Profound Healing

A woman faced with advanced cancer shares the story of how preparing to die led her to experience a profound healing on all levels--physical, emotional, and spiritual. • Explores the practical and spiritual aspects of confronting a life challenge as a springboard for spiritual growth. • Includes accounts of dreams, exercises, and visualizations that inspire profound healing. • Outlines 12 self-help practices of wellness--emotional clearing, meditations, and lifestyle changes--through the living example of a cancer survivor. • By the co-compiler of the spiritual classic Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words. At the age of 41 Cheryl Canfield was diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer. Going against warnings from doctors, she rejected proposed surgeries that would involve removing her uterus, cervix, lymph nodes, and surrounding nerves. Instead, she decided to accept death and focused her energy on attempting to die well. In the process, she cured herself. Profound Healing is Canfield's down-to-earth account of her journey as she inadvertently experiences a modern-day miracle, and her subsequent reflections on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing. More than a biography, Canfield's story contains exercises, dreams, visualizations, and experiences--from encounters with the modern mystic Peace Pilgrim to her own acceptance of cancer--that assisted her healing process. Others can use her hard-earned insights as a source of hope, inspiration, and practical advice. Relevant to anyone seeking personal growth and life wisdom, Profound Healing is not merely about dying or living. It is about discovering one's life and living it fully while here.

Cheryl Canfield is a wellness counselor who lectures nationally on topics of profound healing and steps toward inner peace. She is the editor of Peace Pilgrim's Wisdom, co-compiler of Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words, and author of Profound Healing: The Power of Acceptance on the Path to Wellness. She lives in northern California.

Foreword by Joseph Chilton Pearce Acknowledgments Introduction Mobilizing Our Inner Resources Part I Preparing for the Possibilities One--Face to Face with Mortality Two--Weighing the Alternatives Three--Exploring Death Four--Buying Time Five--Tying Up Loose Ends Six --Making My Way Through the system Part II Life Stories Seven--The Spiritual Path Eight--Encounter with a Modern Mystic: A Woman Called Peace Pilgrim Nine--Peace Pilgrim on Healing Ten--The Journey Home Eleven--Land of Vastness Twelve--Sojourn in Paradise Thirteen--Testing the Water Fourteen--The Greatest Gift Fifteen--More Goodbye Part III ReEngaging Life Sixteen--Surviving the Dark Night Seventeen--Time in the Wilderness Eighteen--Embracing the Possibilities Nineteen--Five Healing Storie Part IV Twelve Steps in the Healing Process Twenty--The Beginning of Self Transformation Twenty-One--Step One: Take Charge Twenty-Two--Step Two: Develop an Empowered Attitude Twenty-Three--Step Three: Create a Healing Environment Twenty-Four--Step Four: Practice Forgiveness Twenty-Five--Step Five: Explore Attitudes and Beliefs Twenty-Six--Step Six: Transform Negative Feelings to Heal and Release the Past Twenty-Seven--Step Seven: Build a Support System Twenty-Eight--Step Eight: Simplify Life Twenty-Nine--Step Nine: Establish Personal Integrity Thirty--Step Ten: Open to Intuition Thirty-One--Step Eleven: Love Yourself Thirty-Two--Step Twelve: Do All You Can and Release the Rest Epiloque Heal Ourselves, Heal the World Appendix: Summary of Steps in the Healing Process Recommended Reading