Marie

I attended my first session with Adam last year. I have suffered nerve damage in my back and was being treated with morphine and steroid injections into my spine to lessen the pain. The steroid injections offered relief for about one week. I eventually had to leave my job as a teacher, and took early retirement.

Before attending Adam's workshop, a colleague who had been following Adam's career, went to a session with Adam. She visualized me and prayed for an improvement in my condition. The following work week, as always she asked me how I was feeling, and I couldn't explain to her how happy I felt, and for 4 days, I was completely pain free. I was able to walk, and to experience joy in my everyday routines. Only after the pain returned, did my colleague let me know that she had attended Adam's workshop, and had prayed for me. That was the motivation for my attending Adam's workshop last year.

At the workshop, I was overwhelmed by the needs in the audience. I wept for most of the session. I participated in the visualizations, and took the exercises home with me. Every evening, before going to bed, I would practise the visualization. I continued to do so, and realized that I had gone 8 weeks before returning to the hospital for a steroid injection, and that my doses of morphine dropped to just enough to avoid withdrawal. It was like a window opened for me.

My surgery which was scheduled for the summer of 2007 has been postponed. Much to my relief. The two surgeons who were to do the surgery agree, that if I have pain relief enough to have some quality of life, it would be best to postpone the surgery, which unfortunately would result in a loss of mobility to address my nerve pain.

I am attending the Feb. 18/07 workshop at the urgings of the same colleague who introduced me to Adam, his writings, and his workshop. Neither of us can afford the registration fee, yet we have agreed to go together. My colleague feels strongly in the power of numbers praying together, and she graciously is praying for me, and is attending the workshop to visualize with me for the healing of my back.

The fact that I can function, gives me a positive outlook on the remainder of my life. I saw no life for myself other than one filled with pain. There was no quality there.

I am now no longer house bound. In combination with Adam's intervention and my medical treatments. I have a quality of life that was never expected by me or my surgeons. The fact that my treatments are growing further apart, and my intake of medication has been so greatly reduced, I am attending the next session with Adam to see if even more improvement is possible.