How To Heal When Fear Has You Completely Paralyzed | Anita Moorjani

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0:42I was diagnosed with lymphoma, cancer of the lymph glands. I found a lump right here. And at first they thought, oh, maybe it's just swollen glands. And so the doctor just gave me antibiotics at that time. and uh and and she said come back next week and let's see if it's gone down it hadn't so she sent me to another doctor who did a biopsy um and then it's it confirmed it was cancer then they sent me for the scans and they said it had spread to the upper quadrant so they staged it at stage two. What did you do next? Then I was in even more fear. Right. The thing that you wanted to prevent most of your life came true.

1:35Yes. The scariest thing you wanted to prevent. The scariest thing that I wanted to prevent came true. Because had your two friends, were they still recovering from it? Did they survive? Did they? While I was dealing with the cancer myself, I have this image that this is going to be a death sentence because I was watching them while I was dealing with the cancer. They both died one after the other. Oh my gosh. And for me, that confirmed in my head, in my reality, that this is a death sentence. That's scary. It was very scary. So what did you do? Like, how did you, did you create a game plan of attacking it?

2:16Did you go like extreme veganism? Did you start doing chemo? Like what was the process next? So I started with just doing, um, uh, natural because I saw that the chemo radiation hadn't worked for them for those two, for those two. Um, so first I'm grieving them and then dealing with my own cancer. It was so scary. So I started with trying, um, traditional Chinese medicine because I live in Hong Kong that was so easily available for me. But I also had a lot of, I also knew a lot of naturopaths because I was so into that subject of eating healthy. I knew immediately what practitioners to go to. But here's what made it even harder for me.

3:05There's more Western medicine available than say traditional Chinese medicine, even though it's a city that's off of China, because Hong Kong was ruled by British. So it's very much infiltrated by British laws, British legal system, British organizations. So most of the people that I knew in society, in the community were saying, oh, you have to go and do the normal route because the doctors were telling me you need chemotherapy. I said, wait, I don't want to do chemotherapy yet because of what I've seen it do to my friends. everybody in my community and my friends and everybody was saying don't be crazy don't be silly this don't play with your life do what the doctors are saying my naturopathic friends because i was so entrenched in that were saying don't do the chemotherapy it's poison it's gonna kill you it is poison right yeah so i had both of these in my ears and that made me even more stuck every day I was like what do I do I don't know what to do it was just the worst place I was scared of the cancer I was scared of the chemotherapy the treatments for cancer I was scared of the treat I was scared of death I was scared of everything it was like I was trapped I felt like I was in a trap what did you do I had to leave Hong Kong for a little bit and clear my head.

4:37I actually went to India. Now, even though I'm ethnically Indian, I've never lived in India, but I had traveled there many times. So I spent about six months there doing Ayurveda. And in India, because I was away from all that noise and the conflict, the both sides saying, don't do that. Don't be crazy. Don't do that. I was away from all that. And I started to practice Ayurveda and I started to follow a teacher, a yogic teacher, who was an Ayurvedic teacher and taught yoga as in a whole way of life. He kept saying to me, forget about the word cancer. It's just an imbalance in your body. Let's balance your body.

5:26That felt so good. For the first time, I felt the fear was starting to lift. It was actually shifting. And he gave me an actual roadmap. But then I had to go every morning at 6 a.m. I had to go for an hour to the yoga teachers, the ashram. And then I would get to go home. My mom had a house there at that time because she had left Hong Kong after my dad passed away. So I would go home and then every evening at 6 p.m. I had to go back. So twice a day I had to go to this ashram, which was really near my home. So it was great. This is like doing a yoga practice or meditation or breath work or. It was all it was meditation, yoga practice, breath work and a teaching of what to eat, what not to eat.

6:17And he would and there was his wife as well. And they would check in. How are you feeling? How's your body doing? and they would talk to me. And so it was, I was there for six months doing this every single day. And they would, and my diet, even though I was vegetarian, I was no longer needing to be vegan. When I was with the naturopaths in Hong Kong, they were Western naturopaths, I was encouraged to be organic, raw vegan. And I didn't like that at all. That's tough. It was tough. here in India I was told that no you can eat hot food you can eat spices you can have cheese and milk and paneer cottage cheese so my diet actually broadened you can have oils butter ghee and so I was enjoying the food I was actually getting healthier and healthier um so I was eating and I was um doing the yoga and I was being told and in an environment where we didn't even use the word cancer my sessions at 6 a.m was just me on my own um so I and then my sessions at 6 p.m was with a group was with a class and so going through this every day and And they would tell me, even when you are with your friends, your family, don't use the word cancer.

7:45Just say you're dealing with an imbalance. You're correcting it. And over the months, I actually got a lot better.

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