey
As cancer came to call

I work with my emotions,
The message from them all
Allows me my own healing,
Glad cancer came to call

A sense of peace comes on me
I am as one with all
My love for you is deeper
Now cancer came to call

And as my life moves forwards
I find I’m standing tall
My days are filled with meaning
Since cancer came to call

© 2008, Anne Orchard
Author: Their Cancer – Your Journey

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You may well know by now that I am passionately interested in women’s health, and more specifically about hysterectomy and it’s impact on women’s lives. I have written a couple of books on hysterectomy and if you are desperate to get hold a copy or two, you can simply follow the links at the top of this page. However, these are books that deal with the practical aspects of having a hysterectomy, they don’t really look beyond it at what it is all about – and that’s just what I am begining to do.

I had a hysterectomy when I was 32 years of age, I had it because I suffered from endometriosis, and I didn’t have enough information about it to really make any sort of an informed choice – it just seemed like a good idea at the time! When I think back to it now, although I wouldn’t change having the operation itself, I do have to question whether or not I made the right decision. The reason I question the decision is my growing awareness, and experience, of creating my own reality in life.

What I mean by that is that I am more aware now that I had a choice at the time of my operation; in fact we have choices all the time about everything to do with our lives, but often we don’t exercise them, preferring instead to fix responsibility onto someone or something else. I could choose to be passive and have the hysterectomy, or I could choose (as I have now realised) to understand my own part in my health condition. The latter is a much harder road to take and it isn’t necessarily appropriate for everyone, but I do feel that it was right for me, and I CHOSE to ignore it.

Having said all that, if I hadn’t had a hysterectomy I probably wouldn’t be living in Dorset with my wonderful husband ‘ratbag’; I wouldn’t have the very satisfying and enjoyable work life I have and I probably wouldn’t be writing this blog to you all now. So what I am saying is that the hysterectomy changed my life and not in a negative way – and that, ladies and gentlemen is just where the story begins.

Until tommorow then, with lots of love, much light and tons of laughter

Linda

You may well have noticed that I do have a penchant for believing that we all create our own reality, including our experiences of health, but in my line of work – most people probably wouldn’t find that belief helpful and I have to say at the moment I have some sympathy for their point of view.

I have a VERY SORE NECK, more so than usual. I have been struggling to work out what this is all about and am failing to come up with any spiritual answer. It is the neck, so it is related the 5th chakra which is associated with choice, will, personal expression, following one’s dream, using personal power to create, addiction, judgement and criticism, faith and knowledge and the capacity to make decisions. So that really leaves the field wide open so far.

Perhaps it could be that I have just spent too long this week huddled over my laptop as well as coping with the stress that accompanies selling a house! Having said that I have been trying to work on my personal expression, and I feel quite blocked in some ways, particularly when I am trying to work on sensitive issues with my most beloved partner in life, my husband John – such as who’s chocolate we are going to eat tonight!.

I’ll let you know how it all goes and maybe I might just make it to the doctor, either way though I do recognise my own part in creating this situation with the neck – it’s all down to that darn laptop!

with much love, light and laughter

Linda

What is it about the number 7? I’d really like to get a definitive answer to this one so if anyone out there has the lowdown, please do let me know.

The reason I’m asking the question is because I’m reading a book by Caroline Myss called Anatomy of the Spirit, which looks at the spiritual/emotional issues that could lie behind some of our common health problems.

Basically she suggests that the chakra system can be aligned to the kabbalah and to the seven Christian sacraments, in that they each work on a different level of a person’s development – and there just happen to be seven levels in each of them.

Anyway all of this got me thinking – initially about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and whether that could also be aligned in the same way but unfortunately that only has five levels, but still follows the same principle so I had to scrap that idea. But then I started thinking of Shakespeare’s seven ages of man, seven seas, seven wonders of the world, seven days of the week, seven sisters, seventh son of a seventh son etc… etc… and began to wonder why 7 had become such a mystical number.

Anyway, this is my second attempt at producing this particular entry as last night, just before I went out I managed to delete the first one …… duh!

My biggest interest lies in women’s health issues and I am the Director of The Hysterectomy Association. But that is simply the begining of it all, what really intrigues me is the question about creating our reality with regards to our health and our experience of illness and disease.

I feel passionately that we create our own experiences and that this includes our health as well, my own experiences have shown that to be true – but more about those another time. But it would be too simplistic to say that if we are ill it is our fault and we should do something about it, I feel it works more at an energetic level and that much of the time we aren’t aware that we are even operating in this realm of reality.

So, what do I mean about the energetic level? well I guess I mean that science is now begining to prove that our biography creates our biology (as Caroline Myss puts it). What this means to you, me and the post man, is that the way we live our life has a huge impact on the way our health is. We can all point to the times when we had an upset tummy because we were nervous or upset, or an irritating phone call had seemed to directly cause a migraine or we had back and neck problems when we were stressed.

Energy medicine and creating our own reality is what these are. When we are stressed, tests show that our immune system is lowered – so it makes sense then to try and reduce the amount of stress we experience as we are more likely to be ill. How many times have you struggled on at work, only to find that as soon as you take a holiday you get ill? When we relax our body has a chance to begin to heal itself and illness is it’s way of begining that process.