Participate In Your Own Healing

I have suggested that cancer be treated as an outside invader to the body - a parasite if you will. This is considered an alternative medicine approach. Traditional medicine regards cancer as a deficiency in the immune system, an auto-immune disease or a mutation of your cells. These are highly disparate views. It would be very difficult to walk into a doctor's office and spout alternative medicine theories and get any support.

But I urge you: no matter what the illness - participate in your own healing.

Read - I have read 100 books on health, nutrition, healing, tea, food-combining, cancer, children's herbs, Mediterranean cooking, raw food juicing, water, prayer and laughter. I have listed a few of the most all encompassing and important books but there are so many more.

Study - Listen to your body as you read. Decide which theories and therapies are a good fit for you.

Pray - Illness is overdetermined. Overdetemined means there is not simply one cause for the disease: a person may smoke for 40 years and never get lung cancer; another person may smoke for 10 years and suffer a terrible death from lung cancer. There will always be emotional and spiritual reasons why people get sick. Read Anatomy of the Spirit by Carolyn Myss.

"During my travels throughout the world I have
met many healers who believe that the primary causes of health and illness are
not physical but spiritual."
Spontaneous Healing
Andrew Weil, M.D.

Cook - Come on! What could be more fun than buying a new cookbook? Try anything by Nathalia Graimes, she writes beautifully about the source of the raw whole food and then provides a recipe. Look at Marilyn Diamond's classic, The American Vegetarian.

Think - Figure it out for yourself given your own individual past, your own individual eating habits and your own individual ability to discipline yourself and heal yourself. What does the data mean to you individually?

Heal - Find a doctor who humbly considers himself a teacher, a consultant and even a healer. But inform him that you will eat only a raw vegan/celiac diet for the next 30 days (if not forever). Tell him your friends are praying for your health and give him the ingredients for Essiac tea. Cautious pessimism on his part is OK - arrogant rebuttal of a whole food life-style is not.

Sleep - The body is miraculously self-healing given half a chance.