I AM A CANCER VICTOR

My name is Tom Silver and I am a cancer Victor. I like to think of myself as a cancer Victor rather than a cancer survivor because to me, the word survivor implies that I was a victim. My experience was much different than that and I would like to share my story with you today.

My story began the same as for so many. I went to my doctor for a simple check up and instead of being given a wonderful bill of health, I was told I had an aggressive cancer. The words hit me the same as they hit most people … like a large punch right between the eyes! My initial response was typical fear, worry, and I felt incredibly overwhelmed with everything I was about to experience and learn.

I remained in this mode for a few weeks. But then almost as quickly as I reacted when I got the initial diagnosis, I realized my attitude was heading me down the wrong path. My negativity, worry, concerns, and excessive over-thinking were the biggest dangers versus winning over this disease and I suddenly realized it. And that is when I decided I was going to drastically change how I went through this experience. It was that day that I decided I was going to look at this experience as an adventure and a way to learn something new. That is when… I actually became excited about having cancer.

As I looked at it as a new adventure, I also began to say that I was happy to have it and to experience it. Because it gave me a greater understanding of the dis-ease, a greater under-standing of me as a person, and a greater understanding of the others whom has experience it.

I went in for radiation everyday for 8 and half weeks with a positive attitude & happy because I knew that it would help my immune system stay strong. I joked around with the radiation technicians and the radiologist. I made it a point to help some of the other patients in the waiting room by my positive attitude and the smiles I would put on my face every day. I wanted other patients to feel positive & happy also.

During my treatments, I remained positive, and I used my mind and imagination to believe the treatments were curing me and that my own immune system was getting stronger and more powerful every day. I actually used my techniques of going into a lower brain wave state to stimulate and strengthen my immune system …. with mind healing chemicals.

After the first few weeks of treatments, I started feeling pains and cramps and eating foods of any sort became a painful experience. But even then I continued to stay happy and positive. I continued to imagine the radiation working on just the cancer cells and I imagined it avoiding the healthy cells.

I continued to focus on being positive and any negativity that entered my mind, I quickly recognized and sent on its way, replacing the thought with a positive one.

I was never afraid to tell others that I had cancer and even their fearful words such as That is really awful or That is terrible never affected my positive thinking, positive thoughts and positive feelings.

But when I would tell people that I actually enjoyed having cancer and that it was a new adventure for me, they would, of course, be shocked at what I said. They could not fathom thinking of cancer this way. Because their minds were filled with fear and the thought of death.

How can you be so positive and happy going through what you are, was what people would say to me. However, I would just smile and not let their fears affect me.

I was happy, I was positive, I was optimistic, and I was on a new adventure of understanding and being a Cancer Victor. A fighter, a winner.

During my beginning treatments the doctors told me that after the almost 9 weeks of radiation treatments I would be tired, weak and would be sleeping and doing nothing for weeks or more.

I did not know if that would happen to me or not, however, I did not let those predictions alter my positive attitude and happy thoughts. And after my treatments were completed, my radiation specialist doctor, Dr. Paul Song was totally amazed that I still had full energy. My radiologist said I was one of the most positive and happiest patients he had ever had.

During my treatments, I was still teaching extensive Scientific Hypnotherapy sessions to students coming in from other countries, as well as conducting private hypnotherapy sessions to help clients overcome all types of obstacles including drug addictions and fear removals.

The Doctor said that my positive, happy, joyful attitude had a profound effect on my healing and the abundance of energy that remained with me even at the end of radiation treatments. The radiologist Doctor, even suggested, that I should tell others about how I used my mind to give me joy, hope, happiness and health during my intense radiation treatments.

That final week of radiation, I was completely full of energy and I never lost my energy after the treatments. One week after my treatments, I performed a halftime hypnosis show at Staples center for opening night of the Clippers NBA game. I also did a hypnosis show at a popular restaurant in Beverly Hills. I continued to maintain my hypnotherapy practice just as though I had not been through treatments at all.

A few weeks later I did a halftime show at Bradley University In Peoria ILLINOIS.

Since my treatments I conducted a hypnosis training course for Doctors in Holland, I performed hypnosis halftime shows for The Chicago Bulls, Milwaukee Bucks and have conducted hypnotherapy sessions for two upcoming reality TV shows .

I am truly happy to have experienced cancer and to understand it and to test my ability to feel joy, happiness and health. My wife Suzanne is also a Cancer Victor and she saw first hand how my happy positive thoughts, emotions and attitude helped battle, empower and conquer the disease that we call Cancer. Anyone can do what I did because there is nothing special about me. It is simply a decision that you can make and a process you can follow. Be Positive, be Happy and enjoy every day as a miracle, because your life is truly a miracle.

We are not Victims.

We are not just survivors.

We are Cancer Victors, Winners, Fighters, Warriors and Success stories.

I am happy and proud to have had cancer, and to tell you my story.

Tom Silver

Scientific and Clinical Hypnotherapist

Hypnotherapy Clinic 128 Auburn Court, Westlake Village, CA 91362

805 525-5500 tom@tomsilver.com

-Tom Silver- 🙂

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