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As Oscar winner David Seidler Krebs, he his disease disappear are presented and it did. He was said history HIGHLIGHTSSeidler, 73, who won only an Academy Award, bubble CancerHe had refused chemo, extensive surgery, believes visualization beat DiseaseNo helped show large scale studies visualization can diseases, ex-medical journal-editor SaysRELATED TOPICSCancerHealth and FitnessHeart attacks (CNN)-now deal, probably know, David Seidler, who on Sunday won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for "Speech of the King", was a stutterer as King George VI, whose fight against the speech disorder is depicted in the movie. What you might not know is that Seidler, 73, suffered from cancer, just like the King. But in contrast to his Majesty, Seidler of cancer survived, and he says he has because he used the same vivid imagination he employs his award-winning script writing. Seidler says that he visualized his cancer away. "I know it sounds weird Southern California and woo-woo," he admits, when he describes the visualization techniques that he used when his bladder cancer was diagnosed almost six years. "But this is what happened." Seidler says, when he found out his cancer returned, he had visualized a 'beautiful, clean healthy bubble"for two weeks, and the cancer disappeared. He was cancer free for more than five years. If you can imagine way cancer or any other disease, was for many years hotly disputed. A camp of the doctors will tell you that they have seen patients and a number of studies supports the mind-body connection. Other doctors, just as respected, tells you the concept is absurd, and there is no single study to prove that it really works. Seidler is not concerned about studies. He says all that he is white, that worked for him, visualization. "Slime and salty tears" "When I was diagnosed first in 2005, I was quite excited, of course," says Seidler in a telephone interview from his home in Malibu, California. "After three to four days knew to produce an amount of mucus and salty tears I longer Kummer was bad for the autoimmune system and the autoimmune system was the only one buddy I had in the fight against cancer." Seidler said that of when he decided to sit down and write the screenplay for "the King's speech," which was simmering for many years in his brain had. "I thought if I throw me into the creative process, I sit can not feel sorry for me," he says. After consultation with California urologist Dr. Dino DeConcini, decided Seidler, have chemotherapy or whole or in part his bladder removed, common treatments for bladder cancer. Instead he opted for surgery, to remove only the cancer, and he took additions meant his immune system to improve. He says "For years, if I went down the stairs I rattled like a few maracas, I had so many pills in me". Despite his efforts, the cancer came back within months. Seidler was forced, his decision, no chemotherapy or bladder operation have to reconsider. Determine parent factors "a nice, creamy unblemished bubble", such as his doctor two weeks later booked a date for the surgery, Seidler with his soon to be ex-wife commiserated, and it a comment by you, that gave him the idea was to try his cancer disappear to visualize. "she said: ' well, what happens if in two weeks in go and there is no cancer?'" "he remembers."I thought to myself this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. "This woman in total denial." But later, reflecting on their comments, Seidler, she thought maybe may at etwas-- perhaps it would be possible that his cancer to just disappear while he waited for surgery that. To find out that he lose, had nothing for the next two weeks he presented a clean bubble. "I spent hours visualizing a nice, creamy unblemished bubble lining, then I for the operation and a week later the doctor went me called and his voice was very strange," recalls Seidler. "" He said: "I dont know how to explain, but there is no cancer are." He says the doctor so confounded he was sent, and all confirmed that they were cancer tissue from the biopsy preoperative in four different labs. Seidler says that the doctor does not explain how it happened. But Seidler. He says he believes the additions and visualizations were behind which his doctor called "spontaneous remission"-plus a change in his way of thinking. He stopped feeling sorry for himself because of his pending divorce his cancer. He recalls "I very stricken was mourning". "30 Years ago it was a marriage, and in my grief, I could say that I was getting sicker." "I decided, only my head around change." "The spirit has the power to heal" while Seidler says he knows his unorthodox techniques of recovery "woo-woo" sound to some ears, they sound like"Science" Dr. Christiane Northrup, a best-selling author, is written in detail about the body mind connection,. "This does not sound woo-woo to me", she says. "The spirit has the power to heal." You move "by fear and abject terror in action," says changed his body Seidler chemistry. "Fear increased cortisol and adrenaline in the body, which reduce immunity in the course of time," she says. The two stress hormones cause cellular inflammation, which is the way that cancer begins, says Northrup high level. The hormones reduce measures, such as Seidler finally did. "Hope is actually a biochemical reaction in the body", she says. Dr. Bernie Siegel, says the author of "Love, medicine & miracles," it's the same kind and an athlete uses visualization way to improve performance. "If an athlete visualizes success, their bodies really success experienced." If you think something, your body really feels as it happens, "says Siegel, clinical Assistant Professor of surgery at the Yale medical school." But Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of medicine, gets the mind-body connection a "new religion", promotes the false hope. "It is something so biologically implausible that your attitude, one to cure disease", says Angell, senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School. "There is a tremendous arrogance to imagine, that your mind is so powerful." She tells stories like Seidler's are only dass-- only stories and not prove, that connection is the mind-body real. Some other part of the patient treatment plan probably declared victory against the disease, or in other cases is the success of temporary and part of the natural course of the disease. For example, she says that bladder cancer are often back. "They beat you down, and it comes back and beat you down, and it comes back", she says. "If"