September 2015
http://www.baar.com/atkinson.htm
Dear PALS,
We read an amazing book this month. It is titled Hope Springs Eternal, Surviving a Chronic Illness. It was written by David Atkinson. David was born in about 1931 and we understand that he passed away fairly recently.
Above is a link to an interview of David Atkinson discussing his ALS journey. It is not as comprehensive as his book but gives you a good feel for what he went through and how he healed. At one point in the book when he had been doing his therapies for about 6 months, he made the comment that he hadn't noticed any improvement, "but I failed to notice that I was still alive."
Healing ALS is not something that happens easily. We are conditioned to believe that we can go to the doctor, get a pill and be better in a few days. Healing ALS takes healing a lot of different things in our body. After David had made considerable improvement, he went to someone that he hoped would heal his inability to eat. In the book, he mentions that he does not know whether the specialist actually did something as he manipulated his neck and throat to help him eat or if just his giving David permission to eat may have released some kind of mental block in his brain. (Just a note here that when the doctors give you the diagnosis, that there is nothing they can do. It is very true that they can do nothing, but you can do something.) When David had been everywhere in the medical field to find something and then his daughter signed him up for a healing seminar, he finally thought, "Well, I have nothing to lose." You have your life to lose, if you continue to run to the doctors and let them tear down your spirits and will to live.
David had a formula for healing. It included prayer, spirituality, special therapies, giving of yourself to others and changing your diet. He said when he prayed, he did not asked to healed or cured, but rather asked God to help him find the means he needed to heal.
As I read his book, I wondered what it may have been that caused his ALS. In the link above, it says he was a football player, business man (which means a lot of mental stress), he had smoked cigars heavily for 23 years. Following that he had chronic infections , and used antibiotics a lot. So what I see is lots and lots of free radical production from physical and mental stress with probably no magnesium supplementation. The stress of smoking and then the destruction of the good gut bacteria from all the antibiotics. My next guess is that there was never a doctor that suggested a probiotic to heal the gut from all the antibiotics.
Our bodies were created with a great healing mechanism. We just need to give the proper tools and amazing things can happen.
Kay wrote the foregoing. I, the guy with the ALS, want to add a few insights.
The most important decision I made, at the most frightful time in my battle to live, was when I stormed out of my general practitioner's office, insulted because he would give no credence to my desire to implement alternative therapies to stop my downhill slide to an agonizing death. I told him that he was wrong in his evaluation of my chances, that I was going to beat this, and that he would not be seeing me again. I was not only disappointed in his attitude, I was downright mad. But it was the controlled anger that fueled my initial fight to heal.
We have talked to many PALS that feel they have caring traditional doctors that have their best interest in mind. That is good. I felt like most of my doctors thought I was an idiot for believing I could heal. But know this, that every one of us PALS that hope to defeat this monster ALS must take complete control of the WAR. We can and should seek counsel and especially inspiration from positive practitioners, spiritual leaders, and any other team members that are on our side. But we must be the captain of our team, and we must be engrossed in healing - heart and soul.
I will be eternally grateful for so many that have been a part of my success, especially my sweetheart, friend, and eternal companion, Kay. But I am still the one that had to believe. With God's help, I have done it. I pray every other PALS reading this can do likewise.
Kim
http://www.baar.com/atkinson.htm
Dear PALS,
We read an amazing book this month. It is titled Hope Springs Eternal, Surviving a Chronic Illness. It was written by David Atkinson. David was born in about 1931 and we understand that he passed away fairly recently.
Above is a link to an interview of David Atkinson discussing his ALS journey. It is not as comprehensive as his book but gives you a good feel for what he went through and how he healed. At one point in the book when he had been doing his therapies for about 6 months, he made the comment that he hadn't noticed any improvement, "but I failed to notice that I was still alive."
Healing ALS is not something that happens easily. We are conditioned to believe that we can go to the doctor, get a pill and be better in a few days. Healing ALS takes healing a lot of different things in our body. After David had made considerable improvement, he went to someone that he hoped would heal his inability to eat. In the book, he mentions that he does not know whether the specialist actually did something as he manipulated his neck and throat to help him eat or if just his giving David permission to eat may have released some kind of mental block in his brain. (Just a note here that when the doctors give you the diagnosis, that there is nothing they can do. It is very true that they can do nothing, but you can do something.) When David had been everywhere in the medical field to find something and then his daughter signed him up for a healing seminar, he finally thought, "Well, I have nothing to lose." You have your life to lose, if you continue to run to the doctors and let them tear down your spirits and will to live.
David had a formula for healing. It included prayer, spirituality, special therapies, giving of yourself to others and changing your diet. He said when he prayed, he did not asked to healed or cured, but rather asked God to help him find the means he needed to heal.
As I read his book, I wondered what it may have been that caused his ALS. In the link above, it says he was a football player, business man (which means a lot of mental stress), he had smoked cigars heavily for 23 years. Following that he had chronic infections , and used antibiotics a lot. So what I see is lots and lots of free radical production from physical and mental stress with probably no magnesium supplementation. The stress of smoking and then the destruction of the good gut bacteria from all the antibiotics. My next guess is that there was never a doctor that suggested a probiotic to heal the gut from all the antibiotics.
Our bodies were created with a great healing mechanism. We just need to give the proper tools and amazing things can happen.
Kay wrote the foregoing. I, the guy with the ALS, want to add a few insights.
The most important decision I made, at the most frightful time in my battle to live, was when I stormed out of my general practitioner's office, insulted because he would give no credence to my desire to implement alternative therapies to stop my downhill slide to an agonizing death. I told him that he was wrong in his evaluation of my chances, that I was going to beat this, and that he would not be seeing me again. I was not only disappointed in his attitude, I was downright mad. But it was the controlled anger that fueled my initial fight to heal.
We have talked to many PALS that feel they have caring traditional doctors that have their best interest in mind. That is good. I felt like most of my doctors thought I was an idiot for believing I could heal. But know this, that every one of us PALS that hope to defeat this monster ALS must take complete control of the WAR. We can and should seek counsel and especially inspiration from positive practitioners, spiritual leaders, and any other team members that are on our side. But we must be the captain of our team, and we must be engrossed in healing - heart and soul.
I will be eternally grateful for so many that have been a part of my success, especially my sweetheart, friend, and eternal companion, Kay. But I am still the one that had to believe. With God's help, I have done it. I pray every other PALS reading this can do likewise.
Kim