People with cancer and their loved ones are often focused on finding a cure for cancer. This inner conviction can help to cope with a cancer diagnosis, ignite motivation and hope, find the best treatments, maintain strength during therapies, and support mind, body, and spirit during and after cancer.
Exploring Healing
Along with curing cancer, and when curing is not possible, people affected by cancer may also focus on healing. Dynamic and delightful, gritty and graceful, powerful and profound, healing means different things to different people. Healing often involves resourcing and restoring wholeness.
How do you define healing and curing in your own life? Everyone deals with cancer in a unique way. The process of engaging healing and curing cancer is individual to each person. Thinking about what healing and curing means to you may offer new insights, self-knowledge and awareness, goals, aspirations, and action.
Living with and beyond cancer, a focus on achieving certain goals may help fuel efforts to impact cancer outcomes. Goals are influenced by the worldview and belief systems of each unique person and may evolve based on new circumstances and experiences. Planning and plotting action may support both healing and curing cancer. At the same time, the road to healing and curing cancer cannot be precisely defined in the midst of uncertainty. In reality, every person lives without knowing the future. People affected by cancer, including patients and their loved ones, are often more acutely reminded that life is unpredictable.
Possibility of Change
The chaotic nature of cancer with uncertainty and unpredictability also contains tremendous possibility. The crisis of cancer ignites evolution. People affected by cancer are often motivated to explore new directions. Openness to change emerges. Perceptions of expectations about what should be begin to redefine themselves. People may come to realize that they influence versus control. Surrendering to this universal truth brings ease in the midst of disease. The willingness to flow through life moment to moment without grasping onto attachments invites a new sense of freedom.
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Your own definitions of healing and curing cancer are areas you can consider now and into the future.
- How do you define these concepts?
- What are your goals?
- What and where can you influence?
- What empowers you?
- How do you define your power?
- What inspires you?
- How do you support your body, mind, and spirit with self-care?
Know that deep power resides in any struggle and vulnerability you may perceive.
This section explores ideas, concepts, and views contrasting and defining healing and curing cancer. Our information will be expanded over time with new insights into healing and curing with mind, body, and spirit approaches through an integrative cancer care program. We wish always you health and healing.
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