Mind over matter
I’ve always believed that a positive attitude is very powerful and can help you through just about anything. But I’m even more convinced now…
You all know that I’m currently undergoing treatment for metastatic breast cancer. My attitude has been good — but not great. The serious nature of my diagnosis meant that my mind often went where it shouldn’t go. And while I’ve tolerated the treatment relatively well, when my mind was in that bad place, I felt much worse physically.
I got some very good news last week. The lesions on my bones have either shrunk or disappeared — so the treatment is working. Woo hoo! This news has given me a much more optimistic attitude as well as confidence that this will go on for years and years into the future — a future I wasn’t convinced I had.
There is a lesson here that I’m going to try to remember. Our minds have amazing power over our bodies. When I was less-than-positive, my body reacted in negative ways. Good news means my body is reacting in positive ways. And I have to think that my new attitude affects how my body will continue to accept treatment and heal.
Don’t ever underestimate the power of your mind!
October 15th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Very good news indeed, Melanie. Thank you for sharing this with us, and onward with the positive attitude and power of the mind. I have no doubt that you — and the power of your mind — will prevail.
November 3rd, 2010 at 11:42 am
Ms. Holmes,
what a great news!!! wonderful to hear the treatment is working.
You are totally right, a positive attitude is very powerful. I called it “The power of our conscious mind.”
Everything starts in our mind with a simple thought…that simple thought has to be a conscious thought, and it is not until we start to think with consciousness that the power of our mind can be used in the most effective way to start the process to modify any situation, achieve any goal, improve any condition…then is when we are using The power of our conscious mind!!!!
Enrique Useche