Stronger than Steel grapples with lifes hardest questions in a powerful, strightforward, moving way.
The book deals with what happens when life is suddenly struck by a “lightning bolt”. Describing the experiences of a mother faced with her young daughter’s devastating illness. Stronger than Steel is a radical journey of healing that draws in three generations of women, bound by invisible bonds that need to be both healed and released.
A support group in one book, this is a must-read for anyone whose life has suddenly and unexpectedly changed forever.
Foreword 15
Chapter 1: Fate and Choice
Being pulled by an elephant's nose 25
I don't know how I would cope without this knowledge 27
From the top – A story that starts from the nose 28
Maybe I choose to believe nonsense? 30
Beliefs and belief in choice 33
Bad luck or choice? 35
Life is like getting the car serviced 37
The Cosmic Puppet Show 44
Attack of the lonely women 48
Attack of the Tiny Women 53
The comfort of not knowing 54
The point of view changes 58
I can deal otherwise 60
There is a God 63
The ability to influence events through thought 64
Instead of flowing, I tune in 68
All that I wish will come true? 70
Wishes can come true. I show faith in the universe 72
If I summoned a lover I can summon healing, too 74
Temporary amnesia 75
Healthy thoughts about money 76
Chapter 2: Guilt and Forgiveness
How could I not keep her healthy? 85
Professional patient escort 89
I am not guilty 91
A good therapist 103
Release from guilt 104
Time for forgiveness 105
So who's to blame? 105
The healing power of forgiveness 114
My breadwinner 116
Chapter 3: Jealousy And Aggression
Birds on Sheinkin Street 121
Aggression was my second name 123
Softness, or the Moses Spa 128
Guri's aggression and its role 132
Blessing as a protection from aggression 137
Chapter 4: Doctors, Medicine, and Tough Choices
Two flings 143
The world is full of therapists, and the patient – is ill 146
If I hear the word energies one more time, I'll blow
a gasket 152
I am my own guru 157
Reality is what counts 161
Loss of faith 165
Drugs – poison or salvation? 168
Doctors, medical logic and irrational hope 173
Miraculous Meira 177
Chapter 5: The noble suffering of the professional
victim
I was a professional victim 185
What's in this for me 187
Suffering contest 190
Field of expertise – suffering 191
My guidance has cosmic scissors 195
Touching the core of suffering 198
The beauty of suffering 200
No shortcuts for me 202
Chapter 6: Fear and Love
I am not alone against the fear 205
Elation 209
When there are no answers – there is only love 212
Love is a byproduct of self-love 216
Chapter 7: Healing
The comfort in the concept of healing 221
Starting with self-healing 222
Change? Ha! 224
Change! 226
Keep on, keep on 228
Getting rid of the unnecessary 229
A clear demarcation 232
Cutting the umbilical cord 235
Unity with the world means feeling together and
separately 238
Chapter 8: Healing and Strengthening Instructions
Prayer 243
Get well wishes welcome – come one, come all 245
A room with a view to the soul 246
“Satu arde, shi babba skeimtene” – the village burns
and grandma combs her hair 248
Crying is good too 250
Dancing 252
Singin' in the rain 254
Sexual healing 254
Touch heals too 257
Chapter 9: Mother, Anger and A Golden Fairy
Grandmother, mother, granddaughter and a curse 263
Anger 272
Mother, I love you 276
Chapter 10: My Main Lesson
Base assumptions on the way to comprehending the
lesson or correction 281
Perfect correction 283
A disease is sometimes a sacrifice 287
The all Is well people 293
Perfection is contrary to the pattern of life 295
Cosi fan tutte. Comme il faut. That what they all do 299
When does the bell ring for the end of class? 300
Three incarnations of women 301
Correction 306
House of God 308
User manual for life 311
Tie game 313
Giving and accepting 315
Accepting the other without judgment 316
Accepting what another gives me 317
Accepting myself 319
To accept for myself as well 320
Chapter 11: Destiny And Fulfillment
Destiny 327
Only through calm will I know the way 328
My destiny 331
Understandings 333
A perfect ending 336
Epilogue (for now) 339
Happy ending 342
Judith Konfory is a senior instructor in NLP of the Haifa University, the welfare and health faculty. She has an international NLP trainer degree, the highest in the field. She's a certified Natural healer and a medium. She found her path to the world of natural healing through her daughter's illness and the journey described in the book.