Cancer & Stress
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Synopsis:  Stress is virtually always a factor in developing cancer and treating stress is an important factor in eradicating this disease.

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Cancer and Stress

by Bob Davis
(www.cancer-success.com)

The significance of this stress is that it shuts down the immune system, which we know by now, is the body's main system for fighting cancer. 

Dr. Richard Shulze, Cure Zone and other sites, declares that stress is always a factor in the cancer patients that he treats. Dr. Linus Pauling stated that stress uses up the bodies vitamin C supply, which is needed for the immune system to operate. 

If you have cancer, it is essential to organize your life in such a way that stressful people are not running your life by invading your thoughts and causing great active concern. I know that it is easy to say and very difficult to do. In my case, I had to dismiss some people who are very close family members and discontinue a relationship with them. I had to take charge of my emotional life. This gave me great relief. My personal relationships have been resolved after 6 years of patient waiting.

    The active ingredient in this process is forgiveness. I very consciously and actively forgave them for their part in the distress. This does not restore the relationship. They were forgiven "out" of a relationship. I claimed no retribution, no apology, no restitution. I considered them innocent by reason of incompetence, ignorance,  poor example, poor up bringing and so on. They are really innocent of their background. They didn't determine their ancestry. I forgave them, however, I also stayed out of their lives until proper consideration could be made.

    I am emphasizing this, because most people assume that forgiveness means a resumption of a relationship. Not at all. Forgiveness means that the offended is owed absolute nothing. They have no right or need of compensation of any kind.  Forgiveness is for the benefit of the forgiver. It can and eventually may be for the benefit of the forgiven, but it's first and most important work is to free the forgiver of expectations and requirements from another who is not able to deliver. To whatever extent the offended is expecting or requiring consideration, to that extent the offender is controlling the offender's life.

    What did it do for me, and what can it do for you? "Cancer cannot grow in an alkaline body". (Dr. Ruth Swope). The two things that make a body acid are eating meat and stress. If you have cancer and are under a lot of relationship stress, take charge. Deal with it. If you don't, it will deal with you. It may mean that  you must re-define your expectations and requirements. So be it. Is proving you are right worth your life? It may be that you must re-evaluate your priorities  and goals. What good are goals without life?

    Another source of stress is in obligations. I told a young mother of two pre-schoolers with a very severe cancer and who was neglecting her personal care to take care of her children, that she needed to find a way to tend to her own personal healing program which she was neglecting. I told her that if she wanted to attend her daughter's wedding, she would have to forgo her extensive involvement in her present raising of her children. Being a true mother with all a mother's instincts and love, she couldn't consider it.

    She was not able to make the appropriate considerations, so she died. Someone else is raising her children.   Stress is a killer, we all know that. Now we have another reason to strive to eliminate it from our lives.

    Caregivers, look at the stress in the life of the cancer patient you serve and see what you can do to relieve it. Dr. Lorain Day (www.drday.com) advocates eliminating television, radio, news papers and news magazines because of the negative news. Certainly, family bickering has no place in the healing environment that is needed for a successful outcome. Sadly, I have seen this occur in the presence of cancer patients. Taking out the garbage without argument may be just the medicine that your mother with cancer needs.

    Dr. Norman Cousins made a video tape on the subject of mental attitude and mental health relating to developing and healing of cancer.  You may obtain a copy, as well many other alternative cancer treatment video tapes by contacting; 

MALIBU VIDEO
2899 Augoura Rd. Suite 152
Westlake Village Ca. 91361.
Fax (818) 706-3360
phone (805) 449-5237.
e mail: cfWintner@aol.com.
All major credit cards accepted.
They will send you a tape list

    Remember, it is the immune system that fights cancer and stress is devastating to our immune system. This may be the most difficult area of managing our lives in order to get well. We can be loyal to our relationships at the expense of our health. I have seen it over and over again. Folks just can't convince themselves that certain drastic changes may be in order for them to manage their recovery well.

    Go to the site below and be encouraged to do the right thing, whatever it might be in your case.

Medical-library.net/sites/_emotions.html
 

Bob recommends the following Cancer Resources  ....

Cancer Cure Secrets written by Zemira Giannotti who overcame Pancreatic Cancer without chemotherapy or radiation.  His book is  available for immediate download into your computer.

Cure Your Cancer written by Bill Henderson.  This book reveals 38 alternative cancer treatments.  His book is  available for immediate download into your computer.