Amanda Devine

Was It an “Unrealistic Goal?

May 18, 2008 on 11:57 pm | In Amazing Stories | 39 Comments

Six long years ago I was an innocent victim in a serious four car accident that completely changed my life. The accident damaged a disk in my neck and affected my nervous system. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and told my condition was incurable. Living in constant severe pain in every single muscle and ligaments of my body as the result of the condition of my nervous system, I struggled daily. Just a simple activity as washing my hands brought tears to my eyes, because of the pain it caused. I clenched my teeth in pain, shaking someone’s hand, while having a smile on my face. My husband could not give me a hug as the pain was unbearable. On top of that I had horrible headaches, because of the damaged disk in my neck and I made many trips a year to emergency rooms where I got injections containing morphine. I used to spend $600 a month on pain medications that were topped up to 10-16 Tylenols a day, just to survive. Someone made a great comment on my life, “This is not a life, this is an existence.” I could only work part-time as constant fatigue and pain did not allow me to do more. Many times my husband had to pick me up from somewhere, a parking lot or a side of the road as I could not drive anymore and I passed out from the headaches.

 

One day, my hopes decreased rapidly when my legs started to gave up on me and I fell many times. I was forced to use a cane on a daily basis. I started to drag my left leg. I was so worn out physically and emotionally that I started to get depressed. I could only work 10-15 hours a week. The danger of not being able to work at all was hanging over me as the gloomy view of the progression of my disease. “What is going to happen to me?” I thought over and over. I would go upstairs and cry until I could not cry anymore. Then I would come back down and smile at my husband trying to hide from him the gruesome details of my suffering. I was not sure how much longer I could take that excruciating 24/7 pain. I have the most amazing husband and I could not stand for him to worry about me more than he already did.  Feeling like I was at the bottom of the barrel I was desperate to find a way out. My wonderful doctor, so many times said to me that he felt helpless as there was nothing he could give me to cure the situation as my disease is incurable. I am so blessed to have such a great doctor. The medications he gave me were just to make me survive. That is all that today’s medicine could do for me.

 

On the top of all of that I had very severe food allergies. I could not eat many things, but sometimes it would happen that something was in the food that I ate in a restaurant and I would get very sick. If I ate any of the things on my list I would go into seizures, people would have to call an ambulance for me and I would be taken to a hospital. It would take me 1.5 weeks to recover. The list of the things I could not eat is long, but some of the things are: sugar, bread, fruits, fried food etc.

 

Having a Master Degree in Psychology I knew that depression is the worst thing. If you let it take over you, you are basically done. I was not going to be “done”. I was desperate to change my life. I did research about the power of our mind. I applied it and it did not work. I did more and more research. I became obsessed about learning about the power of our mind. I read, listened and watched anything that I got into my hands. I got very deep into quantum physics and Einstein theories (skipping the mathematical part, of course). I got deeper and deeper and suddenly everything started to make sense. I started to apply the knowledge with understanding. First, I stopped getting worse. I was thrilled! But that was not good enough for me. I set a goal for myself to heal completely my incurable disease of my nervous system.  Was it a realistic goal? I have a folder 2 inches thick telling that it is incurable and any medical professional will confirm that. Yet, I set a goal to be 100% cured. I applied all I learned every single day!  I understood the absolute power of my mind. For a while nothing more happened, but then I started on the up swing, very slowly at first, then faster and faster. My pain level went down. I used less medications, I started to walk better, sleep better and feel better. Today, I am completely cured of my disease of my nervous system that I had for 6 years. I just dropped my cane 2 days ago that I used for 3 years and I walk great! My pain level is ZERO!!!! For the first time in 6 years I have no pain!!! I AM TOTALLY CURED!!! I also cured my severe allergies that I had for 24 years. I had my first hot dog in my life, my first bagel, first milk shake, first sub. My life is like magic only because I set the “unrealistic” goals and went for the “unreachable” dream!

 

When I went to see my doctor 2 weeks ago he could not believe what I looked like. He said I was so calm and I looked so great like another person. He also said that it is a phenomena how I feel and fibromyalgia is a disease there is no known cure for it. He is investigating what I do and wants to learn everything what I know. I can not wait to see him without a cane in the next 2 weeks.

 

What I did you can do as well. Now, I am helping other people to cure themselves. I helped the lady with the strokes that you can read about in the Amazing Stories on my blog. I also helped a lady who had asthma for over 20 years. She does not use any medications any more and breathes like she never had asthma. Her blood pressure went down by almost 30 points.

 

The power of our mind is incredible and you can harvest it too. You just have to believe that you can achieve the “unrealistic” goal. I DID!

 

 

Amanda Devine
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Do you know who that person is? It is YOU!
 

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Can Everyone Be Whatever They Want To Be?

May 11, 2008 on 5:16 am | In Purpose in Life | No Comments

The answer is, yes. The title of this blog is taken from one of the search strings someone typed in that led him/her to my blog. What a great question!
 

We have dreams and we look at them and ask ourselves many times, can I really do it? Is it possible for me to be….
 

If your heart is in it, than definitely YES. If it is your passion, you can do it. What I do is my passion. It comes through the way I talk and communicate. Many people try to be Life Coaches, but only a very few really make it. Why? It is to do with a passion. The passion determines if you succeed or not. I got standing a ovation yesterday on my seminar. People commented how passionate I was about my message. I wanted to be a Life Coach for over 20 years. Yet, the fear of how I was going to make money in it was keeping me from my dream. I was scared of taking a step toward my dream in case I fail. How sad! I let my dreams go. I saw myself fail even before I tried. This is the worst thing you can do! Lots of people said, “Only a few make it. He made it because he is so and so.” That “So and so” person was “nobody” at first. He became a name because of his passion. When I put my success puzzle together and I became very successful in my insurance business, submitting in 3 weeks as many sales as I submitted in 6.5 months of that year. I could not keep that knowledge to myself. I became a Life Coach teaching people how they can go after their dream. I am not writing this to tell you how wonderful I am. I am writing to show you that an ordinary person, like myself, when she gets the courage and goes for his/her dreams becomes extraordinary. The passion changes people. It gives them wings. You don’t work any more, you have fun! You don’t look at the clock on Friday to see how many minutes are left to the weekend. When the Friday finishes, you can not wait till Monday. Sounds strange? It does when you just have a job. But, it is a fact when you follow your heart and throw yourself in the river of your passion, get swept off your feet and carried by its current.
You too, can feel that incredible feeling when you follow your dream. Every single person can live their dream because, every single person is special. Everyone has the unlimited potential to be, do or have everything they seriously want. You just have to go for it, act on it and you too will get your “standing ovation” for whatever it is that you do!
 

 

 

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When you don’t make goals you don’t know where you are heading and you don’t know where you are going to end up. And you know you might just end up there…somewhere…nowhere…
Your Powerful Inner Self
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Just imagine you get on a plane and the captain of the plane says:
“We are going to take off. I don’t know how high we are going to fly and for how long. I guess we will fly until we run out of fuel and then we will land somewhere. Where? That is a very good question, but we will land somewhere, providing we will have enough fuel to land safely. So, let’s take off and see what happens.”
I hope you are not a passenger on this plane.
 

 

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Knowledge…continuation

May 3, 2008 on 8:22 pm | In Knowledge | 3 Comments

The third kind of knowledge is the one that we do not receive at school. We also do not get it from our parents. This is the knowledge that our parents did not have either. It is the most important knowledge, the knowledge of life. It is the knowledge of how to make money, how to succeed in life, how to set goals in the right way and how to achieve them, how to think in a right way. Our parents did not give us that knowledge, because they did not have it. You can not give something you don’t have. Only a few people on this planet are fortunate enough to be born in a family where the parents possess that knowledge. You and I were not the “fortunate” ones. But does that mean that we are doomed for failure? Not at all! We can get that knowledge. We can become very successful in life. You see, through our lives we were told that we can not do this, we can not do that, this is impossible…etc. We were conditioned for failure. As Bob Proctor said, “Taking in calculation our conditioning and what has happened to us, it is amazing that we are doing as well as we are.” How true!
You see, we are born perfect. We are persistent, born risk takers. How many times the little baby falls before it learns to walk? How many times the baby will get a bruise in pursuit of the difficult goal of walking? Yet, the baby will get up, and try again, taking the risk of falling. He/she falls and gets up again, and again. At the end the baby will get up one more time than he/she falls and finally…walks. The baby walks and everyone around cheers, proud of the baby’s accomplishment. The whole family is thrilled! The baby walks! The news goes over the whole neighborhood. It is a great start to the baby’s life, and than…the conditioning takes place.  
Let’s look at a scenario going into the future of the baby. Now the baby is an adult. An adult that most of the time does not have a direction where to go, not to mention any idea of how to start the journey toward their dream. It is not the adult fault. He/she was not been taught how to set goals and go for them. But let’s say, somehow that adult decides what he/she wants. What happens now? All the conditioning, luck of the basic knowledge of life makes the adult nervous, worry and doubtful as it is. Let’s take a look at the surrounding world. The adult tells family, friends and maybe some other people about what he/she wants to achieve. Instead of the encouragement he/she got as a baby, now the adult gets strange looks on people’s faces and comments like. “It is an unrealistic goal.” “How are you going to do it?” “What about the resources?” Sometimes it can be even a “great” comment like…”Are you crazy?… that will stop that adult right in his/her tracks. The peer pressure, the uncertainty, the luck of knowledge how to really make it work, how to take an intelligent risk (that now is forgotten), the doubt, and the fear of failure and ridicule, is so overwhelming, that the adult does not know how to cope with it and abandons his/her dream and goes back to “reality” that he/she is not happy with.
I can only say that I am glad that we as babies are so persistent and we take the intelligent risk and clearly stick to our goal of walking, because the other way we all would be on all fours.
 

Amanda Devine
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