Onwards and Upwards No. 6
Hello my healing team,
I hope this update finds you well.
Today we find ourselves in sunny Adelaide, the city of churches. The weather here is a clear 26 deg cel and improving to mid 30s over the weekend. This will be the first really nice weather of our trip. We are in a caravan park nestled at the bottom of the Adelaide Hills. The kids picked this ‘Holiday Park’ because it has a jumping pillow, indoor and outdoor pools, and it has a water park with water slides. Who was I to argue? I think it’s time to unleash the mankini!! Well I would if there was a sun smart version! I could get a Thorpedo body suit…….
Thanks for all of your recommendations on places to travel. On your recommendation we stopped into Beachport, Robe and Meningie. All of them had something to offer. But what no one told us about was the Big Lobster in Kingston Se (not sure what the ‘Se’ stands for – possibly named by a drunk dude). Apparently the Big Lobster, which is about 10m tall, has specific open times which we missed. Oh well. I was equally impressed with the jetty at Beachport. It currently sits at 772m long having previously been nearly 1.3km long. Seriously, there are 37 people that live in Beachport and it hosts one of S.As longest jetties. Money well spent?? Also interesting is the Obelisk that they built in Robe to help ships avoid wreaking on the nearby rocky reefs. When built, they found that the only problem with it was that it was made from white limestone, the same limestone as the cliff that it was built upon. Apparently ships continued to wreak on the rocks until they invented ‘Robe’ red paint. Hence it’s current colouring (see photo). What I also learnt was that when ships did wreak on that coast, they invented catapults that would throw huge limestone boulders with ropes tied to them out into the ocean to help the drowning seafarers! Apparently the flying boulders saved more than they killed. Impressive.
We are set up well with the caravan. We have got most of what we need to continue exercising, eating well, meditating and resting. I am reading the book Radical Remissions by Kelly Turner. It explores the wholistic approaches that hundreds of cancer survivors have implemented to provide longevity. It is interesting that many of those interviewed all adopted their own unique approach to wellness. A key theme for each survivor is that they have actively taken control and used their intuition to guide them on what is the right plan for them. They took control by researching about their disease, researching about wellness and then they used their gut feel or intuition to guide them on how to proceed.
When I was first diagnosed, I looked to the ‘all knowing’ doctors for the cure. However, modern medicine is yet to find a cure for Myeloma. So Sarah and I researched wellness and wholistic therapies. With all of our research, I now think the cure sits more with me. What’s critical to me being cured are the decisions that I have already and will need to make to manage my mind and body in order to stay well. I need to continue to take control of my wellness plan. I need to continue to research, then using the available knowledge around me I need to use my intuition to guide me on what’s best for me. I need to back myself. I recognise that I may make mistakes along the way. But as I gather more information, i can evolve my plan.
If you are reading this at your desk, on the train, or at home, you may ask yourself, how does this relate to me?? Well, I think using your intuition and gut feel extends far beyond wellness. Intuition and gut feel will hold you in good stead for most decisions you make, both at home and at work. Listen to your intuition to make those decisions. Go with your gut feel. Back yourself. Just make sure you are doing research and obtaining knowledge to feed you intuition.
As one of my mentors offered to me on many occasions, ‘Geoff, back yourself!’. So I did. So far so good!
Take care
Geoff
