Sortlifeout.co.uk/cancer - Dealing with Cancer - Definitions, tips, recovery strategies, mind-body-soul, affirmations, meditation, prayer etc.

The Big 'C'

Cancer is reversible. Cancer does not necessarily mean the end. Many people have reversed the effects. To reverse cancer, reverse the causes.

The following is a basic guide / resource that may help deal with cancer: full of info and links.

This is from a holistic / whole and balanced / integrated perspective.

Ignorance is no longer an option.

In this section you'll find:

Table of contents for this Page

Introduction

What is Cancer? Definition, types
Conventional Therapies
Spontaneous Remissions - IRT
Tips for fatigue
Possible Causes
Possible Mental, emotional, physical, spiritual factors

Possible Strategies for Recovery:

Improving Quality of Life - Palliative Care & Adjuncts

Counselling - issues for discussion
Stress Management
Psychotherapy & power of the mind
Visualization, & Guided Imagery
Colour Therapy,
Prayer,
Meditation
Affirmations
Laughter
Spiritual healing & Reiki - Therapeutic Touch - for pain & stress relief
Opportunity for Spiritual Growth - The positive side of cancer
Attitude, Inner Peace
Tai Chi, Qi Gong
WISDOM FROM GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
Spirituality

For full list of cancer related pages & topics click here

What is Cancer?

Cancer is a complex and multi-dimensional process. On the cellular level, cancer is the mutation of genes resulting in the irregular growth of abnormal cells. The operative words here are irregular and abnormal.

Cancerous cells grow in uncontrolled and unpredictable patterns. Their growth serves no biological use and often threatens the entire body. The cells themselves are mutant, changed in a way that limits their function.

(Cancer 50 Essential things to do, Greg Anderson)

Caroline Myss describes cancer as a baby who keeps feeding on your inside.

There are many different types of cancer -

Cancer can stay in one place or it can move around.

The body is made up of many types of cells. Normally, cells grow and divide to produce more cells only when the body needs them. This orderly process helps keep the body healthy. Sometimes cells keep dividing when new cells are not needed. These cells form a mass of extra tissue, called a growth or tumor.

Tumors can be benign or malignant.

Benign tumors are not cancer. They often can be removed and, in most cases, they do not come back. Cells in benign tumors do not spread to other parts of the body. Most important, benign tumors are rarely a threat to life.

Malignant tumors are cancer. Cells in malignant tumors are abnormal and divide without control or order. These cancer cells can invade and destroy the tissues around them. Also, cancer cells can break away from a malignant tumor and enter the bloodstream or the lymphatic system. This process is the way cancer spreads from the original (primary) tumor to form new tumors in other parts of the body. The spread of cancer is called metastasis.

Apparently we all get cancer every day - however our personal internal quality control usually finds and discards abnormal / dud / cancerous cells.

Most cancer experts believe that everyone develops cancer hundreds -- if not millions -- of times during our lifetimes. Given the trillions of developing cells, the millions of errors that can occur in the differentiating (maturing) process of each cell, and our constant exposure to carcinogenic substances (smoke, car fumes, radiation, etc.), the laws of probability dictate that mis-developing cells must occur frequently in the life of each individual. It stands to reason that a healthy body has a corrective system to "reprogram" newly developed cancer cells into normal differentiation pathways before the cancer can take hold.

Therefore someone who has cancer has low immune system / poor quality control. Or the cancer cells have adapted to your immune system quality control.

Cancer is a major issue - affects everybody either directly or indirectly. However it is too suppressed, hidden and taboo.

Now things are changing. People are voting with their feet.

I am coming with a positive fresh outlook on cancer and the key issues. I have no doubt that cancer can be reversed!

Conventional Therapies

When one has cancer, conventional medicine is only 25% of the available options. If one only listens to the doctors one is only using 25% of the resources. By all means see a doctor but also get several other opinions.

The doctor's diagnosis is only based on of Scholastic Medicine and not on Oriental, Natural, Traditional Medicine which has been used for thousands of years. Most doctors have not learned much about - Power of the Mind, Yoga, Qi / Ki / Prana, Power of Love, Wisdom, Karma, True / Soul Purpose, Emotional Mastery, or even Nutrition.

Many Doctor's have even forgotten about Hippocrates and Aristotle.

Conventional medicine often treats humans as machines, with separate parts - like cogs in a machine. Instead we need to look at the mind-body-soul connections.

Hope of a cure or remission is vital. Hope is the antedote to despair. In a study, cancer patients with a 'Fighter' or 'Denial' attitude lived longer and happier than patients with a 'Victim' or 'Stoic' attitude. However don't build up false unrealistic hopes.

Have Faith in a Higher Power than your conscious self, which is not separate from you - ie. your higher self / God / Higher Consciousness. Faith bypasses worry. However don't have blind faith - experience the Higher Power - The Tao. Experience of the Higher Power comes through Meditation, Service to Others, and burning desire.

True healing returns you to inner peace and wholeness / wellness. Inner Peace means being centered, moment to moment, and happy with what you have now. Pain and suffering are doorways for bliss, freedom and true faith.

Be happy with your pain - it is only a signal of imbalance - be happy you are paying off karma!

In Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu states:

Also hard as this may seem, be detached from your body. With no body there is no calamity. You are not just your body - you are the body-mind and awareness of the two.

Look at life and your situation with a deeper, wider perspective. From above your head.

It's difficult times that allow us to blossom. It is times like these that we can grow, and rediscover who we really are. It is through suffering we develop faith, courage and wisdom.

Circumstances don't make the man, they reveal him unto himself

While editing this page the radio is playing a song with the main lyrics (28/11/01)

"If at first you don't succeed, you can dust it off and try it again"

Greg

Surgery (slash approach)
Chemotherapy - (poison approach) Can you trust Chemotherapy?
Radiation therapy (burn approach)- http://www.lef.org/protocols/prtcl-025.shtml
read more

Proton therapy is a precise form of radiation therapy. We use it because it offers new and heightened potential for noninvasive treatment of patients with localized cancers, and, because there are fewer side effects, patients generally experience a better quality of life after proton treatments than after other forms of radiation therapy. These twin goals -- to control the disease and minimize side effects -- have been the classic aims of radiation therapy for more than a century, and of medicine since Hippocrates: the physician seeks to heal while doing as little harm as possible.

Possible Causes of Cancer

Dr. Lorraine Day says cancer is caused by three factors

Malnutrition - high in fat & protein - deficiency - not enough fruit, grain & vegetables
Dehydration - body 75%, brain 85% water, caffeine - diuretic
Stress - major cause of every disease

Andreas Moritz suggests these 3 factors play a big part as causes of cancer:

Congestion - eg. from eating meat for example
Lack of Vitamin D
Lack of sleep. low level of melatonin which effects gene which controls life cycles of cells

Main Causes of Cancer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlcPsDn8CRk&feature=related

Why do small children and toddlers get Cancer ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYT_idHuSkY

American Cancer Society: A third to two thirds 1/3 to 2/3 of all cancers could be prevented through diet and lifestyle

Harvard School of Health

After Chemotherapy treatment often hospitals feed patients exactly what is one of the main causes of cancer - cooked meat, gravy , high fat, salt & protein

Diet alone not enough - 10% of program

All cancers - are a result of immune system not working properly

Every body same on inside - eg. intestines & heart work same, anatomy same,

Unfortunately conventional therapies don't focus much on why a cancer occurred. Simply cutting out cancer may not necessarily mean it won't return in another place.

Can you trust Chemotherapy?
http://www.ener-chi.com/trustchemo.htm

Possible Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Factors
That could lead to Cancer

Emotional & Mental -

Feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, self-pity, deep resentment ( from Louise Hay - you can heal your Life) are common in cancer patients.

You need to Love yourself, you need to love life to live.

guilt = self anger at self

Trauma (Dr Hamer) - broken relationship, omitted from will

for emotional healing / cleansing , say aloud

I forgive myself and I forgive others

I accept myself and I accept others

I Love myself and others unconditionally

Physical -

Diet - malnutrition - 30% of cancer diet based
Lack of Sleep / Melatonin Melatonin production effects gene that controls life cycle and death of cells.
Eating meat - only 20% of meat can be digested because humans don't have enough acid to break it down, so the much of remainder gets congested
Dehydration - not enough water
Stress (read above and below)

Environment - Carcinogens, Radiation, Chemicals, parasite ( read 'Cure for all cancers'), smoking?

Geopathic stress - from Ley Lines / Energy Grids

Stress from electrics (eg. TV near bed / mobile phones)

(place dial faced electric clocks/clock radios at least three feet from your bed, avoid electric blankets, and keep a distance of four feet or more from your television set. You may also wish to avoid cellular phones and invest in an EMF shield for your computer screen. ) read - Cross Currents, by Robert O. Becker & Body Electric, by Robert O. Becker

Mental Factors

Negative Mind - negative thinking, negative visualisation, always sees the bad side
stress
worry, doubt
Fear of death

Spiritual Factors

Personally I think cancer in many cases can be a door for awakening to their true potential. Cancer patients and their close ones have to deal with fear of death.

Once fear of death is transcended one can really start to live.

I agree with many great philospher's when they say the highest goal of life is to

'Know Thyself'

Not knowing thyself might be a contributing factor to why people get cancer.

What quicker, fast track way to know thyself and become self aware. Self realized. Conscious awareness.

Deepak Chopra suggests many people that have cancer are not fulfilling their True Purpose*. Those diagnosed with cancer have forgotten their purpose for this life. You need to remember what you are here for!!- divine will, Law of Dharma.

Bernie Seigel tells a story of a young man who wanted to play the violin. However his parents told him to study law instead. Unfortunately soon afterwards the guy developed a tumour in the Brain. He was given one year to live, so he gave up law and returned to his love, passion playing the violin. A year later he was in a concert orchestra and the brain tumour had gone.

Not going along with divine will, not going with the flow, not in touch with higher self - not following true purpose leads to imbalance.

Need to learn lessons for healing to occur

Destiny and karma (maybe patient & family meant to learn lessons and change?)

Also read about Harner Theory - linking - brain-psyche-and organ.

see page on cancer prevention, boosting immune system, becoming a master

Tips for managing fatigue and anemia

Have your hemoglobin checked regularly
Eat a well-balanced diet including plenty of fluids and seek nutritional advice about iron- and vitamin-rich foods and dietary supplements
Plan your daily activities and do only what you absolutely must do Include short periods of rest and relaxation (take naps!) every day
Ask for help from others, especially when you are feeling fatigued
Do light exercises every day (always check with your healthcare provider about exercises that are best for you)
Join support groups and share your feelings and concerns
Find new hobbies that are physically less demanding, like reading or listening to music
Keep a journal or diary
Ask your doctor about a prescription medicine that allows your body to make more red blood cells and helps give you back your strength.

Cancer Recovery Strategies & Treatments

Eight Recovery strategies that Cancer survivors have in common:

(Cancer 50 Essential things to do, Greg Anderson)

Dr Lorraine Days - 10 steps to Wellness - 10 Natural Laws

1. Proper Nutrition - 30% of all cancer could be prevented through good diet

Preferably Vegan. Fruits, grains, vegetables - 3 meals fresh, unprocessed, organic + 8 carrot juices (add apple for flavour) throughout -day - in between meals -get a juicer. Herbal teas like taheebo or essiac. Not too much protein. Try sprouting and eating more raw. Cooking food kills enzymes. more on nutrition

2. Exercise - 4 hours per week - reduces 66% incidence rate for breast cancer - try Tai Chi or Qi Gong

3. Water - We are 75% water - dehydration ,major cause of disease. Water is best detoxifier.

4. Sunlight - boosts immune system, not too much though - use vitamins

5. Temperance - elimination if all harmful chemicals - carcinogens, gm food, processed foods, drugs, all medications but not instantly, gradually - step by step

6. Fresh Air. Indoor air doubles cancer growth speed. Hospital air not good - full of germs little if any fresh air. Cancer doesn't like oxygen. Do deep breathing exercises

7. Proper sleep. By 9:30pm at least. Body needs to recuperate

8. Stress Relief, stress major cause of disease, read the Bible or other religious / spiritual texts / high quality material.

What you put in your mind is as important as your food.

Every negative thought must go.

9. Attitude of gratitude - learn to Trust in God, You need to change everything, need faith in higher force. words create there reality, many people are worse off.

A million people will die around the world this week.

A person who is enthusiastic and commited to a recovery program is much more likely to survive.

10. Have a Spirit of benevolence - don't focus on self too much, pray for others. read about ego.

This may seem simple, but can be dificult - need to change the way we live

All 10 steps are free, except food which need anyway.

Drugs never cure disease - we do,

cancer is not chemo deficiency

www.drday.com

You must start to investigate for yourself.

Don't believe. Try it!

Improving Quality of Life - Palliative Care & Adjuncts

Counselling - Areas that may need to be addressed

Past - traumas - usually 2-3 years before cancer appears

Present - live in the moment, the future and past are just illusions in your mind, in the present.

Only the present moment is real and eternal.

Future - Consider potential life vs potential death,

if die - consider - will, remarriage of partner ?etc.

Fear of death - overcome this fear*

Fear of Life - don't fear the future - or regret the past

What would you do if you had your life back? What would you be doing now!

self denial - can be problematic, the more that pray for you the better

embarrassment don't be embarrassed

The Big C - some people can't use the full name.

Click here for longer list of Alternative therapy treatments

Stress Management

Stress is a big factor in causing Cancer.

Stress is often caused by a feeling of lack of control. Not having what we want, as we want, when we want.

Psychologists have found that there are several different types of personality's

Depending on which type depends on how stress affects you.

A little stress and pressure is healthy and often a part of most jobs.

Effect of stress - fight or flight - fear andrenaline, cortisone

Too much stress happens at the expense of our immune system, healing, digestion, repair

When we get angry our immune system goes down for up to 6 hours

Most stay in outside loop - trying to combat stress by further stress - fear of facing self inside -

most people in permanent state of fear
immune system down
tense muscles
poor digestion
calcium lost in bones

The key is to become conscious and aware of the mechanisms that play a part in you getting stressed.

different roles & dramas that people play out to gain energy from you.

Find out which personality dramas / star signs / archetypes / rays / you and your family play.

You don't like in others what you aren't comfortable with in yourself. eg. don't like chaotic side of self.

Life is like a mirror. We attract opposites - to learn about the opposite perspective and thus balance ourselves.

The people who annoy you most (usually family / close ones) are actually your best teachers.

think about the last time you got stressed.

what were the steps leading up to the stressful situation (feeling tired, pain, bad day, or nothing)
look at why you got stressed - maybe fear / ego related
were you stressed because of fear of losing control / power / approval?

it is ok to sometimes have 'no external control' / power / approval

acknowledge any possible lessons, interesting coincidences

be comfortable with not knowing, be secure in insecurity - nobody can truly damage your real self - nobody can take your memories, knowledge, wisdom, lessons, willpower, or awareness from you.

Everything is in cycles - polarity, duality - pleasure / pain, love / fear, day / night, yin / yang, male / female - women are like waves - see full table

at some point you might comtemplate why it happened and what lessons might be learnt

Next time you get stressed

take a step back, observe, be aware of your feeling,
feel the fast heart beat, feel blood pressure, shalllow breath
take a few deep breaths
release the feeling of stress,
identify yourself with the awareness of the feeling of stress
realize why you are getting stressed (usually fear/ego - control dramas - or don't like in others what don't like about self)
now choose peace, compassion, forgiveness and kindness instead of fear, greed, hatred, guilt, desire.

Every situation / experience is an opportunity to show mastery and control of our mind & emotions.

Soon you will realize that you have an extra split second in which you'll realise that before you would have automatically got stressed.

Now with clear mind you see why you are getting stressed. Acknowledge the lesson and bless & forgive your partner. Thank

Now choose peace over choose being right (proving point

Don't be a victim of your own habits, beliefs & attitudes. Stop being ignorant! Be mindful in the moment.

The quickest way out of stress, is take a few deep breathes and become aware of the stress, think why & release it

Meditate to eliminate stress, lower blood pressure & relieve anxiety

Ideal is to have an inner peace that does not get disturbed like the quiet powerful 'stillness' like in the eye of the hurricane.

Depression

Lack of Sunshine and Vitamin D leads to depression.

Unfortunately most people only focus on their negative times / attributes and can get stuck in a rut. Depression is simply the same negative thoughts spinning round a persons head - too organised in head!!

We all know there's always a silver lining. Problems are just seeds of opportunity.

I wonder what would happen if we only read positive news and 'miracles'

Energy follows thought, As above so below. As within, so without

PNI Receptor in brain - Endorphin - Brain makes own morphine like compound - over 200 messenger chemicals found - neural peptides - informational substances

receptors for these all over body - activate cells or deactivated

when excited - tissue increases much more - blood carries less oxygen

when spirit of individual unhappy - wilt like flower

get out of stress - through meditation

be creative

use counselling and group therapy

read full article about stress

Psychotherapy & Power of the Mind

Our reality is based on what we think (Unconsciously) - blame others for our own programming

Power of Mind - Mind over Matter - measurably used in sport and business all time

Images of body already healed
specific events
specific choices

Unfortunately Doctors - don't help much when they say you've got a 30% chance of living, or you'll die in .... it is a negative visualization / affirmation.

However it can help to kickstart your life again and make you realize what you need to change!

Visualization & Guided Imagery Exercises

Imagine good white blood cells killing bad cancer cells (Uri Geller's mind Power Book)

Imagine cancer cells as wild animals and good white blood cells as futuristic space men / knights in shining armour.

Picture your cancer cells as weak and confused
Create a mental image of your treatment and your immune system overcoming the cancer
Imagine your body's natural process eliminating the disease from your system
Envision the cancer shrinking until it disappears
Imagine yourself well filled with vitality

(50 essential . .. ., Greg Anderson)

Imagine seeing them fighting and actually feel / hear / see the cancer cells dying and flowing away from you.

Tell yourself that you have wiped out some cancer cells, and really believe it.

Visualize that the cancer cells have disappeared / dissolved

You can also do this with flu, viruses in bloodstream/

See cancer smashed or gentler sun, water - washing away

Sandy beach, listen to sea, felt rays of sun healing and shrinking healing

According to ancient chinese healing Cancer is Hot -

So you can visualize the hot cancer just freezing.

for full article about visualization click here

Colour healing

Red blast -Imagine a Red Niagra falls flowing through you flushing out negative energy and the cancer cells

Visualize white / golden light showering you from above - washing all the negative energy into the centre of Mother Earth.

Visualize your area of illness as bright white light - healing and cleaning it till nothing wrong just cleaned

Pray - Why worry when you can pray

Studies have shown that praying actually works - transcending time and space and with no descrimination.

Pray to Higher Self / God / Holy Spirit etc. asking for strength and guidance.

Be still and prayerfully listen to the God of your understanding. Don't beg or plead.

Pray "Thy will be Done". Then listen. And Act. Don't limit God's infinite possibilities by imposing your conditions for wellness.

Remember with God all things are possible - so don't worry too much about when or how - just know that you will be healed - or are healthy.

Visualize that you are doing something as if you were totally healthy, fit and vibrant. Feel, hear, taste, see, know that you are healed.

Breathe oxygen into the cancer. Breathe oxygen away from cancer if cancer painful.

Cancer doesn't like oxygen - prefers Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

Believe me prayer works. Many of my prayers are made manifested soon after praying.

The more still, attentive, concentrated, focused your mind is and the more love and positive intention that is in your heart the stronger your powers of manifestation. Practise meditation.

Praying is talking to God. Meditation is listening to God.

Be aware of messages, symbols etc.

Send Visualize sending energy up to Kosmos / heaven / Infinite

Ask and you shall receive

for full article about prayer

Meditate

Meditation is a good technique to help with stress reduction. It is an easy technique to learn and can be done without the help of therapist. It can be practiced in a variety of places including work, home, and in the hospital.

There are many ways to practice meditation and each individual develops their own style and preferences. Most recommend performing meditation once or twice a day for 10-20 minutes to reap the full benefits.

Find a quiet spot where you will not be disturbed. Sit in comfortable position with your back straight. Close your eyes so you are not affected by visual stimulation. Breathe naturally. Some will use a mantra (phrase or word that you repeat to yourself to help distract your thoughts) such as "om".

Gradually relax all the muscles in your body from your feet up to your head. Your mind may wander, but use your mantra to help continue to focus on your breathing and relaxation.

start by relaxing body, then relax breathing, then just observe and watch, but be patient and do not expect anything.

Aim: Be silently aware - empty your mind

At first your thoughts may wander - don't worry, or judge yourself

To develop one pointedness of mind patiently observe one particular object

eg. candle or mandala

for full article about meditation click here

Affirmations

are brief, positive statements of intent and belief. Affirmations "make firm" the positive things about you and your circumstances

It's best to make your own positive affirmation though -be brief, positive and present tense with I in it.

Here are some examples:

eg.

'I need the tumour growth to shrink', within 60 days the tumour is healed'

'I need to be in perfect radiant health'

'All my cells are happy, smiling, and balanced

'All my organs are balanced and communicating'

'All sick and unhealthy cells leave my body now!'

"I am now receiveing unlimited wellness"

"I am grateful for today!"

I love myself and others

I forgive myself and Others

I accept myself and others

I am worthy of being healed

I am already Healed

I live in the present moment

I hereby delete any negative thoughts, emotions, implants that have been projected or attached onto me, past, present, future

In the name of Jesus, So be it, So be it, SO be it

I hereby delete, terminate and eliminate any negative thoughts, emotions that I have projected onto others , past, present, future

In the name of Jesus, So be it, So be it, SO be it

"As I sow wellness, I reap wellness"

"I am free from worry, I know peace"

or simply

"I am healthy, whole and happy"

I forgive myself and I forgive others

I am worthy of love, happiness and perfect radiant health

Try everyday

"I am in perfect radiant health!"

Say this 10 times in morning, 10 times in evening and 10 times before bed

for full info on affirmations

Fun & Laughter

Norman Cousins, in Anatomy of Illneass, called laughter "internal-jogging"

Rent that comedy video. Laugh. Let the positive chemicals and hormones loose. It's healing.

http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/psychosocial/comics/lite.html

Healing Session - Spiritual Healing or Reiki

Healing is the channelling of energies by the healer to re-energise the patient to deal with illness or injury.

Healing often helps with the speed and extent of recovery from serious illness and major surgery and from the effects of treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy. It complements conventional medicine.

A healing session is similar to receiving a jump start to your car with a low battery. The healer who has a stronger connection to energy, channels some energy to your flat battery. When your battery is charged you can continue to charge / heal yourself!!

hands off healing (spiritual healing)- few inches away from body
Reiki is often done hands on
healing often done in a chair / (can also do lying down)
Healing session can last from 5 mins - 1 hour
Very relaxing, pleasant
concerned with helping you make contact with your own spiritual self / essence.
You may feel heat, cold, breeze, in you body
Can work on a long term deep level as well as instantly
concerned with boosting your immune system / vital energy
-clearing your energy channels
See if you are a natural healer -try exercise
Cost: Spiritual - free or by donation only / Reiki - cost similar to massage