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In 1995, Caryle Hirschberg, a medical researcher, and Mark Barasch, a journalist who had cancer, published the findings of their Remission Project at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in America. Their book Remarkable Recovery was the first-ever publication on what it is that survivors of cancer have in common (rather than those who get cancer)!

In the questionnaire she sent to these survivors, they were asked which they felt were the most important of 30 self-help practices that had made them well. The practices ticked with the greatest frequency (by over 50 per cent of the participants) were:

Prayer	68%
Meditation	64%
Exercise	64%
Guided imagery	59%
Walking	52%
Music and singing	50%
Stress reduction	50%

They were also asked which they felt were the most important psychospiritual factors in their recovery. Of the 26 items on the list, those reported with the most frequency (over 50 per cent) were:

Belief in a positive outcome	75%
Having a fighting spirit	71%
Acceptance of the disease	71%
Seeing the disease as a challenge	71%
Taking responsibility for the disease and its outcome	68%
Renewed desire and will to live	64%
Positive emotions	64%
Faith in a higher power to heal them	61%
New sense of purpose	61%
Changing unhealthy habits and behaviour	61%
Having a sense of control	59%
Lifestyle changes	59%
Self-nurturing	57%
Good social support	50%

The reason I love Caryle’s data so much is because these are not the theories of a scientist, but the reported beliefs and feelings of a group of people who have actually achieved the scientifically unachievable – recovery from a serious cancer. What is striking about these findings is the importance of belief – whether it be in one’s own power to heal through self-help, or belief in a higher power to heal, or in the power of prayer or believing that one is going to live and recover fully.

This is what I have witnessed again and again in my 20 years of working with over 20,000 people to recover their health after cancer. From often very sceptical beginnings, two things most frequently ended up astonishing those who apply themselves to the holistic integrated healthcare approach: the first is just how much help is available through prayer and spiritual healing; the second is just how powerful a person can be once he or she begins to use and harness the power of his own mind.

This can be achieved through pure belief, hypnotherapy or the use of your own creative will through visualization and affirmation. In these practices, you literally see in your mind’s eye or choose in words the reality you want for your future. This is another reason it is so important not to remain passive, waiting for either orthodox or alternative medicine to cure you, but to instead get yourself firmly in the driving seat, choosing that the illness will go from the body and visualizing yourself going on into the future, growing old disgracefully!

It also suggests that, if you are currently closed to or sceptical of the power of your own mind or of the help that is available through spiritual healing or prayer, it would be wise to suspend disbelief and at least try to explore such forms of help before dismissing them. They could ultimately provide the vital key to your healing, as has been discovered by so many former sceptics I have worked with.

So, the keys are:

• cultivate a strong belief in your own power to self-heal

• cultivate a strong belief in the power of your doctors and their treatments to cure you

• open yourself to the possibility of healing through spiritual healing and prayer

• use hypnotherapy, visualization and affirmation to choose health and recovery, seeing yourself healed, free of disease and well and happy in the future.