Do You Have A Cancer Personality?

Did you know that cancer is present in our body all the time? You may have heard that cancer cells are healthy cells that 'go crazy' or so over-active that they just won't stop multiplying. If we have a healthy lifestyle , follow a proper diet, exercise and get enough restorative sleep, the immune system will be able to fight the cancer cells before they have a chance to multiply out of control, and cancer will not appear in your body.

However, if your body is weakened, if your life is particularly stressful and you have suffered traumatic events, such as a death, the loss of your job, your spouse or partner or have moved location, you should start taking preventive measures to stay healthy before cancer has a chance to grow in your body and defeat all the attempts of the immune system to keep you well. Cancer researchers are discovering that stressful life events and how we deal with them can have an impact in the onset of cancer .

In Getting well again, J Creighton indicated that in the 18 months preceding the onset of any form of cancer , a significant life event often occurred. This event was traumatic in some way and initiated or promoted the cancer . The death of a loved one can be the immediate circumstance used as the precipitating event. It might just one of a long string of events which have confirmed the decision you made in childhood about what sort of place the world is. If as a child, you decided that sickness was always an option if you became too miserable or lonely, then you may contract cancer when your spouse leaves you.

In " The Healer Within ", Steven Locke and Douglas Colligan quote Laurence LeShan who declared that there was a cancer personality . He suggested that people with certain kinds of personality traits had a higher than average incidence of cancer, which medicine couldn't explain. Interviews he conducted with hundreds of cancer patients underscored a behavior pattern. Frequently, they were people who were long-suffering, who preferred to repress their hostile feelings, and who were typed with having a low sense of self-worth. And prior to the diagnosis, many had experienced a personal loss such as a death or a divorce.

These individuals perceived that their life circumstances had exceeded their ability to cope, and were beyond their control. It was their subjective experience of the events that had happened to them that weakened their body.

Bereaved people, widowers in particular, become ill more readily than other individuals: they have no control over their loss; they feel helpless and are highly stressed.  Their interpretation of their life, as opposed to the event itself, precipitated a weakening in their body.

Martin Seligman and Steven Maier of the University of Pennsylvania made a study of the effects of helplessness and found that it was an acquired behavior. Some people encounter an experience that they feel is more than they can handle. After repeated attempts to cope, usually on their own, they sink in a state of deep despair, and eventually simply give up. They no longer attempt to cope with the challenges and the problems of the environment because they have learned that nothing they do makes a difference.

Joan Borysenko, a research in the field of PsychoNeuroImmunology,  finds that these people will be more prone to develop cancer that are rigid, conforming people with an overly critical attitude toward themselves. They also lack satisfactory emotional outlets, and have a habit of bottling up or suppressing anger and other strong emotions. It is a choice that they have made at one stage in their life that they should not show their emotions. For a man, such conditioning as: Men don't cry, can be enough to teach them to keep their feelings and emotions hidden to the detriment of their health in the long term.

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My father is one of these people who contracted cancer from his attitude. Always emotionally repressed, he never showed an outward signs of sadness or hurt when my mother, his wife of 28 years, left him for a 25 year old man on the eve of my father's retirement. Eventually though, he developed colon cancer , the colon being a well-known area of the body for elimination. My father was often referred to by his work colleagues as 'a tight ass', a chronically repressed personality that kept all his feelings inside. Chronic constipation plagued him all his life as he refused to 'let go' and tried to maintain an absolute control of his life and his emotions.

A good place to start looking at what is happening with you now is to ask yourself:  what was going on in your life 6 months to 18 months before you became sick. Did you divorce? Did someone die? Did you lose your job or your money?

All the issues and events which were traumatic in your life can lead to being sick now. They can because you did not take the time to heal. You did not acknowledge that you were distraught, or upset, or devastated. You didn't grieve fully. Yet your body knows it needs to rest and you need to grieve. So it first gives you a cold so you take some time off work, crawl under the covers with a chicken soup. But did you do that? No! Did you allow yourself time to cry, and found a shoulder to cry on.

Obviously not enough. It will all come out eventually. It is not possible to keep things inside and pretend that nothing happened. The body knows and remembers. And wherever you have a weakness in your system, a general stomach weakness, or repeated colds, or sore throat or bad back, this is the area of your body which is fragile and will only get worse. The terrain is ready for it to worsen, as it is already fragile. When people are distressed, they can feel it in their bones.

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In " Cancer proof your body ", Ross Horne states, "People who have a positive fighting spirit and who don't give up hope stand a much better chance of fighting away disease . If you're not a peace with yourself and God, if you're mixed up inside and have inner conflict, your healing is adversely affected."
In " Mind Medicine ", Uri Geller says: "The most brilliant medicine in the world cannot cure the body if the patient's state of mind refuses to cooperate, just as a person's state of mind can have a devastating effect on physical health. .. We know that if a patient does not believe he will be cured, a cure will not take place. The whole of the mind needs to heal to effect a full recovery.

To find a cure, look beyond the obvious to reach the symbolic and subtly emotional roots of disease. The challenge is to understand yourself not as a machine, but to see that mind and body are one complete, living whole, not subject to mechanical analysis or textbook diagnosis. Disease is not conquered, it is transcended.

It is important that you become aware how your outward life circumstances affect your body. You start to develop strategies for coping with stressful life events. It may be as simple as going to the gym and working out to let go of the tension in your body. Do you over-drink to cope with stress? Hiding your fears and grief in drugs, alcohol, sweet or fat foods will not relieve your situation, but will damage your body. Walking or jogging, finding a friend you can confide in, or hiring a therapist who will listen to you, all are solutions that can maintain your health and speed your recovery. Some people have found that by volunteering their time and caring for the elderly, or by helping others who are in need, took their mind off their own trouble and contributed to a brighter outlook on life. It could be as simple as getting a pet, or visiting sick children in the hospital. Start an art class or any other activity that you have always wanted to do but have put off.

Bernie Siegel, MD, the author of many books on health and healing, said, "There are no incurable diseases. Only incurable people." Think about it.

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