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to Turn Fear into Healing By Dr. Véronique Desaulniers, DC


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is a powerful scene where the uncle expresses a common Chinese philosophy about cancer: “Peo- ple don’t die of cancer — they die of the fear.” This dialogue occurs between the granddaughter of the diagnosed grandmother and her uncle. The family has chosen NOT to tell the aging grandmother that she has Stage 4 Lung cancer; that it is the family’s responsibility to “carry her” through her journey without telling her the extent of the dis-ease. That statement in the movie is a powerful truth


that is expressed in the Asian culture. Being afraid is common when you first discover you have cancer. There are ways that you can gently manage your emotions so that they become your allies, not your enemies on your healing jour- ney. (PS – This movie is a “must watch”! Spoiler alert – it has a happy ending which supports how powerful your mindset can be.)


Science Confirms Emotions Play a Part in Healing


There is a strong and growing list of evi- dence-based research studies to support the fact that our emotions affect our ability to heal. In fact, there is a connection between doctor-in- stigated fear brought on by a cancer diagnosis resulting in both suicide and heart attacks. A 2012 Swedish study cites, “Cancer patients were 5.6 times more likely to die from heart-related causes, such as heart attack, in the days after re- ceiving a positive cancer diagnosis, not from the cancer but from the heartbreak and devastation wrought by the news.” This connection was seen especially within the first 12 weeks after diagno- sis. It was also most prevalent in those individu- als that had received a “terminal” diagnosis.


Negative Emotions Feed Cancer There is another piece of the mind-body-emo- tions connection concerning cancer that occurs at the cellular level. Cancer cells “advertise,” so to speak, for adrenaline by putting out what are called adrenergic receptors. These receptors re- spond to the overabundance of stress hormones


(also called catecholamine hormones) that natu- rally occurs during stress. The result, which has been documented by a handful of studies so far, is poor treatment results when using chemo- therapy and poor prognosis in general. In some cancers, the overabundance of adrenaline can even lead to an increased expression of certain oncogenes and mechanisms that insure cancer cell survival.


What You Can Do Your body can heal faster and in more profound ways than ever before when it is placed in an environment that it can do so. In fact, making the slightest change to lifestyle and diet can often slant the body towards healing. A study led by Dr. Dean Ornish found that simple lifestyle/dietary changes helped to up-regulate 48 tumor-sup- pressing genes and down-regulate over 400 tumor-promoting ones!


Take Time Every Day to Turn Fear into Healing


When I first began my second healing jour- ney with Breast Cancer, I often woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat reacting to the subconscious fear, as well as the shock and “disappointment” in my myself. Eventually, as I dove into the work of healing, the fear turned to gratitude, hope, and a firm conviction that I was doing all that I could to turn things around. This is what I wish for you, but you must take it one step at a time. The power of this path lies in the little actions you take every day. Here are six such steps you can start today:


1. Have a Healing Plan That Works for You Your worries will lessen when you know that you are doing all that you can to be proactive about your healing. Few of us are 100% confident that all of the choices we have made along the way are the “correct” ones. What we can do, however, is to put a protocol plan in place that we can feel con- fident in, based on our research, the consultation of healing professionals we respect, and our own intuitive “gut” feeling about our own bodies.


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