Optimizing The Cancer Healing Journey

Because the body, the system that created cancer needs to be changed in order for cancer not to thrive in your body. Cancer is a complex journey that requires preparation. It requires focus and investment, in time, in effort, and financially. For some, it can be a shorter term. If you have a localized disease with a reasonable to high probability of cure, it’s going to be a shorter journey for you. If you are facing metastatic disease, it is a longer journey. The planning is very different and it’s important to be aware of it from the get-go. If you have a short-term plan, if you have a localized disease with over 90% cure, you’re going to have a localized treatment, it’s going to last 3 to 6 months and then a certain time for recovery. You are all in during the shorter time, with whatever you can. With your time, with your effort, with your focus, with any financial resources you can find. But if you are in for a longer journey, if you have a metastatic disease, it is important and critical to be aware of it from the get-go. It is very easy and too often done where people with metastatic disease, with stage four disease, jump into a certain treatment that is out of pocket, that can cost a fortune, and that gives them only a temporary shrinkage of the tumor, an illusionary feeling that they are overcoming the cancer. Only to come back where the person is exhausted without financial resources and without the ability to continue their journey. So make sure you are aware of it and you map your journey in the right way. Also, beware of miracle promises. Now many people will approach you with advice, and they mean good. Most of them have good intentions, but naturally, people remember their successes and forget their failures. And some have a very nowhere nearer point of view or even opportunistic. So it’s important for you to connect with the treatment and to see how it resonates with you, and to see how it resonates with which part of yourself. Is it the part that is fearful? Is it the part that is traumatized? Or it’s more of your higher self? It’s more of your deeper self where the superficial destructions fall away. Another important principle in this journey is to remember that you are the center, the center. You are the center, and it is very important to surround yourself with a community and a team. Cancer requires a team. A community and a team that can listen to you, that can nourish you, and that can support you. Another important element is to be honest with yourself. With your feelings, with your fears, and to find an outlet to express your fears, your worries, your debates, your pain. It can be very profound. Ideally, your team can hold it for you.

Often the team, family members have the same anxiety that you have. They see the possibility of losing you, and often they don’t talk about it. They keep continuing as if everything is going to be good. And this need to suppress your inner feelings is exhausting for you and for everyone around you. So make this big point of being honest with yourself and having a safe environment that can listen to you with an open heart. Because always, it is also important to remember that there are always ups and downs in cancer. There are always ups and downs just like in life. The one difference, that in cancer, wherever we have a symptom, wherever we have a pain that may be unrelated to cancer we naturally associate it with the cancer. So with this in mind appreciate every moment that you have, every moment of joy. Take a ride on the journey. Make the journey your healing experience, not the outcome. And as a result, the more we are in the moment, the more we are connected to the journey, the more the outcome will be better. And within it, try to judge your progress over time. If one day you are not feeling well, it’s okay you may feel better the next day. I have many patients who call me urgently because they are not feeling well and the next day they cancel because they are feeling well. And they keep on bouncing like a pendulum with difficulty to see the underlying current.

Another important thing to remember is that you can feel great, you can feel much better than you used to, and the cancer can still grow. The cancer healing journey is a balance between promoting our health and well-being and attacking the cancer. And sometimes there is a treatment that will have side effects. But if it’s more toxic and more damaging to the cancer cell, then many times you will have an opportunity to recover from it. Many times when the body is very toxic and hard for you to handle a treatment, proper preparation, detoxification is very important. I know it from my own experience and expertise with therapeutic apheresis. Where we artificially pull out the toxins and inflammatory compounds outside of the body and the body has a better chance of responding better to the treatment. Always remember a cancer cell is a cell in perpetual survival mode. I write about it in detail in my book, The Survival of Paradox.

It’s a cell that lost its obligation to its community. Naturally, any activities that make you a part of your community, that make you a part of a greater good, that weaken the self-focus, will help you in shifting from a survival mode to a mode of harmony and health. But because the cancer cell is in a perpetual survival mode at any cost, including destroying its host and itself, it triggers a different metabolism. A metabolism of survival, where energy has to be produced much faster but at a high cost. And that’s why cancer is a metabolic disease. This is why, because the cancer functioned metabolically differently than the rest of the cell, it provides an opportunity to treat it, to overcome it. Many of the newer biological treatments are based on this, and mainly, many of the holistic and integrative approaches have this element. But most important is to remember that a cancer cell was once a normal cell. A cancer cell always has a choice to become a normal cell. This is where the infinite healing potential is lying. That’s the big shift, where unexpected results can be obtained. How do you do it? By connecting to your infinite healing potential, to your heart. It is what I call and teach, open-heart medicine. The infinite healing potential of love and compassion. It is where anything and everything is possible. In this very short talk I hope that I provided you with some highlights and some important points that will help you in your healing and I wish all of you all the best in your journey.