A woman faced with advanced cancer shares the story of how preparing to die led her to experience a profound healing on all levels--physical, emotional, and spiritual.
• Explores the practical and spiritual aspects of confronting a life challenge
as a springboard for spiritual growth.
• Includes accounts of dreams, exercises, and visualizations that inspire profound healing.
• Outlines 12 self-help practices of wellness--emotional clearing, meditations, and lifestyle changes--through the living example of a cancer survivor.
• By the co-compiler of the spiritual classic Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words.
At the age of 41 Cheryl Canfield was diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer. Going against warnings from doctors, she rejected proposed surgeries that would involve removing her uterus, cervix, lymph nodes, and surrounding nerves. Instead, she decided to accept death and focused her energy on attempting to die well. In the process, she cured herself.
Profound Healing is Canfield's down-to-earth account of her journey as she inadvertently experiences a modern-day miracle, and her subsequent reflections on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing. More than a biography, Canfield's story contains exercises, dreams, visualizations, and experiences--from encounters with the modern mystic Peace Pilgrim to her own acceptance of cancer--that assisted her healing process. Others can use her hard-earned insights as a source of hope, inspiration, and practical advice. Relevant to anyone seeking personal growth and life wisdom, Profound Healing is not merely about dying or living. It is about discovering one's life and living it fully while here.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword by Joseph Chilton Pearce
Acknowledgments
Introduction Mobilizing Our Inner Resources
Part I
Preparing for the Possibilities
One--Face to Face with Mortality
Two--Weighing the Alternatives
Three--Exploring Death
Four--Buying Time
Five--Tying Up Loose Ends
Six --Making My Way Through the system
Part II
Life Stories
Seven--The Spiritual Path
Eight--Encounter with a Modern Mystic: A Woman Called Peace Pilgrim
Nine--Peace Pilgrim on Healing
Ten--The Journey Home
Eleven--Land of Vastness
Twelve--Sojourn in Paradise
Thirteen--Testing the Water
Fourteen--The Greatest Gift
Fifteen--More Goodbye
Part III
ReEngaging Life
Sixteen--Surviving the Dark Night
Seventeen--Time in the Wilderness
Eighteen--Embracing the Possibilities
Nineteen--Five Healing Storie
Part IV
Twelve Steps in the Healing Process
Twenty--The Beginning of Self Transformation
Twenty-One--Step One: Take Charge
Twenty-Two--Step Two: Develop an Empowered Attitude
Twenty-Three--Step Three: Create a Healing Environment
Twenty-Four--Step Four: Practice Forgiveness
Twenty-Five--Step Five: Explore Attitudes and Beliefs
Twenty-Six--Step Six: Transform Negative Feelings to Heal and Release the Past
Twenty-Seven--Step Seven: Build a Support System
Twenty-Eight--Step Eight: Simplify Life
Twenty-Nine--Step Nine: Establish Personal Integrity
Thirty--Step Ten: Open to Intuition
Thirty-One--Step Eleven: Love Yourself
Thirty-Two--Step Twelve: Do All You Can and Release the Rest
Epiloque Heal Ourselves, Heal the World
Appendix: Summary of Steps in the Healing Process
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