The Farmer's Visualization
Powerful lessons from an elderly farmer ...

We had been visiting an elderly farmer for several weeks. On one of my visits I found that he had changed rooms. He explained to me that although he had asked to bring his pictures with him, somehow the transfer had not taken place. When I asked him what he would prefer he requested some wildlife; in particular the wolf picture that had been hanging in his previous room. "Powerful beasts," I commented. "They're very popular these days."

Arctic Wolf (Image by Art Wolfe)

"Yup," he commented. "I rather like that wolf. You know why? Every time the nurse comes in and hooks up my chemotherapy, I visualize that wolf coming into my bloodstream and swallowing up each and every one of those cancer cells."

I was so overcome that I retrieved his picture immediately and added three more wolf images to his walls.