Visualisation   There is no doubt that our thoughts and feelings affect our physical body.  After all, what is a muscle-test but the physical reflection of the energy of our thoughts and feelings?  Books such as Candace Pert’s Molecules of Emotion describe how emotion changes the physiological processes.  Dr Masaru Emoto’s Messages from Water shows how prayer, music, the spoken or written word change the structure of water.  And after all, we are 70 to 85% water depending on who you read (or how well hydrated you are!).  Dr David Hamilton’s It’s the Thought That Counts describes the research proving that form follows thought and that mass is nothing more than a distillation of consciousness.  And so by teaching clients a relaxation / visualisation process (my own favourite system is the Silva Method), they can create positive change not only in their feelings, but also in their cells.  And, importantly, the process of creative visualisation empowers our clients as they make these changes themselves. Some people would argue that this is the primary and most important intervention.

Underlying Cause  There is no doubt that our thoughts and feelings affect our physical body.  After all, what is a muscle-test but the physical reflection of the energy of our thoughts and feelings?  Books such as Candace Pert’s Molecules of Emotion describe how emotion changes the physiological processes.  Dr Masaru Emoto’s Messages from Water shows how prayer, music, the spoken or written word change the structure of water.  And after all, we are 70 to 85% water depending on who you read (or how well hydrated you are!).  Dr David Hamilton’s It’s the Thought That Counts describes the research proving that form follows thought and that mass is nothing more than a distillation of consciousness.  And so by teaching clients a relaxation / visualisation process (my own favourite system is the Silva Method), they can create positive change not only in their feelings, but also in their cells.  And, importantly, the process of creative visualisation empowers our clients as they make these changes themselves. Some people would argue that this is the primary and most important intervention.

Diet, environmental toxins, emotional traumas, injury, infections, smoking – there are many factors which may combine to cause cancer.  Louise Hay is probably the best-known writer on the relationship between disease and emotion.  In her book “You Can Heal Your Life” she describes the probable causes of cancer - “ Deep hurt.  Longstanding resentment.  Deep secret or grief eating away at the self.  Carrying hatreds. What’s the use?”  These may be useful avenues  to explore with cancer patients.

Brandon Bays, in her book The Journey, describes how she healed herself of a basketball-sized abdominal tumour through “journeying” inside herself to uncover the layers of emotion and beliefs that were held in her body.  By peeling back the layers she was able to heal the emotions and beliefs that caused the tumour and so heal the tumour itself.  It has to be said that her inner journey was taken along with juicing, organic vegetables and colonics.  The journey techniques are in some ways similar to NLP and Time Line Therapy techniques – and to other techniques that many Kinesiologists use.

Two and a half years ago my former wife, Irys, was diagnosed with Bowel cancer and liver metastases.  She would be happy for me to share her story.  The doctor told her there was nothing they could do except perhaps some palliative chemotherapy and radiotherapy.  She had a prognosis of less than 6 months.  Irys was distraught and without hope –what she described later as “utter despair”.   Irys and I had remained loving friends after separating 15 years previously.  I read many books and researched the internet extensively for information.  I had already garnered a body of knowledge from my 25 years nursing and in my years in Kinesiology and nutrition.  We agreed a course of action and Irys started a regime of diet and supplements, coffee enemas, healing and visualisation.  She received twice weekly Reiki and Kinesiology sessions. 

During her treatment Irys was well enough to play golf on a regular basis.  This changed somewhat after she started chemotherapy -  which was the choice she made.  On her chemotherapy weeks she would be tired and unwell.  On the non-treatment weeks she would be well enough to get out and play golf.   Despite heavy-duty toxic chemotherapy her blood picture – haemoglobin and white cell count - stayed within the normal range.  Irys was introduced to Reiki and took Reiki attunement.  She used Reiki and Visualisation daily.  One day as she lay in bed in the morning doing her Reiki her husband Ian (she had remarried) saw lights dancing above her head. 

Irys died in the hospice in Ayr 18 months after diagnosis. She was a beautiful and loving soul.  When she died she was surrounded by people who loved her – and that Love was palpable.  The love that she gave so generously all her life was reflected back to her.  It was a privilege to be a part of that process.