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Beating Cancer: How to Increase Your Natural Healing Energy
The true nature of healing is generating optimum energy in order to fully enjoy living your life. Healing is much more than a technique of doing, it is a state of being; being at peace with ourselves, our bodies, our relationships and our lives. Let’s explore how to create more healing energy to beat cancer, improve your health and the quality of your life.
To get started, we need to explore the nature of health and let go of some outdated concepts. During childhood, were taught that healing is only a means to fix and cure. We learned that healing happens as a reaction to illness or something to focus on when we’re sick. Most traditional methods of healing in our culture are about fighting and conquering illness and disease, not about creating wholeness. Healing is simply a return to wholeness.
Wholeness honors and respects all four levels of your being; the physical, the emotional, the mental and the spiritual. When you respect these four levels, they can produce a synergy of wholeness. These four levels of being are the foundation of wholeness that leads to optimum health. Genuine healing begins by achieving balance on all four levels.
The first level of healing is with your physical body. It’s the most visible aspect of our being. We can easily identify and see the symptoms of illness physically. However, the lack of illness doesn’t define a state of health and wellness. Unfortunately, many people use their body as the only barometer to determine if they are healthy or ill. You’ll soon see that the physical body is only the first of four bodies which must be used to evaluate your actual state of health and wellness. Healing begins by making choices to care for your body.
Ask yourself these questions to evaluate your relationship to your body.
Do you appreciate your physical body? Do you find it easy to accept or do you constantly criticize it? Are you ashamed of your body? Are you measuring it against standards of perfection that are impossible to achieve? If so, then ask yourself why and write down your answers in a journal. Writing it down helps you to reflect deeper. These four questions will help determine your current relationship with your physical body and can be a catalyst to jump-start your healing process.
You may discover you have been in a very dysfunctional relationship with your body. If so, forgive yourself and begin to accept, appreciate and respect your body, just as it is. Acceptance, appreciation and respect will quickly change the dysfunctional relationship with your body.
A Few Suggestions to Respect for Your Body;
• Exercise daily
• Eat nourishing foods with live energy such as fruit and vegetables.
• Breathe deeply to continually renew your energy.
• Expose your body to sunlight in small doses on a regular basis.
• Sleep well and allow for plenty of time to rest and revitalize.
• Discover new ways to experience pleasure and comfort.
• Accept any physical limitations and love your body as it is.
The Second Level of Healing is with Your Emotional Body.
The next level of healing is within your emotional nature. We were never taught how to keep our emotions healthy. Instead, we were encouraged to devalue and repress our emotions. This unhealthy relationship leads to emotional stress and reduce your natural healing ability.
What constitutes a positive emotion versus a negative one? Many people divide their emotions into categories of “good” and “bad” feelings. The “good”. On the other hand, the “bad” emotions are deemed unacceptable, and we tend to ignore, deny or repress them. It is our judgment of our emotions that create the dysfunction and illness at this level.
Judging emotions as “good” and “bad”, creates emotional negativity. Traditionally we’re taught that when we feel the “good” or as I call them, “expanding emotions”, then we are being positive. However, if we feel the “bad” or “contracting emotions”, we believe we are being negative. This division of good and bad regarding your emotions produces dysfunction.
You’ll begin to create healing on this level rapidly by changing how you define your emotions. Let go of the judgments of good and bad, instead, think of them as expanding and contracting. For instance, think about breathing and ask yourself, “Is inhaling good and exhaling bad?” No… you need to do both to breathe properly, and so it is with your emotions. When you let go of the conditioned judgments from your childhood you will take a major step toward emotional health and well-being.
Being emotionally aware of your feelings regardless if they are expanding or contracting is being honest about how you really feel. Self-respect is not having to apologize for how you honestly feel, it is a state of honoring your thoughts and feelings.
Every emotion is a natural feedback mechanism to gain greater understanding of how you’re doing in your life. They are meant to provide guidance on your journey through life. To fully respect yourself is to be honest with how you feel emotionally. Only then can you change it. Denying emotions keep them alive and can haunt you for years.
How to Develop a Healthy Relationship with Your Emotional Body.
It begins with honesty and a willingness to feel and express your emotions and then release them. Whether its anger, hurt, love, or joy, the emotions need to be felt before they can be released. This creates a positive emotional state of being. How we relate to our emotions determines their positive or negative impact in our lives.
Can Love be Negative and Anger be Positive? Yes, they both have the potential of being either positive or negative depending upon how you relate to them. Unexpressed love can be tremendously negative. Repressed love can change the chemistry of your body, your blood pressure and eventually contribute to heart disease. Love on an emotional level is energy. When we refuse to let energy flow, it becomes repressed and can cause many physical complications.
How to begin honoring your emotional nature:
Begin to give yourself permission to feel all of your emotions without judgment and to express them constructively. You can best do this by journaling. Write down your feelings on a regular basis is a great way to express this energy and release it from your emotional body. It may take some practice, but it will ultimately lead to a healthier state of being.
The Third Level of Healing is on the Mental Level
The power of our minds (or the mind) is limitless. How do you relate to this God-given gift, called your human mind? Do you recognize the value of it to change your life or do you disregard your mental power? Most people have never been taught to appreciate the power of their minds.
Mental empowerment begins by making a personal choice. Understanding how the mind works, and how to use the mental tools that are available to you, begins mental empowerment. The four mental tools to create wellness (as well as any other change in your life) are:
1. Imagination
2. Thoughts
3. Beliefs
4. Choice
Four mental tools contain the power to improve or destroy your life. They create the nature of your attitude and your self image. You can not fully understand your inner power without owning these tools and using them to create the life you desire.
Mental healing begins by making a choice to use the power of your mind.
THE CHOICE: To believe that your thoughts are powerful and that they attract and create your experiences… or, to believe that it doesn’t matter what you think, that life isn’t a choice; it is only an experience that you have no control over.
If we deny our thinking and imagination, we are out of alignment thus, we are disempowered on the mental level of our being, leading to illness rather than wellness.
When you believe your mind holds the key to your personal power, you become more conscious of your thoughts and choices. You understand that your imagination is where all change begins; First in your mind, and then in your body and life. Make the choice to understand these tools, learn about them and use them to lead you closer toward healing and wholeness.
Disempowered individuals believe that the imagination is just “pretend” and has no power, it is only make-believe. When we engage our imagination and visualize the healthy expression of ourselves in our minds, we will create the blueprint of our future. Your imagination is a preview of your life’s experiences. Use it!
How to Access the Power of Your Imagination to Change Your Life.
The quickest way I know is to practice visualization and guided imagery techniques. You can discover how to focus your attention and use your imagination by learning to meditate. It is the safest method I know to gain access to the power of your mind. (See my guided meditations)
The Fourth Level is Spiritual Healing: Your Relationship to the Divine.
Your spiritual nature, regardless of your religion or lack of it, is about a personal and private relationship with the Divine, with God. What is God? Most simply put, God is Love. To honor God is to honor your relationship with love.
Beyond the emotional expression of human love is divine love. This is a love that begins by being understanding, compassionate and forgiving. Divine love is so much more than emotional love. It is the ultimate state of being. Being a loving person becomes the foundation upon which you establish permanent healing and activate your life-force energy to create the wholeness that leads to mental, emotional and physical healing.
Spirituality is your personal relationship with God. If God created All-That-Is, then everything is a creation of God (love). Spirituality is the way we relate to our lives with love - or without it. Spirituality is not a ritual we do on Sunday, and it’s not a book with rules and regulations. That’s religion. Spirituality’s only rule is love. Love is the way you relate to living your life.
Spirituality is your personal relationship to everything in your life. Spirituality is your relationship with your body, emotions, and mind. Spirituality is your relationship to your work, money, family and friends, and it all hinges upon whether those relationships are based on love and understanding or judgment and separation. Being loving is the most healing and powerful experience to change the nature of your life. It is the ultimate healing energy.
When we honor our relationship with God we recognize that our free-will choice to love God is really about choosing to love ourselves and everything and everybody in our lives.
The true nature of healing is focused on loving yourself enough to:
• Nurture your body by meeting its needs for health
• Honor your emotions and handle them honestly
• Value the power of your mind to overcome resistance to change
• Knowing that spirituality is simply about choosing to love
• Ask God for healing and strength to reach your full potential
• Remember that God isn’t separate from the physical world.
The true nature of health and healing becomes the way we live our lives, not just a quick and temporary cure to fix or keep our body alive!
Spiritual healing is a choice available to everyone regardless of your religion. The choice to access the power of your Soul whenever you choose, to remember you are loved by God and the way to love God is to love your life. Applying these secrets will increase your healing energy and create positive changes on all levels of your life.
Michaiel Patrick Bovenes is a personal empowerment teacher, speaker and author. Since 1994, he’s published a popular series of guided meditations and teahes classes called, “Soul-utions”. Michaiel lives in San Francisco, CA and teaches throughout the USA. Receive Free Meditation MP3 Download at his website at: RelaxationMeditations.com
More infomation at WikipediaWhy Bacteria May Be the Cause of Colon Cancer Symptoms
New research may link one of the species of bacteria that live in our digestive system to the development of colon cancer symptoms. Home to many species, some “good” and others “bad”, our digestive system provides these microbes a place to live, and in return they help with digestion and training the body’s immune system. In susceptible people, this otherwise harmless organism causes DNA changes that can be a precursor to cancer.
The organism, known to scientists as enterococcus faecalis, (or E. faecalis for short) lives quietly in the digestive system of most of us, and it’s true that not everyone develops colon cancer. For reasons scientists have yet to understand, in some people the organism produces an oxygen molecule known as superoxide that cause changes in DNA and prompt some of the gene action tied to cancer.
The research, conducted by the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Oklahoma City, looked at how colon cells reacted in the lab to the bacteria in the “fermentation” state. All in all, 42 genes linked to key processes in body cells were altered by the presence of E. faecalis.
“We found that superoxide led to strong signaling in immune cells called macrophages — it also altered the way some cells in the gut grew and divided and even increased the productivity of genes which are associated with cancer.” says professor Mark Huycke, the lead researcher.
Experts in the UK also agree that bacteria may be likely culprits in cancers of the colon. Dr. Barry Campbell of the University of Liverpool agrees that E. faecalis could be involved, but he also believes that there are other bacteria in the bowel that play a part in the cell changes that eventually bring on tumors. He insists, “There is not going to be only one culprit. Our own team is interested in a particular type of E. coli with this in mind. There are also many other factors which are involved, such as genetics and environment.”
And while the experts figure out what may be the root of the problem, there are things that you can do, right now, to reduce your risk. Living a healthy lifestyle where you eat right, exercise, don’t smoke or drink to excess are important first steps. Keeping your weight under control will not only reduce your colon cancer risk, it will have you looking better and feeling better too.
You’ll also want to learn all you can about colon cancer if you have a close family member like a parent or sibling with this disease. If you are at increased risk, your doctor will likely advise you to have colon screening tests before the usual age of 50. Don’t put these off, and report promptly any change in your bowel habits to your doctor. Waiting in fear does you no good… and may rob you of your chance to fight your disease.
You’ll also want to limit your exposure to toxins and radiation. While it takes a lot of radiation to get to a level that might cause cancer, you want to have tests you need but try to avoid exposure to unnecessary radiation.
Each year colon cancer claims nearly 50,000 lives, with over 100,000 patients newly diagnosed with colon cancer symptoms. Treatments include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy and vaccine therapy. Clinical trials are also ongoing and yielding promising new leads all the time.
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More infomation at WikipediaWhat Is Bone Cancer And Can It Be Prevented
Cancer of the bone or bone cancer is a general term used when cancer cells are seen in the bone. Cancer that begins in the bone is called primary bone cancer. It is found most often in the arms and legs but it can occur in any bone in the body. Children and young people are more likely than adults to have bone cancers.
Primary bone cancers are called sarcomas. There are several different types of sarcoma and each type begins in a different kind of bone tissue. The most common sarcomas are osteosarcoma, Ewing’s sarcoma, and chondrosarcoma.
In young people, the most common type of bone cancer is osteosarcoma, usually occurring between the ages of ten and twenty-five. More often, males are affected than females. Osteosarcoma frequently starts in the ends of the bones; where new bone tissue forms as a young person grows, usually affecting the long bones of the arms and legs. Ewing’s sarcoma usually affects teenagers, and is mostly found in people between ten and twenty-five years old.
This cancer forms in the middle part (shaft) of large bones and most often affects the hip bones and long bones in the thigh and upper arm, but can also occur in the ribs. Chondrosarcoma is a type of tumor that forms in the cartilage (rubbery tissue around the joints) and are found mainly in adults. Other types of bone cancer include fibrosarcoma (malignant giant cell tumor) and chordoma. These are rare cancers and most often affects people over thirty.
The most common symptom of bone cancer is pain. However, symptoms may vary depending on the location and size of the cancer. Sometimes firm, slightly tender lump on the bone can be felt through the skin. Sometimes bone cancer interferes with normal movements and can also weaken or cause bones to break. Tumors that occur in or near joints may cause swelling and tenderness in the affected area. Other symptoms may include fatigue, fever, weight loss, and anemia. It is important to check with a doctor when you experience these symptoms, but these symptoms can also be caused by other less serious conditions.
Conventional treatment for some bone tumors may involve surgery, such as limb amputation. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy can be effective in some tumors (such as Ewing’s sarcoma) but less so in others (such as chondrosarcoma). After treatment has been done for bone cancer, it is very important that regular follow-up or check-ups are done with your doctor, to be sure that cancer has not come back and treat it promptly if it does. Check-ups may be physical exam, x-rays, scans, blood tests, and other laboratory tests.
People who have been diagnosed of bone cancer may have many physical, emotional, practical worries. They may worry that removal of a limb or other surgery will affect not only how they look but how other people would feel about them. Patients can be helped to overcome all these through special support groups for youngsters with cancer and their families. The American Cancer Society, for example, is a nonprofit organization that has many services for patients and their families.
All types of cancer are traumatic for everyone involved. The keyword is prevention. There are natural supplements that work. Unfortunately we don’t hear much about these supplements unless we investigate and search them out. Most of them fall under the conflicted interest of quack watchers because if it isn’t manufactured by the drug companies, it can’t possibly work. Sure there is some good being done in mainstream medicine, but when doors continually stay closed to alternative preventions and treatments, it’s more than mere coincidence.
Take care of your health and realize you can live cancer free.
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