There are some of you whose symptoms have increased to try to convince you that you are not worthy of your recovery. I have shared my feelings about this with you recently, and I am now going to express them to the group as these are things that everybody needs to know.
First. YOU ARE WORTHY!!! You are worthy and deserving of your full recovery no matter what your mind chatter says. Your self-judging, self-criticizing mind chatter amounts to nothing more than repeating to yourself what others in your life have said to you and about you. They are not your words, but they have become your feelings. Let them go…they do not belong to you and you do not need them.
Second. YOU ARE WORTHY!!! Toward the end of my full recovery, my symptoms went out of control as well. However, once I found love for myself and started giving gratitude each day for being alive with my soul in a human body, even a human body experiencing Parkinson’s symptoms, everything changed. After that, when somebody would ask how I was doing, I would respond, “I am doing great” because “I am” was describing my soul, my essence, my core, the “me” deep inside me that I could not describe, but could feel. That soul, that spark, that “uniquely me” is deeply inside all of you.
I was able to remove myself from the physical. Here is an “I am” to assist you in removing yourself from the physical. Feel the “I am” deeply in the essence of your being:
I AM ABUNDANT HEALTH!
The seed of abundant health is deep inside all of you. It is part of the essence of who you are. Many successes and resulting rewards in life have come from intellectual achievements and attainments, not from feelings, so you started trusting your mind above your heart and soul, and thus you stopped nurturing your seed of abundant health.
Think about planting a seed in the garden. It may take weeks or months of nurturing the seed under the ground before it breaks the surface. But you marked the spot and you watered it every day or so, and you had faith that somewhere beneath the top soil your seed was going to grow into a plant. Imagine that…faith that something you could not see and could not feel, and in some ways did not understand, was getting nurtured, and eventually was going to break the surface and grow into a plant.
This is the faith you need in yourself and in the recovery process of which you have embarked in doing the Parkinson’s Recipe for Recovery®. Faith that something you cannot see and may not feel, and in some ways do not understand, is getting nurtured and cleansed and strengthened, and will eventually break the surface and grow into a full recovery. I know you can do it. You need to know you can do it!
I have said many times that faith without action is meaningless for Parkinson’s recovery. Let’s look at the garden and compare tomato seeds. Within the tomato seed is the potential to grow and produce tomatoes. If you plant two seeds and nurture one with water, love, and sunlight, while ignoring the other one planted just ten feet away, what happens?
The nurtured plant puts down roots, breaks the surface, and eventually produces tomatoes for your enjoyment. The neglected seed lays dormant. So, two seeds with exactly the same potential have completely opposite results because one was nurtured and one was neglected.
If you look at my blog post from last week, “Fighting Parkinson’s, and what if…” you will see the scenario looks like this:
Your mind: What if the tomato seed never grows? (No faith, no action, no plant, no tomatoes)
Your heart and soul: What if the tomato seed grows into a magnificent plant with luscious tomatoes? (Faith, action, magnificent plant, luscious tomatoes)
Each and every one of you has abundant health deep in your core. However, you have to take action to have the realization of your potential. Doing the soul, mind, and body healing in the Recipe is taking positive action to activate your abundant health.
If you fail to nurture your seed of abundant health, it lays dormant and does not grow. If you nurture your seed of abundant health in your core, then it lays down strong roots, and it grows inside you. As it grows, it breaks through the physical and emotional toxins and helps you clean them from your body and your mind.
And, one day you wake up with the full realization that, yes indeed, you are abundant health, physically, mentally, and spiritually. I also call that experience full recovery from Parkinson’s.
Okay, now, each of you reach deep down inside to your core, and let’s chant together so the whole world feels it:
I AM ABUNDANT HEALTH!
I AM ABUNDANT HEALTH!
I AM ABUNDANT HEALTH!
I AM ABUNDANT HEALTH!
I AM ABUNDANT HEALTH!
Yes you are.
You are worth it!!!
All my best,
Howard
So beautiful and so right, thank you Howard!
Hi Howard and fellow warriors, I AM abundant health! I am a luscious tomato 🍅 because I nurture my body, mind and spirit daily. I trust in the process of life and my recovery will manifest when I am completely aligned and accept the truth that the essence within me is who I truly am. 😇
Big Love to you Howard and all my fellow warriors.
Karen xx 💕
Lol !!!!!!!!!!!!
You luscious tomato
That’s it in a nutshell, thank you for your beautiful, caring, fun way
You brighten our day
xoxox
I feel Abundant Health, strong and clear!
Thank you Howard!
YAYY! YAYY! YAYY!
Wishing all vibrant health <3
Chanting so strong that it echoes through the internet and into every warrior’s heart even after the computers are closed! Believing in what we can not see! I AM ABUNDANT HEALTH!!!
I needed this advice to today as my
Symptoms have been out of control for some time now. I have been repeating it all day. Thank you Howard. I am in awe of how you did it with no example to work from. With your help we will win. Much love to you and my fellow travellers. Nearly 10 months on the road for me. It is possible. We are the cure. We are worthy. XX
Ray sorry to hear you having such a rough time. You need to be 100% for When Mayo win that Sam cup. 😁
I AM ABUNDANT HEALTH!!! Thank you, Howard, for guiding us…. ♥️
This came right when I needed it. Thank you, love your positive energy. Yes, I am abundant health!!
9 months 17 days doing the recipe now and focused, feeling proud of myself. Not all plain sailing but l see a lot of positives ! Yes I’m very healthy, but l just have a few blockages to clear . Thank you Howard and all my mates fighting for that win 🏆! 😀😀😀😀 Beautiful day here in Brisbane , time to ride to the boat and do some maintenance, what a tough life lol
Hi everyone,
I’m a newbie, first time joining chat. Howard, your blog comes at the exact time I need some guidance.
Dear Howard, what shall I do without your help.
Reading comments makes me feel I am not so alone in my fight. Thank you.
Hi Maree, welcome to the gang. You are in good company and having a sense of humour also helps with this journey. 😀 xx
Thank you Howard. It is simply uncanny how your messages always target what I am experiencing at the time. Some call it synchronicity. I call it Howard’s Brilliance.
Love to you, Coach, and also to my fellow pilgrims on the sometimes shakey (I know corny but how could I resist) road to recovery.
Dianna in Wyoming
Loving the humour Dianna, 😃. They say “synchronicity “ is God remaining anonymous . I think Howard has his own hotline to heaven. 😊 xx
So insightful. Neurologists should read this!!
Yes they should. Sadly, those who are unaware of the fact that you can push back and work toward full recovery are on a journey to a self-fulfilling prophecy. I was very fortunate to have treatment from a physiotherapist who taught me to ovevercome my gait and walk again, prior to diagnosis. When I was told of that diagnosis, I thought “I accept the diagnosis. I do not accept the prognosis.” I had already learned that Parkinsons can be fought. I am still fighting, sill learning nearly 3 years later.
Than you Karen. I have not heard synchronicity defined that way but I very love it. I agree regarding our Howard.
Dianna in Wyoming
Thank you Howard and all warriors. 458 days of doing the recipe, reading the blog and your answers but never get tired of it, because I know: Abundant health is just around the corner!!!!! Thanks to all of you.
I AM ABUNDANT HEALTH!, yet another clear and strong message re recovery.
Thanks Howard
Good morning. Just found you when I thought I was alone on my journey drug free. I was just diagnosed with PD two weeks ago, though I knew before, I have very mild symptoms so far. I live in Spain and know noone that refuses treatment for anything. I have been prescribed Azilect though Neurologist said” no side effects” the what I’ve read up on it is very scary… I am too healthy to put that c..p in my body. Vivien.