I no longer needed that neck surgery!
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Legal name: Marsheila Cox
Location: Oklahoma,United States
Email: [email protected]
In March 2006, in Oklahoma City, by invitation from a co-worker, I went to see a visiting Indian saint called Swami Paramahamsa Nithyananda at the Hindu Temple.
When one of Swamiji's devotees told me I could ask him for anything I wanted, I felt as if I was standing in line waiting to see Santa Claus, and I was ready to ask for money or a house or a better job, so many material things.
But when I kneeled before Swamiji, material thoughts and desires simply disappeared. All I could say was, ‘Please heal me,” and Swamiji said, “I’ll take care.”
Then he placed his thumb between my brows and with my eyes closed, I felt as if I was inhaling endlessly. And for just a second, I glimpsed below me and there was the scene of Swamiji giving me the very blessing that I was experiencing at that moment in a glow of golden light. I think I had an out-of-body experience for a moment!
As I walked away, my completely empty mind began filling again with many thoughts. A few being, ‘Why did I ask him that? What made me change my mind? What mind? It went blank as soon as I kneeled in his presence!’
I drove home that night wondering what had happened. I was thinking that perhaps I could say that I’d been blessed by a holy man, a Buddha or something.
The following day, I went to Integris Baptist Hospital where I had my pre-surgical MRI on my neck to prepare for surgery two weeks later. I was about to let a surgeon replace three disintegrated, crumbled discs in my neck with a titanium plate.
Coincidently, Nithyananda Swamiji was scheduled to speak at this very hospital that night. I attended this discourse. It was totally amazing how my mental setup began to shift immediately upon hearing his explanation of emotions and the mind.
Then I attended a weekend meditation program by Swamiji. By the time I was four hours into this program, I had removed the neck brace I had worn for two years and was feeling much different about my physical health.
And I never had the surgery. I never returned to my doctors. Just out of curiosity, I picked up that pre-surgical MRI nine months later, and the surgeon's report read: "Significant improvement in the cervical spine." This report was written the day following receiving healing from Swamiji.
I didn't have to believe that he would heal me – he healed me, and then the believing was inevitable.
Thank you Swamiji for the healing that has happened in my life.