Cancer Fighting Foods
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All of us can learn how to foster the balance between the organs that promote good health and avoid diseases. This can be achieved simply by concentrating the mind and focusing on the breath through yoga, meditation etc. It is one of the best ways (in association with healthy diet and exercise) to reduce the impact of stress and to re-establish harmony in a person’s physiology and as a result, stimulate the body’s natural defences against diseases including cancer.
The first step in any process of mastering physiology consists of learning to focus one’s attention and turn it inward. Everything in our usual way of life turns away from our inner being. Many of us have become strangers to our inner world, gone astray in everything that seems more urgent and more important — e-mails, television programmes, computer, telephonic calls etc. etc.
We need to begin by making contact with ourselves. Positive attention is a force that does good to anything it touches. Children and dogs/cats often know more about it than we do. They come to us for no particular purpose but just for a hug and a scratch under the chin. We know how important this is to them and offer it willingly. But when do we show this benevolent attention to ourselves!
Positive Attitude of Awareness
While cancer can be triggered by any number of factors, it can only develop and spread if the terrain (environment) within the body is favourable to it. There is no way to prevent cancer or slowdown its growth (once it has already taken root), without changing this terrain in depth. Our guiding principle should be to bring more awareness into our lives in order to change our attitude, and that of our cells.
Through relaxation, visualisation, meditation and yoga, you can find strength to become yourself and you can draw as close as possible to your deepest values. People who have conquered cancer are perfectly calm and have asked the fundamental questions; who am I really? and “where do I want to go?” Rather than going through life passive and submissive, little by little they have learned to appropriate their freedom, their authenticity and their autonomy. This change is also visible in the way these patients approach their treatments, including their way of stimulating their natural defences.
This attitude of awareness and freedom of choice applies to natural methods too such as diet, or yoga or psychological support. These approaches are not equally valid for everyone or at all times. On one day the most beneficial method will be meditation; on another, keeping a diary; the day after massage or exercise. What is recognisable in these exceptional survivors is their clear-eyed capacity to say, “This is what I need now” and, firm but flexible, to move forward in their lives.
This change often amounts to more than learning to say “no” and asserting personal choices. Patients who have managed to survive for a substantial length of time have a strength buttressed by another attitude that is also often new to them — “gratitude”. They have become capable of perceiving another dimension to life that had escaped them earlier.
