After my long history with Parkinson’s disease, I am amazed and overjoyed that I have had the ability to consistently improve and show signs of getting better. I won’t tell you that there weren’t dips in the road as some of life’s roadblocks hit me and my progress deviated briefly, but part of staying focused on one’s own healing is to stay open and flexible in mind and body.
I’ve had this illness at least 25 years of my 45 total years, so I don’t expect to get well overnight. My expectations are realistic. My body can only heal so fast. It took me awhile to get sick and it’ll take some time to get well.
Recently, a major network, I won’t say which, it begins with a “C” and ends in an “S”, did a story that I found incomplete, poorly researched, and all-in-all, just plain wrong. The story was that a positive attitude did not make a difference when dealing with major illness. Their argument was that modern science has proven that there is no basis for positive thinking to be either a deterrent nor a cure for sickness. I say it is rubbish. I know people who are better off and showing improvement because they maintain a positive attitude. I am living proof . I think the producers failed to thoroughly research this issue as fully as they should have.
Even if science has shown that a positive attitude isn’t beneficial in fighting illness, which I know is false, who are they to try and dash the hopes of millions of people clinging to the hope of improving their condition? Maybe, just maybe, some reports and supposed news ought best be kept quiet. On top of all the negative reporting that the news brings us, who in knowing this report does it really help? I, for one, am staying positive, because it works.
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