The Empowered Lifestyle

Ted Kennedy has brain cancer. And it seems like a pretty inoperable brain cancer with a grim prognosis at that.

I don’t know why, but I just sort of assumed after all this family has gone through over the last gajillion decades, that Teddy had somehow slipped through the cracks of the ‘Kennedy curse.’ Not that cancer is a curse and not that he won’t beat it either (more on just how he can do that in a bit), but, well, another drama for a family that has CLEARLY had its fair (or unfair) share of it. I guess that I feel a little bit more involved since I grew up in a wholly Irish Catholic household where the picture of President John F. Kennedy took as much real estate in the family dining room as the hallowed and framed one of the Pope. The oil portraits of us, the four Irish wee ones, well, not so much as the true places of honor that belonged to the first Irish Catholic Head of State and the pontificating Holy Father.

So, Ted, I wish you luck and health and courage. Of course, I wish all the same to your whole family, especially your grace-FULL niece, Caroline, who has had to endure more tragedy and death in her lifetime than I can even imagine. And, Vicky, if you are looking for alternative ways for Teddy to fight the good fight, then he might just want to avail himself of a little literal Feng Shui fightin’ treatment, called appropriately enough, The Cancer Cure:

While receiving all other medical treatment (in this case Senator Kennedy looks to have chosen a traditional chemo therapy), meditate on what is called in Feng Shui ‘The Six True Colors,’ WHITE, RED, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, BLACK. In this sequential order, these colors symbolize or represent a Holy figure, whether that means the Buddha or Archangel Raphael, the healer, the Hindu goddess Saraswati or the Pope, these colors, when put in order, represent our own holy nature and our bodies' own internal abilities to heal--ESPECIALLY if that healing demands a suspension of skepticism and an allowance for the miraculous. I have seen this cure work many, many times in even the most dire of circumstances.

The initial color, WHITE, represents the beginning or the birth while the last color, BLACK, symbolizes the end. All the intervening colors represent all things, both seen and unseen, in the Universe. When these six colors are represented in this particular sequential form, (color them in a rainbow sequence with crayons, paint or markers or cut strips of paper in same colors and affix them to a foundation of some sort; do whatever makes you feel proactive, empowered and comfortable) the end result is a mystical and mysteriously healing symbol that will have a positively beneficial effect on anyone who is looking to create their own cure. Simply meditate on these colors, in that specific sequence for twenty minutes a day. As you take these auspicious colors into the body, transmit this miracle color sequence to the afflicted cells, flooding them with vitality, health and healing.

We’re pulling for you Ted. May the wind be always at your back, especially as it blows during this battle.