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The School of Greatness

How Fear Almost Killed Her (And What Saved Her Life) | Anita Moorjani

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.822K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Anita Moorjani spent decades living in fear of cancer, people-pleasing her way through life, and shrinking herself to fit others' expectations - until the disease she feared most put her in a coma with organs shutting down. You'll discover why the real illness was never the cancer, and how facing death finally taught her to love herself enough to come back and live.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I found a lump right here. I was diagnosed with cancer.

0:04.0

What I felt inside was, oh my gosh, I did this to me.

0:09.0

Every choice I was making in my life was made from a place of fear.

0:14.0

Fear of cancer, fear of being disliked.

0:17.0

The thing that you wanted to prevent most of your life came true. Yes.

0:21.6

She's here to show you how to live a more full life, so you don't have to die with any regrets.

0:27.6

Please welcome Anita Mourjani.

0:29.6

I could hear them saying to Danny, she's not even going to make it through the night.

0:34.6

And while they're talking about all this, I felt myself leave my body.

0:39.3

I've never felt so good before.

0:42.3

I've never felt that free.

0:45.3

After coming out of the coma, everybody says I was like a different person.

0:49.3

I was light.

0:51.3

I was euphoric.

0:52.3

But I knew the important thing was I knew I was healed.

0:56.0

And that is what I want to try and replicate for people who are sick.

1:00.0

If love is our true nature, then why does it feel so much easier and more natural to choose fear in division?

1:06.0

I think even though love is our true nature, we are taught that...

1:15.6

Now this is fascinating because I've never met someone who died and came back.

1:21.6

And essentially that's what happened. A coma. Did you technically die or was it just a coma for 30 hours and then you

1:29.3

were experiencing something else? So I was in a coma. My heart didn't stop beating. So I wasn't

1:35.9

clinically dead, but I was clinically diagnosed as being in a coma where the doctors told my

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