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	<title>Comments on: Anna Donald: Mind and body</title>
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		<title>By: Franziska Goyo</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2008/05/14/anna-donald-mind-and-body/#comment-2816</link>
		<dc:creator>Franziska Goyo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Anna,

Here is Franziska. Do you remember me from our Sattipattana course together in February? I have been thinking of you now and then. And recently our vipassana teacher, Grace, gave me your article in the good weekend, while I was doing 4 days at the vipassana centre in Blackheath. She found it so inspiring. I've got a DVD on healing cancer with raw foods and would like to post a copy to you, if you are interested. And if you have the time and energy I'd love to catch up with you.
E-mail me or call me: my contact details are on my website: www.goyointernational.com

Best wishes, Franziska</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Anna,</p>
<p>Here is Franziska. Do you remember me from our Sattipattana course together in February? I have been thinking of you now and then. And recently our vipassana teacher, Grace, gave me your article in the good weekend, while I was doing 4 days at the vipassana centre in Blackheath. She found it so inspiring. I&#8217;ve got a DVD on healing cancer with raw foods and would like to post a copy to you, if you are interested. And if you have the time and energy I&#8217;d love to catch up with you.<br />
E-mail me or call me: my contact details are on my website: <a href="http://www.goyointernational.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.goyointernational.com</a></p>
<p>Best wishes, Franziska</p>
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		<title>By: Don Ockley</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2008/05/14/anna-donald-mind-and-body/#comment-2798</link>
		<dc:creator>Don Ockley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Anna, My experience after diagnosis with agressive prostate cancer two years ago, parallels yours.  I can recommend www.worldwithoutcancer.org.uk where there is a 41 page download on the benefits of eating apricot kernels.
Another recommendation is "Cancer - Cause &#38; Cure" by Percy Weston, and the benefit of "Percy's Powder".
But, "The case for a Creator" by Lee Strobel, probes how complex and well made we are and the argument that this did not just happen; it required intelligence.
Another reference I've found helpful is "the Battle for Health is over pH", by Gary Tunskey, advancing the theory that we need to keep our bodies alkaline to avoid ALL DISEASE.  He says the medical profession is too focussed on symptoms and not enough on causes.
I hope to be able to discuss my experiences with you.
Best wishes,
Don Ockley.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Anna, My experience after diagnosis with agressive prostate cancer two years ago, parallels yours.  I can recommend <a href="http://www.worldwithoutcancer.org.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.worldwithoutcancer.org.uk</a> where there is a 41 page download on the benefits of eating apricot kernels.<br />
Another recommendation is &#8220;Cancer - Cause &amp; Cure&#8221; by Percy Weston, and the benefit of &#8220;Percy&#8217;s Powder&#8221;.<br />
But, &#8220;The case for a Creator&#8221; by Lee Strobel, probes how complex and well made we are and the argument that this did not just happen; it required intelligence.<br />
Another reference I&#8217;ve found helpful is &#8220;the Battle for Health is over pH&#8221;, by Gary Tunskey, advancing the theory that we need to keep our bodies alkaline to avoid ALL DISEASE.  He says the medical profession is too focussed on symptoms and not enough on causes.<br />
I hope to be able to discuss my experiences with you.<br />
Best wishes,<br />
Don Ockley.</p>
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		<title>By: judy whalan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2008/05/14/anna-donald-mind-and-body/#comment-2779</link>
		<dc:creator>judy whalan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Anna

I first heard of you when my daughter Jeni was in year 7 at NSGHS - she was inspired by your account of your experiences and I am sure that this supported her in her Rhodes quest.  She is now doing a D.Phil in Oxford and I would like to thank you for the seed you planted in her.  

I read your story in the Good Weekend and also found inspiration in your words - I have just started exploring meditation and have long believed that we do not know a fraction of what lies within us or how to harness this inner strength. Thank you for your wise and inspiring words and for sharing your amazing and ongoing experience.  I wish you continued strength, peace and love as you continue to explore and record your amazing adventure.

Judy Whalan</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Anna</p>
<p>I first heard of you when my daughter Jeni was in year 7 at NSGHS - she was inspired by your account of your experiences and I am sure that this supported her in her Rhodes quest.  She is now doing a D.Phil in Oxford and I would like to thank you for the seed you planted in her.  </p>
<p>I read your story in the Good Weekend and also found inspiration in your words - I have just started exploring meditation and have long believed that we do not know a fraction of what lies within us or how to harness this inner strength. Thank you for your wise and inspiring words and for sharing your amazing and ongoing experience.  I wish you continued strength, peace and love as you continue to explore and record your amazing adventure.</p>
<p>Judy Whalan</p>
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		<title>By: Nicky Whisson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nicky Whisson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Dr Anna,

WOW...what an awesome thing to read such inspriring insights from someone with your amazing knowledge...on the alopathic and alternate side.

I am a Kinesiologist and was so pleased to see that you had experienced EFT and had great experiences with it. EFT is a part of Kinesiology....and a wonderful, powerful part at that.

I would be very interested in more of your feedback on your experiences using EFT....especially with your medical situation and training. I have a pulling urge to work with cancer patients and have so much information coming to me on a daily basis I am struggling with how to put it together and how to market it to the conventional medical body....any insight and assistance is always welcome.

Thank you once again for sharing your story....I know that it will inspire others to look for other avenues of treatment....and they need all the info they can get their hands on.

On another note....I received an email on a Dr Tullio Simoncini and his theory and treatment of cancer....very interesting and the footage he showed of the results was quite profound....would be interested in your opinion on this theory and treatment.

Look forward to hearing from you,
Nicky Whisson</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Dr Anna,</p>
<p>WOW&#8230;what an awesome thing to read such inspriring insights from someone with your amazing knowledge&#8230;on the alopathic and alternate side.</p>
<p>I am a Kinesiologist and was so pleased to see that you had experienced EFT and had great experiences with it. EFT is a part of Kinesiology&#8230;.and a wonderful, powerful part at that.</p>
<p>I would be very interested in more of your feedback on your experiences using EFT&#8230;.especially with your medical situation and training. I have a pulling urge to work with cancer patients and have so much information coming to me on a daily basis I am struggling with how to put it together and how to market it to the conventional medical body&#8230;.any insight and assistance is always welcome.</p>
<p>Thank you once again for sharing your story&#8230;.I know that it will inspire others to look for other avenues of treatment&#8230;.and they need all the info they can get their hands on.</p>
<p>On another note&#8230;.I received an email on a Dr Tullio Simoncini and his theory and treatment of cancer&#8230;.very interesting and the footage he showed of the results was quite profound&#8230;.would be interested in your opinion on this theory and treatment.</p>
<p>Look forward to hearing from you,<br />
Nicky Whisson</p>
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		<title>By: Diana Hale</title>
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		<dc:creator>Diana Hale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anna

 I also read the Good Weekend article and later that day I was reading the book " The 5-Minute Meditator" by Eric Harrison - a Perth meditation teacher with 35 years experience in mediation.  Last year I completed a 7 week meditation course with one of his trained teachers and subsequently got into Eric's books and CDs

See website attached

http://www.perthmeditationcentre.com.au/

The beauty of the 5 minute mediator is how lots of very short meditations can be incorporated into every day &#38; each time reduce your stress levels significantly and often through the day

Wishing you good health

Diana</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anna</p>
<p> I also read the Good Weekend article and later that day I was reading the book &#8221; The 5-Minute Meditator&#8221; by Eric Harrison - a Perth meditation teacher with 35 years experience in mediation.  Last year I completed a 7 week meditation course with one of his trained teachers and subsequently got into Eric&#8217;s books and CDs</p>
<p>See website attached</p>
<p><a href="http://www.perthmeditationcentre.com.au/" rel="nofollow">http://www.perthmeditationcentre.com.au/</a></p>
<p>The beauty of the 5 minute mediator is how lots of very short meditations can be incorporated into every day &amp; each time reduce your stress levels significantly and often through the day</p>
<p>Wishing you good health</p>
<p>Diana</p>
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		<title>By: Susan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Anna,

I read the article about you in "The Age" Good Weekend supplement, and had to write to you.

I recently read an article in Nova Magazine about a woman named Melissa Hocking. Below you will find the link to that article.

http://www.novazine.com.au/article_archive/2008/08_08_findingbalance.htm

She is doing some mind-blowing work healing people from all sorts of disease. It's definitely work checking it out.

I wish you all the best of good health!

Very best wishes,

Susan.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Anna,</p>
<p>I read the article about you in &#8220;The Age&#8221; Good Weekend supplement, and had to write to you.</p>
<p>I recently read an article in Nova Magazine about a woman named Melissa Hocking. Below you will find the link to that article.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.novazine.com.au/article_archive/2008/08_08_findingbalance.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.novazine.com.au/article_archive/2008/08_08_findingbalance.htm</a></p>
<p>She is doing some mind-blowing work healing people from all sorts of disease. It&#8217;s definitely work checking it out.</p>
<p>I wish you all the best of good health!</p>
<p>Very best wishes,</p>
<p>Susan.</p>
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		<title>By: liz kamps</title>
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		<dc:creator>liz kamps</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Anna

I think your blog is a wonderful contribution to living alongside a health problem. Many health care professionsl do, but your willingness to share your positivity is insirational. I wish you well on your journey and look forward to hearing how you get on. It is a real challenge to be so informed about EBM and to be dealing with your current situation. I feel it has some parallels with my husband who did research into neuro transmission (published work DSc) and has recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's. Life is so often about the journey and not the destination.
All best wishes
Liz</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Anna</p>
<p>I think your blog is a wonderful contribution to living alongside a health problem. Many health care professionsl do, but your willingness to share your positivity is insirational. I wish you well on your journey and look forward to hearing how you get on. It is a real challenge to be so informed about EBM and to be dealing with your current situation. I feel it has some parallels with my husband who did research into neuro transmission (published work DSc) and has recently been diagnosed with Parkinson&#8217;s. Life is so often about the journey and not the destination.<br />
All best wishes<br />
Liz</p>
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		<title>By: David Isaacs</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Isaacs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 18:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Anna
I was sad to hear that your cancer had returned, but uplifted by your positive response to your illness, and your need to share with others what the treatment entails and how best to cope with it. You do not talk of suffering, which is an indication of your bravery and your endless optimism, and you help us all to realise that the extent to which we suffer in illness can be helped by medication and by our own attitudes.
I would love to see you in Sydney (davidi@chw.edu.au).
Best wishes
David and Carmel Isaacs</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Anna<br />
I was sad to hear that your cancer had returned, but uplifted by your positive response to your illness, and your need to share with others what the treatment entails and how best to cope with it. You do not talk of suffering, which is an indication of your bravery and your endless optimism, and you help us all to realise that the extent to which we suffer in illness can be helped by medication and by our own attitudes.<br />
I would love to see you in Sydney (davidi@chw.edu.au).<br />
Best wishes<br />
David and Carmel Isaacs</p>
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		<title>By: Muhammad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Muhammad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 13:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Dr. Anna Donald,

Please accept my deepest sympathies on your current medical problem. I just wanted to offer a couple of thoughts that came to my mind while I was reading your blog.

1. Even with metastatic disease, I think you should fight on for your life with every resource imaginable. You must eat good with enough calories to keep your energy level good. focus not on the cancer but how the cancer can get you. One of the known complications is venous thromboembolism. So how about DVT prophylaxis with Low Molecular Weight Heparin. I hope you understand my point. If you have the resources, why not fight for your life by focusing in a pro-active way on all the possible complications of cancer,with prevention and then treatment.

2. I hope you really dont mind this. But as a Muslim and follower of Prophet Muhammad (May Peace be Upon Him), I have to invite you to study Islam with an open mind. One of the good websites is www.islamicity.com   Here you can read verses from The Quran and find out what Islam is all about.

My best regards,

Dr. Muhammad Fuad Bangash
Consultant Pulmologist, Intensivist.
Saudi Arabia</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Dr. Anna Donald,</p>
<p>Please accept my deepest sympathies on your current medical problem. I just wanted to offer a couple of thoughts that came to my mind while I was reading your blog.</p>
<p>1. Even with metastatic disease, I think you should fight on for your life with every resource imaginable. You must eat good with enough calories to keep your energy level good. focus not on the cancer but how the cancer can get you. One of the known complications is venous thromboembolism. So how about DVT prophylaxis with Low Molecular Weight Heparin. I hope you understand my point. If you have the resources, why not fight for your life by focusing in a pro-active way on all the possible complications of cancer,with prevention and then treatment.</p>
<p>2. I hope you really dont mind this. But as a Muslim and follower of Prophet Muhammad (May Peace be Upon Him), I have to invite you to study Islam with an open mind. One of the good websites is <a href="http://www.islamicity.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.islamicity.com</a>   Here you can read verses from The Quran and find out what Islam is all about.</p>
<p>My best regards,</p>
<p>Dr. Muhammad Fuad Bangash<br />
Consultant Pulmologist, Intensivist.<br />
Saudi Arabia</p>
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		<title>By: Janet Rennie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Janet Rennie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 14:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>anna, I send love and greetings from London. We met once at a dinner hosted by your godfather. This week I attended a very moving memorial service for Elizabeth Bryan, and you may have read her book about her experience of pancreatic cancer; she would have approved of your blog. I follow your thoughts with great interest and admiration. stay as well as you can.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>anna, I send love and greetings from London. We met once at a dinner hosted by your godfather. This week I attended a very moving memorial service for Elizabeth Bryan, and you may have read her book about her experience of pancreatic cancer; she would have approved of your blog. I follow your thoughts with great interest and admiration. stay as well as you can.</p>
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		<title>By: Karen A.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Karen A.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Anna, for another wonderful entry. The blog is a great thing to be doing and I think very quintessentially Anna - making wonderful ripples that touch and inspire and move so many, and connect us all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Anna, for another wonderful entry. The blog is a great thing to be doing and I think very quintessentially Anna - making wonderful ripples that touch and inspire and move so many, and connect us all.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2008/05/14/anna-donald-mind-and-body/#comment-2419</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent post, again.  Besos.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent post, again.  Besos.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 13:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The idea--indeed, conclusion from Michael Marmot's studies--that "you get sick according to how you perceive the world"  is fascinating and profound. Would I be right to think that you view the world as one endlessly interesting and beautiful puzzle? And you are now, as you explain, your own experiment. That's why your bulletins from an extraordinary place are so compelling. But then again I reflect that it's not such an extraordinary place. It's a place that many of us can expect to be at some time in our lives--so it's not your place that's extraordinary but your bulletins.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The idea&#8211;indeed, conclusion from Michael Marmot&#8217;s studies&#8211;that &#8220;you get sick according to how you perceive the world&#8221;  is fascinating and profound. Would I be right to think that you view the world as one endlessly interesting and beautiful puzzle? And you are now, as you explain, your own experiment. That&#8217;s why your bulletins from an extraordinary place are so compelling. But then again I reflect that it&#8217;s not such an extraordinary place. It&#8217;s a place that many of us can expect to be at some time in our lives&#8211;so it&#8217;s not your place that&#8217;s extraordinary but your bulletins.</p>
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