Comments on: My Surf Board Taught Me The Most Critical Lesson http://www.mentalsidewalk.com/2009/11/my-surf-board-taught-me-the-most-critical-lesson/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:44:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Leydys Janee http://www.mentalsidewalk.com/2009/11/my-surf-board-taught-me-the-most-critical-lesson/#comment-1120 Leydys Janee Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:26:34 +0000 http://mentalsidewalk.com/?p=600#comment-1120 Thank you for the entertaining read! Alright playtime is over and back to school work. Thank you for the entertaining read! Alright playtime is over and back to school work.

]]> By: fredsarkari http://www.mentalsidewalk.com/2009/11/my-surf-board-taught-me-the-most-critical-lesson/#comment-503 fredsarkari Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:11:14 +0000 http://mentalsidewalk.com/?p=600#comment-503 Jo Jo, Thanks for the amazing comments and sharing your journey. You are an inspiration to many. There is so much courage within Cancer fighters. You should be proud of who you are and who you are becoming. Jo Jo,

Thanks for the amazing comments and sharing your journey. You are an inspiration to many. There is so much courage within Cancer fighters. You should be proud of who you are and who you are becoming.

]]> By: Jo http://www.mentalsidewalk.com/2009/11/my-surf-board-taught-me-the-most-critical-lesson/#comment-497 Jo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:51:53 +0000 http://mentalsidewalk.com/?p=600#comment-497 In the spirit of riding the Hawaiian rainbow with you Fred….I was watching TV the other day and there were some Charlie Chaplin quotes used that just really hit me in the gut….fanbloodytastic (as my English friends would say)! “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!” “Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.” “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles” Several people close to me are fighting cancer and dealing with the physical and emotional pain of the disease. As a cancer survivor I can tell you that laughter is good medicine and that mental pictures are very powerful as a healing tool. Rarely do I take a photograph using a camera. I know in my soul that when I take a mental photograph in that moment, for me it represents celebrating the joy of living. On my cancer journey I created a mental picture of a battle. Much more fierce than Patton or McCarthy had ever fought. one of bubble wrap representing cancer cells and chemo representing warriors fighting. I used to sit in the Cancer Clinic and visualize the entire battle, smells, sounds, attack strategy, all of it. I'd even sit there and say outload..."take that you bloody buggers"...And so I am still here taking mental pictures nine years later. It is possible to have a mental picture of what life represents and to grab onto it in your mind and take youreslf to that special place where you know there is joy in living.....this under any circumstances if you have the courage to do so. Jo Jo Pee In the spirit of riding the Hawaiian rainbow with you Fred….I was watching TV the other day and there were some Charlie Chaplin quotes used that just really hit me in the gut….fanbloodytastic (as my English friends would say)!
“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”
“Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles”
Several people close to me are fighting cancer and dealing with the physical and emotional pain of the disease. As a cancer survivor I can tell you that laughter is good medicine and that mental pictures are very powerful as a healing tool. Rarely do I take a photograph using a camera. I know in my soul that when I take a mental photograph in that moment, for me it represents celebrating the joy of living. On my cancer journey I created a mental picture of a battle. Much more fierce than Patton or McCarthy had ever fought. one of bubble wrap representing cancer cells and chemo representing warriors fighting. I used to sit in the Cancer Clinic and visualize the entire battle, smells, sounds, attack strategy, all of it. I’d even sit there and say outload…”take that you bloody buggers”…And so I am still here taking mental pictures nine years later.
It is possible to have a mental picture of what life represents and to grab onto it in your mind and take youreslf to that special place where you know there is joy in living…..this under any circumstances if you have the courage to do so.

Jo Jo Pee

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