Is illness just a state of mind?

Tina Van Nispen, from Melbourne, was diagnosed with cervical cancer when she was 24. While being treated with conventional medicine, Van Nispen also consciously examined how her thoughts had contributed to the disease. "Before I was diagnosed with cervical cancer I lived on the beach, exercised and drank vegie juice every day. I knew it was nothing to do with my lifestyle; it was my thoughts, which were based on conscious and unconscious belief patterns that had steered me in the wrong direction," she says. While continuing to visit her doctor once a month, Van Nispen also began a personal journey of affirmations, automatic writing, mirror work and hypnotherapy to change her beliefs. Within a year the cancer was completely gone and 10 years later she is still cancer-free. [Source]