At the outset, I will say that as a qualified and accredited natural medicine practitioner, I neither diagnose, treat, nor prescribe. I do not claim to cure, relieve or heal a patient with any medical diagnosis including cancer. This is currently entirely the domain of the modern medical profession and big pharma and is written into the legislation. The tools the medical profession have in their toolkit regarding their ability to treat or cure a diagnosis of cancer are chemotherapy drugs, various medications, radiation treatment and surgery.
The incidence of cancer diagnosis has increased in recent times, over the past 50 years, there has been an average yearly increase of around 7%. However in the past 5 years alone we have seen over 480% increases in breast cancer and over 350% increases in testicular cancers. The incidence of all cancer screening, biopsy and the blood pathology needed for diagnoses appears to be increasing accordingly.
With that said, in my decades of experience within the natural health field, I have come to understand that there are more ways to understand something than can be found in the testing, medical journals, textbooks, clinical double blind placebo control trials. And I strongly believe it to be true that any disease cannot exist within a healthy environment. Our internal and external environment is changing. Never before in history have we been expected to perform at levels that are in opposition with our natural state. We call it stress. Exposure to pollution and toxic substances are at an all time high. Whatever the reason, we can see the increase in cancers causes added fear and stress in our society.
In my personal experience of having had cancer (stage 3 and 4, several times), I have come to understand that there are alternate ways to recover completely from this chronic condition other than by routine biopsy testing, radiotherapy, or high dose toxic free radical treatments known as chemotherapy and pharmaceutical medications.
I invite you to suspend your thoughts and beliefs about cancer for a moment, and consider cancer not as the 'dis-ease', but rather the healing state. We know that our body does not do anything by accident. There is a reason for every movement of every molecule and atom in the body. The cancer tumour is actually produced by our body in it's infinite wisdom primarily as a healing mechanism. The dis-ease state is actually what happens before the tumour is produced - in the mindset and biochemistry that was set up back then.. and it is this pattern that must be addressed in order to for recovery and self healing. The dis-ease state then may exist in our emotional history as experiences, memories (events from our past that are highly emotionally charged), longstanding resentment, deep hurt or deep secret or grief.
While modern medicine of course has a place - especially in the emergency departments around the world, to triage and treat acute conditions. These medical services are of course incredibly important in their role of saving lives. However, from decades of reserarch, it is my understanding that natural medicine or traditional medicine is well placed to assist with those people suffering chronic or long term disease. And the reason for this is that the natural medicine practitioner always look to the cause of any condition along with always acting in accordance with the primary naturopathic principle of 'Do no harm'. There may be a great deal of questioning, reflecting and monitoring, use of therapeutic nutrients, and energy medicine, and it requires a great deal of time, energy and effort, but the end result in my experience, is that the client is always in a better position than at the outset - through gaining knowledge, understanding and the ability to listen to inner wisdom and the feedback and messages that our body gives us.
This process or journey of course requires complete diligence and committment on the part of both the practitioner and client, working together to remove and replace mental patterns that have been set up for limiting potentials, remove emotional blocks to get us out of the loop and see the infinite possibilities, and fully committing to the self love that is required for healing on every level and every plane of being.
When we experience a mental problem, thoughts that plague us, or the internal dialogue that won't stop... we tend to use avoidance or procrastination techniques that protect us from facing these thoughts because they might be difficult or painful. So the thoughts disappear temporarily in the busy-ness of life. Then... because these thoughts have not properly been addressed adequately, we begin to experience some emotional problems... we might become agitated, frustrated, anxious or depressed. We tend to avoid these emotional issues even more now, because they are confusing and often painful to face. Instead we medicate with alcohol or addictive behaviour, or use pharmaceutical prescription or OTC medications, or we just simply make ourselves so busy that there is no time to allocated to deal with it all. Then... because these mental problems, and emotional problems have not been addressed adequately, we get a louder message or feedback from our body and we begin to experience physical symptoms eg sleep problems, aches and pains, headache, nausea, digestive problems, heart problems, autoimmune diseases and chronic diagnosed conditions like diabetes or cancer. These signs and symptoms are the physical manifestation of what began long ago in our mental and emotional selves. Once these symptoms appear in the physical body realm, they bring discomfort or pain, they make us stop and pay attention and we can no longer ingnore them. Most people at this point will tend to find a solution which supresses the symptoms and the aim of which will provide short term relief from symptoms. But we know that supression does not equal cure. The symptoms are still there but are being forced to provide a bigger feedback message at a later time. Because the problem was never actually dealt with at the causal level, it continues to manifest in the physical body... and we get bigger and louder messages until we do address it.
We have forgotten to listen to our body. As babies we all cried loudly for what we needed until a caregiver provided it or, until we learned that our needs would not be met and so we may have been supressing and pushing these thoughts down for a very long time. The good news is that it is never too late to reignite the inner wisdom. It has always been there, just laying dormant. Being drowned out by the busy-ness of life. So simply by allowing yourself some quiet time perhaps in nature you might hear the messages. Your mind-body will provide all the clues. Is there a pattern to illnesses? Injuries? Accidents? Is one side of your body affected more than the other side? Listen to your body. All the answers are already there. You know your body better than anyone. Better than any natural medicine practitioner and better than any medical doctor or specialist. Trust your inner guidance. Finding a practitioner who can allow and empower you to do your own healing may be beneficial.
By the time most cancer clients come to a natural medicine practitioner like myself, they have usually already been through surgery or surgeries, without success, through many rounds of chemotherapy drugs, radiotherapy or other medications, often with less than ideal results. Sometimes with successful surgery, but left feeling so depleted it's often hard to gain the motivation to get out of bed in the mornings, and sometimes clients are left with a poor prognosis and told there is nothing else that can be done. Working from this position is challenging for the client who has undergone massive trauma, however time and time again I have seen that full recovery is not only feasible but possible. Infact, looking at cancer from this perspective provides a basis of focus on healing from the inside out that has not been considered before. And so embarking on a new journey will bring new experiences and outcomes.
Cancer is an immensely complex problem. You may be aware that we all have cancer cells in our bodies at any one time, and provided our immune system is functioning well, these cells will be taken care of in much the same way as bacteria or viruses. Remember always that if our mindset is positive our bodies are functioning more optimally.
The observations made by the various scientific disciplines are all correct, but the conclusions are limited only to what is being tested. The focus on uncontrolled cell growth is also limited, as it is equally important to improve the patients resistance, ability to repair and maintain wellness and wellbeing. Our bodies are always in a dynamic state and so therefore prescribing one course of treatment does not allow for this dynamism in which our bodies are always aiming to heal. There are a number of steps that a cancer cell must go through in order to express itself. Supportive nutritional and herbal therapies provide for the enviromnent that creates conditions for the body to rebalance and restore function. Creating the correct mental / emotional internal and external environment is also crucial with the understanding that we are holistic beings, our mental and emotional responses are recorded in our biology, and in each and every cell of our body.
Cancer is a disease of free radical damage and oxidative stress. Many drugs used in mainstream treatment frequently increase this oxidative stress. Lipid peroxidation and decreased antioxidant enzyme activity are affected. After this type of treatment, it is of course crucial to detoxify the body from chemotherapy and other drugs. Equally important, and usually not addresed is that it is crucial to detoxify the mind and emotional self from the very patterns which gave rise to this particular response at the cellular level.
This is done in an individual way. Every person's experience is different. A dietary and lifestyle wellness plan allows for the oxidative shift to be implemented, so as to reduce any risk of recurrence and allow optimal health to be restored.
According to an ancient Ayuvedic proverb:
'When diet is wrong medicine is of no use. When diet is correct medicine is of no need'.
