Dr. Tabatha Barber had cancer, Crohn's disease, and severe mold poisoning that swelled her feet. She realized her "fight" mindset was fueling inflammation, so she switched to visualizing cheerful Minions removing toxins from her body during meditation. The shift reduced her symptoms and helped her recover.
It was one of the most important things I did. And I continue to have to work 'cause there's times when something won't go right and I won't like, I just was in London 2 weeks ago, massive mold exposure. My feet swelled up again like big elephant ankles. But this time I was like, I'm gonna put my feet up and take this as an opportunity just to rest and it'll go down. And gosh, this is pretty ugly, but it's okay. My body's just trying. And I have a different program around that now. And I think it's so important that we talk about that because the last story. I was got over cancer, got over Crohn's disease, living my life, started getting mold exposure and got really, really sick again in my late 30s. And I realized one day on my walk and my prayer meditation that the same program, which was fight cancer, fight Crohn's, I'm going to win, I'm going to survive, I'm gonna beat the you know what out of this disease. That program I just described mold-related illness and mast cell. It's a vicious cycle where your own body is Fighting and fighting so hard that it's causing internal damage and illness and potentially death. The day I realized that fight, that whole program around fight was not serving me and was probably going to kill me, I changed it. And I thought, I have to think of a visualization. I chose the minions, the little yellow guys in the movies, Despicable Me. And I thought, that's my immune system. And now today, from today on, this was about— 2 years ago. Maybe 8 years ago, I'm going to meditate on minions and imagine them helping the toxicity out of my body with cheerful whistling happiness and joy. And there's no fighting and there's no damage. And I've totally changed my immune system by visualizing minions because I knew that fight, that hatred of myself, that belief that my body was failing me was actually slowly killing me.
