As I hear about another young, vibrant, lovely person in my outer circle who’s lost their battle to cancer I wonder two things:
As the losing and winning sides are both you, can you have a battle inside your body and ever really win?
Are we going about this all the wrong way?
When I was diagnosed with cancer early in the summer of 2017 I listened more to my internal voices than the external noise. What I was clearly shown was an analogy; that of the leaky tank
You live in a house with a water tank in the loft; sat above the upper floor of the house, somewhere below the roof. One day it starts to leak
Drip. Drip. Drip
Because it’s a small leak it takes quite some time for you to notice any water damage. But one day, you look up, and hey ho, there’s an obvious damp patch on the spare room ceiling
Tutting, you get your hairdryer out and blast it dry, buy some special paint to stop damp coming through again, finish it off with a fresh coat of paint and stand back to admire your work
Six months later, you’re lying in bed on a Sunday morning, reading the best book you’ve read in ages, when you look up and spot a brown damp stain on the ceiling
Reluctantly, you drag yourself out of bed and reach for the hairdryer… luckily you’ve still got enough of the special paint left over from before
Eighteen months later, as you get out of the shower, you realise the ceiling seems to be sagging. You don’t remember noticing that before. You make a mental note to ask your dad to have a quick look next time he comes over
Three days later the ceiling collapses from the weight of the water that’s collected in the loft and you have a massive task ahead to try and rebuild your house and function (as normally as possible) in the meantime
If only you’d gone up in the loft when that first stain appeared and sorted the leaky tank, rather than keep attending to the individual ceilings
That, to me, is the story of cancer
So many people attend to the symptom; the cancer, rather than getting up in the loft and seeing why the body is making cancer in the first place
No matter how many times you treat a particular cancer, if you don’t stop your body from producing cancer cells, it will just keep popping up in different parts of your body, until you collapse. Or in the most severe cases, you die
I can say this, because I had stage four cancer and was given three to six months to live and now – without any medical intervention; no poison, cut or burn ‘solution’ – I am (and have been since at least September 2018) totally cancer free
The question I asked myself is: what’s so out of sync with my body that my tank’s leaking, and my cancer creation switch has been activated?
You and I both know the body is a truly remarkable thing
Despite years of science and medicine doing their best to understand how and why it works the way it does, the truth is there are more miracles happening in your body every day than anyone can explain. In the world of medicine, miracles lead to notes being omitted from records and – as in my case - entire files going missing, to maintain the illusion that they have the answers and, no matter the question, medicine, typically in
the form of something created by one of the pharmaceutical firms, is the answer
But does chucking something synthetic (ie not natural) into an already sick body sound like the logical, rational, thing to do?
No matter how hard I looked I could never find ‘harmony’ listed in the side effects on any drug label
So how do we re-find health?
What does sync look like? And how can we use it to activate the body’s natural ability to heal?
My answer was a personal one – I needed to course correct some of the things I’d been doing wrong:
I needed to stop burning the candle at both ends and sleep more
I needed to work out more regularly and sweat every day
I needed to stop using any kinds of stimulants; namely caffeine, alcohol and sugar
I needed to stop eating anything that would take my body’s focus off health and switch it onto solving the immediate issue of ‘what to do with the junk I’d just chosen for my last meal’
I needed to meditate regularly and find that calm place, preferably out in nature, where I could feel a waking sense of peace
Your solution might not be the same as mine. Your lifestyle may be different and your out of sync might involve creating more laughter and eliminating damp from rooms you spend a lot of time in; like your living room, your office or your bedroom
The absolute in every case, no matter what, is don’t put all your trust in anyone who doesn’t have to personally live with the outcome of your actions, ie only ever put ALL your trust in yourself. To a doctor you’re a case. A statistic. Data for the chart or report. To yourself you’re everything. You’re the whole world
Trust yourself to make the right decisions for your body. You are the only person alive who quite literally knows it inside out
Step one then has to be to get in the loft and sort out the leak. Stop the body from producing more cancer
Don’t worry about the stain on the ceiling. You can get to that. A small lump can be eliminated later. Stop it from getting worse. Take away the possibility that it could be anything more than it is today
Any disease is evidence of dis-ease in the body. Find ease and you’re on the highway to lasting health
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