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The Power of Words

THE POWER OF WORDS ©
BY BERNIE SIEGEL MD

As doctors we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive. It is also not only doctors but all the authority figures in our patient’s lives that affect their ability to survive and the outcome of their disease. Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figures words. As I am always sharing, wordswordswords can become swordswordswords and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.

Up to the age of six a child’s brain wave pattern is similar to that of a hypnotized individual. To quote a woman, whose mother only gave her failure messages and dressed her in dark colors, and who as an adult has more trouble with her mother’s words than she does with cancer. “My mother’s words were eating away at me and maybe gave me cancer.” We know from recent studies that loneliness affects the genes which control the immune system. So as doctors we need to ask the right questions and know what a patient has experienced and is experiencing in their lives. Can you imagine treating Christopher Reeve’s wife for cancer without knowing her family history?

I recently received two emails; one from a woman who had a recurrence of her cancer and has decided to not undergo chemotherapy again. Her doctor said, “Then you might as well go home and commit suicide.” The other email came from a woman who asked her doctor if they could become a team as she had just finished reading my book. He told her no and that he was the doctor and in charge of her care. She packed her belongings and walked out of the hospital and has found a caring oncologist to work with. She is a survivor and not a submissive, sufferer or from the doctor’s perspective a so called good patient.

We need to listen to our patient’s words and treat their experience. Helen Keller said it very well when she said, “Deafness is darker by far than blindness.” We also need to understand that patients do not live a disease they live an experience and we need to ask how a patient would describe their experience and then treat them accordingly. The words they use, like draining, failure, denial, pressure, gift and wake up call are always about what is happening in their life. So we can help them to heal their lives and improve the chances of curing their disease.

I did a great deal of children’s surgery and I meet many of these children today, as young adults, and am amazed at how vivid their memories are. It is obvious how important this event was to them and the details they recall. I learned how powerful my words were when I began to notice children falling asleep as we wheeled them into the operating room. One boy turned onto his stomach and fell asleep as we entered the O.R. I turned him over on the operating table and he said, “What are you doing? You told me I would go to sleep in the operating room and I sleep on my stomach.” I told him I needed to operate on his stomach to get to his appendix so we reached a compromise.

I would rub an alcohol sponge on a child’s arm and tell them it would numb their skin and a third would not feel the needle and ask why other doctors didn’t do that. I called it deceiving people into health. Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.

Years ago psychologist Bruno Klopfer was involved with a cancer patient involved in a study to determine the effectiveness of Krebiozen. His patient responded dramatically until the initial report came out saying it didn’t seem effective. Then Klopfer told him the problem was that he hadn’t received the super refined Krebiozen and it was coming next week. He purposely told him that to build up the intensity of the situation. A week alter he told him it came and gave him an injection of a placebo and his cancer melted away and he remained well until six months later when the final report was published declaring the drug was of no use in the treatment of cancer. He died within the week.

Doctor Milton Erickson, from his childhood experience with polio and hearing his doctor’s dire predictions to his mother that he wouldn’t see the sun rise, knew how important words were. As a child his anger led him to defy the doctor’s predictions. As a psychiatrist, and hypnotherapist, he knew how to talk to patients to achieve the best outcome. There are many books about his work. One by Dr. Sidney Rosen is entitled “My Voice Will Go With You”. And our voices do. At the conclusion of an operation, while patients were still under anesthesia, a time when they hear their surgeon’s words, I would say, “You will awaken comfortable, thirsty and hungry.” I did that until I noticed many of my patients were gaining weight and so I added these words, “but you won’t finish everything on your plate.”

One last story and it is hard for me to stop because there is only one thing truer than the truth; a story. Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about. Erickson would write in a patient’s chart and then excuse himself and leave the room. Of course he expected the patient would get up and go look at what he had written and he wrote, “Doing well.” So be give your family mottoes to live by like; Do what makes you happy so they pay attention to their feelings and Difficulties are God’s redirections so they keep an open mind about the future and remind your doctor that their words can become swords and like a scalpel kill or cure.

Bernie Siegel, MD author of: Love, Medicine & Miracles; Help Me to Heal;
Love, Magic & Mudpies and more…
Web site www.berniesiegelmd.com

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Billy Mays - Master Hypnotist

Imagine - You’re seated comfortably in a big chair, eyes closed, perhaps with music in the background, and the soothing voice of the hypnotist lulls you into a deeply relaxed state. The suggestions of the hypnotist slide smoothly into your subconscious mind, and you emerge from the trance with a feeling that a change has taken place in the way you think and act. Hypnosis occurs whenever you allow yourself to accept suggestions without conscious criticism. Hypnosis is your ability to convince yourself that something is true.

Now, imagine this - You’re seated comfortably in a big chair, eyes wide open, staring at the TV screen. A funny man, with a load voice, comes at you, yelling, non-stop, about the features and benefits of the product he is selling. You’re glued to the screen, overwhelmed by the noise and imagery, unable to even stop and think. At the end of the commercial you reach for the phone, convinced that this product MUST be good, and you HAVE TO try it. Hypnosis occurs whenever you allow yourself to accept suggestions without conscious criticism. Hypnosis is your ability to convince yourself that something is true.

You’ve just experienced Billy Mays - Master Pitchman, Master Hypnotist

Can you think of other situations where you might have experienced hypnosis?

You know, I think that OxyClean might just work……

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Create yourself

“But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”
~Carl Jung

When you are bored, lacking inspiration or simply at a loss for something to do, are you working on yourself? Working on creating the you that you you want to be?

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Formula For Life

97 Yr Old Physician’s Formula For Life
By Judit Kawaguchi
The Japan Times
03-22-09

At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world’s longest-serving physicians and educators. Hinohara’s magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke’s College of Nursing. After World War II, he envisioned a world-class hospital and college springing from the ruins of Tokyo; thanks to his pioneering spirit and business savvy, the doctor turned these institutions into the nation’s top medical facility and nursing school. Today he serves as chairman of the board of trustees at both organizations. Always willing to try new things, he has published around 150 books since his 75th birthday, including one “Living Long, Living Good” that has sold more than 1.2 million copies. As the founder of the New Elderly Movement, Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself.

Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot. We all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It’s best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime..

All people who live long - regardless of nationality, race or gender - share one thing in common: None are overweight. For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry because I focus on my work. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat.

Always plan ahead. My schedule book is already full until 2014, with lectures and my usual hospital work. In 2016 I’ll have some fun, though: I plan to attend the Tokyo Olympics!

There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65. The current retirement age was set at 65 half a century ago, when the average life-expectancy in Japan was 68 years and only 125 Japanese were over 100 years old. Today, Japanese women live to be around 86 and men 80, and we have 36,000 centenarians in our country. In 20 years we will have about 50,000 people over the age of 100.

Share what you know. I give 150 lectures a year, some for 100 elementary-school children, others for 4,500 business people. I usually speak for 60 to 90 minutes, standing, to stay strong.

When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a procedure. Contrary to popular belief, doctors can’t cure everyone. So why cause unnecessary pain with surgery? I think music and animal therapy can help more than most doctors imagine.

To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.

My inspiration is Robert Browning’s poem “Abt Vogler.” My father used to read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance.

Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it. If a child has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets the pain. Hospitals must cater to the basic need of patients: We all want to have fun. At St. Luke’s we have music and animal therapies, and art classes.

Don’t be crazy about amassing material things. Remember: You don’t know when your number is up, and you can’t take it with you to the next place.

Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must accept every patient who appears at their doors. We designed St. Luke’s so we can operate anywhere: in the basement, in the corridors, in the chapel. Most people thought I was crazy to prepare for a catastrophe, but on March 20, 1995, I was unfortunately proven right when members of the Aum Shinrikyu religious cult launched a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. We accepted 740 victims and in two hours figured out that it was sarin gas that had hit them. Sadly we lost one person, but we saved 739 lives.

Science alone can’t cure or help people. Science lumps us all together, but illness is individual. Each person is unique, and diseases are connected to their hearts. To know the illness and help people, we need liberal and visual arts, not just medical ones.

Life is filled with incidents. On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old, I boarded the Yodogo, a flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked by the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. I spent the next four days handcuffed to my seat in 40- degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at it all as an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in a crisis.

Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do. My father went to the United States in 1900 to study at Duke University in North Carolina. He was a pioneer and one of my heroes. Later I found a few more life guides, and when I am stuck, I ask myself how they would deal with the problem.

It’s wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one’s family and to achieve one’s goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute of it.

Judit Kawaguchi loves to listen. She is a volunteer counselor and a TV reporter on NHK’s “Out & About.” Learn more at: http:// juditfan.blog58.fc2.com

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A Short Course in Just About Everything

From Scott Ginsburg’s Hello My Name is Blog: A Short Course in Just About Everything.

Absolutely brilliant example of the power of keeping it simple. Must read!

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Looking Forward

“It is impossible for man to look straight at the present, because he is too terrified by it. We stand on the stern of the ship looking at the wake and saying, ‘We’re in very troubled waters.’”- Marshall McLuhan

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The Power of Intention

This story comes from Steve Chandler’s Club Fearless newsletter:

Golfer Johnny Miller said:

“I think the difference between first and second place is clear intention. Intention is the magical word. When you go to a golf tournament you need to ask yourself, ‘What is my intention? Why am I here? Am I here to have a good time, am I here to play a level of golf never seen before, am I here to make the cut, am I here to make some money to pay the bills?’ You need to tune that intention to a level that is just slightly out of your reach. That’s the secret of really being great. If you lengthen your stride and you even hurt a little bit once in awhile because you’re striving for one more level of excellence, your eyes will be opened and you’ll gain more intelligence and you’ll gain more understanding. The players who do that, who become great, are the ones who are willing to take a gamble on a shot where everybody thinks, ‘You shouldn’t take that gamble. It’s safer to go over here.’ Then everybody plays safe or they choke into the water.

“But the player who wins tournaments is the one who’s willing to say, ‘My intention here is not to play smart, not to play safe, but to win.’ My intention is to do what others are not willing to do, and sometimes that equates to a tough shot over water to a tight pin. You can do it. It’s in your repertoire, and if you can pull off those shots, that’s what makes you win tournaments. A lot of people accidentally win tournaments on the tour. The great champion wins tournaments. He clearly goes out and wins the tournament. People don’t say, ‘Well, he was lucky. He got a good break. He double-bogied the last hole, and backed in.’ You just go out and you win because you have the formula.”

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7 Words That Change Minds

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The Secret To Great Wealth

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