Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

Farra’s Flu Release
My good friend Farra Allen, co-founder of the Atlanta
School of Massage and a mind-body counselor, took
ill with a particularly virulent strain of flu that typically
kept people in bed for 10 days or more. It hit him hard,
but instead of giving all his power to the virus, he de-
cided to do some inner work around it, work that might
shift the energy pattern holding the virus in place. Us-
ing a process known as 
active imagination
, which sim-
ply involves writing down thoughts as a 
stream of con-
sciousness
, he came upon a hitherto unconscious and
unresolved emotional issue. He used Radical Forgive-
ness to clear the issue, and the flu disappeared almost
immediately. He was working full-time and feeling great
within two days of the onset of his illness. This was a
powerful demonstration of the healing power of Radi-
cal Forgiveness.
Will Cancer Respond Too?
Suppose the illness had been cancer rather than the
flu, and it was our belief that it started as a deeply-re-
pressed emotion. Thinking the cure lay in releasing
that energy block, our recommendation might have been
that my friend get in touch with the repressed feelings,
feel them fully and then let them go.
However, unlike Farra's flu attack, which probably
moved from his subtle body into his physical body in
just a few days, this energy pattern might have taken
many years to move from the subtle body into the physi-
cal body and, in time, to manifest as a disease. The
question that haunts us then becomes, 
‘How long will it
take for the disease process to fully reverse itself us-
ing emotional release work alone?’
Conceivably, it
could require the same number of years it took for the
disease to manifest — not very practical if you have
cancer or some other disease where time is of the es-
sence — or so it might seem, anyway.
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