HOW HEALTHY ARE YOU?

When I first began studying natural healing several years ago, a visiting lecturer who was also a health practitioner said to the class, “Look at the person to the right of you, and look at the person on the left. Twenty years from now, one out of three people will be diagnosed with cancer. Out of you three, who is it going to be?”

As it turns out, the practitioner was right on target. Our cancer rates are growing at an astronomical rate. Alone in my family those statistics have proved spot on and the world statistics are staggering.

Every time I hear the news of another death, the cause is usually cancer.

In the span of one week, David Bowie died from liver cancer, Alan Rickman died from pancreatic cancer and Celine Dion’s husband and her brother both died of complications with throat cancer.
I’m sure in your own life you know someone right now that has been diagnosed with cancer.

According to the American Cancer Society below are some statistics for 2016:

• 1,658,210: The number of new cancer cases expected to be diagnosed with cancer.
• 595,690: The number of Americans expected to die of cancer.
• 1,630: The number of people dying of cancer per day.

With statistics like that, cancer strikes fear into people. The mere thought of cancer sends people scurrying to the medical machinery that can promote the very same disease they are trying to avoid.
From the orthodox healthcare perspective, cancer needs to be eradicated by cutting it out, burning it with radiation or poisoning it with toxic chemotherapy. All of that treatment inevitably cuts, burns and poisons the host of the cancer as well.

From a natural healthcare perspective, cancer is viewed as stagnation. Either physical, emotional, energetic, or spiritual, the blood is not flowing properly within the body. (Creating dirty blood, an acidic environment.)

One of the ways to work with cancer is to support the body with diet and lifestyle improvements to get the blood cleaned and flowing properly, which will help clear the disease from the system.

Where natural medicine excels is in the area of prevention. I use the seven natural doctors, which are NEW START:

• Nutrition – Good wholesome, seasonal whole foods
• Exercise – A Daily walk will do you the world of good
• Water – Make sure you get your daily dose

• Sunshine – At least 30 mins a day for your vitamin D intake
• Temperance – In all things good be temperate, abstinence from others
• Air – Fresh air through your home is a wonderful cure
• Rest – Having a day of rest does wonders for the mind and body
• Trust – We all need a spiritual practice to keep us balanced

These 8 natural doctors all work with the body and mind to get the human being functioning better and flowing.

I’m not saying that if you take precautions with your health, diet and lifestyle that you won’t get cancer. The truth is you probably have cancer cells in your system right now. We all do. But, when the body and its organs are nourished and flowing, there is less risk that those cancer cells will accumulate to become problematic.

The interesting thing about cancer is that it is cells that have gone awry. Cells are born and cells die: cancer cells refuse to die. Cancer certainly is a very difficult subject, and it can bring up a LOT of anger. Which is understandable. But, on the emotional level of healing, suppressed anger can damage physical cells and stop them from functioning properly.

So don’t suppress your anger. Get angry, but use that negative energy in a healthy way to promote healing for you.  Go and take a run; go for a long walk in nature; get a soothing massage. The idea is to relax you and activate your parasympathetic nervous system, which will increase vitality and facilitate your body’s own healing process. Don’t wait for your statistical turn with cancer, or any other disease for that matter. Do everything possible that you can to prevent cancer from taking up permanent residence in your body.

Here are eight suggestions you can start using right now to help get your body on track:

1. NUTRITION: Eat good quality food: fresh, organic, local, seasonal, unprocessed and non-GMO. This is the best way to nourish your bodily systems. Avoid Bisphenol A, phthalates and anything else that is hard to pronounce: if you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.                                            Avoid sugar: If you are craving sweets have a piece of fruit, not a piece of candy. Choose an apple over a candy bar. BTW… chocolate is candy. Even if it’s dark chocolate, and even if it’s 85% cocoa. Unless you are roasting and crushing the cacao yourself and NOT adding sugar, it’s candy.                                                                                                      Use Herbs: In your regular everyday diet use herbs that can inhibit the growth of cancer and contribute to apoptosis (death of mutated cancer cells) – garlic, green tea, milk thistle, licorice root, reishi mushrooms.                                                                                                                                     
2. EXERCISE DAILY: not weekly, not monthly, DAILY! Move your body in some way every day to keep all of your internal systems running smoothly. Sweat it out: sweat lodges have been around for a long time because they work. Can’t find a traditional lodge? Get into a sauna or a steam room to open all of your pores and sweat some toxicity out of your body.         Get to know your body: You are living inside your body; get to know it on a deeper level. If it’s aching, or you’re feeling something is out of balance, don’t wait to be diagnosed with cancer or some other disease, become proactive and preventative ASAP.                                                        Move angry, negative energy: As I mentioned, if you’ve got anger that’s good, now put it to good use and move it! if you’re angry at someone, let it go. If you are angry and hold onto resentment, the only person that it is going to hurt is you. It’s like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.                                                                                                                                                                    
3. WATER: is a great healer, in and out and most of my clients are surprised at how their health improves when they start to drink lots of fresh, clean water. If your body is not hydrated with a sufficient supply of water, it will begin to ration the water available in your organs, bones and skin and cut back on certain functions to make the supply go around.                                                          
4. SUNSHINE: Get sunshine: Unless you are a blind albino cave salamander, your body cannot function optimally without adequate sunlight.                                                                                             
5. TEMPERENCE: With everything good be temperate. It does not mean if fruit is good for you, you must overeat it, or grains, or even exercise. However, we need abstinence from certain things, like alcohol, marijuana, other drugs, processed foods etc.                                                                        
6. AIR: make sure your house is nicely aired out all day and sleep with your bedroom window open – take walks in the open air, on the beach, in the country….                                                                       
7. REST: I love having my Saturday Sabbath day as a day of rest. It seems to reset my clock and get me feeling more energised to start my week again. I also like to sleep a good 7 – 8 hours per night. Do you? When I am really drained, I usually get a massage, but will be adding lymphatic drainage, deep tissue and aromatherapy massage to my list of things to get done. Your body will love you for it..                                                                                                                                                     
8. TRUST: We all need a spiritual path in order to be balanced. I am not sure what spiritual path you are on and that is a personal choice you have to make. I believe in God as Creator, therefore follow His law and use His word as my life map. Take the above steps now to prevent the possibility that you’ll be the next statistic.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   And, if you’ve already been diagnosed, takes the steps above to help assist your body with the healing process.