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I am Russ McGinn, I was medically forced out of Corporate American due to a spinal cord tumor. In September 2005 I had surgery at the University of Utah Medical Center, for a tumor inside of my spinal cord at the C5 level. When I woke up, I was in a wheel chair, sliding across a board from my chair to my bed. However, I had done something – I later find out is rather unique!
During my recovery from the spinal cord operation, I listened, via headset and a CD player to 2 different subliminal music tapes loaded with healing messages. And, admittedly I was rather selfish at the time; I closed myself off from the other spinal cord patients in my room. Instinctively, I knew that I had enough problems with my own recovery and I did not want the negative images of seeing other patients and mentally dealing with their problems. So I shunned the group meal thing (they wanted everyone who could, to eat lunch together in a rec room) and ate in my bead, and all of my time outside of therapy sessions was spent listening to the CD’s and/or running a mental movie (just like a car commercial) of loved ones in my life “telling me how happy they were that I was up and walking.”
Mind you when I woke up not only was I in a chair but my left-side had shut down. I couldn’t touch my thumb to my fingers and could barely do it on my right hand. I am still numb from the middle of my back down to the soles of my feet. If you turn the lights out in a room and I am in complete darkness, I will fall. It has something to do with having no “sense of space’ without seeing where I am in my immediate surroundings. But I can walk. Not great! I won’t ever play basketball in the NBA or run a marathon, but a least I am up and walking.
I truly believe that the focused, directed mental images paid fantastic dividends in my post surgery recovery. I was surprised at the lack of the mental side or imaging in a patients healing processes. i beleive that thought’s are things and what we think about, comes about! Of course, you need to get into action with what we visualize or think about…
