Valentine's Day 2007: the turning point.....

Valentine's Day 2007. 


I had been bed-ridden for several months, unable to feed myself or move. For the past few weeks I had been experimenting with completely switching off any mental thought process, and allowing my body to totally relax. I started doing this for 30mins 4 times a day and as I seemed better in this state than out of it, I increased it....and spent 5 or 6 hours a day in this state of suspended animation. During this time my partner found out about Lightning Process, and I knew that it was possible for people to recover from ME. I made a very strong decision that when I began to move and function again it would be as a well person.


My partner came home early on Valentine's Day, especially to make afternoon tea for me. I wanted to do something special for him, but my options seemed extremely  limited. So I decided that I would begin to experiment with teaching myself how to be a well person....and surprise him. Without telling him, I practised sitting up by myself in bed, and getting out of bed, and standing for a few seconds. Before I moved a muscle, I imagined how it would feel to sit up, and get up and stand as a well person. I imagined how healthy muscles would feel as they moved, what my posture would be like as a well person. I imagined it, then I did it.


Whilst my partner was making tea downstairs, I imagined not only getting out of bed, but also walking out of my bedroom to the stairlift, and sitting on it. Every time, I imagined what it would feel like to do it with a healthy body. Then, reminding myself of my commitment to do everything as a well person, or not at all, I got up and walked out of my bedroom to the stairlift. I paused, then pressed the buzzer. My partner heard the noise, and  appeared with a considerable degree of alarm! I told him that I was coming downstairs - the first time in many months - and that we would have tea together in the lounge. 


When the stairlift arrived in the hall, I paused again. My partner brought the wheelchair, and I told him that I wouldn't be using it. The walk to the bay window in the lounge was further than I had walked in a very long time. I set off, and started doing wobble and weak legs. I immediately returned to the stairlift, sat down, and began calmly going over in my mind how it would feel to make this walk as a well person. Then, reminding myself once more that I was going to walk as a well person, I walked confidently into the lounge. 


I can't tell you how delicious that tea tasted! And what a pleasure it was to be sitting and sharing Valentine's Day with my partner, like a normal person. This was the turning point; we both knew that after 9 years of illness I would, in time, be able to get completely well again. 


Valentine's Day is a special day for us.....