I was told I would spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair as the result of a motorcycle accident. Not liking that option I chose another way. I remembered a story from my third grade, Weekly Reader, about a boy who had an inoperable brain tumor. His doctors waited for him to die in the hospital, but at night when they left him alone he played a game where he blasted away his tumor with white light beams from white space ships that circled the tumor. The tumor disappeared in his head as it disappeared in his game. I decided that I could heal my wounds in the same way. A year and a half...

Mind/body healing stories are a different kind of healing story. Most healing stories for children are written to help them through hard times and to gain concepts that help them cope with their lives through empathy with story characters. Mind/Body healing stories provide concepts and skills to teach children to directly interact with their own immune systems in a way that accelerates or improves healing outcomes, also using empathy for story characters. Healing and curing are different. You may cure a bacterial caused disease using antibiotics, but a broken bone must be healed. Healing is...