So what role do our emotions play in our healing?

Our emotions are our body’s reaction to our mind.  So pay attention to your emotions as a good indicator of your thoughts.

Again we see by yesterdays article the huge role our immune systems play in our health in our life.

An immune system is a collection of mechanisms within an organism that protects against disease by identifying and killing pathogens and tumor cells. It detects a wide variety of agents, from viruses to parasitic worms, and needs to distinguish them from the organism’s own healthy cells and tissues in order to function properly. Detection is complicated as pathogens adapt and evolve new ways to successfully infect the host organism.

With cancer, the immune system no longer identifies the cells (which are cancerous) as foreign to the body.  So the immune system does not go after the cancer cells and destroy them.

In autoimmune diseases, the immune system identifies normal cells of our body as foreign and so starts to destroy them.   So in reality the body is destroying itself. 

So now we know there are things we can do to prevent cancer and/or be a cancer survivor.  So many people don’t believe they have control over their health and cancer.  We do.  We have more control than we think.

We have been talking about a lot ways we can survive cancer.  These are also the ways you can prevent cancer. 

1. Keep your immune system strong .  Building the immune system is key. We know stress affects our immune systems and we know our thoughts and beliefs and emotions affect it.  We also know that foods we eat can affect it, and the chemicals we ingest or are exposed to affect the immune system.  There are excellent products and supplements now available you can take to build your immune system.

2. Minimize stress

3. Listen to your body

4. Eat organic foods

So what happens to our cells filled with these negative energy emotions.  The cells break down……….They get tired………They start to slack off……………….They can’t perform their functions as efficiently as they use to……They become cancer.

(Interesting……Have you ever felt like this like these cells….Many people live their lives feeling like this)

But when your cells are not doing what they are suppose to…..your body starts to break down and you are in Dis-ease.

Then they tell you, you have a disease and then label it as cancer, MS, etc…. 

So we do have control over how we deal with negative energy.  We can carry it around with us and let it affect our health or we can let it go.  Negative energy can be any experience, feeling, emotion, relationship, or thought.  When we identify with the negative energy and carry it with us and relive it and react to it over and over, it will affect our health.

We are more than our physical bodies……………….to be healthy we have to address our body mind and spirit.

I know, I know I have repeated this over and over.  But I started the past couple discussions on building your immune system and how critical it is in being a cancer survivor.  Then we talked about what things affect the immune system and that stress degrades the immune system. 

We don’t naturally think that stress or other feelings affect our health.  They do.

Anger we carry around with us has to be stored somewhere.  Where is it?  Is it in our head?

Think about something you have been angry about.  How does it feel?  Can you feel the anger in your head, in your body?  Do you feel tense?  How about your muscles, are they tighter?

I just woke up with the most amazing experience!

Throughout my cancer experience, I had a tremendous amount of pain, fatigue, nightsweats and the load of symptoms all of us have when dealing with cancer.  And they really suck, don’t they? 

I would wake up for years in the middle of the night with these awful symptoms and feelings.  Sometimes it would get so bad I would be so anxious, sad, hurting, etc., I would jump out of bed thinking I could run away from it.  I couldn’t……….It only made it worse.  Of course at the time I didn’t know that.   I didn’t know how I was continuing the cycle of pain by giving it more attention and then living in the past pain.

Last night I woke up with the same feelings I had for 10 years.  My body hurt and I was having a night sweat and felt that anxious awful feeling.  My first reaction was to get up and run, just like the past. 

Yesterday I talked about stress and how it affects our health.  What stress comes from is different than most of us think.

Our past is a HUGE part of our life.  We create every day of our lives based on the past.  And that means the good stuff in your past and your bad stuff.  We have these memories that we use as our model of what we will do today.  We reenact the say stuff over and over in our lives, often unconsciously, and we create stress and all kinds of health issues for ourselves.

AND we don’t really know we are doing it.

The immune system is one of the key steps in becoming a cancer survivor. The health of your immune system is affected by many things. I will be highlighting a few so that you can start healing.

According to Dr Bruce Lipton, PhD, cellular biologist and author of the New York Times Bestseller The Biology of Belief, concluded that 95% of all illness is created by stress.

Now you may say to yourself, “What’s the big deal? That’s not so radical! We’ve all heard about stress related illness for years. ” And, you would be absolutely right. However… What is radical, what is truly a “big deal”, is this:

Stress does NOT come from outside sources!!!
You read that right… Stress does not come from things like:
• Jobs we hate,
 • Stacks of unpaid bills,
 • Messy relationships, or
 • Pain-in-the-neck relatives.