Receiving the Healing Gift in MS: My Journey from Separation to Union After a Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis

By Mounina Bouna Aly

Can you open yourself to the possibility of an Infinite Loving Intelligence guiding and orchestrating this whole universe? Can you LISTEN to the wisdom of your divine body? Can you ALLOW the wisdom of your divine emotions? Can you RECEIVE the divine wisdom of your conscious and unconscious mind? Can you TRUST in the divine wisdom of your soul? T

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mounina Bouna Aly
• Release date: Dec 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781956161670

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Receiving the Healing Gift in MS

Copyright © 2021 by Mounina Bouna Aly

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ISBN

978-1-956161-69-4 (Hardcover)

978-1-956161-68-7 (Paperback)

978-1-956161-67-0 (eBook)

I dedicate this book to you who may have received a diagnosis of MS.

I dedicate this book to you who have a loved one who may have received a diagnosis of MS and to anyone helping someone who may have received a diagnosis of MS.

I dedicate this book to you who may be seeking transformation and empowerment.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Questions

Blessings

The Guest House

Introduction

SECTION 1   ACCEPTANCE

Chapter 1   The Worst Thing That Happened to Me

Chapter 2   Befriending Uncertainty

Chapter 3   The Best Thing That Happened for Me

Chapter 4   Human Being

Chapter 5   Unconditional Acceptance

SECTION 2   CHANGE

Chapter 6   Miraculous Body

Chapter 7   Emotional Intelligence

Chapter 8   Powerful Mind

Chapter 9   Loving Soul

Chapter 10   Precious Mysterious Life

SECTION 3   FORGIVENESS

Chapter 11   MS Is a Gift

Chapter 12   Gratitude

Chapter 13   Faith

Chapter 14   Love

Chapter 15   Food Does Matter

Afterword

Bibliography

About the Author

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I have deep gratitude for this miraculous, precious, and mysterious life.

I have deep gratitude for my mother and my father for giving me this precious gift of life. I have deep gratitude for my sister. She is amazing.

I have deep gratitude for Leïla Boukouiss for being my best friend and spiritual sister on this journey of transformation. I have deep gratitude for Hugo Boaknin for having shared this road with me with love.

I have deep gratitude for Francis Bernard. Before he drowned in 2005, he wrote: Mind over matter. I will remember him and his words always. He was so right. Bless his soul.

I have deep gratitude for the friends I had before this diagnosis of MS.

I have deep gratitude for the beautiful people I have met around the world while I was looking under every rock to find an answer to this puzzling situation.

I have deep gratitude for Marie Lise Labonté. She is a spiritual mother to me. She helped me awaken to the fact that I am a spiritual being—I am a soul. She embodies so beautifully her human dimension and her spiritual dimension.

I have deep gratitude for Sylvie Bérubé who helped me give birth to the feminine side of me. She embodied so beautifully her feminine side and her masculine side. Bless her soul.

I have deep gratitude for Odette Côté and Nathalie Picard for their support during my holistic bodywork training.

I have deep gratitude for Nicolas Bornemisza for his teachings on the unconscious mind. He is such a gentle master.

I have deep gratitude for Dr. Olivier Soulier for his DVD Sortir de la sclérose en plaques, which means coming out of multiple sclerosis, where he explains in depth the meaning of this disease.

I have deep gratitude for the teachings of Dr. Joe Dispenza who helped me demystify the mystical. He introduced me to the concept of changing from the inside out.

I have deep gratitude for the coaching of Mary Morrissey who helped me take a stand and express myself in the world. She is so rigorous, loving, and spiritual.

I have deep gratitude for the written and spoken teachings of Pema Chödrön, Byron Katie, and Eckhart Tolle.

I have deep gratitude for the wisdom of Louise Hay and Dr. Wayne Dyer. Bless their souls.

I have deep gratitude for the genius of Albert Einstein and Carl Gustav Jung. I have deep gratitude for the wisdom of the Buddha and Yogi Bhajan.

I have deep gratitude for my yoga teachers: Yogi Shabad, Pierre Bélisle, and Marie-Daphné Roy.

I have deep gratitude for the amazing massage therapist who I was led to one day: Danielle Tremblay. I have deep gratitude for all the wonderful people I have met on my road to recovery, namely the physiotherapist whom I worked with during my second stay at the Notre-Dame Hospital and the two psychologists I worked with during my two physical rehabilitations.

I have deep gratitude for Mohamed Bouna Aly, Leïla Boukouiss, Teuta Lemghalef, Holley Hood, Fred T. Wyrick, Laura S. Shortridge, and Joy M., my editor from Balboa Press, for their precious help and feedback with my book.

You were all precious guides to me. I thank you all with all my heart, and I love you all!

FOREWORD

I met Mounina during a training on the body I was offering in the Dominican Republic. She introduced herself as a yoga teacher. During the week, I noticed she had problems with both speaking and walking. Having had in my practice patients suffering from multiple sclerosis, I recognized that Mounina was suffering from this disease, even though she had not informed me.

Then, one morning, she did not show up for the training. I let her rest. When she arrived at the end of the afternoon for the other portion of the training, I decided to ask her about her state. Mounina admitted that she had hidden the fact that she was suffering from this disease. Having healed myself of an autoimmune disease, Mounina came to seek comfort and learning from me.

However, to my astonishment, she was in denial of her disease and had even stopped her medication, thinking that being close to me would heal her. I was greatly surprised by her naivety regarding the healing process. Even though we talked about the importance of medication and acceptance of MS, Mounina was not ready to face her state. There was, at that time, refusal, rebellion, and stubbornness in her.

During the week of the training, Mounina had a severe relapse of her disease. My team and I helped her, brought her to the clinic, and had her sent back to Montreal, Canada. It is through this difficult challenge that I got to know her and recognize her for her courage and determination. Mounina’s relapse was due to suddenly stopping her medication. It is through this situation that Mounina gently started changing her attitude.

Afterward, Mounina was always present at the public teachings I was giving in Montreal, and we would talk about her evolution. I highly recommended she take the necessary medication to help her, to not judge what was necessary for her, and mainly, to avoid any relapse, if possible.

Mounina agreed to take her medication to feel better and continue her evolution—her inner healing. Over time, as she was training with me and other members of my team, I could observe how much Mounina was evolving in accepting the physical imprisonment this disease can create, but mostly in recognizing the emotional and mental symptoms imprisoning her life force. I witnessed her transformation, her choices, her courage, her love, and her inner healing.

Mounina was taking more and more the individuation path, recognizing herself to the point of writing a very poetic book describing her learnings and her evolution with MS.

I hope this book will be a source of inspiration for all, as is its author Mounina. May you be inspired by its poetry and its depth, and do not hesitate to share it with others.

Congratulations, Mounina.

With love,

Marie Lise Labonté

QUESTIONS

Can I open myself to the possibility of an Infinite Loving Intelligence guiding and orchestrating this whole universe?

Can I listen to the wisdom of my divine body?

Can I allow the wisdom of my emotions?

Can I receive the wisdom of my conscious and unconscious mind?

Can I trust in the divine wisdom of my soul?

BLESSINGS

May all beings be healthy, happy, holy.

May all beings be peaceful.

May all beings feel the simple joy of being alive.

May all beings be free from suffering.

THE GUEST HOUSE

This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes

as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,

who violently sweep your house

empty of its furniture,

still treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out

for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,

meet them at the door laughing,

and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,

because each has been sent

as a guide from beyond.

—Rumi

INTRODUCTION

This true story tells my very personal journey from being very sick to being healthy, healed, and whole. This book is my journey of transformation from separation to union after a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. This is my very personal and unique way to health. We are all different. The challenge is to honor our own unique paths.

Looking back now, I can only see Infinite Intelligence guiding my every step. I did not plan any of this. I simply could not have, even though my ego would certainly like to take the credit. I can never give myself a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, and I can’t heal myself from multiple sclerosis. I can only allow myself to heal. Infinite Intelligence can do it all! I feel humble.

Something much greater than me, much more powerful than me, and much more loving than I could ever be is at play. I like to call it life, lovingly, my queen. I am only learning, more and more every day, to surrender to her. It was all perfectly and divinely orchestrated.

Everyone is different and unique. We all are spiritual beings, having a brief and precious human experience. May we honor our unique paths. May we love and respect ourselves, each other, and this precious life.

Everything in this book is about what I learned in the past and what I continue to learn today. This book is a love story. This book is about how I fell in love with myself, how I fell in love with my body, and how I fell in love with life! This book is to invite you to fall in love with yourself, fall in love with your body, and fall in love with life! This book is divided in three main sections. I believe healing requires three essential steps.

The first step in healing is acceptance of whatever life brings to our doorsteps. This is easy to say, but in truth, it is a learning journey. It requires patience and compassion toward ourselves. It certainly did not happen all at once for me. It is an ongoing process. Acceptance is an essential step to move forward. It is so important. It is not easy, but it is crucial! I believe acceptance is the first step to move through any situation.

The second step in healing is change. We literally become someone else. The disease was in one version of the person. We become a new person—we become our authentic selves. We change as a whole—we change our bodies, our emotions, and our minds, thus changing our energy and raising our vibration.

This second step is unique to each person. I believe we all need to change. What and how we change is unique to each person. The symptoms of multiple sclerosis are unique to each person. We don’t find two same manifestations of the disease. I believe each person has something unique to heal and to change. Each person gets a specific message relating to her or his own individual life. There are some commonalities, as well as some specificities.

The third step in healing is forgiveness. We release the past. In this last step, we move forward free from the past. We create a new future as a new person.

These three steps become a way of being. We accept and allow life now and forever after. We flow with life because life is change. We forgive. This is my new way of being. Again, and again I accept, I allow, and I love life. I go with the flow of life, and I forgive.

SECTION 1

ACCEPTANCE

CHAPTER 1

The Worst Thing That Happened to Me

How Could This Happen to Me?

My Outer Life Before and My Inner Life Before

From an outside point of view, I have lived a normal life. I was working full time for an actuarial firm. I had completed a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. I was always very rational. I was halfway through the long and difficult process of becoming an actuary. I was working during the day. I was also studying in the evening and on weekends for actuarial exams.

I was what you could