Imagine this situation: Mary and Janet each discovered she had breast cancer in exactly the exact same stage of development and started seeing the same doctor on the same day. Each had the very same treatments for the identical period of time. Mary didn’t recover. Janet is not just alive, she’s thriving.

Let’s see…

What made the difference? Their belief system. Mary thought everything the doctor said about the treatment, its side effects and her slender odds of survival. She got ill with the treatment, became extremely tired, lost her hair and expired on schedule. Janet was determined to conquer it no matter what it took. She believed she was stronger than the cancer and she revealed it. Along with her prescribed remedies and a change in her eating habits, she sought out a hypnotherapist who works with patients undergoing cancer therapy.

Why a hypnotherapist? To answer that question, let us explore the app Janet and the hypnotherapist developed collectively. Because Janet watched the hypnotherapist the week prior to the chemotherapy started, the first thing they did was help Janet’s mind understand that there was no need for her to lose her hair or experience any other side effects. They reinforced this in the succeeding sessions.

Side effects

After a variety of chemotherapy sessions with no or minimal side effects, they started to explore possible reasons for the cancer and do imaginative visualizations of Janet’s ideal health. To put it differently, they gave her mind the aim of perfect health. Does this seem impossible, farfetched or woo woo? Even if it seems like that to you, know that the mind is a really powerful tool and that our thoughts create our reality.Have you heard the announcement, “You are what you think about all day long?” Or “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he”?

Ponder this: If biofeedback can help you regulate your heart rhythm, your blood pressure along with your reaction to stress by utilizing the energy of your mind, is not it logical that you could control your response to treatment, promote your immune system to fight disease and possibly eliminate it altogether? I worked with a girl soon after her surgery for breast cancer and following her first session of chemotherapy.

Final note

She’d undergone hypnosis for childbirth and thought it might benefit her in this health crisis. Unfortunately she’d lost her hair, but we could keep her from being nauseated or experiencing the debilitating fatigue the doctor told her she’d experience. Among other things, we did visualizations of her sitting in the exam room and hearing the doctor and nurse beyond the door talking how she was doing and wondering what made her different from the other patients that demonstrated all of the side effects of the chemotherapy. She called one day, eager to tell me that this had happened just how we visualized it. This was nearly ten years back and she’s still thriving. Although this might seem like a simplistic approach, it’s a really dynamic one because the energy of your mind knows no limits. There’s a saying,”If you would like to change your life, change your thinking.” We consider this to be true and see signs of it on a daily basis.