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!

 

 

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The Power of Our Mind

February 2, 2008 on 11:52 pm | In Amazing Stories | 1 Comment

Our mind is more powerful than we can ever imagine.
Why is it that despite the possible devastating effects of two strokes, a 35 year-old single mother of three, shocked doctors by walking out of the hospital only three days after surviving two strokes? It is all due to the power of the mind.
 On January 7, 2008, the lady mentioned above, my client,  suffered a stroke while at her office. On the way to the hospital she suffered another stroke in the ambulance. Her speech was impaired. She was paralyzed on the right side of her body. She was placed in the ICU for stroke victims and doctors told her that it will take her a long time before she will walk and have a use of her right hand and she would never recover one hundred percent.
She immediately started practicing the visualization and positive thinking techniques I taught her, she had put to such great use in her business. Only a few hours after she had been admitted she had already regained her speech and she was able to lift her arm and foot about 5 inches off the bed. I told her that the doctors did all they could and the rest belonged to her.
She started setting goals for her recovery. She said that she would love to be able to hold a cup in her right hand. Two days later she held a cup in her right hand and drank from it. She also walked to the bathroom with a help of another person. The doctors could not believe how quickly she was recovering.
On January 10^th, just three days after the stroke, she could walk by herself and was released from the hospital with a cane, just in case. Exactly one week after the stroke she could eat with a fork and she can even write. She says that her writing is like a 5 year-old child’s, but this is only a week after the strokes.
Three weeks later she has returned to work full time. She can walk wearing high heels. She can drive her car and even her hand writing has returned to normal. This is unheard of. Her doctor told her that she must have a guardian angel to recover so quickly. What a powerful mind!
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1.    See it impossible to achieve – action - go and buy a big box of tissues, you will need it.
2.    Mission Possible - Action - Roar like a wild beast and go for it. That will scare all the obstacles away (they will run away from you, as no one wants to be in the way of a crazy person). Then, smile all the way to the bank.
 

The choice is yours. If it was me, I prefer wild and rich.
 

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