Cancer

Cancer is a very serious killer in the UK. It kills more people per day than Covid ever will. Go and spend the day at an NHS cancer clinic and you will see a depressing conveyor belt overflowing with people with the disease. And that's just one day.

But this is a misnomer. To say that any disease is a 'killer', like some sort of outside force which preys on unsuspecting innocents, is skewed thinking. All disease comes from within. Even infectious disease. The 'war' against cancer will never succeed, because it is merely people fighting themselves.

From my perspective as a holistic health practitioner, cancer is a disease, or derangement of health, which has its beginnings long before any physical manifestations take place. Cancer is hereditary, which means it is passed down from generation to generation. This means that if your near relatives have had it (parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles), there is a chance that you may do too. This is all dependent on the health choices which you make during your life. Many, many people with a background of cancer in the family do not manifest disease, so please do not be discouraged.

Cancer is the disease of suppression, primarily of emotions. The emotions are not acknowledged by the individual, they are seen by the peer group or family as a weakness, something to be avoided, too painful or scary, so they are 'stilled'. The person tries to disassociate from their body and lives in their heads. The body's response to this is to throw out physical symptoms such as sore throats, headaches, urinary infections etc as an alarm call to themselves. When these are then suppressed by anti-biotics or painkillers, the body then has to try and express on a deeper level - palpitations, pneumonia, kidney infections, again suppressed by drugs, on top of which more drugs are given to counteract the also-effects of the first drugs. Eventually these organs, congested by drugs and unexpressed e-motions (energy-motions), literally begin to rot. This is cancer. On top of the suppression of emotions we can add a poor, nutrient deficient diet, a morbid interest in the negative, readily served out by the media, poor sleep, a lack of exercise and sedentary habits. So you see, we don't 'catch' cancer, it is of our own making.

My work as a homeopath is not just about giving people little white pills. It is also about encouraging people to get in touch with their emotions, to say the things they'd never dare for fear of being 'weak', to 'cry it out', to seek other emotion-embracing therapies, to acknowledge and express the feeling side of themselves. Healthy emotions need to flow, even in men. Then no resentment builds up, no angers or griefs are unexpressed, or suppressed. This frees the individual. It is so important to take full responsibility for how we are in the world - what we eat, how we look after ourselves, our quality of sleep, our environment. Even if life seems to have dealt you a 'bad hand', it is still possible to make the best of a bad situation, to keep one's spirits up, to take one's self into nature even for half an hour, to exercise, to put some flowers in a vase, to look within and explore our inner feelings.

Research has found that laughter, and crying (which are very closely related - how many times have you laughed and cried at the same time?), are another very powerful way of increasing immunity and warding off cancer. Watching a funny or emotionally moving film can help to get the emotions moving and release a lot of pent up feelings.

So you see, if we peer below the surface of cancer, work together and light a match instead of cursing the darkness, we can move through it to healing, wholeness and wellbeing.