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10 Ways to LIVE Powerfully With A Terminal Illness

There are so many cases of cancer and dis- ease, For all of you I suggest the movie 'The Secret' and though you may be pleased with your medical doctor it is great to seek a holistic angle if you are eager to overcome issues.
1- Watch your dialogue If you react like ' I am dying' you engage the victum inside of you and it will amplify things, and your chances of dying when you feel sorry for yourself increase. Now is a time to come to peace with all your issue and poor choice, lifestyle or people and accept what life has brought you.
2- Embrace this as a wakeup call to change the way you have been thinking, acting, perhaps the people you have taken for granted or perhaps have been unkind to you - you have the right to choose to spend time with only nuturing loving people that can help you heal. Take control! Clean house.
3- Remember you are living with cancer, not dying with it. Exercise gratitude for this wake up call and recognize it's opportunity to make the very important changes in your life.
4- Be strong - it is common especially after divorce for one partner to end up ill. I believe the rate is around % 60 post divorce or break up. It may be tempting to run to your ex hoping you may now get that emotion and sypathy - If they weren't there before when you needed them - do you really want them there out of guilt? Have pride and dignity and focus on healing and assisting others who need an ear.
5- Create a dream list- what have you always wanted to do? Paint in Paris, create an audio cd, write a book, public speak, help charities, spend more time with your children? Do it!
6- Get light- Illness can be heavy and the thoughts of 'will I die before, seeing my kids grow up, being in love, starting a business' are really detrimental to healing. Stay in the moment, think in terms of 'there is plenty of time for everything'. Positive thought are crucial! And you can do it!
7- Create a Life line- You must have a will to live. Is it to go to your nephews graduation, complete that book,see the birth of the baby, take that vacation - focus on things in your future and you being there for them.
8- Train people around you to be positive - thoughts have energy, if you are surounded by people worried when you are going to drop - this will create a negative force. Ask people to visualzie you at certain events in the future and to operate in their minds that you will make it through, no matter how many times they must reaffirm it.
9- Carpe Diem - seize the moment. Live in the NOW - it is all there is!
10- Don't ask why! Ask how do I heal and what do I need to learn. Become stronger than ever before.