CONGRATULATIONS. YOU'VE GOT CANCER!: Help Your Mind Help Your Cancer

By Stephen Lau

This Ebook is about the trauma of being diagnosed with cancer. The author believes there is no cure, only remission, by conventional medicine. But your mind power plays a critical role in the recovery and recuperation of cancer. On your cancer healing journey, get your knowledge from the ancient healing power of Greek medicine, the Ayurveda from ancient India, and the Traditional Chinese Medicine from China. Learn how to heal your cancer through your mind, your body, and your soul, and not through toxic pharmaceutical drugs and procedures..

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 9, 2024
• ISBN: 9781304726049

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Congratulations.

YOU’VE GOT CANCER!

Help Your Mind Help Your Cancer

by

Stephen Lau

Copyright© 2024 Stephen Lau

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-304-72604-9

The Author’s Note:

Aristotle once said, The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. I have written this book on cancer. I am neither a doctor nor an oncologist. This book explores the awareness and contemplation of the mind to help not only those who are diagnosed with cancer, but also those who wish to prevent this malignant disease.

Do not be content with just getting by when it comes to your health, especially when you are still young, thinking you are invulnerable. You must be proactive about your health to prevent cancer, which can strike at any age.

If, unfortunately, you or your loved ones are in the throes of combating cancer, simply surviving the disease is not adequate to prevent a relapse; you must learn how to thrive on the cancer journey. Take cancer as a blessing in disguise, as an opportunity for achieving a deep awareness of the mind to take you from surviving to thriving with cancer.

Congratulations! You’ve got cancer! Let cancer transform, not maim, your life!

Stephen Lau

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

ONE: HELP YOUR DOCTOR HELP YOU

TWO: HELP YOUR MIND HELP YOU

THREE: HELP YOUR MIND KNOW YOUR CANCER

FOUR: HELP YOUR BODY HELP YOUR CANCER

FIVE: HELP YOUR RELAXATION HELP YOUR CANCER

SIX: HELP YOUR REJUVENATION HELP YOUR CANCER

SEVEN: HELP YOUR MIND GET WISDOM IN LIVING WITH CANCER

Appendix A: Acid and Alkaline Foods

Appendix B: Herbal Therapies

Appendix C: The Five Tibetan Rites

Appendix D: About the Author

INTRODUCTION

An unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

Life is tough, and living is never easy, especially living with cancer. To be diagnosed with cancer is a potentially tragic trauma in life. But you can transform your trauma into a triumph of self-discovery and personal recovery from cancer; you can even reach higher levels of wellbeing in all areas of your life through the mind by asking thought-provoking questions.

In the Bible, Jesus said: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find . . . (Matthew 7:7) In real life, you must always ask yourself questions, especially when you have got cancer.

Asking questions is introspection, which is a process of self-reflection, without which there is no self-awareness and hence no personal growth and no recovery from the disease.

The kind of questions you ask determines the kind of life you are going to lead, and the direction of the cancer journey you are going to embark on. Your questions trigger a set of mental answers, which lead to actions or inactions, based on the choices you are going to make from the answers you have obtained. Always ask thought-provoking questions, although you may not always get all the answers. Asking questions is all about the mind, and this is what this book is all about: helping your mind help your cancer.

A thinking mind helps to debunk the favorite statement of the medical community: Your cancer is terminal. There is no such thing as hopelessness. Only God knows how long a person is going to live.

Make the most important decision in your life: the profound decision to live. This is not indulging in false hope. There is no such thing as false hope—hope itself is medicine of the mind. 

The cancer journey is made up of decisions: decisions to take certain treatment options, and decisions to make certain lifestyle changes. A decision ignites an action; without a decision, nothing happens in life. If what you are now doing got you where you don’t want to be—having got cancer—maybe now is the time to change.

Make that first and most important decision to live—today! Your decision will lead to not only greater quality but also a greater quantity of the days ahead of you.

The objectives of this book are: empowering your mind to live your life to the fullest in spite of your cancer, facilitating you to focus on all the possibilities of your cancer cure, instead of on all the cancer problems; affirming that each day is a gift irrespective of the circumstances; and providing you with resources and information to help you confront your cancer with hope and spirit.

If you see the gift in cancer—just as singer and entertainer Olivia Newton-John did in her own words: I see it (cancer) as a gift. I know it sounds strange. But I don’t think I would have grown in the areas I did without this experience—then, congratulations, you’ve got cancer!

ONE

HELP YOUR DOCTOR HELP YOU

The best inspirer of hope is the best physician. Jean Charcot

Cancer is a word, not a sentence. John Diamond

The Devastating Mental Shock

If, unfortunately, you or your loved ones are diagnosed with cancer, the traumatic experience often comes with a devastating mental shock. The initial feelings are usually disbelief (Are you kidding me?), followed by anger or injustice (Why me?), and then self-pity or self-blame (It’s all my fault!). The traumatic mental experience is unspeakable and indescribable.

If being diagnosed with cancer is a big deal, then why is it such a big deal? 

For decades, the medical community and the pharmaceutical industry have knowingly or unknowingly instilled fear in the minds of the public. Cancer spells death, and cancer is incurable. To be diagnosed with cancer is a big deal because it is all in the mind—your mind. Cancer is only the second greatest killer of human diseases in the world, after heart disease. If a person is diagnosed with a heart disease, the news may not come as shocking and traumatic as that of being diagnosed with cancer. One reason is that the individual may well be aware of the presence of the heart problem, as indicated by the body weight or some other tale-telling symptoms of heart disease. Perhaps the more obvious reason why being diagnosed with heart disease is less frightening is in the mental self-delusion that "it may not happen to me right away." Heart disease is more fatal than cancer, and can strike suddenly without any warning in the form of strokes and heart attacks. However, in the mend’s eye, having diagnosed with cancer is tantamount to having a death sentence pronounced on one, and the date of execution is only a matter of time. 

The Reality Check

Like all other life experiences, having cancer is just a fact of life—which, at best, is a bed of roses with many prickly thorns. Everybody has some health problems sooner or later: some have more serious ones than others; some get them sooner than others. Mortality is built into our genes to ensure human frailty and eventual demise.

After the initial denial, the reality of cancer begins to sink in. On the one hand, a patient may fall into an abyss of despair; on the other hand, the patient may brace himself or herself to confront the enemy. It all depends on the mind of the individual.

Yes, getting the disease of cancer is a big deal! But you must deal with it one way or another. Accepting the reality of your health condition will, surprisingly, free you from negative thoughts. In the Bible, when Jesus said: The truth will make you free. (John 8:32), He meant not only freeing from sins, but also freedom from negative thoughts of despair and hopelessness that may only further damage health.

The only reality check is to muster your courage and willpower to change some life habits, including your diet, exercise routine, and relaxation techniques—more specifically, changing your beliefs, attitudes, and thought patterns. In other words, help your mind help your cancer.

The Right Mindset

No matter what, you need the right mindset to take the right action to begin the right process toward healing and recovery from cancer. Whether you like it or not, you need to see your doctor to discuss your conditions and treatment plans. Again, your mind plays a pivotal role in gathering information to ask the appropriate questions to determine if the physician is right for you, or to help you choose the right treatment plan for your cancer. 

Help Your Doctor Help You

Many patients are reluctant to disclose everything about their health problems, particularly their mental conditions, because of the stigma attached to them.

But the information you provide your doctor is vital to his or her making the proper diagnosis and recommending the right treatment plan. Honest disclosure may help the doctor’s interpretation of your symptoms and the decision to make certain tests or procedures. The doctor must have the facts before deciding whether surgery is necessary.

Do not be concerned with encumbering your doctor with unnecessary details or almost forgotten past medical history. If your doctor does not seem concerned about a detail, most probably, the doctor is satisfied that it is not relevant to your condition. Does your doctor take the time to talk with you and listen to your concerns, especially your emotional problems? Anyway, do not hesitate to tell your doctor everything, and do not be programmed into not taking up too much of the doctor’s time. If the doctor doesn’t have much time for you, most probably he or she is not the right doctor for you.

Remember the following: 

A good physician will not betray your confidence.

A reputable physician will not express judgment or lack of respect for you because of what you have revealed about yourself.

A competent physician must have all the facts available. The more information is provided, the more accurate is the diagnosis.

Questions to ask the doctor may include:

The qualifications and experience of the doctor, including board certification, the number of surgeries performed.

The expertise and specialty of the doctor.

The philosophy on educating patients