If you want to achieve a certain outcome, in this case healing, put your attention on those who’ve gotten the results you want. Find out what they did that worked. Let them inspire you to believe it’s possible. Set your world up so that you are constantly exposed to people who are healing themselves, and limit your exposure to those who’d rather just commiserate about their pain. The beliefs of the people you rub up against will influence you, so rub up against those who believe healing is possible and who’ve taken action to get well.

Then take action.

Want more inspiration? Read The Silver Lining of Illness or go back to the main page to Get Inspired.

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I read the book in one sitting – it’s that readable and captivating. And I want to share a few quotes from it that feel really fitting as I launch this site.

“Many of us confuse hope with optimism, a prevailing attitude that ‘things turn out for the best.’ But hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to ‘think positively,’ or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality. Although there is no uniform definition of hope, I found one that seemed to capture what my patients had taught me. Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see – in the mind’s eye – a path to a better future. Hope acknowledges the significant obstacles and deep pitfalls along that path. True hope has no room for delusion.

“Clear-eyed, hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them. For all my patients, hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform. Only well into my career did I come to realize this.”