The Cancer Compliment

Cancer compliment is an open information source aimed towards those diagnosed with cancer and their primary caretakers. The information that you find here is relevant regardless of the stage of the cancer or other factors that typically limit the choices of those diagnosed with cancer.

While these ideas and simple methods may yield excellent result in a short period of time for those that have been recently diagnosed and have not yet gone through any operation or chemotherapy, they can also be very beneficial for those with “late stage” or “terminal’ diagnosis.

Virtually all individuals with a cancer diagnosis suffer from digestive issues and from emotional stress. All of the techniques you find on The Cancer Compliment are presented to directly address these two critical aspects of cancer; the physical and the emotional. All presented methods are non-invasive, natural, easy to learn and easy to adopt.

Digestion

Since the time of the Yellow Emperor’s Medicinal Classics dating back over 5,000 years, healers have understood the connection between digestion and serious illness. This connection is more evident with cancer than any other type of illness, and cancer patients especially at later stages are without fail diagnosed with digestive problems. In fact, digestive problems often precede the diagnosis of cancer many years. It is simple common sense that a patient whose digestive system is not appropriately functioning will have more difficult in recovering than one who is able to improve digestive function.

Out of the three essential changes – stable digestive function, proper breathing and right exercise – digestive function is the most closely connected with the conscious choices we make throughout our day every day. It is also often the one where patients find it easiest to change their behavior enough to see some improvement and then find motivation for more challenging behavior changes.

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Breathing

Without breathing we will die in matter of few minutes. Therefore it is vital for the seriously ill to be mindful about their breathing pattern, while making a serious effort to improving it. Simply put, breathing is the most significant everyday way of maintaining our health and curing illness. It is harder to change than ones diet, and therefore comes as the second objective and not the first.

In addition to oxygen delivery, proper breathing has various functions that are essential for well-being. Due to its effect on central nervous system, and the association shallow chest-breathing has with “fight of flight” reaction, it is the single most effective stress reduction technique.  Because we are breathing all the time, it is a technique always available for us. Proper breathing also supports healthy digestive function and elimination of toxins from the body.

The key point about “proper breathing” is that the lower part of the lungs absorb oxygen multiple times better than the upper areas and also provide a variety of other benefits.

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Exercise

In the modern world, it is common to spend most of the day sitting in a chair, while engaging in any form of exercise infrequently at best. Those that do engage in frequent exercise or follow a given regime, almost without exception are focused developing external form or physical strength, often at the expense of their well-being. Exercises that focus on external form, such as karate or motocross, have a very high risk of injury, where as those focused on physical strength such as weightlifting or various endurance sports commonly cause the so-called “over training syndrome”. There have been even premature deaths among top athletes that have been attributed to their grueling exercise regimes. It has also become increasingly expensive to take part in almost any such exercise, making even a simple gym membership a financial concern for some patients.

Exercises aimed at cultivation of internal strength and longevity, such as Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Yoga and many other eastern traditional arts have been proven effective for well-being and longevity, but have in fact in many cases help patients cure even from terminal illness, such as stage 4 cancer. In Chinese communities it is not uncommon to personally know someone who has cured themselves completely after receiving a “death sentence” from an allopathic doctor, simply by adopting a regular Qi Gong practice regime. Many such practices are easy to learn even for complete beginners or those with some limitations with movement, and effects can be often experienced after the first few sessions. After the initial introduction from a qualified teacher, such practice can be conducted for years without additional instructions.

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Mind Training

While internal exercises such as Tai Chi or Yoga have a strong emphasis on the mind, it is rare to exercise system that explicitly focuses on training ones mind. In simple terms training ones mind can be split in to three parts; ethics, meditative stability, and wisdom.

In all of the three major eastern medical sciences – Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Traditional Tibetan Medicine – the foundation for all other ideas is that illness is a result of what is referred to as “afflictive emotions”.  At a more superficial level it is said that illness is caused by diet, behavior and environment.

By training our mind, we become realize that our food choices and related habitual patterns, our behavior and even the environment we are exposed to, are all results of the cause of afflictive emotions. We can all experience these emotions in form of pride, jealousy, anger, desire and fear. As a result, in some populations 1 in 4 are taking mind altering medication such as SSRI depressants.

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