up to 2020 I had an amazing life I had a great career a woman I loved for 15 years uh and in pretty good health but in few months everything changed my company closed so I lost my job um a couple of months after my hold that mic up a little closer okay my partner said uh it's time to finish and when I was figuring out where to you know restart my life from I decided to do a checkup and go to the doctor and well let's start with heal because it's out of these other
two areas um when I did the checkup I he said to me uh I believe you have uh prostate cancer we need to do further exams I went to a specialist and it was confirmed uh that I had prostate cancer and I he said to me uh we have a this is quite simple we'll we have this uh uh type of uh operation that they put inside of us inside the prostate some small seeds metal seeds that will give us radiotherapy and it turned to me this was quite funny it turned to me and he
said don't worry with the secondary effects of this like we men one of the secondary effects just let you know is erectile dysfunction and the guy said to me you know I have a patient that is 8 years old and he just takes a pill every day he still has a wife he even have a a a mistress and he takes care of both of them I said you know I'm here in in doubt fear I don't know what's going to happen to me and this guy is talking to me about the Mistress of the
other guy I was really amazed and um well because of everything that was going on in my life I I had started a personal transformation program and uh the the first module of the program was called ruling reality and um you know it was all about this that uh our outer World follows our inner world and uh that uh you know all our reality is subject to our influence and all this that Dr Joe teaches and guess which books were recommended to read in that model so all the Dr Joe's books I was very interested
about that model was something completely new for me and I just bought the books I was reading I went through all the extra material and I decided to go to another doctor because we have a a research Center for Cancer in in Lisbon that is uh one of the best in the world so I said I'll go there I hope the doctor doesn't tell me those funny stories so I went to the doctor he said to me exactly the same thing that the operation he wanted uh to do on me um but I was you
know I was ready to speak with him so I told him I don't want to do anything and the guy just kept quiet for a few seconds and he looked at me and he said well if this is a real bad one you are done but anyway with the treatments we can give you we could make you some months or years of life but you would be done anyway so but I don't think it's a bad one I think it's something controllable that we can uh solve it so just go on with your life for
six eight come back in six to eight months and we'll repeat the exams we see how it grew and how it is and then but be ready because I'm going to say to you exactly the same thing I did today so be ready to do the the operation so I went on with my life when we make this type of decisions we have to live with them and and work according to it so I was meditating twice a day once in the morning once in the evening 1 hour uh and I I almost didn't miss
anyone okay I cannot say I didn't miss anyone but I was really doing it consistently but as as Dr Joe has just mentioned it's that's not enough because if we do the meditation and if we open our eyes and we go to the same thoughts and the same emotions uh during the the other eight hours of the day it will'll go back to the same point so we have to watch out our beliefs I have to work on my beliefs on our you know watch out my thoughts not everything is uh pretty and pink and
along that time I felt very alone because I was I didn't know about all this community yet I never came to a retreat uh before and uh I was really doing the work on my own some days we have fear is this working is not working I was trying to feel you know with uh but I just kept on doing it uh so the funny part is8 months I extended to the maximum time so I went there eight months after uh uh he spoke with me I repeated the exams but the interesting part is by
the time I went there I was happy with my life I I I already made my mind that uh whatever the doctor tells me I'm going to do it because I I have done the work and if if nothing changed it's because the universe still wants me to go through a new process somewhere with that hospital so I was really ready I was happy with my life and I didn't care what could happen after um the funny part was uh so I sat in again the same doctor in front of him he open the you
know the the the the results he start looking at it he kept quiet for some seconds I was quite anxious you say what's going to happen to me at that moment and he was like blank saying to me I don't know what you've been doing but continue doing it because your your results are completely normal [Applause] and and after that he said to me well from now uh just check on it from time to time to see if everything is fine so I asked him do you want me to come back in one year or
six months he said no no no I don't want to see you ever again in my life because I only treat people with cancer thank you so much um and just to finish uh this was in 2021 during 2021 and I still do the work because doing the work this is like uh going to the gym right if you one day you wake up and you say oh no I have good muscles I don't need to go to the gym anymore you know what will happen in one year's time or even less so so this
is a work that it's for life and that we have to do it every day and most of the time we really enjoy it if there is one die that it doesn't go so well just leave with it thank you thank you [Applause]
