Tag Powell's Story
I got osteomyelitis when I was fourteen.It's not a bone cancer, but is very much like it.In my case the deterioration of the bone was in the knee area.It was very mysterious how I got it - maybe it was unsterile operation conditions, maybe not.They loaded me with antibiotics, but these did no good.With normal osteo they give you antibiotics and it goes away.
I needed an operation about every three years.Doctors would go into the area, cut away the infected tissues, scrape out the osteo, and put things back together.It would be good for two or three years maximum; then they'd have to operate again.They tried radium treatments, shooting the radium into the leg to try to kill the germ.That only lasted about two years.They tried another system where they took the germ from the leg, shot it with radium, then put it back into my leg twice a week for six months.No luck.I tried every known osteo therapy.
Then I took the Silva course [self-hypnosis].
About six months after graduating from the Silva Method, my knee began to swell up.It was as big as a balloon, and I wound up on crutches.I used the Silva Method pain-control techniques [Dr. Milton Erickson's glove-anesthesia technique] to control the pain, but when something is swollen up that big, you invariably bump it on something (working in close quarters as I was at the time), and since you are not thinking about it at that time, you get highly intense pain.
I went to the local doctor and he wanted to send me to the University of Florida Medical Center in Gainesville, where they would cut my entire knee joint out, boil it for twenty-four hours, then freeze it for thirty days, and then put it back in.He said, "Maybe it will take".Maybe.With that weak kind of reassurance, as you can imagine, I didn't really want to go ahead with it.The system he recommended is actually used in extreme cases, usually only when the person is about to lose the leg.I asked for antibiotics for temporary relief and told him, "I'll think about it."
I went home.I couldn't get around and was lying in bed.The knee was swollen to about the size of a volleyball.I could not get my pants leg over it.
One night while lying there, I began to wonder:Do I really believe in the Silva Method [self hypnosis]?If so, then I could use it.This was early in 1978, about six months after I had graduated from the Basic Lecture Series.
So I went to level [into a state of hypnosis].I remembered that I had been told that the white blood cells could destroy the osteo.I remembered my visualization from class, and drew the white blood cells from various parts of my body.Starting with my toes, I mentally called the white blood cells to come to the knees.I was recruiting an army, picturing them coming to the battlefield.
When I got a whole army assembled into the right hip, I pretended to put them onto white horses with white shields and big white broad swords.When i got them all assembled and ready to go, I mentally yelled, "Charge!" and pretended that waves of these creatures were riding into the main area, fighting with broad swords and killing all the bad cells.The bad cells I visualized as skinny, dark, with skinny broad swords, skinny shields, not too effective.
I was sending in waves and waves, and was really getting into the visualization.Then I got the impression that we weren't winning, but were just holding our own.I thought, "What does a doctor do?He scrapes it out."So I brought in a laser beam, just like the one in Star Wars.I programmed the laser beam to hurt only the germs, not any white blood cells.I brought the laser beam down and aimed at the infected area.
I was so into it at that time that I expected it to hurt when I aimed the laser beam at it, but it didn't.It felt a little warm, but that was all.I rotated the beam around, reaming out the knee just the way the doctor would do it when he was scraping.Then I backed the beam off.I was so exhausted with the pain and effort I just went to sleep.
The next morning I awakened and there was a ball of pus about the size of half a golf ball right in that area.About noon that day, that little pus sack broke and the drainage came out.the knee continued to get better.
I haven't had another problem since.
During the summer, after the psychic-mental-Silva operation, or whatever you want to call it, I went out with a group and for the first time in my life I played volleyball.Previously, if I'd played volleyball, I'd have ended up in the hospital.
I spent the whole day playing volleyball.When I went home that night, my leg hurt.My knee hurt.But it was a joyful feeling because it was the muscles that hurt.I hadn't used those muscles since I was fourteen.
It continued to get better - better and better.I can now sit in a yoga position.I bought a pretty little red Sunbird, because I can get in and out of it.The real proof of the effectiveness of the cure was when I went to Egypt last year and climbed up and down the Great Pyramid.I could never have done that before.When we finished, I was totally physically exhausted, but the next day I was all right.
The programming took about thirty or forty-five minutes.My desire, belief, and expectation were strong at the time.It was almost a life-and-death situation, with the doctor wanting to freeze my knee for thirty days and all.I couldn't put it off.
I think the reason I did all the healing in one shot is that I realized I had to do it then.There was none of this business of "trying".I just had to do it.There was no "hoping" for it; they were going to cut off part of my leg if I didn't succeed.
That desire, that life-or-death type of need, gives you enough energy to achieve almost anything.If you can find a way to generate this kind of desire, you will reach your goals.I know, because I did.My desire, coupled with a Silva method technique [self-hypnosis] applied at the alpha level [a state of hypnosis], brought results.
The above story is from the book "You the Healer"
You the Healer
by Jose Silva, Robert B. Stone
You the Healer is an eye opening, useful tool. It contains a forty-day step-by-step, home study course on how to become a healer and how to create and live a healthy disease-free life. It provides healing techniques that are not too esoteric and not too difficult. It's useful for everything from quitting addictions to migraine headaches - a very attractive and practical offering.