Living Matrix Followup - Thoughts & Health

The other day I was wrote a post about the Living Matrix movie that I had ordered. I got home from a day trip and found it in my mailbox - that came quick! I have a habit off getting really great stuff and then saving it for "later" and never following up on it (like the Try It On Everything DVD about EFT [emotional freedom technique] that I'm dying to watch, and I've been looking at the outside of the box for 2 months!), so I decided to watch it tonight before I forgot about it. I've done a lot of studying, reading, and personal alternative healing work, so the concepts of thought affecting our health really was not a new one for me. But I think it was very helpful in having it all reinforced in one place, and there were some things I learned, so it's all good. I've seen the miracle of thought/health interaction in my own life. About 8-10 years ago I had a benign thyroid tumor. I did energy healing, visualization and chakra work, and it disappeared. And more recently, I had a potentially serious health challenge where my body was filled with enlarged lymph nodes, and my doctors (and friends/family) were convinced I had lymphoma and was going to die. I rejected all of it. I had no intention of getting or dying from lymphoma. I simply did not accept it as an outcome. I did a lot of work on myself in alternative fields surrounding this. And not only did they not turn out to be cancerous, but I stopped having all the symptoms they'd been causing me. Are they still enlarged? Don't know, don't care. :) I think about the labels that I put on myself. I have often referred to myself as disabled. I've been stopping that lately. I'm a person who has occasional pain (which is pretty good since it used to be constant), but I am not going to manifest disability. What benefit does the label give me? Does it get me pity or sympathy or special benefits? Does it identify me with a special club of people that makes me better than someone else? The title no longer serves me as an identifier, and I'm rejecting it. [Okay, I'll admit I'm not rejecting the handicapped parking permit I've been issued, but if I don't need it on a particular day, I don't use it and save the spot for someone else.] I don't discount those who are sick or dealing with health challenges, nor think they "brought it on themselves" with negative thinking, etc. I think it's all very complex and everyone's got a different journey in regard to it. What works for me doesn't necessarily work for others. All I can do is follow the path that's right for me, and if someone wants to take something from it for themselves, that's great. And if someone wants to suggest something else that's worked for them, that's fine too. There was one woman in the Living Matrix movie that talked about having a brain tumor of some sort, and how she spent a lot of time working with Neuro-Linguistic Programming and in part she learned to accept the tumor into her life and body and ask what it was there to teach her. I'm not doing NLP, but I've been exploring lately what my health challenges are here to teach me in this lifetime. Yes, sometimes it really sucks. But I think that in general I've gotten good things from many of those challenges. They've made me more aware of self-care and different options available to me. It's made me more compassionate to others suffering from challenges. It's helped me to be introduced to some great modalities, one of which I'm learning so I can practice on myself and others. Sure, life would be easier without the challenges, but I can see where they've shaped me into a better person that I might not otherwise be. It's an interesting perspective. It's late and I'm rambling a bit, so I think I'll close this up. Hope this made some sense to somebody!