Step 3-Conscious Participation

In the first step to curing what ails you, you have established the inspiration or desire to experience life and love differently. Then you set out to procure information through listening and trusting your own inner voice and establishing your philosophy of health, healing, life, love and god. Thus acting as a guide or 'good witch', your inner voice takes a conscious step on the yellow brick road to greater wellbeing and self empowerment. Yet that conscious step requires something of you and that is your full participation in the journey. Along the way you will meet up with those aspects of self that were neglected or those characteristic traits that you unconsciously attempted to eliminate from being whole. Your conscious participation is a crucial step towards creating your miracle because I have learned that 'Miracles don't just happen, they are created!"

In 1995 my bone marrow transplant had failed and my cancer relapsed. Exhausted, weak and feeling very fragile, I told my wife at the time that I didn't have any interest in doing anymore chemotherapy. I feared that more chemotherapy treatments would kill me and I'd rather take my chances on just letting the cancer do its thing. In that moment she grabbed me by the shirt and said "Dan , you have to do it!" Instantly, I flashed back to the moment when Adrian whispered to Rocky "Rocky win-win Rocky" and then I was filled with such a loving desire to contend again. I said to my wife "I'm going to have to make some real and honest changes to my diet and exercise." It was in that moment that I began to look at alternative ways to participate in my healing. I also, experienced the power of love from another human being to give you the fire and willingness when your will has be used up in battling adversity. It was as if my wife gave me a vitality transfusion, gifting of her energy to me. I then made a recording of music that also filled me with inspiration and motivation to take those steps no matter how difficult or steep they may have seemed. My inspiration and willingness was ignited again and I began to study the human anatomy and physiology. I began to study nutrition rather than diet. I began to study movement instead of exercise. I applied the philosophy that nutrition and movement are the two stains of human life that align our soul, mind and body with spirit which all are in constant communication with each other. I observed that I had drifted so far away from such inner balance and harmony, and thought that if I consumed whole food then it would bring me towards greater wholeness. If I eat food according to nature it would bring me towards my naturalness. If I learn to move my body, emotions and thougths, from the core out, that would bring greater conscious awareness to my true needs. Applying this philosophy, I knew that medicine didn't have the answers but that medicine would buy me the time necessary to reach my core values, authentic self, truth, and desires. I acknowledged my cancer did not occur because of a chemo or radiation deficiency and reasoned it was because of malnourishment in body, mind and soul. In May of 2000, I left the medical model because I had come to the cliff's edge of that journey. With faith, I leaped into the unknown abyss coming back with the awareness that I was nutritionally bacteria and fat deficient. It was after my bone marrow transplant in 1995 that I became bacteria phobic and prior to that around 1993, bought into the societal notion that saturated animal fats were 'bad' for health. Thus I was bacteria and fat phobic and I reasoned that these two societal phobias created major deficiencies and allowed for toxic excesses to build up and these were two major precipitating factors in the need for my body to create cancer in order for me to wake up to consciously participating in life. I didn't have cancer but was experiencing cancer as part of my process to develop in spirit, mind and body. With such powerful realizations, I became alive with purpose and meaning and took that conscious step. Awakened to the living hell of my creation, I began to move through life with greater consciousness doing my part in creating heaven on earth.

Follow my next blog and we will take that next step together. From this point forward consider you no longer need to travel alone.