Joy Is a Plum-Colored Acrobat: ... || Imagine the power of your mind...
Written: Oct 21 '07
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Pros: Inspiring ideas/pictures, good instructions and motivation for applying the concept to your own needs.
Cons: Uhmmm... none that I can think of.
The Bottom Line: Excellent guide for applying the power of your mind and imagination when you might desperately need to use this most personal resource.
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The human imagination is unlimited in scope, scale, or possibilities imagined.
From the desolate planet light years distant found in a Heinlein novel to the cell-sized submarine of the film Fantastic Voyage any journey is possible.
From the voluptuous figure in a Ruben painting to the angular chaos of a Picasso canvas any vision of beauty is possible.
From the insensible movement of continents expressed in the theory of plate tectonics to the nearly uncontrollable energy of an atom's nucleus almost any level of force is possible.
All of these examples of human creation or understanding are driven by the ability of the human mind to imagine 'what if'. Well ...what if this power of imagination could be channeled inward, to be used to protect, preserve, and heal the body that contains our imagination?
Joy Is a Plum-Colored Acrobat: 45 Life-Affirming Visualizations for Breast Cancer Treatment and Aftercare shares one woman's experience with doing just that, channeling her imagination and inner strength through visualizations to aid her struggle to defeat and recover from breast cancer.
Inspired by a meditation audio tape by Belleruth Naparstek, a noted psychotherapist, author Wendy Burton created her own images, her own visualizations that she employed to harness her internal energy and forces. These images helped bring peace, power, and protection to her and her normal, non-cancerous cells during her radiation treatments. She shares these images and their stories here.
Rather than the "warrior imagery that so many thrust at (her) when they heard (she) had cancer", i.e., the image of killing cancer cells; Burton seemed to gravitate toward more peaceful, protective, and 'joy-full' images to focus her inner powers and strengths.
In Joy Is a Plum-Colored Acrobat:... Burton shares the 'friends' and images that were with her throughout her cancer treatment regimen and beyond. A short introduction and the first two chapters explore her journey to discover the power of visualizations, her experiences in applying them, and her guidance for her reader in finding their own powerful and protective images and techniques.
The remaining chapters feature the visualizations that she used in the various stages of her treatment and recovery: visualizations for protection during treatment, visualizations to strengthen the effect of her treatments, visualizations for comfort and for energy, for overcoming fear, and more.
Each entry features an illustration in bright, vibrant colors with an accompanying text explaining its meaning to her. For example the 'plum colored acrobat' of the title was just one of many "teeny-weeny acrobats" that she would picture inside her breast ducts:
"They are twirling and turning somersaults, they are vaulting and springing high in the air doing backflips and pirouettes, all the while moving the cancer cells down through the tunnels of my breast ducts with their little feet and their flying bodies—down the ducts and magically out of me."
Other images she employed and shares here include ". . .beautifully colored beach umbrellas ...orange and purple and ruby red, metallic gold, turquoise blue, and magenta; gigantic pink flamingos; Charlie Chaplin; hula dancers; helium balloons..." and many more, forty five in all.
Each image and its accompanying text shares her thoughts of how the idea found in the visualization aided her treatment process. Even to this male they intuitively make sense (well, as much as tiny acrobats dancing inside your body might...) and would seem to make a great series of inspirations for your own protective and healing images.
The Bottom Line
The power of the human mind should never be underestimated. I am sure you have all seen it demonstrated somehow in your own lives.
Joy Is a Plum-Colored Acrobat: 45 Life-Affirming Visualizations for Breast Cancer Treatment and Aftercare is your guide book for applying the power of your own mind and imagination when you might most desperately need to use this most personal resource. It would be a great gift for someone you love facing the challenge of cancer and cancer treatment.
This review is an entry for fellow user laurashrti's Breast Cancer Awareness Write-Off. I urge you to check out the other entries in this write-off.
If you are a user here at Epinions I urge you to consider entering your own review/essay in this most worthy write-off.
Certified 'lean-n-mean' review.
Recommended:
Yes
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