MIND MEDICINE FOR CANCER: EMOTIONAL VIEWPOINT

CANCER: DIET DURING CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIATION TREATMENT »

Monday, March 30, 2009 | 4:42 am

Blocking negative emotions isn’t the answer to preventing illness and cancer. Inhibiting emotions will not make them go away, it simply drives them into more subtle and usually more destructive avenues of expression later. Holding on to your emotions, especially negative emotions, is like sealing a volcano that is waiting to explode. The lava has to go somewhere and more often than not it flows to one specific area of the body, creating illness there.

As human beings, we carry inside ourselves an array of emotions and feelings. This is part of who we are, what we are born with. If we inhibit our emotions from direct expression (many men are taught to hide their true emotions), we may cause more serious health problems to arise. Many people block the expression of their anger, turning it back onto themselves rather than letting the anger go out in a clean, quick release towards the person or situation that provoked the emotion. Once the anger is blocked and turned inward, serious health imbalances can result. Many heart attack patients are the victims of inhibited anger.

Emotions developed in humans because of their survival value. We need every single one of the emotions that we are born with. Negative emotions lead to sickness when we block them and allow them to literally eat us up inside. The mind and the body function together as a biochemical whole. It is thought cancer cells suffer from isolation of a positive flow of energy and metabolism. If this is the case, then people with cancer have pulled their consciousness away from the cancerous growth. When the mind pulls away from this part of the body, it is termed avoidance.

The area of the body being ignored is possibly part of a deep hurt or pain. Those most prone to developing cancer are often people with a high anxiety/low love acceptance profile and those who tend to steer clear of cancer are people with a low anxiety/high love-acceptance profile. It is no wonder cancer is so rampant in today’s world, with an increase in anxiety due to higher stress levels and a decrease in loving relationships and self-acceptance.

If you do have cancer, ask yourself, ‘What is really the source of the anxiety I am feeling inside? What am I afraid of deep down? What am I trying to destroy inside myself? What or who is hurting me or causing me pain?’ ‘Where is the cancer located in my body and what emotion is associated with this body area?’ Answer these questions honestly and perhaps they will reveal the emotional manifestation of your illness.

To enhance the healing process from an emotional viewpoint you need to stop judging yourself and start accepting yourself for who you are. No one is perfect. We are all struggling to survive, we are all hoping to be accepted for who we are and we are all souls looking for true love, balance and eternal peace. If you learn to understand that every human being is ultimately driven by the same goal, ‘acceptance and love’ and try to release any judgements or expectations of who you think you are meant to be — then you can really learn to accept and love yourself exactly for who you are, not for what you want to become or for what others think of you.

*71/34/5*

Share and Enjoy: