From Bedridden To Healthy; How I Cured My Autoimmune Disease

About a year and a half ago, I was hit with an autoimmune disease that knocked me right off my feet. I no longer had the energy to work or to do fun things. Some days, even a 10-minute walk was enough to put me in bed for the rest of the day.

After endless hospital visits and tests, the doctors finally diagnosed me with Sarcoidosis. I struggled with it for a year and a half until I decided I'd had enough. I was ready to take matters into my own hands and let the old man die.

So, I dropped the old story and focused my attention on other things. I stopped talking about the disease, stopped caring about it, and didn't even affirm the opposite or did SATS. I just stopped thinking about it altogether. I called a physiotherapist and simply told her I needed to build my energy levels back up.

Before I got sick, I always worked out and stayed in shape. So, I knew what it felt like to have to start over after taking a break. I treated the illness the same way I would have treated a long break from the gym - I focused on building my strength back up. I didn't think of it as, "I've been sick for so long; this is going to be so hard! What if my symptoms get worse?!"

Whenever anyone brought up the disease, I'd reply, "I'm working on my energy levels with my physiotherapist, and I'm feeling improvement."

Since I stopped talking about the disease, so did everyone else. People stopped asking me about it, and I stopped worrying about it. Over the course of two months, my energy levels returned, and I currently feel like myself again.

I know some of you may be curious about how I coped with the symptoms that kept popping up throughout my journey. As I mentioned earlier, I had an epiphany and decided to drop the story. So whenever I felt those symptoms, I let them be without any meaning attached to them. I stopped creating a narrative around the illness and stopped worrying over what it all meant. I stopped giving it attention. I simply kept showing up at physiotherapy 2-3 times a week and stayed present with my workouts, taking it one day at a time.

Now I work out almost every morning by myself, just like I did before I got sick!

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"When you are able to control the movements of your attention in the subjective world, you can modify or alter your life as you please. But this control cannot be achieved if you allow your attention to be attracted constantly from without. Each day, set yourself the task of deliberately withdrawing your attention from the objective world and of focusing it subjectively. In other words, concentrate on those thoughts or moods which you deliberately determine. Then those things that now restrict you will fade and drop away. The day you achieve control of the movements of your attention in the subjective world, you are master of your fate. You will no longer accept the dominance of outside conditions or circumstances." (from "The Power of Awareness - Chapter 12 ")

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I hope this helps :)