Hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Quantum Waves of Wellness. I’m your host Dr. Paula Apro, holistic health mentor and your guide to unlocking the healing power within.
Today I’m going to share a story that really grabbed my attention last week. It wasn’t so much the story itself that affected me—it was the question that it left me asking myself.
I recently read a letter written by one of my all-time favorite gurus, Dr. Bruce Lipton and really made me pause for reflection. This man has made such a profound impact on my core beliefs and has been such an inspiration over the past decade of my learning journey through natural medicine. In fact, Dr. Lipton was the commencement speaker the year I graduated.
Here’s the story that Bruce recently told . . .
About three years ago, Bruce visited an ear, nose, and throat specialist because he was experiencing pain around his face and ear. During the examination, the physician noticed something concerning in his throat. After a long pause, the doctor told Bruce that he had a tumor involving his tongue and throat and that it appeared to be cancer.
Bruce said that he responded very calmly, and rather than reacting with fear, he said he simply acknowledged what he had heard. As someone who had spent decades teaching about the relationship between beliefs, biology, and health, he knew this was the moment when he would have to put his own ideas into practice.
After further evaluation by an oncologist, he was diagnosed with a malignant cancer. According to Bruce, he was presented with two primary treatment options. One was surgery that would involve removing part of his tongue. The other was an extensive course of radiation followed by chemotherapy. He was also informed about the significant side effects that could accompany those treatments, including damage to his teeth, difficulty breathing and swallowing, and loss of his sense of taste.
Bruce decided that he wanted to pursue his own integrated healing approach. Although he later chose to undergo two very short, targeted radiation treatments, he declined the more extensive treatment plan that had been recommended and focused his attention on supporting his overall health in other ways.
As time went on, the tumor grew and eventually affected his ability to speak clearly. For someone whose career centered around teaching and lecturing, this became a deeply personal challenge.
Rather than asking only how to eliminate the tumor, Bruce asked himself a different question:
“Why my tongue?”
Notice her didn’t ask, “Why me?” but rather why my tongue?”
As he reflected on his life, he realized something that surprised him. For more than twenty years he had been developing ideas that challenged the traditional Darwinian view of evolution. His research into epigenetics and quantum science had led him toward a very different understanding—one based on cooperation rather than competition. He had long felt called to write another book explaining these ideas, but he kept postponing it.
He had some serious hesitations about publicly challenging Darwin’s theory with a new theory of his own. I mean that is a pretty big undertaking. So Bruce keep putting off the writing of this book and instead, he continued traveling the world giving lectures.
He eventually came to the conclusion that his body was sending him a message. In his own interpretation, it was as if his biology was saying, “Bruce, you need to STOP TALKING…and write the darn book already.”
So he did.
He cancelled his speaking engagements and devoted himself to writing what would become Beyond Darwin.
At the same time, he embraced what he described as a broad, integrative approach to supporting his health. He traveled to Costa Rica to work with a nutritionist who helped him completely change his diet. A biological dentist discovered an abscess associated with an old root canal near the area of the tumor, which Bruce believed was contributing to a chronic toxic burden.
He also worked with an osteopath, a naturopath, practitioners using energy psychology approaches such as Psych-K®, and practitioners using methods including the Emotion Code® and Body Code®. He described using an AI-assisted energy device based on Rife technology, ozone inhalation, nutritional supplements, energy healing, and he expressed gratitude for the prayers and support he received from people around the world.
That was my favorite part of the story because I personally use and offer several of these modalities!
Bruce continued in his letter by saying that none of this happened overnight and that healing required patience. He believed that changing deeply held beliefs and patterns takes time and that there were many moments throughout the process that were painful and frustrating. He also felt that his own healing journey unfolded alongside the completion of the book he believed he was meant to write.
According to Bruce, once the manuscript was finished, follow-up scans showed that the tumor had become benign and had stopped growing. Later, he reported that subsequent imaging showed no remaining evidence of the tumor! Incredible!!
Whether someone agrees with Bruce’s conclusions or not, what I found most meaningful about his story wasn’t the specific therapies he chose.
It was the question he was willing to ask himself.
Instead of asking only, “How do I get rid of this?”
He asked,
“What is my body trying to tell me?”
That question is the part of his story that stayed with me and it made me ask the same question about myself.
You all know what I do for a living. I spend my days talking and teaching about energy, and helping others uncover hidden stressors that drain their vitality.
So imagine the irony…
The sad truth is that I’ve been struggling with low vital energy myself.
Not exactly feeling tired after a long day. I rarely complain about being tired. However, I have other tell tale signs of cellular depletion and believe me, this is extremely frustrating for me given that I have all the tools and knowledge to fix it.
So why would my own cellular energy be struggling?
After trying several different supplements, protocols, gadgets, etc, it took Bruce’s story to finally wake me up.
When I really sat with the question, “What is my body trying to tell me?” one word kept coming back over and over again.
Nourishment.
Not nutrition.
Nourishment.
There’s a big difference.
I’ve realized that my body isn’t utilizing minerals the way it needs to and the sad reality is that changing my nutrition isn’t going to help because putting gas into a broken tank doesn’t fill your tank. Those minerals that I’m trying to consume are not sticking inside my tank. And minerals are the building blocks that allow our cells to produce energy.
So I’ve come to the conclusion that my body isn’t just asking for nutritional nourishment. It’s asking for soul nourishment. And this is the exact theory that i learned in school that I loved so much. According to Dr. Edward Bach (the man behind the Bach flower essences) all dis-ease originates from a broken or unhappy spirit.
Over the past several months, my entire life has revolved around getting The ZenDen up and running. Yes, it’s been exciting and fulfilling, but it’s also been exhausting. I’ve poured my heart into building something that I truly believe can help people, but somewhere along the way…
I stopped nourishing myself. There is no longer any time in my days for fun or relaxation. I’m not taking time to learn new things (my favorite pastime). I’m not enjoying creative activities. I’m not taking classes. I’m not even exercising much. I’m just working all the time and my body is not happy. I have the choice to either listen to it, or ignore it and push through. But let me tell you, ignoring the symptoms or signals that your body is sending will never end well.
We HAVE to pay attention to the symptoms and signals. Sometimes they may be easy to decode and other times it may be a mystery that seems impossible to solve. Even with all of my bioenergetic tests, it took me sitting quietly and reflecting on my life to discover the problem. Bruce’s story was the catalyst to help me finally open my eyes.
And I can be the catalyst for you. If you have signals that you are having trouble reading, please consider a bioeneregtic voice analysis to uncover your hidden stressors. Together we can try to connect some dots that may lead you to your answers. I’ll drop a link in the show notes to my service that helps you uncover hidden stressors.
Just remember, your body knows what it needs most. You just need to learn how to listen carefully. You might be surprised by what it’s trying to tell you. In my case, it’s not that I need to do more, or work harder at improving my health. In my case, I need to relax and do less. I’m excited to get to a place some time soon where I can do that.
Thanks for joining me on another episode of Quantum Waves of Wellness.
And until next time, sit quietly and ask your body what it’s trying to tell you.