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By Glenda Payne
I had a job I loved. I was the wholesale program manager for a
greenhouse manufacturing company. I was just expanding our market into
France when I began to notice strange symptoms. Climbing the stairs was
becoming more and more of a struggle. I would feel as though I had just run
a mile up a steep hill. My thigh muscles would hardly lift my legs. By the
time I reached the top stair, I would be gasping for breath.
Despite taking time off to rest, I found that the muscle pain and weakness
escalated, with a frightening new symptom: terrible shortness of breath
leading to blackouts. Simple activities such as hand-washing dishes,
standing in line at a public counter, or pushing a grocery cart would leave
me in an embarrassed heap on the floor, desperately gasping for breath and
fighting blackout. One afternoon, I was standing in the office talking with a
co-worker and I helplessly slid to the floor, lost in a black tunnel. After that,
I could no longer drive. I never went back to work again.
My doctors could find no explanation. After five years of expensive tests,
My doctors could find no explanation. After five years of expensive tests,
going to specialist after specialist, I finally got a diagnosis: a rare condition
called mitochondrial inclusion body myositis. I was told there was nothing
they could do for me.
My life spiraled down into one of hopeless despair. I was ready to give
up. My world was reduced to my living room couch or my bed.
One spring, my sister shared a five-minute video demonstration of EFT
tapping. We became hooked on tapping. That summer, we heard Dawson
Church interview Dr. Joe Dispenza in a webinar.
In the interview, Dr. Dispenza related his own medical miracle story. He
had been a professional bicycle racer. During an event, he was directly hit
by a large truck as he was navigating a turn. His injuries were serious, with
little hope that he would recover enough to walk again. He shared how he
used his mind to communicate to the nerves and cells of his body while he
was strapped to a bed, utterly motionless. He projected an image of his
healthy body into what he called the unified field of consciousness. It
worked.
As I lay there in my constant state of painful, exhausted fatigue, I latched
onto the hope that if he could find full recovery, I could too!
Dawson worked with me on a live call during that same webinar.
Hearing Dr. Dispenza’s story and tapping with Dawson for a few minutes
on that call changed my life. My sister and I both knew that tapping was
helping us clear major issues we’d been plagued with our whole lives. We
chose to pursue certification.
In October, we enrolled in our first certification class with Dawson. He
worked with me again in a demonstration. At the end of the four-day
workshop, I approached Dawson with the words, “Notice what’s missing?”
I dropped my cane and proceeded to dance in front of the whole room. I had
arrived at the hotel for that workshop in a wheelchair. I left dancing. I
haven’t used my scooter since that day.
In the three years since I first listened to that interview with Joe and
Dawson, I’ve completed my EFT practitioner certification program,
simultaneously completed energy psychology certification, written and
published a book, and completed an initiation as a shaman. I’m currently
working on material for a second book and a blog.
I still have good days and bad days. I still need lots of rest. My cane is
still my companion on most outings, though I find I am using it less and
less. I am able to go on hikes again, though they are brief, of short distance,
and must be on level ground. Inclines can still do me in. And I have to plan
at least one full day of rest after. I’ve learned to listen to my body.
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