How to Increase Your Luck When it Comes to Health Issues
by Sarah M. Scheel
When it comes to your health, there are things you can do to influence your luck in the healing process. I have composed my top three methods for getting better faster and sometimes even changing a terminal situation. Step 1: Stay Positive First, keep a good positive outlook. I am sure you all have those friends who always seem to be sick. If someone around them catches a cold, they catch a cold. If someone around them has a sore back, they have a sore back. They are constantly complaining about what ails them. Much of this, I believe, exists because that is what they are attracting to themselves. Seriously, if you keep on telling yourself that your back hurts, eventually your back will start to hurt. It really is mind over matter. 
It always amazed me as a child, and even as my kids were growing up, how few times we ever missed school the day of a field trip at school, or the school picnic, or a Friday before a long weekend. Why was this? Because we knew those were fun days or that if we were sick before the weekend we couldn’t play with our friends all weekend long. In reality, our positive outlook on the day’s experience told our mind “do not let our body be sick today”. When my family had come to the realization that my Mother could no longer live at home with my Dad (she had a mild stroke, which was caused by a tumor on her heart, and had started getting dementia), I remember hearing over and over in my head her telling me, “Please don’t ever put me in a nursing home.” As I called around to the different Assisted Living facilities I was told over and over “we cannot provide that level of care, check with a nursing home”. As I looked at my list of facilities and numbers, I told myself this one will be the one. I dialed the number and the pleasant woman on the other end of the phone said, “Yes, we can definitely help you and your mother.” As my family and I arrived at the facility, I found a penny (I believe finding pennies is good luck) on my way into the facility. The woman who met with us was so incredibly positive, and told us how she began working there because her own mother spent her final years at the facility. She explained that it was such a positive experience for her; she wanted to share with others. I truly believe that the positive outlook of the facility and the people associated with it have helped not only my family’s outlook and abilities to help with my mother’s care, but by working together to decrease my mother’s medications, her mental capacity has dramatically improved. Step 2: Laugh Laughter really is the best medicine. Most people look for the negative side of health and that is what they focus on. Maybe it is just my upbringing, maybe my family is demented but we always seem to find something funny about our hospital visits. I can remember I got my tonsils out when I was 17 years old. My older sister sent me flowers and when she ordered them she told the clerk “my younger sister is getting her tonsils out.” Well the clerk must have just assumed I was 8 or 9 years old because she delivered me a giant sunflower with a smiley face on the flower with googlie eyes and a smile that changed from a full toothey grin to sticking its tongue out at you. My sister asked who sent the childish flowers when she came to visit and we both laughed when I told her “you did”. Even though it initially hurt to laugh, I went home within 24 hours from the hospital and was eating regular foods the next day. I still told my mom it hurt for the next week though, just for the ice cream. The gift of laughter, I feel helped me through my two pregnancies and my deliveries. I remember several funny experiences during the Lamaze classes. One time during the class the girls’ father and I were “visualizing a peaceful place” and working on our relaxation techniques. I suddenly heard snoring next to me. Dave had apparently found such a peaceful place he decided to take a nap there. They also showed a lame video where the husband was massaging his wife’s back with a shower head. He started by saying “She’s coming, she’s coming”, and for some reason started to sing “She’ll be coming around the Mountain” to his wife. Dave and I both laughed about the singing being worse than labor itself. On the day I did go into labor, I was in the midst of pushing and the nurse said, “She’s coming, she’s coming.” Dave and I both looked at each other and immediately started to laugh, thinking about the “She’ll be coming around the Mountain” performance. Needless to say, I am probably one of the few women who were laughing while delivering a 7 lb., 11 oz. baby girl. Step 3: Have Faith Lastly, and to me most importantly, is how God can help improve your health. Whoever your God is, there are times when you are sick and you have to put your faith in God and know that he will be your strength to get you through. Practitioners in the field of medicine will tell you that they have seen or experienced unexplainable healing of sick patients. A friend of my brother’s was going in to have an emergency ultrasound and possible delivery. They had believed that she had miscarried in her third trimester and would be delivering a still born baby. On her way to the hospital the friend prayed to God that if everything was okay to give her a sign. Before going in, she said God show me one red rose as a sign that my baby is okay. When she had arrived at the desk the receptionist said, “This was just delivered for you.” She handed her a single red rose in a bud vase that was sent by her sister who lived out of state. She delivered her baby and that baby is a full grown woman today. I just heard a sermon today where the young minister told the story of his own male parishioner getting diagnosed with a tumor on his lung. The surgery was scheduled for the following Monday but instead of staying in the hospital his parishioner wanted to go home and watch the minister’s sermon from there. During the sermon the minister talked about having faith in God and allowing him to heal you. The male parishioner went to the hospital on Monday, after praying to God all weekend, knowing he was going to be fine. After the surgery the doctor came in to the patient’s room and shared that he could not explain why they only found a small blood clot where the tumor was originally found on the x-ray. He said that he had looked at x-rays for a long time and divine intervention was the only explanation he had for a mass the size of what was on the x-ray turning out to be a blood clot. So remember, next time you are feeling under the weather, just remember how much control you have in the healing process and how you can make your luck at getting better. === Sarah Scheel has over two decades of financial consulting experience with consumer and business lending. She has helped privately owned companies double their sales through her business consulting and has helped thousands of real estate investors structure their deals through her real estate coaching service. She is an active commercial investor as the owner of SMS RE Enterprises, LLC and is a founding member of Roadmaps To SUCCESS. Please visit her site at www.RoadmapsToSUCCESS.com.
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