Provide care for others and you will gain your health. Maybe, if it aids that you have, you could go and care for those who have this disease. Even if you do not have aids... maybe, you believe you do. This belief could be so real for you that you are convinced you are dying of it. Go and do service work with those that have it. The Great Teacher will show you either that you do not really have the disease, or He will show you that your love for those with the disease will (like me) miraculously heal you of the disease that haunts you. One day, Dee, the most loving friend in all the world asked during her prayer time for my disease to be transferred to her. How could I let this kind of love down? I could not. First, it was for these ladies, I began to get well. How could I do otherwise, after all, they had the faith that I would heal and that I deserved health. Miracles did happen. I no longer have a terminal illness. I no longer walk with a cane.
Maybe you feel as if there is a cancer in your body that no one seems to be able to locate. Sop concentrating on the cancer, concentrate instead on service work for those who do have it and are in the cancer wards. The clouds from your daily turning to believing you are ill are miraculously removed from your heart first. Ever so slowly, the clouds will become gently removed from your mind as well. When the curtain of sleep is drawn each evening, your thought patterns will begin to be more focused on others instead of yourself. This movement, the changing of your own focus to others will work (in and of itself) a process that creates time and thought patterns in a service-work scope. You will think less and less of how you may or may not be feeling. You may or may not be scared, lonely or dying will be thoughts to vanish and new thoughts will be "I wonder how they are doing since I last saw, wrote to or talked to them."
The wonderful 'secret' about this fact found in Reality Recovery (more on this course later) is spending one hour thinking about others in a service work manner not a sympathy manner. Because you are not paying as much attention to your illnesses or phobias, they begin to heal. One might say... let me give this example... Sometimes in the game of fetch with a very intelligent puppy, the puppy will not let you have the ball back in order for you to throw it for him again. He will refuse to let you have the ball to toss again and instead he will stand there with the ball in his mouth. You might say, "well Fido if you won't give me the ball back then I won't play." You then begin to walk away and act as if the game is over. What generally happens with an intelligent pup is that he will release the ball. Oftentimes, the pup will actually drop the ball at your feet or even try to put the ball inside your hand. He wants to keep playing.
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