The Law of Attraction, 12-Steps and Cancer: How do they all fit?
What's the secret to manifesting health?
Spoiler alert: deep stuff ahead! I share my blog posts on Facebook and often get some interesting comments from them. My friend Terry, who goes to my church, sent me this yesterday:
My first thought when my cancer came back was it was my fault somehow – that what I was doing was not good enough. I did visualization, affirmations, and essentially became a spiritual student. And the cancer still came back. I’m in a couple of 12-step recovery programs and have been trying to reconcile the 12 steps’s approach of letting go and letting God with the Law of Attraction. When I think I can change a situation, I get back into my control issues and forget God is truly in charge.
Don’t get me wrong; I totally believe in the Law of Attraction. There are all sorts of wonderful things happening in my life, and I do believe I will be cancer-free once again. But I waver between an attitude of kicking cancer’s butt and belief that God will do it for me. I actually think it’s something in between. I am doing everything physically, emotionally and spiritually possible to help manifest that. At some point, however, I need to let go and let God do the healing in His/Her own time. I want it now, but maybe there is a reason it isn’t happening sooner.
Sally says:
As I believe our souls have manifested into our current physical being, and I also believe that this Universal Soul (God) desires to experience being physical, whenever something I don’t particularly want is happening to me, I try to remember that the soul is just experiencing something new for some purpose – maybe just to give more insight to the wonderfulness of being human. How else can the soul truly know what this existence “feels” like. How can be understand the “good” without the contrast of what is “not so good”? “Tall” is irrelevant without “short”.
Nevine says:
Maybe we need to stop thinking that everything so called bad that happens to us is a punishment. Going back to the old saying “it could have been worth” is it possible that whatever “bad” situation we are in is actually the better alternative and maybe is what we would rather be doing any way if the situation was indeed worth. How can it be worth then cancer you ask and I will tell you that I would do this over a hundred times if it means sparing my loved ones from going through a hardship and what mother wouldn’t, or dying suddenly unexpectedly without given the chance to make amends or say goodbye. I know also that I would never have reached the place of peace and stillness I am in if I had not undertook this journey and wonder of wonders how many times have I prayed for that stillness and peace. So have I not gotten what I wanted? I also think there is something liberating about thinking that maybe vibration-ally I may have unconsciously brought that situation into my life because that would mean I have the power to consciously un-bring it and let it go. To succeed though takes an unshakable act of faith. You can’t “try” to think positive and see if it will work. You have to believe before you see. And that would be a miracle in itself.
Tami Boehmer says:
Wow, this topic has spurred some very interesting discussion. I wanted to share the thoughts of a Unity minister who responded to a discussion board at UnitySocial.com. It gives me some food for thought about forgiveness and releasing the past:
I have found what I consider some pretty good resources about the metaphysical causes for cancer, and two of them appear to be in agreement: Louise Hay, a well know metaphysical teacher and author in the healing movement, and Mona Lisa Schultz, MD & PhD who wrote a great book called, Awakening Intuition which relates her view of the mental causes of various kinds of illness.
If you check out this web site: http://www.hazelden.org/web/public/icc80608.page you will find that Hazelden has made the connection between The Twelve Steps and cancer. But cancer is not the only illness that can be The title of the article reveals the connection: Twelve Steps can help manage various types of chronic illness. One important point is that Hazelden’s theory does not allow for the relationship to The Law of Attraction. It implies that the only control the patient has is to admit they are powerless and to seek help. The “higher power” is said to be seeking doctors, treatment, etc. That’s good as far as it goes, but still no connection to the Law of Attraction.
I think the answer is what Hay and Schultz reveal. Both indicate that cancer is the result of looking back on the painful past and reviewing it over and over in the present. And both say that if we had chosen forgiveness, mental healing, releasing the past and the pain of the past we could avoid experiencing cancer. So we attract cancer into our bodies because we can’t let go, forgive, and live for the present and future instead of the past.
So those of you who have had the experience of cancer, you will have to verify if there is a relationship of cancer to failing to overcome “rehearsing the past” in leu of forgiveness, letting go, and moving toward the future.
Nevine says:
I am not sure about the cause but I know that I had a lot of instability around the time of my diagnosis. My husband was transferred and there was talk about moving, my daughter had just left for college and i was torn between following my husband or keeping the kids stable. I always had a strong connection to HOME and eventually I ended up staying in Cincinnati keeping homebase with everyone doing their thing and getting together occasionally. They say the breast is the seat for nurturing and it is possible that all this instability manifested in an “angry breast”. I have my theory about the recorruence too but that would be too long to get into.
I found this interesting site:
http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/hamer.html
One Possible Cause Discovered…by the German doctor Ryke Geerd HAMER, confirmed on December 9, 1988, at Vienna University
In the habilitation script he presented at [Germany’s] Tübingen University in October 1981, Dr. HAMER summarized his research with this statement: “I searched for cancer in the cell and I have found it in the form of a wrong coding in the brain.”
It would be wonderful if we can just recode the brain but it is not as easy as it sounds
Shirley says:
I have been a nurse for 31 years and I guess being born to a very ill mother propelled my interest in the evolution of disease which led me to this profession.
In the early 1990s I was exposed to the holistic concept of healing which led me to further explore the holistic concept of disease evolution. During that time was was in a community outreach project serving the uninsured, and one particular day many women sought the services from the project. All these women were of different ages, races, an ethnic backgrounds, and “too many” had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and almost none had a genetic predisposition. In taking what I call an emotional history on these women, what they all had in common is that each and everyone suffered a significant loss within 2 years prior to their diagnosis for which caused them intense grief which they could not come to peace with.
Little did I know at that time this information that greatly intrigued me as a possible link in the evolution of cancer, would propel me very quickly to my doctor a number of years later when I was not feeling generally physically well two years following the sudden death of my husband, which I initially chalked up to the start of menopause, but having a sense something was seriously wrong with me I insisted my doctor do an endometrial biopsy which he was very reluctant to do. A week following my doctor’s appointment he called to inform me that the biopsy showed I had endometrial cancer.
Two weeks following my doctor’s appointment I was in the operating room having surgery to remove the cancer. Upon waking up from my surgery the first person I saw was my doctor smilling at me and informing me that I must have had an angel on my shoulder because my cancer was caught so early he was shocked that he was even able to capture cells from it on biopsy!!!!!
I was elated to hear this news, but knew that my surgery was only the physical component of my healing process, and that the emotional and spiritual would follow.
As I went home to recover, and had zero energy to do nothing but rest and think and take care of myself, which was the first time in my life I had to nurse only myself, this was the start point of the emotional component of my healing. As best as I can describe it, I was taken on an emotional journey back in time to the emotional start point where the evolution of my cancer began in my early childhood.
As I mentioned earlier I was born to a very ill mother, and due to her illnesses she was incapable of mothering me, so I became her mother as well as her nurse. Due to this early experience I developed very negative beliefs about motherhood, and although I very much wanted to be a mother myself one day, I had trememdous fear of this experience in that I too would become ill following the birth of my child, and that chold too would suffer the same fate as did I.
Although I did not reconize through the years the subtle symptoms of the evolution of my cancer gaining momentum through the years, the symptoms were there in irregular periods, intense PMS, and inability to get pregnant despite nothing ever found physically wrong with either myself or my husband. When my husband died, so died my hope of ever having a child which was a double grief for me. So I guess having cancer of the organ most responsible for motherhood was not surprising to me.
In my double loss, I gained something far more precious which was the key to my emotional healing and that was my mother. My mother despite her many illnesses including having had the same cancer as I twenty years earlier and surviving as well the loss of her first husband, she became my role model as a survivor of cancer and loss of a spouse, and was able to provide mothering to me at the time in my life when I needed her the most. My dear mother passed away two years following my cancer diagnosis, and I treasure that time she extended so much love and care to me when I needed her the most, and most importantly instilled in me the belief that I could live a full life without having children as I was called to do other things.
My mother’s parting words helped me release all the emotional issues related to motherhood, and regain my hope in life and the God who oversees it all.
Today I mark my 7th anniversary of my cancer survivorship. I have been in a wonderful relationship with a kind and gentile man for the last several years, and through this man I am blessed with his two wonderful adult children, his two grandsons, and another grandbaby on they way; all that I love as if they were my own
And although everyone’s cancer journey is unique, the cancer patients in my care what I can now given them which I could not prior to my own jouney with cancer, is my example of cancer survivorship which impacts them more than any other nursing care I can render to them.
May you all of you who are currently taking the cancer journey be inspired by my story of hope.