To: K-list
Recieved: 2002/02/01 07:06
Subject: [K-list] Re: Health/Illness poll
From: Stephen Kowalchuk
On 2002/02/01 07:06, Stephen Kowalchuk posted thus to the K-list:
> Dear list,
>
> Question:
>
> Do you consider yourself unusually healthy for your age?
I consider myself unusually lucky. I had stage 4 testicular cancer with mets
through my abdomen. Surrending to daily meditation and focusing on my healing
and nutrition helped me come back from the edge.
I am MUCH healthier now than I was 8 years ago (when I was sick). Cancer did
leave me with a few reminders it was here, but otherwise I am fine. Considering
what I went through, yes...I feel I am very healthy. And K definitely had a
hand in my healing. Of that I am sure.
Did K have a hand in my illness? I wonder. Part of my illness was definitely
aggravated by my emotional and spiritual imbalances, of which I had many. I
consider myself K-awake since birth, though the K was more active in some
periods of my life than others (which appears to be a normal phenomenon as
well). K did push me along in many respects, and no question some of it was
well before I was ready (adolsescence was *hell*).
I wonder if my cancer came about as a manifestation of all the pain and
alienation I felt as a young person with a wild, burning K. It could have
simply been an organic issue, that I was predisposed to it and some factors such
as lifestyle, stress level, and fighting the K made the cancer worse.
Is there a causal relationship? hmmm.
> Have you been diagnosed with any illness(es)?
Just cancer. I suppose that's enough. Though some of the reminders remain --
peripheral neuropathy, vertigo, Reynaud's phenomenon, and kidney and liver
function impairment...
Oddly enough, those are side effects of the *treatment*, not the actual disease.
> Was this before or after K awakening (if applicable)?
After.
> Do you meditate?
Daily. It's almost mandatory. I got in the habit of meditating very early in
life, and it stuck with me. I enjoy it.
Side note -- I found that working with the K through meditation, diet, and yoga
or other physical exercise has definitely had a positive influence on me. In my
experience, fighting the K has a negative physical outcome; surrending and
conspiring with the K has a positive physical outcome. It is possible that we
may trace back some instances of physical disease in our lives to an influence
by the K, one way or another.
Steve
PS -- Hillary, THANK YOU for yet another excellent poll. *hugs*
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