As scary as a cancer diagnosis is, cancer also gives us the opportunity to re-evaluate our life and stop hiding from our feelings and emotions. Cancer in fact has its uses for changing your life.
November 23, 2006 (Press Release) --
For most of us, just hearing the word “cancer’ sends a chill up our spine. The thought of receiving such a diagnosis causes spiraling thoughts of funeral plans and decisions about who will raise our children. For most, it’s a wake up call to begin living differently.
It makes life rich when you get that the party is going to be over at some point. But not everyone finds the gift in cancer. Many struggle with identity issues when they’re diagnosed. The question becomes, who are you when you can’t do what you do? When you get cancer, you can’t go into work everyday. You can’t be the mom you were, you can’t go to all the soccer games. You can’t even pick up the baby because you had a mastectomy. You can’t cook because you’re too tired. So who are you now?”
Dr Andrew Weill relates the story of a Japanese banker who was a workaholic and developed kidney cancer. He refused surgery. After he was healed through the intervention of an acupuncture therapist, he said, “I became aware of the natural healing power that was in me and around me. Gradually, I began to realize that I had created my own cancer by my own behavior. I saw that I had to love my cancer, not attack it as an enemy. It was part of me, and I had to love my whole self.” He is now a changed man. Acceptance, submission, surrender – whatever one chooses to call it, that mental shit may be the master key that unlocks healing.
Anna Keck-Tomasso, author of The Terrible Gift of Illness, writes, “It is not uncommon to have a cancer diagnosis become the incentive and motivator for powerful transformation in our lives. Facing a cancer diagnosis often forces us to take an inventory of our whole lives – to become more aware of relationships, work, play, self-defeating habits and self-neglect. Our illness can give us the gift of awareness, becoming the motivator for positive, life-enhancing and life-supporting change, particularly self-care. That special moment is now and that permission-giver is you.”
“There is something good that comes out of this. I understand myself a lot better. I understand what’s important to me better.”
Cancer is a rite of passage. Before cancer, people repress their emotions, have emotional problems, hide their emotions and feelings in a flurry of activity, work, or drugs and alcohol, then contract cancer.
Cancer comes into your life to hold a mirror to the way you’ve been conducting yourself, repressing emotions maybe, accepting abuse without expressing your feelings.
There are no conditions in the body that cannot return to normal. Sometimes the death of a loved one can change a person’s direction in life, and if the reality of life after death is not really understood, the emotions and the feelings of anger and loss can carry on through the remainder of that person’s life experience. You will find many more positive ways to look at cancer and find ways to fight it without chemotherapy and surgery in the ebook Cancer Free For Life.
It makes life rich when you get that the party is going to be over at some point. But not everyone finds the gift in cancer. Many struggle with identity issues when they’re diagnosed. The question becomes, who are you when you can’t do what you do? When you get cancer, you can’t go into work everyday. You can’t be the mom you were, you can’t go to all the soccer games. You can’t even pick up the baby because you had a mastectomy. You can’t cook because you’re too tired. So who are you now?”
Dr Andrew Weill relates the story of a Japanese banker who was a workaholic and developed kidney cancer. He refused surgery. After he was healed through the intervention of an acupuncture therapist, he said, “I became aware of the natural healing power that was in me and around me. Gradually, I began to realize that I had created my own cancer by my own behavior. I saw that I had to love my cancer, not attack it as an enemy. It was part of me, and I had to love my whole self.” He is now a changed man. Acceptance, submission, surrender – whatever one chooses to call it, that mental shit may be the master key that unlocks healing.
Anna Keck-Tomasso, author of The Terrible Gift of Illness, writes, “It is not uncommon to have a cancer diagnosis become the incentive and motivator for powerful transformation in our lives. Facing a cancer diagnosis often forces us to take an inventory of our whole lives – to become more aware of relationships, work, play, self-defeating habits and self-neglect. Our illness can give us the gift of awareness, becoming the motivator for positive, life-enhancing and life-supporting change, particularly self-care. That special moment is now and that permission-giver is you.”
“There is something good that comes out of this. I understand myself a lot better. I understand what’s important to me better.”
Cancer is a rite of passage. Before cancer, people repress their emotions, have emotional problems, hide their emotions and feelings in a flurry of activity, work, or drugs and alcohol, then contract cancer.
Cancer comes into your life to hold a mirror to the way you’ve been conducting yourself, repressing emotions maybe, accepting abuse without expressing your feelings.
There are no conditions in the body that cannot return to normal. Sometimes the death of a loved one can change a person’s direction in life, and if the reality of life after death is not really understood, the emotions and the feelings of anger and loss can carry on through the remainder of that person’s life experience. You will find many more positive ways to look at cancer and find ways to fight it without chemotherapy and surgery in the ebook Cancer Free For Life.
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