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Dying to be Me: 
My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True healing

Anita Moorjani

“I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don’t lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can’t understand what is without. I share my story .. in the hope of touching your heart in some way and reminding you of your own magnificence” ...Anita Moorjani

It is not an autobiography in true sense. It is best call it a memoir. It focuses on less than a decade of the author's life, when she experienced a miraculous healing from cancer. This book is about healing, about spirituality and shows us once more our roots. I was not able to put this book down once I started reading it.

Anita Moorjani is a speaker and intercultural consultant for multinational corporations. After suffering from cancer (end stage lymphoma) for about four years, her organs started shutting down in 2006 and she went in to a deep coma.  The author mentions that she experienced afterlife in the near death experience. After she revived from her comatose state, her body started to heal and within months she was free from cancer. "Dying to be me" is her book on this incredulous episode of her life.

In 2002, Anita was working in Hong Kong when she was diagnosed with lymphoma whcih all started with a lump in her neck. Though she rejected conventional medicine initially, she subsequently underwent several conventional treatments as her attempts for treating her condition with alternative methods failed. The lymphoma had spread throughout her body and had metastasized. Towards the later phase there were tumor growths all over the upper part of her body, her lungs were perpetually filled with fluid, and she was on oxygen. Her doctors proclaimed that she was in the final hours of her life. She went in to coma.

It was then that Anita experience her near death experience. There were some aspects of her experience which are common to other such experiences and some that were special to her. I, from my own knowledge, am aware that the NDEs are not the same for everyone; there are some fundamental commonalities, like a few near and dear ones coming to receive you and awareness of what is going on in space surrounding the physical body, but there are also lot of differences. Anita mentions that she was persuaded to return to her physical body by the souls of her deceased father and a deceased friend.

Subsequent to her revival from coma, Anita experience an almost spontaneous cure. Within five weeks, she was free from cancer and released from hospital. All her tumors were gone.

Some of the messages that came across to me are:

• For true joy and happiness look inward, do that which bring joy to you
• Love yourself for what you are, and then and only then can you aspire to touch Godliness.
• Live from your heart. Permit your head to work on those things that your heart (soul) allows.
• Do not combat a negative feeling. Acknowledge it. It will play out. The more one tries to combat a negative feeling, stronger it becomes. And what is more important is that stop judging yourself by your negative feelings.

“I can’t say this strongly enough, but our feelings about ourselves are actually the most important barometer for determining the condition of our lives! In other words, being true to ourselves is more important than just trying to stay positive!’

                                               .......Anita Moorjani

Namaste

Prabir

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