Stay Healthy During Chemo. Джо Диспенза

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       I am healthier with each new day.

       My body heals quickly and easily.

       I am healthy in every cell of my body.

       My body is a healing machine.

      And before a nap or bedtime:

       Even when I am asleep, my body is healing itself.

      Journal Your Feelings

      Emotions are apt to run rampant during cancer treatment. You may find that you are happy one minute, depressed the next, on an ever-changing see-saw.

      To bring some balance into the life of the emotions, and to release negative ones that might be weighing you down, consider keeping a journal of your feelings. It is as simple and getting a notebook, titling it “My Journal of Feelings,” and writing in it once a day or several times a day, or whenever something comes up that you want to express.

      There is no special way of doing this, except that the entries should always start with, “I am feeling....”

      You may want to make your journal public. To do that, there is no better way than to blog on the Internet. Starting and maintaining a blog is not difficult; for some, it is a good way to both release emotions and share the experience of treatment.

      Here are some emotions that may surface when you are doing this practice:

       Anger

       Confusion

       Fear

       Forgiveness

       Gratitude

       Joy

       Resentment

       Self-pity

      Spruce Up Your Environment

      Just because you are in treatment it doesn't mean you need to live in an environment that says “professional sick person.” As part of the healing process, I encourage you to spruce up your surroundings, making them bright, airy, clean, and uncluttered.

      Your outer world mirrors your inner world. If you are indeed on a journey of healing, it makes sense that the rooms where you are spending your time reflect the positive outlook you have adopted.

      Here are a few ideas to make this a reality:

       Ask your caregiver and friends to bring you some fresh flowers every few days

       Make sure your bedroom is spotlessly clean and organized

       Unclutter—even if it means giving away a few things that may have lost their meaning for you

       Bring nature into your surroundings, whether through a small plant or photos of beautiful natural settings, or a bowl of water onto which you float some flower blossoms..

      Dress Up

      This goes hand-in-hand with the previous suggestion, but gets more personal. If you are spending a lot of time around the house—and close to the bed or couch, probably—there is something about freshening up and dressing up that is positively life-affirming.

      Try to make time at least twice a week to dress up and go out, whether to an art gallery, a mall, a café, a park, or a movie—anywhere people congregate and pass by. This has a way of making us feel more “normal” than just sitting at home with a book or the TV.

      Dressing up and going people-watching is good for the soul as well as for the body. When you get back to home-base, you may feel bushed, but will also feel fulfilled.

      Stay Positive

      Finally, wrap everything you do and say in a positive frame. Decide not to complain, but to be grateful for the good that is unfolding in your healing process. The more you concentrate on the positive aspects of your journey through chemo, the greater chance you have to heal faster and better.

      Let “the glass is half-full” (not half-empty) be your mantra.

      Step 2: Detoxify to Promote Healing from the Inside Out

      The wound is the

       place where the Light

       enters you.

      Rumi

      Once the new mental and emotional framework has been set in place, the practical work of getting healthy begins. And it all starts with cleaning the body of both the chemo drugs and the dead cancer cells they destroyed.

      Detoxification is a kind of purification rite that acts as a gateway for all the marvelous life-enhancing changes that will take place during the healing process. It is vitally important that the toxic residue from cancer cells left behind by chemotherapy exits the body as quickly as possible. This step is about pushing the wastes of chemo out so they don't keep circulating in the body, endangering the precious environment of the immune system.

      Toxins leave the body in several ways. Here we will be concentrating on detoxification through the digestive system, the skin (the body's largest organ), and the liver and bladder.

      Cancer cells that are killed off by chemotherapy, the chemo chemicals themselves, and other toxins left behind on the chemo battlefield circulate in the body until they are processed and expelled by the eliminative organs—the liver, kidneys, bladder, lungs, lymphatic system, colon, blood, and the largest of our organs, the skin.

      The sooner the accumulated toxins leave the body, the better! In this step, I am setting out two scientifically grounded detoxification regimes that are easy to do and require little preparation or special materials. They will help you to feel better faster.

      External: Therapeutic Bathing

      These four therapeutic baths come from the work of Dr. Hazel Parcells (1889-1996), a pioneer in the field of nutrition and holistic healing; if you do the math on her dates, you will see that she lived into her 107th year. You can also find them in Live Better Longer, the book about Dr. Parcells and her methods of natural healing.

      I recommend that you take all four baths—one at a time, of course—over a two-week period. Then begin the round again, separating baths by a few days.

      Therapeutic bathing is another way of cleansing, and therefore of healing. Our skin is an organ of our bodies—the largest organ. Sixty-five percent of body cleansing is accomplished through our skin.

      The Underlying Scientific Principle

      The Parcells therapeutic baths are based on the chemical principle “the weak will draw from the strong.” The hot water bathing solution draws toxins out of the body to the surface of the skin. Then, as the water cools, the toxins are pulled from the surface of the skin by the change in temperature and go into the water. The purification is brought about by the simple principle of nature that the weak (cool water) energy draws from the strong (body heated by the hot water).

      It is important to remain in the bath until the water cools in order to receive the full effect of these detoxifying therapeutic baths. Adding cold water to speed up the cooling of the bath water will change the chemistry of the bath, so that is not advised.

      After leaving the tub, it is best to lie down covered with a blanket and allow your body to perspire freely, releasing more of the toxic build-up from the treatment process.

      A general caution: depending where you are in chemo treatment, you may have to adjust