Forget Positive Thinking - Use Power Of Giving Up
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If you have an incurable disease, forget positive thinking. Instead abandon hope and have fun.
Dr Bernie Siegel hated telling cancer patients that they had only six months to live. He usually advised them to enjoy the time left to them as much as possible. Three years after he had given this advice to a patient he thought he was seeing a ghost. There was his patient, very much alive. The doctor wondered why he had never seen him since, then realized that if a doctor told him that he had six months to live, but he only got more and more healthy, he wouldn't bother visiting that doctor again!
So he went through his list of "dead" patients and contacted their relatives. To his surprise 20% of them were still alive. That's right - one patient in five had survived in good health.So Bernie gathered the survivors into a club to tell their stories. As far as I can see, the only thing that they had in common is that they all abandoned hope.
Once you abandon hope, you don't have to worry about debt - though perhaps
your creditors should be worrying.
Once you abandon hope you don't have to go to work every day.
Once you abandon hope you don't have to worry about letting people down.
If people rely on you, tell them to get used to doing without you.
OK. You're free for the first time in your life. How can you have fun?
What dreams have you put off till tomorrow all your life?
Whatever the poet says, you are going to go out, not with a whimper but a bang!
That first patient quit his job, went on a cruise, and started piano lessons. When he was still having fun seven months later, he decided that he didn't have to die! His cancer had gone.
One vet put an incurable animal out of its misery with a lethal injection. Next day when they got ready to cart the corpse away it got up and walked. It had cured itself when it was no longer fighting the healing process. He tried it again, and it often worked. Nowadays I hear the news about people being in induced comas. Perhaps they learned from that vet.
One man went surfing when he discovered that he was going to die soon, regardless of positive thinking. He had abandoned hope, so over the years he won some surfing competitions.
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