Conviction.. Yakin!

There's nothing like being sure of yourself. It makes you feel good. Try it. Easier said than done? But do be careful, lest one gets caught off-guard for being labeled as arrogant. No, it's really about being confident.

You see, when one is inflicted with a life-threatening disease like cancer, being sure and confident of oneself is so important. In my experience, it may even help save your life!

When I was first told I had cancer, as many people would in that situation, I refused to believe it. You then go through a whole host of 'mood' or 'character' phases... disbelieve - denial - anger - sad - depression - acceptance, etc. Then, you're surrounded with so many 'experts'. Well, first, there's the doctors. And herein lies your dilemma. These guys... what they say is gospel, man - no question. Or so I thought...

Then, there's people whom you love - your family, your wife, your children, your siblings. And your friends. I was fortunate also to have 'surrounding' me cancer survivors. Their opinions have to be taken seriously... I mean, they're survivors, right? What they did, what they went through ... I'd taken my hat off to these chaps. There was this guy, Raphael, who had brain tumour 13 years ago. He was given no chance by his doctors to live.. but this guy now plays squash at the age of 65 and beats guys half his age! He must have done something right to prove his doctors wrong.

So you can see that having a mind that can absorb all the advice thrown at you - by people who are 'experts' at what you are going through and how to go about it - and to be able to say to yourself '..right, I've heard from all of you.. now leave me alone, let me think about this.. and now this is the way for me.'

And I'll tell you something else that I'd strongly recommend - have a soul mate.

I mean, a real soul mate. She has to be a reflection of your very being! My wife, Hafidzah... Only God knows how much I love her. She has been a huge tower of strength for me. She is a reflection of my very being. This is one of the biggest reasons for my current condition.

Then, there's nothing like getting up at nights and praying to The Al Mighty. One of my prayers is Ishtikorah. This is a prayer asking God to give me conviction. To give me strength in making decisions. This is where I would say I had gained self assurance, 'yakin' as we Malays say it, without sounding arrogant or boastful. This inner confidence is so important to cancer patients, as one will be going through so many decision making cross-roads, some that may eventually lead to whether you live or whether you die.

I'd read a New Sunday Times (click here for full story) article about my battling cancer that was publish in the Focus Section this morning. It feels so good to be able to 'give' and share - in a wide sense - the experience that I had gone through, to the masses of people out there who may learn and gain some insight on how to manage cancer - their own, their loved ones or their friends.

And I must acknowledge the good work done by Hafidzah in getting the article published. Only Allah knows the rewards that are due for her in the hereafter, insyaAllah.

Thank you, sayang.


Nazlan.

Nothing else matters...

I've read many a time that true wealth is contentment.

I don't know if it's got to do with age, or my contracting cancer nearly 5 years ago or a combination of both, but I must admit that for me, true wealth really is contentment. It's kinda funny to realise this only upon going through a life threatening experience. Sometimes, I suppose, one has to get a good knock on the head to know that what we have in front of our own nose is already good enough for us.

But the nature of man is such that it's never quite enough isn't it? When is it quite enough then? What does it really take for us to say to ourselves 'that's it for me...thank you, I'm done!'?

Laying on what crossed my mind as my death bed immediately after my first major operation back in December 2003, it hit me that when all is said and done - all I really needed was good health. Nothing else really mattered at the time...

This was a strange phase that I went through.

In a way, I cherished the idea that nothing else mattered because there and then, I suddenly felt contented. I mean, there I was, laying on my hospital bed - given 35% chance to live the next 5 years, and for the first time in many years, I felt contented. I actually felt good. Simply because all I wanted was good health, and nothing else mattered - absolutely.

I must say that I'd grown up since then.

I now wake up easily almost every morning between 3 to 4am to recite my night prayers to God. I now love my family more than ever before. I am closer to my daughters and understand them more than I ever did when they were growing up. I'm appreciative and thankful for my wife's relentless effort to make our lives better and better. I am more thankful than I've ever been in my life.

God is indeed great.


Nazlan.

Salam Aidil Fitri

Maaf zahir dan batin.

I wonder how many of us really know the meaning of this oft repeated sentence... 'maaf zahir dan batin'. It's literal translation is to 'forgive... in body and spirit'.

I also often wonder why it is so difficult for us to forgive - truly forgive. Aren't we taught that God creates us 'in the light of His soul', or that we have many similarities to His great attributes. After all, He is the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. If we had been given even a spark of His attributes, then surely it should be easy for us to forgive.

Sometimes, depending on the gravity of the 'offence' we perceive to have received from the person who has hurt us, we may forgive - in body. That is to show outwardly that we have accepted an apology. But then, one can 'feel' that we have not really forgiven 'in spirit' because we have allowed ourselves to contemplate the apology within our ego.

We feel that we were right in our argument. We are convinced that our point of view is supreme, that we have been misunderstood. What we may have done, more often than not, is that we may have even overlooked that we have failed to communicate.

If God AlMighty can forgive the worst sinner of His servant, just who are we to think that we cannot forgive anybody, zahir dan batin? Dare we even think that we are above God Himself? Indeed, to me that has to be the height of stupidity.

Since my contracting cancer, I would like to think that I have been able to forgive much much more easily than I ever did. Oh yes, I used to have an ego so big [and so stupid, I might add] that I thought I can never forgive some of my so-called enemies.

Not anymore.

But I confess, that I must continue to learn to keep quiet when the situation warrants me to keep quiet. Not to spontaneously react, even when the temptation to do so is so overwhelmingly strong. Easier said than done - most times. I am sure, this will further help improve my health - body AND soul.

Selamat Hari Raya,

Maaf, zahir dan batin.

Do think carefully what it really means when you say it, or when someone says it to you the next time round.

Nazlan.

Body, Mind, Spirit

I had contracted colon cancer late 2003.

The doctor sliced 600mm of my colon and fixed a colostomy bag on me, and then sent me for the conventional medical treatment of chemotherapy for 3 painful months. I then began to feel stupid - simply because I wasn't getting any better - I started feeling worse actually. Health wise, I felt I was literally going backwards! To top it all I was paying for all this so-called treatment to some BMW-driving doctor and getting sicker by the day!

It was then that I realised that I had to take my life into my own hands and moved on to seek an alternative road to recovery.

I began talking to many cancer patients. I began reading. I read and read and read so many books, articles, journals, and spent many hours on the web trying to understand cancer, and seek a proper cure for the disease. During this time of my search, I had only one thought in my head that seemed to stick like a very powerful glue - that in every disease, God gives a cure. The adage that cancer has no cure is one BIG lie to me.

This is when I made a huge turnabout belief in conventional medicine. Up until then, when it comes to taking medicine and listening to the good doctors' advise, I had full faith in them - 100%, no question.

Not anymore.

My oncologist told me I had 35% chance to live the next 5 years. That was in 2003. It is now 2008, and I have not felt any better in my life today!

The medical profession has a lot to learn about treating the sick. They claim to 'cure' their patients by treating their physical ailments. Then they tell us we have 6 months to live... This is the type of doctors we have curing our sick.

They give you medicine to cure your body, then they kill your mind to death!

I don't have the statistics [and I don't care too much for them actually], but I believe cancer patients literally WILL themselves to die when they hear their doctors telling them they don't have a chance to live.

This is why I regard the power of the mind and the calmness of the spirit as EQUALLY important to the health of the body.

In other words, the cure for cancer ought to be WHOLISTIC. All three components that make up the total content of us humans - BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, must be taken care of and cured simultaneously, concurrently. One simply cannot treat one aspect and ignore the other. This is why so many go for chemo [read conventional medicine] and die!

I make no apologies for my seeming disgust at modern, conventional medicine. I have nothing against doctors. Many of my good friends are doctors. My own daughter, Yana, is reading medicine at The Czech Republic. It's just that I believe the medical system stinks when it comes to treatment of cancer.

It doesn't matter what cancer we are looking at. The important thing is that we take responsibility for our own health. The health system as we know it does not have all the answers, unfortunately.

But the good news is that total cure is out there, and it CAN be attained. One just have to have the will to find it.

Nazlan.

Don't be sad...

I'd visited my uncle; Datuk Sheikh Mustapha Syed Shukor, a dear family friend, at HUKM, a government hospital 3 weeks ago to see how he was doing after a major operation - having his colon tumor removed, the same surgery I had done on me more than 4 years ago.

He looked quite down physically, but man, was he spirited. He must be one of the most optimistic guy I've ever known. He would be - after all he took up the Silva Mind Control method back in the 70s and he had trained under Jose Silva himself! Uncle Sheikh is to me, a living guru of a positive thinker. After all, it was his son that was to become the first Malaysian astronaut. I don't care what people think or say about uncle, but I am absolutely convinced that it was his positive energy that was responsible for influencing his son to become the first Malaysian astronaut.

But as much as a positive thinker that he is, I had caught uncle in a contemplative mood when he must have reflected the extreme emotional swing he had experienced early this year when after celebrating his astronaut son come home so successfully from space, his younger son died suddenly upon his return from Russia.

I had always seen cancer as a diesease of not only the physical state of our being but very much linked with the emotional and spiritual state as well.

I then gave uncle a copy of one of the many books I had read that was to change my life, entitled 'Don't Be Sad' by Aidah ibn Abdullah al-Qarni. The book is a compilation of appropriate verses and narrations from the Quran and the Prophet's Sunnah. It basically teaches us to live - and really live for the present, the moment, and not to dwell in the past nor the future. It teaches us to appreciate the now that we have, and be thankful for today that we are alive and doing well as compared to the millions suffering around us in this finite world of ours.

I hope and pray that uncle will be able to pull it off by putting the past beyond him. He shouldn't even think too much about the future. I told him to just appreciate the fact that he's alive and doing well, and that he's going to continue doing well.

He told me he's looking forward to seeing me at the gym again... That's the spirit to carry, uncle !! You'll be back in no time. All you have to do is to just believe and be convinced that you will, and you'll see what will happen.

Nazlan.

Nazlan's Field of Dreams...Through Mind Control

Like my wife, I’m also a Silva graduate. I took Basic I & II in July 2006.

It has been 3 years now since my oncologist first told me in December 2003 that I only had 35% chance to live the next 5 years. Currently, I feel just fine and God willing, I will still be alive and kicking when my doctor’s predicted time frame runs out.

To me, the Silva Method’s mind control system is the single most powerful tool that I have used in healing my own body - through the use of my mental faculty. It is beyond logic.

I wanted to share my experience in using Silva’s mind control system, so I wrote a testimony for Silva Method Malaysia.

Nazlan.


Colon Cancer Averted
June, 2006

I heard of the Silva program from my dentist who knew of my colon cancer. For sometime I responded only mildly to her suggestion. It was only after my second cycle of chemotherapy that I considered browsing the web site of the Silva Method and began to take a serious look into the possibilities of an alternative and holistic cure.

I was fortunate to have been blessed with a strong will, and amidst many negative comments and insinuations from peers and friends, some of whom are doctors, I persisted to find out more and to attend the program. After attending the program, I started going to my ‘level’ (alpha level) at least twice a day. I would subconsciously locate my cancerous region and feel the blood in my veins carrying the grace of the Higher Intelligence and bombarding the cancer cells, replacing them with new healthy cells. I say to myself that I am being constantly renewed and re-energized, and I can actually feel the effect of pins and needles at the very tips of my limbs. Through these sensations, I know that the exercise is working.

Each time as I was about to leave the ‘level’, I would affirm to myself that I am wide-awake, feeling better than ever before, and in perfect health.

Apart from that, I also began to see life in a positive manner, treating problems and difficulties as blessings and lessons to be learnt. Through the programs, I have also learnt to overcome stressful emotions. My quality of life, both physical and emotional, have definitely improved, and it’s hard to imagine that only recently I was a cancer patient. I have found a better way of praying through the Silva technique by improving my ‘khusuk’ or focus.

Right after my operation to remove my colon tumor, my doctor told me I have a 35% chance of living the next five years. That was in 2003. I told him that if God wills it, I will see him again, in the pink of health, in five years time and beyond. I feel that everyday, I am filled with renewed strength and energy, and I carry on being positive and enjoy the goodness and miracle of life.

“I have found a better way of praying through the Silva technique….”

—End of testimony.

The course will be conducted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 2007 schedule for Basic I & II can be viewed at http://www.silvamethod.com.my/searchschedule4.php where registration can be done online. Two good news, take advantage of the early bird discounts and receive FREE GIFTS from 1AlternativeMedicines.com when you indicate in the registration form’s `Sponsor’s Particulars’ that you are recommended by Nor Hafidzah Alias, contact no. 606-7613811. Or contact me directly at Nazlan@1AlternativeMedicineS.com.

Read more about cancer HERE.

A Beautiful Mind…Hafidzah Experience on Mind Control

I took the Silva Method course in July 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As a Silva graduate, my increasing level of mental faculties is used to help others.

Using mind control as an alternative lifestyle skill, Nazlan and I managed to overcome many mental and physical obstacles in our daily lives, especially from the health view point.

Below is a testimony I’ve prepared for Silva Method Malaysia using my experience as a case study.

How Do I Explain Miracles?
June, 2006

I heard of the Silva Method from my husband who was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in July 2005. I have been practicing spiritual healing long before I joined the Silva Method, since I am from a family of spiritual healers. After attending the Silva programs, I started to heal my husband and others in need by using their systematic methods combining verses of the Al-Quran, and visualization/meditation techniques that we had learnt. Now, my husband too has been healing others in need using similar methods.

When healing people, it is important to understand the anatomy of the body and how our body systems work. For example, when someone has a problem in their stomach, we visualize the biological connections of the stomach with other parts of the body. One case in point was my own experience. Before I joined the Silva Method, I had a problem with my lower-right wisdom tooth where it was growing horizontally instead of vertically and I finally had it removed in May 2005, costing me RM2,000! Recently, when my lower-left wisdom tooth faced the same problem, I used the visualization technique to remove it through `laser surgery’ and voila! The tooth was just not there anymore. Astonishingly, I then felt the familiar post-surgery pain for about a week, then similarly, the pain subsided and I couldn’t feel or see anymore of the tooth. How do I then explain this miracle?

Another case in point. My younger brother suffered from long-term memory loss since 1994, at 21 yrs of age. That year, he was supposed to enroll into the International Islamic University for a degree in Economics. He never did. I then recently used the meditation technique combined with Al-Fathihah and other surah in the Al-Quran after my prayers. This I did twice a day for every day. After about 1 month, one fine day while we were having tea with the family, Dad asked us if anyone had remembered the registration number of one of our old Proton Saga family car, [one of Dad’s eccentric hobby was to have the family car changed for every year of our lives and we had on the last count used 49 cars….], and out of the blue my brother uttered in his soft voice the exact number first time! Every one of us looked at each other…speechless! As ordinary as this may sound to you, but as you can imagine, this was indeed a significant event to have happened to us lately. My brother can now drive a car [unthinkable just a few months ago] and has enrolled himself in GiatMARA, a local college, for a course in IT.

Then, there’s my eldest sister. She used to be an introvert, cold and snobbish, even to our own parents. She has now transformed into a friendly and warm person; she’d never kiss my parents but she now have and are doing so routinely; she’s never hugged or shaken my hands for 37 years of my life but she does so now. Again, how do I explain these miracles?

The biggest impact on my Silva Method training has to be in my career. As architects, my husband and I were once asked to conduct a presentation to the Prime Minister on a major impact public project. On the night before, I had my mind synchronized in the same frequency as the PM’s, and visualized that he understood the project and the benefits it can generate to Malaysians. What actually happened the following day was surreal…… 90% of the presentation was just like what I had visualized! And again, how do I explain this miracle?

“90% of the presentation was just like what I had visualized!”

—End of testimony

The course will be conducted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 2007 schedule for Basic I & II can be viewed at http://www.silvamethod.com.my/searchschedule4.php where registration can be done online. Two good news, take advantage of the early bird discounts and receive FREE GIFTS from http://www.1alternativemedicines.com/ when you indicate in the registration form’s `Sponsor’s Particulars’ that you are recommended by Nor Hafidzah Alias, contact no. 606-7613811.

Or contact me directly at Hafidzah@1AlternativeMedicineS.com

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