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What Near Death Experiences Can Teach Us About Living a Life of Meaning and Purpose: An Incredible Life Story with Anita Moorjani #504

Dec 18, 2024 2h 1m 26 insights
What happens when we face death - and return to tell the tale? Today’s guest takes us on an extraordinary journey from advanced cancer to complete recovery, challenging our understanding of both healing and human consciousness. Anita Moorjani is the New York Times best-selling author of Dying to Be Me: My Journey From Cancer, To Near Death, To True Healing and travels the world speaking to sold-out audiences who want to learn about her journey and experiences of embracing change, the power of healing, and the quest to live a full and unlimited life.  Anita’s story is an extraordinary one. After a 4-year battle with cancer, she fell into a coma and was given days to live. As her doctors gathered to revive her, she had a near-death experience (NDE) where she believes she crossed over to the other side and when she regained consciousness, her cancer began to heal. To the amazement of her doctors, she was free of countless tumours and cancer indicators within weeks. In this powerful conversation, Anita explains how living fearlessly, cultivating self-love, and embracing joy became her pathway to healing. We discuss how people-pleasing, lack of self-worth, and suppressing our authentic selves can negatively impact our wellbeing. And, we also explore her wonderful concept of "energy equity" - a practical framework for understanding how our daily choices either nurture our energy or deplete it. As a medical doctor, I found our discussion about the limitations of current medical knowledge particularly fascinating. We explore how cases like Anita's invite us to expand our understanding of healing and human potential. This conversation goes beyond an extraordinary medical case. It offers practical wisdom for anyone seeking to live more authentically and create positive change in their lives. You may be sceptical - something Anita and I talk about - but I urge you to listen with an open mind. This episode challenges our assumptions about healing while offering hope for a more fulfilled life.  Support the podcast and enjoy Ad-Free episodes. Try FREE for 7 days on Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/feelbetterlivemore. For other podcast platforms go to https://fblm.supercast.com. Thanks to our
Actionable Insights

1. Embrace Fearless Self-Love & Joy

Live fearlessly, cultivate self-love, and embrace joy as a pathway to healing and overall well-being.

2. Know & Be Your True Self

Prioritize getting to know who you are and then authentically being that person, as this is the most important message for well-being and allows your purpose to unfold.

3. Act From Love, Not Fear

Ensure your health behaviors and life choices stem from a place of love for yourself, your body, and your life, rather than from fear of illness or negative outcomes.

4. Reclaim Your Personal Power

Live your life fearlessly by taking back your own power and pursuing the life you were meant to live for yourself, rather than seeking approval from others.

5. Prioritize Inner Emotional Health

Recognize that your thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and ability to be your authentic self are equally, if not more, important for physical health than traditional lifestyle factors.

6. Maintain Energy Equity

Make energy equity your primary value and actively utilize this framework to understand how daily choices nurture or deplete your energy, aiming to maintain a surplus.

7. Cultivate a Desired Life

Strive to create a life that you genuinely look forward to living each day, avoiding prolonged unhappiness in jobs, situations, or relationships that deplete your energy.

8. View Challenges as Gifts

Choose to view each and every one of your life challenges as a gift, understanding that life happens for you to evolve, not to you.

9. Embrace Vulnerability, Shed Shame

To be authentic, be unafraid to be vulnerable, unafraid to be wrong, and refuse to be dictated by shame, which is often people’s biggest fear.

10. Serve Self First to Serve Others

Recognize that by serving yourself first and prioritizing your own well-being and energy equity, you are better equipped to genuinely help and uplift others effectively.

11. Grant Self-Care Permission

Allow yourself to prioritize self-care and do things for yourself without feeling guilty, recognizing that you don’t need an external reason or permission.

12. Find Your Reason for Living

Cultivate a strong reason for living and a purpose to wake up every morning, as this significantly contributes to better health and healing.

13. Integrate Humor for Healing

Actively seek out and integrate humor and laughter into daily life, especially during times of illness or stress, as it should be considered a part of any healing protocol.

14. Proactively Build Energy

Even if you’re in an undesirable job or relationship, actively seek out and implement small actions that build up your energy, treating energy as your most important commodity.

15. Prioritize Quality Sleep

Ensure you get a good night’s sleep, as it is a fundamental way to gain a significant amount of ’energy units’ for the day.

16. Eat Healthy Breakfast

Consume a healthy breakfast to gain additional ’energy units’ and avoid depleting energy through rushed or unhealthy eating habits.

17. Engage in Daily Self-Love

Incorporate small, daily activities that help you love yourself more and provide even a few extra ’energy points,’ such as a mindful lunchtime activity.

18. Take Ownership of Contributing Choices

Understand that while illness is never anyone’s fault, many choices contribute to your state of being, and you have the power to change those contributing factors.

19. Reclaim Autonomy & Empowerment

Challenge the belief that you are a victim of your life; as an adult, realize and learn to be empowered with more autonomy over your life than you may currently perceive.

20. Challenge Subservience Beliefs

Question the belief that being subservient is a positive trait, as it can lead to suppressing your true self and prioritizing others excessively.

21. See the Divine Within

Recognize and honor the divine or inherent worth within yourself, rather than solely seeking it in others.

22. Persist Through Challenges

If a current challenge doesn’t feel like a gift, understand that you simply haven’t reached the point where its positive lesson or outcome has been revealed yet, encouraging persistence.

23. Avoid Convincing Others

Refrain from trying to convince others of your beliefs or experiences, as this often leads to pushback and arguments rather than understanding.

24. Cultivate Resilient Identity

Instead of seeking to debunk or invalidate others’ experiences, cultivate a resilient identity that allows you to acknowledge different perspectives without feeling threatened.

25. Practice Humility in Healing

Approach the understanding of health and healing with humility, acknowledging that current knowledge may be incomplete and there are phenomena yet to be explained.

26. Consistently Save Energy

Treat energy accumulation like saving money, consistently building up small amounts over time to create a significant surplus.