THE HIDDEN POWERS
How I defied doctors who told me I would never walk again?
The accident
“During a dance class in my first year, I went up in the air, span and fell. I hit the floor so hard, when I tried to get up, I couldn’t move.”
“Inethy hospital did X-rays and tests and told me to come back in two weeks for an assessment. I went back, but there was no progress.
“The doctors were so dismissive. They knew I couldn’t move my knee but nothing showed up on the outside. They gave me a wheelchair and told me to adapt to a life without walking.
“I was living every day, just hoping it would get better. I saw a chiropractor, a physio and the top knee doctor in Windsor, but no one could do anything. It was hell, like living in no man’s land.”
“I hadn’t been using my legs so my muscles had wasted and I was very weak. My legs were like jelly and I was a nervous wreck the whole time.
“One day I thought, right, this is it, I’m out of here. I decided to take the tablets.
“But switching on the TV, I caught the tail end of This Morning, and there was this man, Hratch Ogali, claiming to have saved a girl who hadn’t walked for twelve years.
“I was desperate. It was so impulsive. I picked up the phone and called This Morning. I was in such a state that I was sobbing to the woman on the phone saying ‘I need to meet him, I am going to kill myself’.
“I met him that afternoon. Straight away I connected with him. He put his hand on my leg and I cried solidly for an hour. I didn’t say a word.
“I saw Hratch every day for those months. We did a lot of work on the bike and walking on the running machine with a harness for support.“But what helped me the most was the mental side of it. He believed that both the body and the mind can break, and what can cure them is correctly instructing positive thought in the subconscious. Now looking back I know that in my case, the biggest factor was the fear of being out of control.“I had no control of my body, no control of my mind and no control of my life.“He told me to meditate for an hour every day, but as I am quite an extreme person, I ended up doing it for five hours every day. He said if I did this I would walk, and that I’d be able to deal with whatever happened in the future.“When an athlete is running in the Olympics they go beyond what they think is possible, and that’s what you have to do to get better. Before meeting Hratch, I was very fearful. I would start things but never finish them because I thought I was no good.
“I’ve done more in the last five years than I did in the past thirty years. I’ve now written, produced and directed four plays in London, written a film script and even a book. Anyone can do it, it’s just being able to apply your mind.
“I meditate every day. It’s like seeing the world in Blu-Ray. You deal with things in absolute clarity and you are strong mentally and physically.
“I had a terrible relationship with my family before, and now it’s fantastic.
Giving something back
“As I had been saved by the power of a television programme I decided to make my own documentary on how the teaching worked.
“I spent six years working with Hratch on a film called Mind Over Science to help others who are in the situation I was in.
“We finished and gained a US distributor, but in that very same week, at sixty-years-old, Hratch died suddenly. I had no idea what to do without him.
“I then decided that I would teach Hratch’s methods myself with his son, Seto. I hope to give people the tools to deal with any situation life throws at them in a calm and collected way.
“If I can help people get out of the situation I was in, that will be my biggest achievement.”
Comment
This is the reason why this website was established to enable people to know about their ability, and to discover the power inside them.
When we (doctors) find no organic problem through clinical and laboratory assessment, and when we come to the conclusion that this is not an organic problem; we must, and must think about the person in front of us and treat that person someone who needs help. We must communicate with this sort of patients in the kindest way, with good explanation and a lot of support. We need to show this sort of patient ways on how to get better, and how to do it very soon. The longer the time with non-organic problem, the more chance of converting the “psychological” disorder into an organic (somatic) disorder: a process known as “somatisation”. We must try hard not to allow that to happen if possible.
This lady needed a lot of support and understanding from her doctors, and needed to be seen by an enthusiastic physiotherapist with good experience in this area. She needed to see a good neuro-psychologist with a lot of reassurances that she is not mad and she is not insane.