What if words could heal your toughest patients, like they healed Edie?
Dear Friend,
Words matter, especially when it comes to healing. As Harvard research has found, words and the healer’s demeanor and approach define the arc of a disease and its likely resolution.
I know, because we experienced this firsthand.
When my husband Bryan’s mother, Edie was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer at age 79, her doctor gave her three months to live and told her to put her affairs in order. When he’d examined her, he recoiled, and told us her breast looked like raw meat. ‘To be honest,’ he said, ‘I’d be looking into hospice care.’
Within a few days of that gloomy prognosis, Edie had collapsed in the street.
As a last-ditch effort we took her to see Dr Patrick Kingsley, who for years had been successfully treating end-stage cancers holistically.
I was in the room when Dr Kingsley examined Edie and her raw breast. He shrugged and said offhandedly, “Oh, we can handle that.”
For the rest of her consultation, he convinced her that it could be sorted – with nothing more than an intravenous cocktail of supplements, vitamin C and hydrogen peroxide twice a week, plus other supplements and a change of diet.
Six months later, Edie’s bumped into her original doctor in the street, who thought he’d seen a ghost.
When he asked if he could examine her, he was shocked to discover that the cancer which had ravaged her breast, which he was so sure was beyond hope or treatment, had completely disappeared.
While Patrick’s treatment and our family’s support all contributed to the healing environment, it was Patrick’s words – his steadfast refusal to make a judgment call about how long Edie had left – that proved to be the most powerful medicine of all.
It had the single vital ingredient conspicuously left out of most treatments today: hope.
Hope, words and intentions are the most important medicine there is.
That’s why I formulated my online workshop Become a Better Healer, especially for practitioners of every variety, from doctors and alternative therapists to energy healers.
I wanted to help you to boost your healing success by learning how certain words and intentions – and the words and intentions of your patients – can help even the most difficult cases turn around.
