By using relaxation and visualisation in meditation we can by-pass our negative beliefs and work directly with our imagination and emotions. You may, at first, consider this day-dreaming, but you are really planting suggestions that will program your future. Remember that you do not create with your will-power, not with positive or negative thinking, but with positive or negative feelings. Your imagination and emotions are the most concentrated form of energy you possess and you use them all the time. The idea is to take conscious control of them.

Here are six steps toward the healing of a disease:

1. Discover the negative emotions that you have bottled up are causing the problem. Behind all negative conditions there lies a hidden fear or frustration. Usually we don't like to look at it and suppress the emotion; yet the only emotions that can harm us are those that we suppress.

2. Release the negative emotions. Penetrate your negative feelings. Give expression to such feelings by cussing and raging (in private, of course) and by punching or kicking a pillow to get the emotion out. Do this repeatedly until the emotions is spent.

3. Release the 'culprit' and release yourself. There are many ways to do this in meditation. One way is to repeat the mantra: "I release 'X' and free myself from clinging to (hate, bitterness, resentment, hurt or whatever applies)." At other times use this mantra: "I forgive the world for all my mistakes." You may not realise you are forgiving yourself with this mantra, but please try it anyway. If you cannot forgive yourself you will be sub-consciously looking for punishment and you will find it very difficult to heal yourself.

Because of the inter-dependence and inseparability of all consciousness, your inability to forgive those who have caused you suffering will also be hindrance to self-healing.

4. Visualise the removal of the physical condition. You can use a symbol for the removal of your problem. You could, for instance, visualise the problem as a large weed that you will pluck from the garden and get rid of. Or a balloon filled with negative conditions which you now release into the sky. Watch it disappear.

5. Visualise the ideal result as if it has happened. "And if you pray with the very real conviction that you have a thing already, IT WILL BE YOURS." .... Jesus of Nazareth.

6. Take a small, physical action (as if you were already healed) as an act of faith. This will help get the message across neurologically. YOU can destroy cancer. The only truth you will ever know is direct, personal experience. Go for it!