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Wishing you all peace within~
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."
~Henry Miller
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict."
~Anonymous
No worries here, I had an extra pair of eyes and ears with me to listen for any whistles blowing (even though I've never seen a train in all the times I've been here).
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I find walking to be the best way to clear my mind, especially when it's in overdrive. Walking with mindfulness is a perfect form of meditation. Even a short 15-minute walk does wonders.
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A research doctor discovers he has a brain tumor. After following all the usual treatments he naturally wants to know how he can prevent a relapse, but is told just to go live his life. Dissatisfied with this answer he turns his academic prowess towards uncovering the research that would support changes in lifestyle that would help keep cancer at bay. The research is convincing and, combined with his own story, offers a very compassionate, empowering and inspiring series of patient anecdotes backed up by hard science.
There's the diet component, the psychological component and a fitness component that even includes karate as a treatment for patients undergoing chemo. This is a holistic approach that appreciates how everything goes together. There is the cancer personality profile similar to the Type A personality of a heart patient. The cancer patient is described to be a person who was never really welcomed into the family; a family that might also have been on the violent side or cold and distant. The child makes up for it by trying to be perfect and take care of everyone. As an adult they tend to over invest in one aspect of their life i.e. their profession or marriage. When this investment is threatened or lost, the childhood grief returns arousing a feeling of helplessness. Add to that helplessness a load of stress and you have someone who feels defeated before they've even begun. Experiments of rats shot up with tumor cells and given shock treatment to prove the point. The will to live can be destroyed and in turn their immune system.
Many stories follow about how patients found their way back to health and to the life force by taking up meditation thus restoring a mind body connection, by healing wounds of the past through therapy and by reconnecting to the life force and transforming the chaotic mind to the coherence of equilibrium. This last can be done by reciting the Buddhist mantra Om Mani Padme Hum or the rosary in Latin. Healing medicine carried over from spiritual practice. Shamans are also mentioned as agents who reconnect the patient back to his will to live. Lots of studies described to back up these practices especially meditation.
There is also a chapter devoted to fear of death and its many parts. The fear of suffering, the fear of nothingness, the fear of being alone, of being a burden, of abandoning one's children, of unfinished stories. That last one often used as fuel to spur people to fulfill their dreams, i.e. what if you had only one year to live. For the terminally ill it can still be done and is the gift of such illness.
I like reading these books because they reaffirm my own lifestyle. I don't usually pick them up unless someone close to me has cancer. A cancer patient might not feel the same way about this book. They might tend to blame themselves. I read it because Catherine has been diagnosed with cancer; it is a way to feed hope into the equation. So I read bits of it to her as the occasion prompts. How to look on the bright side of statistics as demonstrated in chapter one. What lifestyle changes to support. (Heavy on the exercise.) Inspiring anecdotes to read her about what cancer patients did to improve their odds. Extraordinary feats accomplished by cancer patients during and after treatment.
The book is endorsed by David Spiegel who ran the support groups that were the basis of his research. We both worked for him as videographers of those support groups so know and respect him. He is heavily quoted in the book as are others we are familiar with—Irv Yalom and Michael Lerner. There's a lot of dubious material out there in the cancer literature and this allowed us to trust the information. The book fell across my path in an ad in a two year old issue of Ode magazine that I happened to have found unread in our magazine basket while looking for something to take to the doctor's office.
Catherine will survive her cancer (good prognosis caught early). What she will make of the journey will be her own personal story. We are greatly prepared already by the work we did for Spiegel that allowed us both to witness and hear the stories of the women of the metastatic breast cancer group. It is tempting to see it as a foreshadowing. She already knew the reputation of her oncologist because of what the women had said about him. Luckily they liked him.
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