Cayenne: medicine or irritant? For Valerie+Denise

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Hi, Kay,

 

Thanks, Kay, I guess I don't see it as a problem. I'm more of a cause and effect

person, myself. For instance, re: raw foods and health--I know that when I eat

twinkies, the consequences are very different than when I eat bananas. :-)

 

The difficulty I have with the perspective you have shared is that it tends to

lay more guilt on someone who attempts belief, remains unwell, and blames it on

their own lack of belief. I have witnessed this on more than one occasion, and

it is most painful. I agree that a positive mindset is very important, but

beliefs without appropriate action usually ends up with less than beneficial

results, in my experience. (Sort of like the faith without works is dead idea.)

 

Probably the most intense experience of this kind of thinking happened when I

was 20, and an eighteen-year-old friend of mine was struggling with cancer. It

had developed and spread very quickly, and during her last couple of months,

well-meaning friends from her church came periodically to encourage her, and

repeatedly said that if she only had enough faith, she would be healed. These

were folks she had trusted over the years, and so now she was left basically

holding the bag--the reason she was not being healed was her own fault, because

of her lack of faith, because she did not believe enough. So not only did she

have to deal with her own mortality, pain, anguish of this disease; she died

believing it was her own fault.

 

So, while I can respect that you have a different point of view on all of this,

I guess I feel like I had to at least once say that I find it can be a hurtful

path to go down. The mind is amazingly powerful, and I am confident that we are

nowhere near accessing the power that is there. But I do not think I can accept

the claims regarding belief that you espouse without evidence, and so far, I

have no such evidence.

 

[Deep breath]

 

Sorry if this seemed too intense; there is nothing personal at all intended

here. I just needed to share my own perspective.

 

Peace, Valerie

 

korangeli <korangeli wrote:

rawfood , Valerie Mills Daly <valdaly> wrote:

> Hi, Denise, I appreciate your concern!

 

I agree with you, I don't think simply believing myself well will do

the trick. :-)

 

THERE-IN LIES YOUR 'PROBLEM'- The self fulfilling prophecy of belief.

Love Kay. xx