Waltja Center for Healing Arts

Opportunity to Give

a Second Opinion

Donations in Mel's honor will be used to fund Second Opinion visits to practitioners and medical doctors for people in need, who apply for these funds.

Seeking Opinions: 

I believe that if the tumor could have been debulked by surgery or radiation,  the emotional release created by such a liberation could have prompted a total healing. My efforts to get that for Mel came together too late after much consternation, turmoil and suffering, I think she was just too tired to feel new hope. Unfortunately, the late stage GRID treatment was not successful.

Surgeons had already  refused to operate on the tumor, claiming it was too large and the risks were too great. This never made sense to me. I was perplexed by this reaction. Breast surgeons would not operate on the breast to remove a tumor because it was too large and was seen as a risky procedure and outside the normal protocol...yet  one year old Siamese twins with shared organs can be surgically separated. From this response I learned to seek out another opinion, in fact, I learned several other opinions may be necessary. There is a vast range of expertise in medicine.  What one specialty sees as complicated another specialty may see as somewhat routine, and astonishingly, the two medical sub-disciplines may not know that about each other.  The same can be said about individual surgeons.  The difference in opinion can be that extreme. If there is a will to live, keep interviewing surgeons until you find one who is willing to at least consider what you are asking. Do not stop looking for answers to your questions. 

Making Choices:

In Peru she was convinced that she had been healed emotionally and spiritually, even though the physical evidence did not jive. Was it just a delayed reaction that would correct itself once the newly healed psyche and heart had delivered it's new message to the body?  Perhaps this is what Mel was waiting for and time ran out.  She waited for healing to occur while in Hospice.

Hospice is a wonderful organization for the dying and their families. By placing herself in Hospice upon her return to Florida from Peru,  it seemed Mel was really seeking to prepare for death. This was her own conscious and subconsious cross- signalling, her own emotional message to herself, reinforced by the act of placing herself in Hospice. Any subsequent treatment would be considered only palliative. I believe this plays on the mind and sends strong signals to the spirit and the body has nothing to do but comply with the program laid out for itself.

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Melinda Elliott Memorial Fund

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 Melinda Elliott

 She has left an enormous legacy, that will take several years to fully understand. I attempt to process some of these insightful gifts and practical lessons in my heart and mind and illuminate them here.

In what is now known to be Mel's last year, the tumor grew to an enormous size. It weighed an estimated 25 pounds and began to command her life support systems, consuming her blood sugar and vital nutrients.

However, when her will was strong, she seemed to summon the life giving nutrients away from the tumor and redirect them into sustaining her living, breathing, praying, and meditation.

Conversely, when she had emotional turmoil or various stresses in her life from a legal case with her ex- over monies he had borrowed, to moving her apartment and packing all of her belongings,worries over funds and family resources supporting her,  to missing a few consecutive days of juicing--  whatever happened that would tip the balance, again, the tumor would win over the body systems commanding more and more of the body's resources.

Mel delftly illustrated with her life and times, how important the emotional side is to healing and even to our very survival. The body so perfectly responds to conscious and subconsious messaging  from the mind and spirit.

She knew it was finding her peace and resolution of all material issues that would aid her in healing spiritually and therefore change the messaging that the body received. She worked on this constantly, throwing up her cares to God and channelling God's light into her being through the great healer, Jesus Christ. I believe it was a struggle for her to break away from one aspect of her Judaic roots, that seemed to almost cripple and predispose one to feeling as though nothing good ever happens to us as a people. I was familiar with this through my family, Jews who had lost loved ones and a whole cultural way of life to torture and persecution in Russia had a different outlook on the world. Add to that, the experience of losing ones parents at a young age, as Mel had, and I imagine it becomes foreign to just wake up and be naturally happy in the morning or have a positive core outlook on the world. Joy can be such a rare commodity. Suffering is learned to be expected.

Belief in the notion that something good can, will and is happening to us right now is important to sustain certainly a higher quality of life, but maybe important to sustaining life itself.

Nurturing the idea of abundance and a fertile future full of potential is a learned behavior. We learn this from our parents primarily and later it is reinforced through observing God's grace in action in every day life. 

It's all God: