CANCER CURED: Re: [cancercured] Kind of discouraged

Dear Katerinka:

Cancer is a real bummer. We have good days and bad days. Discouragement comes with the territory. I too feel frustrated that all my efforts to fight this thing have resulted in the disease progressing. No, I haven't been perfect. Yes, I have cheated at times and gone off course, but I have always come back. I haven't stayed off course for long since getting my re-currence in 2006.

Cancer is a formidable foe. It is cunning, baffling, powerful and PATIENT. I got mad at my cancer today and decided (about 20 minutes ago) that I am going to BEAT THIS ONE MORE TIME. Someone mentioned something about a pity party a few weeks ago when I expressed my frustations and wanting to give up. I never put myself down by saying anything close to this. Our feelings are valid. We need to honor them and accept them.

Life is not a bowl of cherries everyday. This is when we need friends, family and even folks like us on this website to help us thru. Sometimes people we have never met can help us more then our closest relations.

I hear the FEAR in your statement. There is a great book that put me into absolute bliss and heaven (until I got the bad news last Monday in the mail about the possible liver mets) called "Cell-Level Healing: The Bridge from Soul to Cell" by Joyce Whitely Hawkes. Also, "Destructive Emotions" by the Dalai Lama is powerful. The Dalai Lama believes that our natural state is bliss. Several people in the last week or so (including Pat McDonald today) have mentioned the connection to body-mind-spirit in this cancer battle. I think many of us tend to overlook the importance of happy thoughts and a good attitude. Sometimes we need help getting there. I have started doing the meditation practices in Joyce's book. One of them is to do a body appreciation mediation, naming four things about the body you appreciate. I got way into this and realized how truly powerful and miraculous the human body is. I felt so in love with my body after the meditation. For instance,
our minds record events in our lives and language and the brain organizes all of this so that we can speak and think and have communication with others. Think about the miracle of this. Think about this gray matter in our brain that was truly the first computer in the world that can remember all of this stuff. It is unbelievable.

So our thoughts are very powerful and as someone said (was it Loretta?) a week or so ago that beliefs and attitudes are so very important in this fight. This is what Joyce's book is all about--to begin a dialogue with our bodies at the cellular level. You can pick this book up on Amazon for about $12 + shipping. Of course, there are many good books our there, but I particularly liked Joyce's. I don't totally believe in everything she wrote, but overall the book was great.

Know that we are with you and feel free to post your feelings, your disappointments and your successes as well.

We are here for you Katerinka

Nancy

From: katerinka70

How can I kill cancer, if I'm not sucseeding in killing a virus?? I've been sick with this virus forever, and other one before this one.. Seems that my immune system is so weak. I'm just glad I don't have a very aggressive cancer (I hope) or I would loose all my hope. I have thyroid cancer.
Katerinka