IMAGINE YOURSELF TO WELLNESS
(My Personal Healing Journey)
By Jayne Lawrence
What would you do if you had a sudden health crisis?
Do you think you really know how you would handle your life changing in seconds? What would you do first? What would you think? How would you cope with the onslaught of unexpected bad news and painful feelings?
My life changed in seconds when I was informed about just such urgent health condition in 1998. This is an account of my personal healing journey.
When Life Changes in an Instant
You wake up one morning and the road you’ve been walking suddenly changes. Not feeling well, I went to see my doctor. Suddenly a routine “I don’t feel so good" visit turns into a major health problem. The words “you need to have major surgery and there could be some complications...” I couldn’t even take it all in. I had that surreal feeling as though being in a dream. It was as though it wasn’t happening to me. But it was happening.
After I came out of my stupor, I was very concerned and frightened. Any major surgery is, well let’s face it, is MAJOR. I had been seeing my doctor for quite some time and felt very comfortable about his diagnosis and skill as a surgeon. He was a straight shooter and I liked him. He wanted me to be an active participant in my treatment and not to feel like a victim. So, I felt as though I was in very good hands.
Having an MD that listens and that has a heart is paramount to feeling safe physically. The question was—“how was I going to handle my mind and emotions”? I felt as though I was sliding into a dark long tunnel. I didn’t realize it then, but I was identifying with negative health outcomes of both of my parents. One physical and the other emotional. Nevertheless, they were smothering me alive.
The Crisis Behind the Crisis
I would soon come to learn that core beliefs are learned or acquired. I needed help and not some band-aid kind of “stiff upper lip, you’ll get through this” kind of nonsense. I needed to know ways in which I could deal, feel and heal my own mental and emotional crisis without having to run all over the state of Florida to every kind of practitioner. I wanted to re-focus my thinking and not identify with those prescribed negative outcomes. But how?
I wanted to stop all the self-sabotaging patterns and all the game playing. The question was how to do the seemingly impossible. Time was of the essence. I quickly realized that my thinking was repeatedly wounding me.
Negative Habits Protect the Pain
Retraining one’s mind and thinking process is difficult to say the least. We all have habits and places that we go to that we believe are safe. Or we “think” that they keep us safe. However, I now know that all they do is protect the pain and keep what we have buried deep inside us alive. Negative habits offer us make-believe band-aids. Temporary solutions. Because when all is said and done old habits do not heal the wounds we protect.
I was calling out to life for serious help. I was ready to look deep inside myself. I was seeking a way to change myself. I had enough of the lies, habits and old routines.
Meeting Melissa Zollo: The Shift Begins
Enter Melissa Zollo with her “Tool box of Universal Solutions” and a spirit that simply projects “help is on the way.”
My first conversation with Melissa helped me open my eyes to my feelings. It shocked me to see for myself that I was identifying with feelings of loss and illness and not WELLNESS and HEALING. Once the blinders came off, things became clear to me. I had to stop fooling myself. What a wake-up call that conversation was! Spirit works in mysterious ways. Boy did I need that call. I had no idea what I was doing to myself.
I decided not to go into condemnation for my mistakes but rather get to work on re-focusing my thinking. Rather than identify with negative outcomes, I decided to call upon the POWER WITHIN ME and CREATE NEW PATTERNS.
The Difference Between Healing and Cure
Healing—what a hot topic. From my conversation with Melissa, I soon realized there is a difference between healing and cure. Sometimes we heal a memory. Sometimes we heal the emotional pain. Sometimes we get a cure. Sometimes our bodies pass on. I was aware of all the possibilities.
I Wanted to Heal My Heart and My Mind and Allow My Spirit to Soar Again.
Melissa helped me to see that my dream was beautiful and possible if I felt it was.
Melissa taught me that we don’t have to be prisoners of our past or limited to our small minded self.
We can stop subjecting ourselves to apathy or frustration.
She explained that it takes courage or desperation to change old habits.
I Wanted to Tap into my Courage. And I did.
The Inner Work: Commitment to Imaging
It is important to note that we never discussed the health problem or diagnosis. Our time and awareness was focused on the healing process, solutions, and the Life Force—in other words, “the Inner Me.”
Once armed with Imaging techniques, it was up to me to commit to doing the inner work. So often people want help but give up on themselves and surrender to the dark side of things. I couldn’t give up.
So I took her little toolbox of audiotapes and I worked a new blueprint until I felt as though I was healing something so deep inside of me. Something no doctor would ever be able to cut out or prescribe a pill for.
The Blueprint of Perfect Health
Belief and Imagination are Powerful When Creatively Directed.
Long before my surgery, I started building a new belief:
“I am perfectly healthy. I am perfectly healthy. I am perfectly healthy.”
That is just one of the ideas that I directed to my deeper being and body. Day and Night, Night and Day, Day after Day. I seriously committed to my image for Perfect Health. Perfect Health was the new blueprint. Perfect Health throughout my entire body, mind and spirit.
Imaging the Outcome
I imaged for protection of myself and of the physicians who were treating me. When I had doubts or felt that I was sinking, I spoke again with Melissa, and dove back into seeing the OUTCOME from my imagination: Perfect Health and Positive Outcome.
I registered early at the hospital.
The staff was wonderful.
My doctor comforted me.
I had imaged that the right doctors and nurses surrounded me. Prior to receiving sedation, I had an overwhelming feeling of complete calm.
I remember lying on the hospital bed smiling.
I became at total peace of mind.
I knew that I was already completely healed.
I floated on this feeling as I drifted off into sleep.
Result?
My surgery was a complete success and my recovery was remarkable. Picture Perfect.
Imaging for Another: My Sister’s Healing
So, you think it’s over? It is not.
Two years passed when I got a phone call from Colorado. My sister had a seizure. She was diagnosed with a “benign” brain tumor. It was shocking!
I couldn’t sleep, eat or think. Then, the light came back.
I spoke with Melissa. I realized I could make myself sick or uplift my thinking. I began to work with my tapes. I imaged her being perfectly healthy. I used Telepathy. I called Silent Unity. I called Melissa again before the surgery.
By the end of our conversation I was 100% anchored in the feeling of victory.
The day came. I was miles away—but spiritually present. I came back to work. There was a voice message:
“Lisa was fine. The tumor was completely removed. It was benign. No complications.”
WOW! The OUTCOME MATCHED MY BLUEPRINT!
The Power of Personal Experience
I sat there and asked Spirit to open the eyes of all doctors, healers, practitioners and hospitals and make the Present Memory audio program part of their regular treatment plan.
Trust me, the only way anyone knows if this works is—through personal experience.
Lessons From Melissa Zollo
Melissa never wanted followers. She told me from day one:
“You are the architect of your life. It’s up to you to find out if Imagination creates reality.”
I understood that I didn’t need a religion, astrology, or channeling. I only had to reconnect with the Power that heals. The Power of Imagination audio program helped me do just that.
12 Healing Tips I Learned from Melissa
Create a new blueprint.
Choose your own ideas—don’t borrow others' affirmations.
Capture the feeling of being healthy, safe, secure, loved, and protected.
Build a new belief. Let the old one go—even if it came from your parents.
Evaluate what you feed your mind (TV, books, etc.).
Claim your heart’s desire.
Everything is possible—even the impossible.
Give 100% to the image.
Feed the image morning, noon, and night—until you feel differently.
Don’t surrender to fear.
Stop focusing on disease—start focusing on health.
Let go. Trust the Power Within. Live in your PRESENT MEMORY.
Final Words
Whatever you do, try not to underestimate the power of your own mind. Tune in. Don’t let others or your own excuses derail you. Walk away from what’s toxic.
It is your Choice.
Remember: Imagination is Power and You Have It!
– Jayne Lawrence