The Answer is "YES!"

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16 Cheshvan, 5779

Can a positive attitude improve your health?

The EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge book emphasizes the fact that upbeat attitudes, even when you have to fake them, can better your health. I know it to be true. 

When I was faced with a life-threatening BENIGN brain tumor crushing all the nerves going from my head to my spine, and emergency surgery that could possibly get the tumor out - if I didn't die during the procedure - I told everyone interacting with me: "I have one chance to remain alive and healthy. I'm taking it!"

I forbade everyone from making negative remarks to me during the 1.5 year-long recovery as I pursued physical, occupational, and speech therapy (I needed to recover from a surgically broken jaw that impeded my ability to speak clearly).

My life-coaching efforts are geared to helping my clients to take on upbeat attitudes. They ALL report positive improvements to their physical and/or mental health.

Here's MORE PROOF that your positive mood, even when you pretend to be happy, can improve your health.

 https://www.israel21c.org/can-positive-emotions-shrink-cancer-tumors/

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Some Rumors Result in Positive Interactions

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25 Tishrei, 5779

Mainstream news media is far too often preoccupied with rumors and innuendos that only hurt people even though they're innocent of wrongdoing. Read on for a story about a rumor that turned out to be true and to the believer's benefit!

Here's a sample of some real-time interaction with someone who learned of the EMPOWER Yourself book by having heard of my miraculous recovery, then finding me on a facebook forum for meningioma sufferers (the event was about a rumor that went in a positive direction):

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Question for the PC/CPA veterans: If you have lasting deficits from your treatment, are they consistent with what you were warned could be the risks posed by treatment?

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Yocheved Golani YES. I was warned that I'd have double vision IF I stopped being blind, and possibly trigeminal nerve issues. I've ended one problem and the other is still resolving. I take physical therapy classes once weekly to minimize balance issues due to the decreasing double vision.

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 You have the most amazing narrative of healing and resilience!

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 My emerging sense of what the consulting doctors could do is to be comprehensive in the scope of warnings/disclosures, be clear about things that while possible are unusual/remote risks, tell us if there will be reason to hope for progress and what sup…See More

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 Yocheved it strikes me that you seemed so medically literate before your diagnosis/crisis. You have a real command of narrative, and would have great advice for how to proceed with developing a PC/CPA-targeted summary for new patients to work with? Ideas welcome! I'd love to pull together a few information resources (the "not benign" draft letter for anyone wanting to appeal for research funding, and a "briefing" for new PC/CPA patients on questions/considerations to help get the most out of their medical appointments are just concepts right now, but gathering ideas. I've got about 6 months before we sell our house and move, and I thought I might work on a few rainy day projects along these lines while I can. Next year, might be less available.

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Yocheved Golani I've been a Health Information Management professional for decades and poured the healing information I knew into the EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge print and E- book http://tinyurl.com/mycrisis-book - stuff that laypeople would never guess could exist. 

It's beyond sad that the medical world is not prepared to share significant amounts of healing information with patients. I've lost count of how many doctors from around the world have interviewed me (face to face!) so they could learn the techniques that I used - allegedly to help their patients. I'm not aware that any of those professionals are recommending what worked for me, though NORA of course, has been recommending their vision-repair knowledge since day 1 of its existence. https://noravisionrehab.org/

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5 Tishrei, 5779

You've read this blog and I pray that you've read the book. If not, you just might after you read

A Personal Story: How Coping with Tragedy in a Positive Way Saved My Life

by Yocheved Golani on September 13, 2018

It’s one thing to meet me, then to gradually realize that something is different but hard to identify. People sometimes remark on that, saying “What’s unusual about you? You’re so… upbeat. But I get the sense that you struggle with something.” That “something” resulted in my making medical history, though that was not my goal. Surviving a life-threatening medical problem and the risky emergency surgery to save me from it, was my objective. It all started when I didn’t feel well in 2003.

Doctors mentioned that they couldn’t find anything wrong with me, though I was stumbling from the effort to walk correctly, struggling to prevent food and drinks from dribbling out my mouth, and feeling tired all the time. I even struggled to read or to write, and that’s not a good situation for a writer. When I ended up in an emergency room after waking up completely blind one day, life took a dramatic whip into a whirlwind of activity focused at saving my very endangered life... 

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