I want to tell you something you are
more powerful than cancer
hey come on les that’s right I know that
cancer is perhaps the most feared word
in any language no one ever want to hear
the words you have cancer I’ll never
forget when I found out in fact I was
doing a prostate cancer awareness
program I heard about general Norman
Schwarzkopf Sidney Poitier Harry
Belafonte having prostate cancer I was
on radio and in New York City and I
decided to have an awareness program and
called a doctor to be my expert he said
let me ask you mr. Brown how old are you
yes i’m 52 he said have you had a
prostate examination I said no I haven’t
well you know you should have been
having him years ago so why don’t you
come in and have the test so you are
able to speak from experience you want
to encourage guys to do something that
you haven’t done I said okay no problem
I came in I talked to him about being my
expert on the radio three days later he
called me back he said mr. Brown I said
yes what made you come in well I told
you I’m going to do an awareness program
and I like to have you as my expert he
said let me ask you a few questions have
you been suffering from lower back pain
so I said no he said what about getting
up in the middle of night urinating I
said no I said Holdeman why are you
asking me these questions well I just
want you to come in I want I want to
talk to you about the results no tell me
now you know I’m no kid I’m not thin
skin just tell me what’s going on he
said are you sure I said yes he said you
have prostate cancer I said what he said
you have prostate cancer I say come on
Wow
really at first it didn’t really sink in
went in to take some other tests and had
that horrible I had that horrible test
that they give us when they check your
prostate if you’ve ever had experience
you know what I’m talking about
whew and they confirmed it and then I
had to determine what I was going to do
and I must say that it was frightening
but I had to do some things and I and
I’m going to share this with you number
one someone said to me in the midst of
all of that
mr. Brown I think I’ll sleep in an
airport lady woke me up and she said it
heard you have prostate cancer I said
yes she said you’re gonna find that it’s
a gift I say excuse me I take exception
to that and she went on about her
business and I really took exception
because my mother died of breast cancer
and it was a horrible disease but here’s
what I found out that she meant
gentleman by the name of dr. Shultz he
said cancer is a gift because it gives
you an opportunity to become responsible
to become enlightened and to become
empowered this is absolutely true
see what I did was rather than just take
the first thing that was suggested to me
of what I should do I became responsible
and I started doing research trying to
find out what are the things that I need
to do what kind of danger was I in I
started reading everything I could I
started asking people questions people
who had already gone through it I asked
them what did you do somebody said well
I had the radical prostatectomy what did
you do well I did radiation seed
implants what do you do well I had a
crown surgery you know I had it frozen I
talked to everybody I researched I
became actively involved in the process
I read tons of books and talked to a lot
of people and I did a lot of other
things in the process I am also went to
healers I had people praying for me
I traveled places for what into the
country to the other went out of the
country somebody told me about a lenient
of down in Mexico they drove me at a
pickup truck
it’s amazing what you do when you are
diagnosed with a life-threatening
disease and so on I never forget they
took me this isolated area like a farm
someplace it was late at night by one or
two o’clock at morning took me in this
rule of there by myself a light hanging
out for the ceiling and and I was
sitting in a chair and so this lady
comes in with a Bible and she’s known to
have these Healing Hands and someone had
recommended this person to me because
they had a relative who went there and
this lady prayed for them and they were
healed and so I said okay I’ll try
I was in that area anyhow to give a
speech and so I went out there so she
came in she spoke in Spanish to her son
and he said my mother said take your
clothes off and so I went in another
room and I took my clothes off and I
came and I said back in the chair in my
underwear he said everything I said okay
so I took the other way off I said it’s
here so she came back here I’m sitting
with my head’s all crossed in front of
me and so she came in reading the Bible
in Spanish and she had a big on her head
and she took the bow here going through
this lady’s praying in Spanish I can’t
understand a word then she touched me a
few times and I gave up $200 and then
they drove me back to the hotel reading
all kind of healing books I was good to
all kind of prayer services I creased by
ties about 30 percent I became very
spiritual oh it’s amazing how severe do
you think you go I’ve been so bathing
how spirit you get what you think you go
die right video I was running I was on
the run I was scared and I found people
talking to me and people who had once
encouraged and motivated and inspired
now they were telling me the same things
I used to tell them ice not even
listening to my old tape said say
something to be motivated say something
and something arm Zig Ziglar said that
fear is false evidence appearing real
I was being driven by my fear I was
afraid and so one of the first things
that I think it’s important that you do
is mobilize your mind and spirit see
when the Wright brothers first had
people come out to see them lifted
aircraft off the ground was only up in
the air for just a few seconds what they
knew was
if we can hold up for just a few seconds
it’s possible we can do it longer and
then it dawned on me if a Lance
Armstrong and other people that I’ve met
and and he had a 5% chance of survival
if he could survive and look at what
he’s doing with his life then it’s
possible that I can survive and that if
you or I know people who survive for
years living with cancer over nine to
ten million people that are living with
cancer then it’s possible that we can be
among that number many people are dying
not from the disease but from their
minds that if that if you have a
fatalistic mindset that this is your
destiny that you’re going to die it’s a
death sentence then you’re out of here
so first of all what I want you to know
regardless of how serious your condition
might appear to be judge not according
to appearances that I want you to know
in spite of what the doctors might have
said to you in spite of the pain and the
conditions and all of the the numbers
that they’re sharing with you what I
want you to begin to know is that it’s
possible that you can survive I’m not
saying that you can and I’m saying that
you don’t use and follow the directions
of your doctor I’m saying that first of
all before anything can take place
you’ve got to believe in your heart of
hearts that it’s possible that you can
beat this now here’s the other thing is
it’s necessary see some people ladies
and gentlemen go down without a fight
all of us gonna die one day how do we
know that from the day we’re born with
no we’re going to go
nobody has survived life you can’t get
out of life alive you’ve got to die live
here
however we I believe can be participants
we can be active participants and our
being here or we can be victims we can
allow someone to tell us when we’re
going in fact I remember reading a book
called the dynamic laws of healing about
two men who received a report after
going to get a physical examination from
the doctor one said you have a clean
bill of health your health is great
and he left there and and went on about
his business and lived for another 20 to
30 years the other was told that his
health was in danger that he perhaps had
three to four months to live
and he should get his affairs in order
because of the life terminating illness
that he was suffering with and sure
enough this guy died within three months
years later it was discovered it was a
clerical error many people died because
of their mindset because of their belief
because they give up because they
surrender because they give more power
to the disease than they give to
themselves I read something once it said
there are no incurable diseases
they’re just incurable people so you’ve
got to decide you’ve got to say it’s
possible that I can beat this and it’s
necessary
you’ve got to mobilize your mind and
your spirit it’s necessary that I do
this there’s nothing as powerful as a
maid of mine I remember reading the
biology of hope by dr. Norman Cousins
who who laughed his way back to wellness
and he talked about that that laughter
just that that that produces endorphins
it’s inner jogging and and that as a
result of of watching a lot of funny
movies and I laugh a lot I big myself
laugh I’d do a whole lot of stuff to
help myself stay here but most
importantly talked about the biology of
hope that when there’s hope in the
future that gives you power in the
present that as you begin to believe
that it’s possible that I can find a
solution that there is a healing that
there is a cure for me and that it’s
necessary I’m not through yet
I’ve got some things I’ve got to do I’ve
got some purpose that I’ve got to
fulfill I’m not three I got
grandchildren I’m gonna see my
great-grandchildren a sermon that’s
incomplete I’m not through yet
I’m not going out like this I’m gonna
fight and it’s necessary that you make
some different choices you got to
mobilize your mind is spirit and you’ve
got to make choices that indicate to
your body that you plan to be here
what you put in your mouth being
selected we know that in order to stay
here longer we’ve got to start eating
more vegetables and more fruits we know
this you got to decide you got to fur
nothing tastes as good as health feels
I’d never forget what I went to a Health
Institute for so called Tim and I’m
terminally ill patients and and they
told us it was in California told us not
to leave the premises because of the
fact that if you go out off the premises
through advertising and everything that
you see the billboards it’s gonna create
a hunger and thirst and you’re gonna eat
junk food and you’re in the room you
can’t have television you don’t get
newspapers radio nothing you’re really
cut off you’re isolated in this healing
environment well the people next door to
me had just gotten there and I can hear
them talking through the door and they
were disgruntled because the family
members wanted to stay with the family
member who had cancer there but they
wanted to eat regular food is that we
don’t have cancer there’s a Colonel
Sanders up the road there we just want
to go up there we eat it there and we’ll
come back we won’t bring it back here
well I heard that and I said I remember
that Colonel Sanders
so I decided wow I want some chicken but
I I don’t want to eat a lot of chicken
I like the tips of the wing I I just
wanna a typical way make just a wing
that’s all you know one little Wayne
won’t kill me so I sneaked off the
campus and started walking in the
direction of Colonel Sanders and I saw
the sign in a distance and I picked up a
little truck as I got closer there I
heard a voice I said dr. Martin Luther
King jr. died in Memphis Tennessee for
garbage collectors helping them to gain
their civil rights Malcolm X took the
bullets so african-americans could have
the ballots and the voices in my head
start talking about other great people
who died for great causes and then a
voice said Les Brown died for a chicken
wings so by the time I got there I came
in this covered our face
I’m not gonna dive for chicken wings
she said well don’t oh my god
so I left and I went back on the campus
and I followed the program I started
taking wheatgrass meeting all kind of
rabid food exercising doing yoga prayer
somebody said that cancer cells the
cells gone crazy you’ve got to mobilize
your mind and spirit and get stress out
of your life and just calm yourself and
get centered and and begin to focus on
healing yourself disease this is this
dis-ease in your body so it’s necessary
that you start making good choices in
terms of your eating habits everything I
put in my mouth says to my body I plan
to be here and we have to start moving
our red were just exercise alone three
times a week will decrease by 30% one
getting cancer or decrease by 32% cancer
spreading three times a week well I said
wait a minute they say I have prostate
cancer
so I started exercising three times a
day seven days a week I wanted to say to
my body I’m serious I don’t plan to have
cancer for the rest of my life this is
not going to take me out so the other
thing that’s important is ask for help
not because you’re weak but you want to
remain strong and as for helping don’t
stop until you get in so I started
talking to other people who had gone
through my experience and we became
support for each other
it’s very important that we start
talking and sharing and communicating
our fears and our reservations and and
looking at different options I decided
to take an option after examining a lot
of things that I felt that had the
minimum amount of risk for me and that
was be suitable for me and for my
lifestyle of traveling and doing all the
things that I do the other thing that’s
important is not only must you mobilize
your mind and spirit and have a regiment
for yourself
prayer and meditation of exercise of
eating correctly of taking a variety of
herbs and I mean I took everything well
which ones do you recommend well I was
taking so many they were fighting inside
of me and said get back that’s my job
don’t know get back no need oh come on
we grass you get back get back saw
palmetto and zinc and vitamin E and
selenium IV I was taking everything some
days I say EBT buddy-boy this is a crazy
man worried here we need to get out of
here you gonna kill everybody so other
than you gotta have a sense of humor you
got to laugh I don’t know chase but you
if you don’t learn to laugh at yourself
it’s in this and sometimes you have
allowed to keep from crying
you will drive you crazy now so I find a
lot of things laughing don’t let the
little kid die within you I laugh quite
a lot so and I found out that just one
minute of anger according to the laws of
psychoneuroimmunology weakens your
immune system for four to five hours but
one minute one minute of laughter boosts
your immune system for over 24 hours I
say get out of here so I’m quite a lot
okay by the time you can do listen to
this you ain’t gonna get sick for 10
years okay
I heal it is here already the only thing
is this as you look at yourself look in
the future ask yourself this question
what’s your reason for being here I
never get my men to talk unless you go
die I said why would you say that Mike
he’s are you scrambling and running
scared just trying to live but why what
will be different because you’re here
what would you do with the time that you
have left what’s your assignment what’s
the purpose of your life Nietzsche said
if you know the why for living you can
endure almost any how where are you less
in terms of your dreams in terms of your
gifts and abilities in terms of your
contribution wow I’ve done some things I
feel good about but I feel that I have a
lot more to give and I start searching
myself and thinking about improving what
would I
do with the time that I had left and one
of the things I think that’s very
important you don’t have time to sit
around feeling sorry for yourself you
we’re not given the luxury of being
depressed you’ve got to get actively
involved in doing something that gives
your life a sense of meaning and purpose
and power the statistics indicate that
more people die after Christmas than any
other time of the year perhaps they’ve
said Lord I just want to see one more
Christmas so therefore I got some new
goals find some goals that you can
immerse yourself in find some things
that you can do that resonates with your
spirit that gives your life a sense of
meaning and purpose many times when I
was in pain and uncomfortable by
becoming involved in other things and
not focusing on me and giving away my
love and my support and my energy and my
focus on something else it decrease my
feeling sad or being depressed and it
decreased my physical discomfort so what
is it that you can immerse yourself in
what is it that can give your life a
sense of meaning and purpose now I’m not
saying go out and just wear yourself out
you’ve got to get proper rest and sleep
but find something that gives your life
a sense of meaning I believe that we all
have an assignment and all of us showed
up to do something that we must do
before we leave finding something a
cause greater than yourself
maybe participating in a marathon maybe
finding something in your community or
in your church that can give your life a
sense of meaning and from involving
yourself in Church alone has its
benefits of healing and strengthening
your immune system and give you a sense
of comfort being around in a spiritual
environment reading scripture getting up
in the morning spiritualizing your
thoughts all of those things I think are
very important they’ve been very helpful
to me the other thing I think that’s
very important is detoxify your life you
know even though there are a lot of
people that’s dying because of what they
eat because they say 87 percent of
cancers can be avoided by changing a
lifestyle even millions are dying
because of what’s eating them detoxify
your life there’s some people ladies
gentlemen that are not good for you
you have got to look at your life look
at the people in your life and ask the
question what is this relationship doing
to me I want you to keep this in mind
love those who love you more and devote
yourself less to those who don’t there’s
some people no matter what you do no
matter what you give them
they’re not going to love you there’s
some people that are not good for you
there’s some people that if you fool
around with them long enough will send
you to an early grave that will drive
your blood pressure up that will turn
your hair gray overnight there’s a new
terminology and psychiatry called
relational illness you’ve heard people
say you make me sick some people can
make you sick can make you sick I’m
telling you I like what George
Washington said he said it’s better to
be alone than to wish you were killing
you for so who is that you need to get
out of your life you need to ask
yourself the question what is this
relationship doing to me you might be
your spouse it might be your children
might be friends might be your job
making you sick stressing you out and
you being a volunteer victim are you
willing to die for it
have you so indulge in such a level of
self-loathing that that life no longer
has any more meaning and value and that
you are just ready to surrender are you
there I hope you’re not life happens to
all of us I’ve got a saying on one of my
my motivational messages when life
knocks you down trying to land on your
back because if you could look up you
can get up I mean in a very short period
of time my mother was diagnosed with
breast cancer and she passed I was
diagnosed with prostate cancer I went
through a divorce from someone that I
loved very much my best friend he died
just all kinds of things happened to me
I had a nationally syndicated show that
was cancelled a lot of things happened
to me all at once it’s called life and
it’s not personal you can’t say well why
did this have to happen to me why not
you that’s all signed and said when
things go wrong
go with them it’s possible that in spite
of everything that’s going on right now
that you can survive and it’s necessary
that you take charge that you begin to
stand up with inside of yourself that
you dry your tears and you know you’re
not given the luxury of feeling sorry
for yourself that you get busy you start
doing research and asking questions that
you got to get in a fighting mode you
can’t surrender you in order to beat
cancer you can’t be a chump you got to
fight back you got to stand up and start
so wait a minute what is that I need to
do you got to make yourself move even if
it hurts do something move a finger do
something a friend of mine father was
dying from prostate cancer and she said
you better get up you better get up and
start moving and he started moving and
and he’s still here he’s still here
still moving still fighting and still
living a life of contribution it’s
possible it’s necessary it’s you it’s
not your doctor it’s not your family
it’s not the medication that’s not the
herbs it’s you Elsie Robinson said
things were happening around you and
things were happen to you but the only
things that really count are the things
that happened in you many people have
been written off and said this one won’t
survive and they did recently a young
lady was bitten by bat had rabies didn’t
have the shot nobody in the history of
the world ever survived without rabies
shots once they’ve been bitten and
gotten rabies she survived first one in
the world Hey now everybody know it’s
possible it’s possible it’s you it’s you
your your your immune system your belief
your faith your drive your determination
your persistence your perseverance your
spirit greater is He that is in you and
what’s out here in this world it’s you
you got to talk to yourself sometimes
healing takes place first in the spirit
you got to talk to yourself I would go
for walks and say every step every day
and everywhere
getting better and better every step I
take I’m getting better and better
and it’s hard
mmm I wish I can tell you all you have
to do is just think positive and be
enthusiastic and everything gonna be all
white ain’t that kind of party it’s hard
I never forget us in the hospital about
four or five different doctors came in
everybody wanted to check me out and
give you a prostate examination all
these new students that say hey shop is
closed today no I’m giving you our
permission to share nerds notes ain’t
nobody coming up here today no no I
ain’t showing y’all know everybody
looking I turn it over no garden at all
to talk to each other though ain’t
nobody looking at me Paul could be
snicker be no I ain’t going to no
chamber today no churches out oh my god
it’s hard sitting up in the hospital in
a little gown people cover their ear by
looking at each other some people I
wonder why they’re in the hospital I saw
what man bald-headed got a little too in
his dog walker our oxygen too little
oxygen tank and smoke it I was they look
give me that give it a tic take that
thing out your nose you ain’t trying to
leave take your little ball here but oh
you try to live hey I’m trying to live
love look tell me what I need to do to
cooperate with the process what I found
a lot of people are live they want to
die I think we should let them go
don’t waste medicine and time and energy
in the hospital space oh you still smoke
it no problem great don’t come here go
oh you you know didn’t we tell you to
get that that fat off you oh you don’t
want to exercise you just wanna cover
your waist I tell you got that does dude
oh don’t bring that up in here no no you
got to do what’s necessary to keep you
here it’s hard I know it’s hard but do
it hard it’s hard keeping your spirits
up getting up every day knowing and
feeling that death is watching over you
so you better sleep with one eye open
because I’m waiting
on you it’s hard to keep your spirits up
to be motivated to be encouraging and
people stop speaking to you because they
think you’re dying
and don’t let about you somebody they
show ain’t gonna come around this is
hard when you’re hurting when doctors
are telling you all kinds of things it’s
hard with all these messages in your
head it’s hard you got bills you got
responsibilities it’s hard easy it’s not
an option but it’s worth fighting is
worth believing it’s worth giving
yourself a chance is worth mustering
yourself up standing up inside yourself
it’s worth fighting relentlessly never
giving up is worth it when you think
about life is God’s gift to us and how
we live our lives is our gift to God
it’s worth fighting a good fight it’s
worth continuing to find all of the
information and research that’s out
there and experimenting and looking at
and trying and testing different ways is
worth being around motivated positive
people is worth being up-tempo it’s easy
to have faith it feel good when you’re
feeling good and you have no pain and
your bills of pain and your children
acting like they have good sense and you
got a clean bill of health from the
doctor it’s easy to be motivated then
but when that’s not the situation it’s
hard when you look in the mirror and you
don’t see the person that you once saw
when you’re going through all type of
medical examinations and you don’t know
what’s going on and they’re giving you
conflict and information it’s hard to
keep your spirits together but it’s
worth it you can do it you can do it I’m
telling you what I know you’re more
powerful than you realize you’ve had
some experiences you’ve gone through
some stuff already
maybe this is just the beginning well
maybe you’ve seen someone going through
some things right now it’s hard to see
someone that you love suffering I
remember when my mother was dying of
breast cancer it was hard being there
with her praying with her and here this
woman who adopted my brothers and
sisters and I and
and and and when I fell as a kid she
would kiss the part to make it well and
and and and there I was my protective my
strength my best friend I couldn’t do
anything I couldn’t take Mama’s place
I couldn’t replace the pain I couldn’t
stop the pain all I could do is pray
with it hold a hand it’s hard life is
hard sometimes but I here’s out here’s
what I know that in spite of the things
that we are experiencing we don’t just
want to go through them we want to grow
through them and when you do I can tell
you that you will discover some things
about yourself you take the time to pray
that you will you step into a zone when
you give it the best that you can when
you keep on trying you’re seeking you’re
asking you’re knocking something happens
it’s like the universe opens up I
believe in angels and and I’m a product
of people praying for me and my praying
for myself I’m a product of exercise and
prayer and meditation and and eating a
lot of rabbit food
I dream about stuff I used to need every
day I want it so badly but nothing
tastes as good as health feels hey I
know from my own life you are more
powerful than cancer and if you want to
want no more once you contact me at Les
Brown comm and I’ll share with you a
regimen that I go through prayers and
affirmations and and fun activities and
things that I do and and healing
workshops and seminars and support teams
healing teams that we’ve organized that
might have some value for you you are
more powerful than cancer I wish you the
very best it’s possible that you can win
this battle and it’s necessary and it’s
you and it’s hard and it’s worth it and
once you know it’s worth it stick a fork
in it
it’s done you heal healing takes place
first in the spirit judge not according
to appearances my favorite book says you
must call forth those things that be not as though they were
more powerful than cancer
hey come on les that’s right I know that
cancer is perhaps the most feared word
in any language no one ever want to hear
the words you have cancer I’ll never
forget when I found out in fact I was
doing a prostate cancer awareness
program I heard about general Norman
Schwarzkopf Sidney Poitier Harry
Belafonte having prostate cancer I was
on radio and in New York City and I
decided to have an awareness program and
called a doctor to be my expert he said
let me ask you mr. Brown how old are you
yes i’m 52 he said have you had a
prostate examination I said no I haven’t
well you know you should have been
having him years ago so why don’t you
come in and have the test so you are
able to speak from experience you want
to encourage guys to do something that
you haven’t done I said okay no problem
I came in I talked to him about being my
expert on the radio three days later he
called me back he said mr. Brown I said
yes what made you come in well I told
you I’m going to do an awareness program
and I like to have you as my expert he
said let me ask you a few questions have
you been suffering from lower back pain
so I said no he said what about getting
up in the middle of night urinating I
said no I said Holdeman why are you
asking me these questions well I just
want you to come in I want I want to
talk to you about the results no tell me
now you know I’m no kid I’m not thin
skin just tell me what’s going on he
said are you sure I said yes he said you
have prostate cancer I said what he said
you have prostate cancer I say come on
Wow
really at first it didn’t really sink in
went in to take some other tests and had
that horrible I had that horrible test
that they give us when they check your
prostate if you’ve ever had experience
you know what I’m talking about
whew and they confirmed it and then I
had to determine what I was going to do
and I must say that it was frightening
but I had to do some things and I and
I’m going to share this with you number
one someone said to me in the midst of
all of that
mr. Brown I think I’ll sleep in an
airport lady woke me up and she said it
heard you have prostate cancer I said
yes she said you’re gonna find that it’s
a gift I say excuse me I take exception
to that and she went on about her
business and I really took exception
because my mother died of breast cancer
and it was a horrible disease but here’s
what I found out that she meant
gentleman by the name of dr. Shultz he
said cancer is a gift because it gives
you an opportunity to become responsible
to become enlightened and to become
empowered this is absolutely true
see what I did was rather than just take
the first thing that was suggested to me
of what I should do I became responsible
and I started doing research trying to
find out what are the things that I need
to do what kind of danger was I in I
started reading everything I could I
started asking people questions people
who had already gone through it I asked
them what did you do somebody said well
I had the radical prostatectomy what did
you do well I did radiation seed
implants what do you do well I had a
crown surgery you know I had it frozen I
talked to everybody I researched I
became actively involved in the process
I read tons of books and talked to a lot
of people and I did a lot of other
things in the process I am also went to
healers I had people praying for me
I traveled places for what into the
country to the other went out of the
country somebody told me about a lenient
of down in Mexico they drove me at a
pickup truck
it’s amazing what you do when you are
diagnosed with a life-threatening
disease and so on I never forget they
took me this isolated area like a farm
someplace it was late at night by one or
two o’clock at morning took me in this
rule of there by myself a light hanging
out for the ceiling and and I was
sitting in a chair and so this lady
comes in with a Bible and she’s known to
have these Healing Hands and someone had
recommended this person to me because
they had a relative who went there and
this lady prayed for them and they were
healed and so I said okay I’ll try
I was in that area anyhow to give a
speech and so I went out there so she
came in she spoke in Spanish to her son
and he said my mother said take your
clothes off and so I went in another
room and I took my clothes off and I
came and I said back in the chair in my
underwear he said everything I said okay
so I took the other way off I said it’s
here so she came back here I’m sitting
with my head’s all crossed in front of
me and so she came in reading the Bible
in Spanish and she had a big on her head
and she took the bow here going through
this lady’s praying in Spanish I can’t
understand a word then she touched me a
few times and I gave up $200 and then
they drove me back to the hotel reading
all kind of healing books I was good to
all kind of prayer services I creased by
ties about 30 percent I became very
spiritual oh it’s amazing how severe do
you think you go I’ve been so bathing
how spirit you get what you think you go
die right video I was running I was on
the run I was scared and I found people
talking to me and people who had once
encouraged and motivated and inspired
now they were telling me the same things
I used to tell them ice not even
listening to my old tape said say
something to be motivated say something
and something arm Zig Ziglar said that
fear is false evidence appearing real
I was being driven by my fear I was
afraid and so one of the first things
that I think it’s important that you do
is mobilize your mind and spirit see
when the Wright brothers first had
people come out to see them lifted
aircraft off the ground was only up in
the air for just a few seconds what they
knew was
if we can hold up for just a few seconds
it’s possible we can do it longer and
then it dawned on me if a Lance
Armstrong and other people that I’ve met
and and he had a 5% chance of survival
if he could survive and look at what
he’s doing with his life then it’s
possible that I can survive and that if
you or I know people who survive for
years living with cancer over nine to
ten million people that are living with
cancer then it’s possible that we can be
among that number many people are dying
not from the disease but from their
minds that if that if you have a
fatalistic mindset that this is your
destiny that you’re going to die it’s a
death sentence then you’re out of here
so first of all what I want you to know
regardless of how serious your condition
might appear to be judge not according
to appearances that I want you to know
in spite of what the doctors might have
said to you in spite of the pain and the
conditions and all of the the numbers
that they’re sharing with you what I
want you to begin to know is that it’s
possible that you can survive I’m not
saying that you can and I’m saying that
you don’t use and follow the directions
of your doctor I’m saying that first of
all before anything can take place
you’ve got to believe in your heart of
hearts that it’s possible that you can
beat this now here’s the other thing is
it’s necessary see some people ladies
and gentlemen go down without a fight
all of us gonna die one day how do we
know that from the day we’re born with
no we’re going to go
nobody has survived life you can’t get
out of life alive you’ve got to die live
here
however we I believe can be participants
we can be active participants and our
being here or we can be victims we can
allow someone to tell us when we’re
going in fact I remember reading a book
called the dynamic laws of healing about
two men who received a report after
going to get a physical examination from
the doctor one said you have a clean
bill of health your health is great
and he left there and and went on about
his business and lived for another 20 to
30 years the other was told that his
health was in danger that he perhaps had
three to four months to live
and he should get his affairs in order
because of the life terminating illness
that he was suffering with and sure
enough this guy died within three months
years later it was discovered it was a
clerical error many people died because
of their mindset because of their belief
because they give up because they
surrender because they give more power
to the disease than they give to
themselves I read something once it said
there are no incurable diseases
they’re just incurable people so you’ve
got to decide you’ve got to say it’s
possible that I can beat this and it’s
necessary
you’ve got to mobilize your mind and
your spirit it’s necessary that I do
this there’s nothing as powerful as a
maid of mine I remember reading the
biology of hope by dr. Norman Cousins
who who laughed his way back to wellness
and he talked about that that laughter
just that that that produces endorphins
it’s inner jogging and and that as a
result of of watching a lot of funny
movies and I laugh a lot I big myself
laugh I’d do a whole lot of stuff to
help myself stay here but most
importantly talked about the biology of
hope that when there’s hope in the
future that gives you power in the
present that as you begin to believe
that it’s possible that I can find a
solution that there is a healing that
there is a cure for me and that it’s
necessary I’m not through yet
I’ve got some things I’ve got to do I’ve
got some purpose that I’ve got to
fulfill I’m not three I got
grandchildren I’m gonna see my
great-grandchildren a sermon that’s
incomplete I’m not through yet
I’m not going out like this I’m gonna
fight and it’s necessary that you make
some different choices you got to
mobilize your mind is spirit and you’ve
got to make choices that indicate to
your body that you plan to be here
what you put in your mouth being
selected we know that in order to stay
here longer we’ve got to start eating
more vegetables and more fruits we know
this you got to decide you got to fur
nothing tastes as good as health feels
I’d never forget what I went to a Health
Institute for so called Tim and I’m
terminally ill patients and and they
told us it was in California told us not
to leave the premises because of the
fact that if you go out off the premises
through advertising and everything that
you see the billboards it’s gonna create
a hunger and thirst and you’re gonna eat
junk food and you’re in the room you
can’t have television you don’t get
newspapers radio nothing you’re really
cut off you’re isolated in this healing
environment well the people next door to
me had just gotten there and I can hear
them talking through the door and they
were disgruntled because the family
members wanted to stay with the family
member who had cancer there but they
wanted to eat regular food is that we
don’t have cancer there’s a Colonel
Sanders up the road there we just want
to go up there we eat it there and we’ll
come back we won’t bring it back here
well I heard that and I said I remember
that Colonel Sanders
so I decided wow I want some chicken but
I I don’t want to eat a lot of chicken
I like the tips of the wing I I just
wanna a typical way make just a wing
that’s all you know one little Wayne
won’t kill me so I sneaked off the
campus and started walking in the
direction of Colonel Sanders and I saw
the sign in a distance and I picked up a
little truck as I got closer there I
heard a voice I said dr. Martin Luther
King jr. died in Memphis Tennessee for
garbage collectors helping them to gain
their civil rights Malcolm X took the
bullets so african-americans could have
the ballots and the voices in my head
start talking about other great people
who died for great causes and then a
voice said Les Brown died for a chicken
wings so by the time I got there I came
in this covered our face
I’m not gonna dive for chicken wings
she said well don’t oh my god
so I left and I went back on the campus
and I followed the program I started
taking wheatgrass meeting all kind of
rabid food exercising doing yoga prayer
somebody said that cancer cells the
cells gone crazy you’ve got to mobilize
your mind and spirit and get stress out
of your life and just calm yourself and
get centered and and begin to focus on
healing yourself disease this is this
dis-ease in your body so it’s necessary
that you start making good choices in
terms of your eating habits everything I
put in my mouth says to my body I plan
to be here and we have to start moving
our red were just exercise alone three
times a week will decrease by 30% one
getting cancer or decrease by 32% cancer
spreading three times a week well I said
wait a minute they say I have prostate
cancer
so I started exercising three times a
day seven days a week I wanted to say to
my body I’m serious I don’t plan to have
cancer for the rest of my life this is
not going to take me out so the other
thing that’s important is ask for help
not because you’re weak but you want to
remain strong and as for helping don’t
stop until you get in so I started
talking to other people who had gone
through my experience and we became
support for each other
it’s very important that we start
talking and sharing and communicating
our fears and our reservations and and
looking at different options I decided
to take an option after examining a lot
of things that I felt that had the
minimum amount of risk for me and that
was be suitable for me and for my
lifestyle of traveling and doing all the
things that I do the other thing that’s
important is not only must you mobilize
your mind and spirit and have a regiment
for yourself
prayer and meditation of exercise of
eating correctly of taking a variety of
herbs and I mean I took everything well
which ones do you recommend well I was
taking so many they were fighting inside
of me and said get back that’s my job
don’t know get back no need oh come on
we grass you get back get back saw
palmetto and zinc and vitamin E and
selenium IV I was taking everything some
days I say EBT buddy-boy this is a crazy
man worried here we need to get out of
here you gonna kill everybody so other
than you gotta have a sense of humor you
got to laugh I don’t know chase but you
if you don’t learn to laugh at yourself
it’s in this and sometimes you have
allowed to keep from crying
you will drive you crazy now so I find a
lot of things laughing don’t let the
little kid die within you I laugh quite
a lot so and I found out that just one
minute of anger according to the laws of
psychoneuroimmunology weakens your
immune system for four to five hours but
one minute one minute of laughter boosts
your immune system for over 24 hours I
say get out of here so I’m quite a lot
okay by the time you can do listen to
this you ain’t gonna get sick for 10
years okay
I heal it is here already the only thing
is this as you look at yourself look in
the future ask yourself this question
what’s your reason for being here I
never get my men to talk unless you go
die I said why would you say that Mike
he’s are you scrambling and running
scared just trying to live but why what
will be different because you’re here
what would you do with the time that you
have left what’s your assignment what’s
the purpose of your life Nietzsche said
if you know the why for living you can
endure almost any how where are you less
in terms of your dreams in terms of your
gifts and abilities in terms of your
contribution wow I’ve done some things I
feel good about but I feel that I have a
lot more to give and I start searching
myself and thinking about improving what
would I
do with the time that I had left and one
of the things I think that’s very
important you don’t have time to sit
around feeling sorry for yourself you
we’re not given the luxury of being
depressed you’ve got to get actively
involved in doing something that gives
your life a sense of meaning and purpose
and power the statistics indicate that
more people die after Christmas than any
other time of the year perhaps they’ve
said Lord I just want to see one more
Christmas so therefore I got some new
goals find some goals that you can
immerse yourself in find some things
that you can do that resonates with your
spirit that gives your life a sense of
meaning and purpose many times when I
was in pain and uncomfortable by
becoming involved in other things and
not focusing on me and giving away my
love and my support and my energy and my
focus on something else it decrease my
feeling sad or being depressed and it
decreased my physical discomfort so what
is it that you can immerse yourself in
what is it that can give your life a
sense of meaning and purpose now I’m not
saying go out and just wear yourself out
you’ve got to get proper rest and sleep
but find something that gives your life
a sense of meaning I believe that we all
have an assignment and all of us showed
up to do something that we must do
before we leave finding something a
cause greater than yourself
maybe participating in a marathon maybe
finding something in your community or
in your church that can give your life a
sense of meaning and from involving
yourself in Church alone has its
benefits of healing and strengthening
your immune system and give you a sense
of comfort being around in a spiritual
environment reading scripture getting up
in the morning spiritualizing your
thoughts all of those things I think are
very important they’ve been very helpful
to me the other thing I think that’s
very important is detoxify your life you
know even though there are a lot of
people that’s dying because of what they
eat because they say 87 percent of
cancers can be avoided by changing a
lifestyle even millions are dying
because of what’s eating them detoxify
your life there’s some people ladies
gentlemen that are not good for you
you have got to look at your life look
at the people in your life and ask the
question what is this relationship doing
to me I want you to keep this in mind
love those who love you more and devote
yourself less to those who don’t there’s
some people no matter what you do no
matter what you give them
they’re not going to love you there’s
some people that are not good for you
there’s some people that if you fool
around with them long enough will send
you to an early grave that will drive
your blood pressure up that will turn
your hair gray overnight there’s a new
terminology and psychiatry called
relational illness you’ve heard people
say you make me sick some people can
make you sick can make you sick I’m
telling you I like what George
Washington said he said it’s better to
be alone than to wish you were killing
you for so who is that you need to get
out of your life you need to ask
yourself the question what is this
relationship doing to me you might be
your spouse it might be your children
might be friends might be your job
making you sick stressing you out and
you being a volunteer victim are you
willing to die for it
have you so indulge in such a level of
self-loathing that that life no longer
has any more meaning and value and that
you are just ready to surrender are you
there I hope you’re not life happens to
all of us I’ve got a saying on one of my
my motivational messages when life
knocks you down trying to land on your
back because if you could look up you
can get up I mean in a very short period
of time my mother was diagnosed with
breast cancer and she passed I was
diagnosed with prostate cancer I went
through a divorce from someone that I
loved very much my best friend he died
just all kinds of things happened to me
I had a nationally syndicated show that
was cancelled a lot of things happened
to me all at once it’s called life and
it’s not personal you can’t say well why
did this have to happen to me why not
you that’s all signed and said when
things go wrong
go with them it’s possible that in spite
of everything that’s going on right now
that you can survive and it’s necessary
that you take charge that you begin to
stand up with inside of yourself that
you dry your tears and you know you’re
not given the luxury of feeling sorry
for yourself that you get busy you start
doing research and asking questions that
you got to get in a fighting mode you
can’t surrender you in order to beat
cancer you can’t be a chump you got to
fight back you got to stand up and start
so wait a minute what is that I need to
do you got to make yourself move even if
it hurts do something move a finger do
something a friend of mine father was
dying from prostate cancer and she said
you better get up you better get up and
start moving and he started moving and
and he’s still here he’s still here
still moving still fighting and still
living a life of contribution it’s
possible it’s necessary it’s you it’s
not your doctor it’s not your family
it’s not the medication that’s not the
herbs it’s you Elsie Robinson said
things were happening around you and
things were happen to you but the only
things that really count are the things
that happened in you many people have
been written off and said this one won’t
survive and they did recently a young
lady was bitten by bat had rabies didn’t
have the shot nobody in the history of
the world ever survived without rabies
shots once they’ve been bitten and
gotten rabies she survived first one in
the world Hey now everybody know it’s
possible it’s possible it’s you it’s you
your your your immune system your belief
your faith your drive your determination
your persistence your perseverance your
spirit greater is He that is in you and
what’s out here in this world it’s you
you got to talk to yourself sometimes
healing takes place first in the spirit
you got to talk to yourself I would go
for walks and say every step every day
and everywhere
getting better and better every step I
take I’m getting better and better
and it’s hard
mmm I wish I can tell you all you have
to do is just think positive and be
enthusiastic and everything gonna be all
white ain’t that kind of party it’s hard
I never forget us in the hospital about
four or five different doctors came in
everybody wanted to check me out and
give you a prostate examination all
these new students that say hey shop is
closed today no I’m giving you our
permission to share nerds notes ain’t
nobody coming up here today no no I
ain’t showing y’all know everybody
looking I turn it over no garden at all
to talk to each other though ain’t
nobody looking at me Paul could be
snicker be no I ain’t going to no
chamber today no churches out oh my god
it’s hard sitting up in the hospital in
a little gown people cover their ear by
looking at each other some people I
wonder why they’re in the hospital I saw
what man bald-headed got a little too in
his dog walker our oxygen too little
oxygen tank and smoke it I was they look
give me that give it a tic take that
thing out your nose you ain’t trying to
leave take your little ball here but oh
you try to live hey I’m trying to live
love look tell me what I need to do to
cooperate with the process what I found
a lot of people are live they want to
die I think we should let them go
don’t waste medicine and time and energy
in the hospital space oh you still smoke
it no problem great don’t come here go
oh you you know didn’t we tell you to
get that that fat off you oh you don’t
want to exercise you just wanna cover
your waist I tell you got that does dude
oh don’t bring that up in here no no you
got to do what’s necessary to keep you
here it’s hard I know it’s hard but do
it hard it’s hard keeping your spirits
up getting up every day knowing and
feeling that death is watching over you
so you better sleep with one eye open
because I’m waiting
on you it’s hard to keep your spirits up
to be motivated to be encouraging and
people stop speaking to you because they
think you’re dying
and don’t let about you somebody they
show ain’t gonna come around this is
hard when you’re hurting when doctors
are telling you all kinds of things it’s
hard with all these messages in your
head it’s hard you got bills you got
responsibilities it’s hard easy it’s not
an option but it’s worth fighting is
worth believing it’s worth giving
yourself a chance is worth mustering
yourself up standing up inside yourself
it’s worth fighting relentlessly never
giving up is worth it when you think
about life is God’s gift to us and how
we live our lives is our gift to God
it’s worth fighting a good fight it’s
worth continuing to find all of the
information and research that’s out
there and experimenting and looking at
and trying and testing different ways is
worth being around motivated positive
people is worth being up-tempo it’s easy
to have faith it feel good when you’re
feeling good and you have no pain and
your bills of pain and your children
acting like they have good sense and you
got a clean bill of health from the
doctor it’s easy to be motivated then
but when that’s not the situation it’s
hard when you look in the mirror and you
don’t see the person that you once saw
when you’re going through all type of
medical examinations and you don’t know
what’s going on and they’re giving you
conflict and information it’s hard to
keep your spirits together but it’s
worth it you can do it you can do it I’m
telling you what I know you’re more
powerful than you realize you’ve had
some experiences you’ve gone through
some stuff already
maybe this is just the beginning well
maybe you’ve seen someone going through
some things right now it’s hard to see
someone that you love suffering I
remember when my mother was dying of
breast cancer it was hard being there
with her praying with her and here this
woman who adopted my brothers and
sisters and I and
and and and when I fell as a kid she
would kiss the part to make it well and
and and and there I was my protective my
strength my best friend I couldn’t do
anything I couldn’t take Mama’s place
I couldn’t replace the pain I couldn’t
stop the pain all I could do is pray
with it hold a hand it’s hard life is
hard sometimes but I here’s out here’s
what I know that in spite of the things
that we are experiencing we don’t just
want to go through them we want to grow
through them and when you do I can tell
you that you will discover some things
about yourself you take the time to pray
that you will you step into a zone when
you give it the best that you can when
you keep on trying you’re seeking you’re
asking you’re knocking something happens
it’s like the universe opens up I
believe in angels and and I’m a product
of people praying for me and my praying
for myself I’m a product of exercise and
prayer and meditation and and eating a
lot of rabbit food
I dream about stuff I used to need every
day I want it so badly but nothing
tastes as good as health feels hey I
know from my own life you are more
powerful than cancer and if you want to
want no more once you contact me at Les
Brown comm and I’ll share with you a
regimen that I go through prayers and
affirmations and and fun activities and
things that I do and and healing
workshops and seminars and support teams
healing teams that we’ve organized that
might have some value for you you are
more powerful than cancer I wish you the
very best it’s possible that you can win
this battle and it’s necessary and it’s
you and it’s hard and it’s worth it and
once you know it’s worth it stick a fork
in it
it’s done you heal healing takes place
first in the spirit judge not according
to appearances my favorite book says you
must call forth those things that be not as though they were
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