Relieving Stress to Prevent Cancer

Dr Laurence Magne RELIEVING STRESS TO PREVENT CANCER From the office of Dr. Laurence Magne, author of www.cancer-free-for-life.com. It is now agreed that stress is not what happens, but how the person reacts to what happens. Stress in itself is neither good nor bad. It is a mechanism built into our organism, not for the purpose of making us sick, but to enable us to respond more effectively to challenges.


The successful people who can handle stress effectively have designed techniques to manage the inevitable stressors in their life. You will note that the most truly successful people are not overburdened with stress. They actually perceive stress as an opportunity for learning and achievement. They also possess a disciplined self-awareness and the flexibility to handle excessive amounts of stress. Individual techniques which they qualified as tools for developing a consistently positive attitude toward life included: Deep breathing, Listening to music Long walks on the beach Traditional meditation Yoga practices Prayer Biofeedback Visualization The silent repetition of a meaningful word or mantra Relying on stress management techniques alone to accomplish the rapeutic goals is shortsighted.


You must also take a good look at what drives your life. To learn more how you can stop cancer in your life, read Cancer Free For Life. Finding a purpose in life: feeling that you have a role to fulfill in the universe which gives you an unwavering commitment to your values. The stress management techniques described above are only tools to reinforce your sense of purpose. Victor Frankl: Man’s search for meaning. “Man finds identity to the extent to which he commits himself to something beyond himself, to acause greater than himself. ’Research also shows that purpose is beneficial to psychological health, alleviating such conditions as depression and anxiety and physical health and contributing to recovery from heart attacks and cancer.


A majority of people with stress-related disorders are actually suffering from an inner feeling of unworthiness that generates an impressive array of coping strategies all aimed at self-perfection. The person you think you are is actually a committee of sub-personalities, each doing its best to keep you safe from situation that threatened you in the past. Most of us still harbor the emotional ghosts or ourselves as children, frightened and insecure. Healing our guilt involves putting these ghosts to rest by giving them the love they need to let go of their self-protective fear. Unhealthy guilt is an autoimmune disease of the soul that causes us to literally reject our own worth as human beings.


Unhealthy guilt causes life to become organized around the need to avoid fear rather than the desire to share love. Finding out who we are is the very process of life. As long as we are prisoners of guilt, we cannot discover who we are, we are too busy with people-pleasing, and our addiction top refection, to really live each moment as it happens. The question is not how we will die, but how we will live. Our inner critic tells us that we never good enough, never worthy of our own love. In spite of all our achievements, peace and acceptance remain elusive, and we are guilty and stressed.


We have forgotten who we really are. We are searching for our worthiness in all the wrong places. We forget that we access our real identity whenever the mind becomes quiet and we are fully present in the moment. But whenever our guard is down, yielding to the majesty of a sunset, the caress of a breeze, the silence of a heartfelt hug, we re-experience the inner current of joy and love that is always present After all, what else can mobilize us to overcome the inertia of day-to-day life? It’s the crisis and pain which are the universal awakeners. In facing our dark parts, the disowned parts of our being that we thought were unworthy of love, we learn to live whole, authentic lives. In the shadow, we find the power that allows us to live life with enthusiasm, excitement, and joy, the natural impulses lost from our child hood. In becoming psychologically whole, we mend our souls and becomes spiritually whole. We discover loving-kindness and compassion, the ability to suffer with.

mind and Brain!

The mind does not act directly on the brain, but uses the subtle bodies as medium. Before going deeper into the subject, let it be clear to the reader that the human being consists of seven layers or seven bodies, which are explained in more detail in my previous works. They are the physical, the etheric, the astral, the mental, the spiritual, the cosmic and finally the Nirvanic bodies. In this context, we will deal with the first four bodies and basically the mental body, which is the fourth one. The mind stands as an exit between the first three bodies (physical, etheric and astral) and the last three layers, the spiritual, the cosmic and the Nirvanic. Hence this diagram or yantra, as it is called in the Eastern philosophy.


The point represents the mind through which one may go downward on the ladder of evolution to the grosser level of existence or upward to the higher rungs that represent the higher levels of consciousness. Each triangle represents the number three. The inverted triangle represents the downward pull of matter while the other represents the upward pull towards the Divine.
This article aims to show how stress, tension and many illnesses are formed. The mind can be compared to a bucket of water in the depth of which there are mud and litter. When the water is calm and undisturbed, the mud and the litter remain at the bottom. There is neither any ripple nor dirty water and everything seems calm, cool and clean. However, if a single pebble or any object is thrown into the water, ripples will be created. If the ripples are big, depending on the size of the object thrown, the deposited mud and litter will be disturbed and will emerge on the surface. The water, which was cool, calm and placid, no longer appears so. Similarly is the mind of man. The mud and litter are the unconscious layers and the evil that they conceal in their depth.


We experience the world mentally through our ten senses. These are firstly the five motor senses comprising of hands, feet, sexual organ, anus and mouth, and secondly, the five sensory organs through which we acquire knowledge, namely feeling, vision, taste, hearing and smell. Messages from the outer world have as media these senses. Once they reach the mind, our intelligence uses its discriminative power to react. For example, if I see a beautiful car, the image goes to my mind via the sight instrument, which consists of the eyes. The mind or the intellect will start reasoning using past knowledge: “This is a car, it is beautiful and runs fast.” In this way, daily events enter the mind through the senses and create impulses, which in turn do not touch the brain directly, but pass through the astral nerves of the astral body to affect the astral brain, and from there to the etheric body then to the brain. The impulse or the message that the mind sends to the physical brain is too powerful to be received directly. This could cause great damage to it.


Psychological as well as physical illnesses arise when impulses that emanate from the mind as feelings or thought-waves are not transformed or expressed. In such cases, the feelings or thought-waves, which are electrical and powerful impulses, are blocked in the nerves of the physical or subtle (etheric and astral) bodies, thereby causing much damage. Thus, the psychic layer of the person becomes blocked or suppressed and the latter will know a very difficult evolution or none at all. Most of the problems of the world today are based on that science. Sexual obsession, schizophrenia and many other illnesses are a result of suppressed emotions and thoughts. It has been proved scientifically that if a child who is plucking a flower is suddenly prevented from doing so (and this type of foolishness is normally done by parents!), that may result in cancer at a later age. This may appear foolish and ridiculous. In fact, by performing such a simple action, the child may have deployed much energy in the form of love, enthusiasm and other feelings. If all these are suppressed, then the impulses triggered for performing the action will not return to their source, but will be blocked in the physical or the subtle bodies. Try to imagine how many feelings, thoughts and desires have been suppressed in us from birth! And mystics say that we have been carrying the burden of these blockages since many births. This has made our body, mind and heart sensitive from one angle.


Furthermore, we can choose to suppress our ambitions and feelings in which case we may become neurotic because that will definitely affect our physical nerves and psychic centre’s. Some people say, “I have consulted so many doctors, yet nothing has been found to be wrong. Then why do I continue to suffer?” Many people who suffer from nervous problems manifest strange symptoms, which lead people to say that they are possessed by a spirit. The cause is subtle. Psychology, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy can and are helping much, but it is not enough. These types of therapy and analysis help to cure only to a certain extent. There are specific mental and physical exercises that may help substantially in curing stress, tension and the illnesses connected to the mind and body.