1. Cancer cells are created in your body in every moment
“Cancer might be seen as a disease of cell replication. With millions of cells dying and being created in the body every day, natural accidents occur and lead to a number of spontaneous abnormal transformations.” According to Candace Pert, it’s a fact that every one of us has a number of cancerous tumours growing in our bodies at every moment.
For the initiation of cancer single cells need to acquire damaging lesions to their DNA, which leads to their replication without regard for the needs of the greater organism. But most of these primary lesions are transient and readily eliminated by DNA repair or cell death. Where cancer does arise, either DNA repair or the normal process of cell death must have failed. This failure also contributes to many different pathologies such as autoimmune and neurodegenerative disorders.
Studies have shown that stress may alter these DNA repair mechanisms and disrupts the process of regulated cell death.
2. Cancer is not genetically predisposed
At least not to the degree previously thought
Although, the scientific mapping of the genome made big headlines not so long ago, promising to find answers for all human diseases and leading to Angelina’s Jolie’s breast being cut off, it didn’t leave the medical community much the wiser where the origins and cure of disease lie.
Contrary to the researchers based on who’s findings is most all the information presented in google searches nowadays, ‘evidence for genetics’ is not high. ‘Only a small minority of women are at high genetic risk for breast cancer and only a small minority of women with breast cancer – about 7 per cent – acquire the disease for genetic reasons. Even for those genetically predisposed, environmental factors must be involved, since far from everyone with one of the three genes known to be associated with breast cancer will actually develop a malignant tumour. In the vast majority of people diagnosed with this cancer, heredity makes little or no contribution.’ – Dr. Gabor Maté
3. Cancer does not have a single cause
Rather a set of elements that need to come
together for malignancy to develop
For instance smoking has been long associated with the development of lung
cancer. Yet not all smokers develop cancer, neither is it the case that
non-smokers never develop lung cancer. There is another element that needs to
contribute to the mix, namely – hidden stress in the form of environmental and
psycho-bio-social factors, and especially the repression of emotion.
Dr. David Kissen, a British chest surgeon, supported in a number of studies his findings that people with lung cancer “have poor and restricted outlets for the expression of emotion”, in other words – a tendency to “bottle up” feelings. His observation implied that emotional repression works synergistically with smoking in the causation of lung cancer.
4. Cancer is not a singular occurrence
There is a long build-up of events that lead up to the development of symptoms which can often be traced back to our childhood.
Since
cancer cell creation is entirely normal, and it’s an everyday function of the
immune system to discard of malfunctioning cells, it’s only when this system
cannot keep up with the task anymore that tumour growth can be observed.
We don’t just *get* cancer out of the blue. The internal environment has been
heading towards it for a long time via a chronic dysregulation of the immune,
nervous, and endocrine system all of which together are closely linked to our
emotional health and hidden stresses.
5. There is a lot we can do to prevent cancer
Fear of cancer doesn’t prevent cancer. Nor does denial.
We can take a self-empowered perspective and take the signals of our body as a navigation tool for growth and healing.
When we understand that our emotions and the immune system are the same, then we can see that on the micro and macro level our health is about who and what we let in and how we tend to the regulation of our internal environment.
From a metaphysical perspective, it’s where our Soul nudges us to grow and we resist, which then leads to malformation, malignancy and self-destructiveness. The patterns that keep us small are the same that once kept us safe. Learning new neural pathways can therefore feel like going against our very own nature. This kind of conditioning isn’t our nature though. We have to seek deeper what’s true for us and then – just say no!
Just say no to what’s not working for you anymore, and say yes to expressing what is true.
Here’s 5 tips on cancer prevention
inspired by Dr. Gabor Matè’s teachings:
- Find the root of your hidden stresses
- Be compassionate with yourself – say no when you want to say no – be aware of the compulsive suppression of the ‘no’
- Listen to the gut. It’s wiser than your mind because it receives messages from the whole brain and it magnifies them and sends them back, therefore we get the whole picture. Your intellect, your thoughts, are only a very small part of your evaluative apparatus.
- Accept yourself the way you are – learn self-compassion
- Make re-connecting with your Self a
daily practice
Reference: When the body says no by Dr. Gabor Maté
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