What are your “Mantras” to get you through a test, treatment, a bad day?

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We all need tools to get us through our most difficult moments. If you have a mantra, or strategy, please share here!

rlschaller

my favorite strategy for the tests and scans is meditation. I focus all of my attention on the fullness of my in breath and then the full release of my out breath. It’s very calming. To deepen my focus, I like to do a counting Breathe, which is counting the exhales one at a time until I reach a count of ten. And then repeat. It takes 8 -12 counting breath repetitions to get through the breast MRI and or PET lol…

lindy53

I went from a lumpexctomy to a bilateral mastectomy within weeks, this was my mantra, it still hangs on my wall today 18months on.