Fighting Parkinson's Drug Free

As mentioned in my June 12th blog post, in celebration of 12 years cured of Parkinson’s, I will be doing full-length videos of every exercise in the Parkinson’s Recipe for Recovery®. I will post them in future blog posts and insert them into the Recipe, put them on my resources page, and have them on my YouTube channel.

Thirteen years ago, I got my final wake up call, my body’s final notification to make me sit up and take notice that there was something dreadfully wrong with my body…tremors. 

Okay everybody, here we go! For the last two weeks, you have been fighting your mind and your fear regarding your symptoms and many people’s minds have fought them back vigorously. Thank you all for your continued persistence in fighting against your own minds and your own fears.

In my previous blog post, I explained how your fear is not real. Today, we will look at what you can do when fear arrives in your mind.

To begin, if you have not read the previous blog post, please click here to read it. Okay, now that you see your fear is not real, let’s look at what you can do to move forward in a positive direction when the rear arrives.

1. In the movie After Earth, Will Smith instructs his son, “Take a knee. Root yourself in this present moment now. Sight, sound, smell. What do you feel?” Look at the wording:
“Root yourself in this present moment now.” Fear does not reside in this present moment; it is a thought about an imaginary unpleasant future.

“Sight, sound, smell. What do you feel?” Not what do you see, what do you hear, what do you smell…instead: “What do you feel?” What you feel comes from the inside, heart and soul. So, to defeat the thought called fear, you root yourself in this present moment in your heart and soul with authentic joyful feelings instead of imaginary unpleasant thoughts.

2. Learn from the tortoise about meditation and being in your heart and soul.

When the tortoise senses danger and feels fear, what does he do? He pulls in 6 things: his head, his tail, and all four legs, and then his shell provides protection. 

When you are in fear (Parkinson’s giving you increased tremors or pain or slowness), you can meditate, which helps you pull in 6 things, your five senses and your chattering mind, and you form a calming shell of protection against your Parkinson’s and your fear.

3. When I had Parkinson’s, I adopted the following prayer for when I felt negative thoughts or fears coming into the forefront of my thoughts: “Dear God, I have this fear and I do not have time for it to bring me down. I need to stay focused on positive thoughts. You are in a much better position than me to deal with negative thoughts and fears, so I am giving you this negative thought and fear and thank you for taking care of it for me.” The first day I did this, it must have been 100 times I repeated this phrase. After four or five days, the negative thoughts and fears diminished, and then they went away.

Okay, now we need something that you can do on a regular basis to increase your vibrational energy in this present moment and ward off fear. Your affirmation:

“I am fearless!” As we have discussed in the past, “I am” is your spiritual self, and as a result, you are fearless. This is a truthful statement. The fear is not you…it is your mind, which is filled with other people’s ideas. Your heart and soul is you, and you are fearless!

“I am fearless!” Say it again and again and again to keep away the fear and to root yourself in this present moment now in your heart and soul.

Okay everybody, loud and clear for the whole world to hear:

Parkinson’s is curable.
I am my own Parkinson’s cure.
I am slowing, halting, reversing, and curing the Parkinson’s.
I am extraordinary.
I am recovery.
I am fearless!

AND, I AM WORTH IT!!!”

All my best,

Howard

That’s right…your fear is not real. Your fear is in your mind and you need to face it and let go of it.

In my previous blog post, I discussed placing your order for what you want (eating and recovery) and having the patience to wait to receive exactly what you want at the time it is supposed to be served to you. That blog post prompted two main questions this week, and inspired today’s blog post.

Okay, I like to eat. So, here you are: You go out to a restaurant, you open the menu, you decide what you want to eat, and you place your order. Simple enough? Yes. And what does this have to do with your Parkinson’s recovery? Everything!

As I have written in recent posts, the extreme heat and Covid, other viruses, injuries, and surgeries WILL make your symptoms look worse. However, I have explained that this does not mean you are getting worse with the Parkinson’s. Some people have chosen to accept this explanation, and some have not. It is your choice.

As mentioned in my June 12th blog post, in celebration of 12 years cured of Parkinson’s, I will be doing full-length videos of every exercise in the Parkinson’s Recipe for Recovery®. I will post them in future blog posts and insert them into the Recipe, put them on my resources page, and have them on my YouTube channel.

Over the years, I have spent much time discussing how you are worthy. I have provided affirmations to help you build a deep inner feeling of your worthiness. Recently, I was asked how long does it take for a positive affirmation to replace a negative thought since the negative thoughts have existed for a long time. Here is how the discussion went.