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HOW TO HANDLE CANCERBy R. Mathis Hurt rmhurt@veizon.net STEP 1 FOOD & DRINKI am writing this small article to explain a basic principle about survival to anyone with cancer and anyone else who has a loved one with cancer. Your goal should NOT be to get rid of cancer. I will repeat that. Your goal should NOT be to get rid of cancer. Why? Because you get what you put your attention on, even if it is negative attention. So, what should your goal be? Your goal should be GOOD HEALTH! THAT is your starting point. If you had paid attention to this in the beginning, you would not have cancer now, assuming you knew how to achieve good health. Let us suppose your cancer were gone, right now. How long do you suppose It would be until you had cancer again? Want to guess? Here's the answer: NOT LONG! Why? Because you have not made "any" sincere changes in your mental attitude, your approach to life, your involvement with food, your exercise, and your environment. You think that is a strong statement? Are you wondering who the heck I think I am to lecture you on something like that? Who am I to know what changes you have made? Here's a fact. It takes 21 days of doing something to make that something A habit. But to make the habit, you have to do it because you want to. A lifestyle change will take at least 21 days, and maybe several months Before you get used to it. Normally, you don't WANT to make the change, so you just don't make it, and you never get the habit. If you don't make the change, you will go right back to your old ways. Then you will get cancer again and die. Is that what you want? No? Then try this VERY FIRST STEP IN HANDLING CANCER. 1. You MUST (ABSOLUTELY MUST) change the way you eat and drink. I am going to repeat that. You MUST change the way you eat and drink or you will die prematurely, possibly of cancer or even worse diseases. There is no number 2. There is just a number 1. Why? Because until you handle #1 there is no point discussing another number - you are just too much a wimp to do anything at all except pay for ineffective cancer treatments and die early. If you don't want to do #1, then get it over with and DIE. Do you think I am being too snotty or cynical? Wrong. I am not being too snotty. I am not being snotty enough. Unfortunately, no one can grab you by the lapel and shake your teeth loose till you get the point, and NOBODY is going to FORCE YOU to do ANYTHING, RIGHT?! That's right, not even CANCER can force you effectively to change the way you eat and drink. If you have cancer and you have not dramatically changed your diet for the better, then you are going to be killed by cancer, or you are going to die younger than you should, no matter what else is done to save your life. And in the process you are going to be miserable. Note the words "effectively" and "for the better" in the above paragraphs. You see, cancer will force you to change the way you eat. You will get so sick that you will lose interest in food. Your body will shut down seemingly of its own accord, in spite of your will power, and you will reject food and in a matter of days or weeks, you will die. I have seen it happen. THAT is what happens. Do I have your attention yet? Let me nicely explain now that food and drink made you sick, and food and drink can make you well (if it's not too late). Okay, so here's what I mean by changing the way you eat and drink. These are just some tips. And after I have finished giving them to you, I am going to refer you to a trained nutritionist who will tell YOU exactly and precisely what you have to do in your own particular case to cure your eating and drinking stupidity once and for all. You won't have to pay her a single penny for her valuable, personally tailored advice. She will do it because she loves you and does not want to see you die. Plus, she has a really pretty smile and a nice accent, and those alone will brighten your day. THE CHANGE IN WHAT YOU EAT AND DRINK
That's the jist of it. YOUR PERSONAL NUTRITIONIST, FREE! Now, I know I told you I would refer you to a competent nutritionist who will discuss your situation FREE and help you get started on the right eat-and-drink plan for you. Her name: Stephney If I were you, I would email her to set a phone appointment, especially if you are calling from outside the USA. NUTRITION AND HEALTH WORKSHOPS If you are in the Clearwater Florida area, Ron Radstrum and the staff at Southern Botanicals conduct health workshops every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 PM. Topics include Dr. Richard Schulze's formulae and methods, Dr. John Robins' nutrition techniques, hands-on food preparation, juicing, massage. If you visit our area and DON'T attend a workshop, you are really missing a treat. The workshop series rotates 4 times a year, 13 weeks per series. FINAL COMMENT For those of you who were offended by the tone I used in this message, if you have gotten this far, my purpose has been achieved. I do not want to alienate anyone with an obnoxious tone. I simply want to wake people up so they can take effective ACTION toward good health. I have read desperate pleas for help on this and other cancer related mailing lists. That desperation is a dagger of anguish into my being because I know that a little something can be done to help, if only those needing the help will wake up and think about their basic goal to be healthy. The FIRST step in the right direction is FOCUS on good health by eating and drinking the right stuff in the right way. Love, Robert Hurt
STEP 2 - STRESS I recently wrote an article (HOW TO HANDLE CANCER - Step 1) exclaiming that the first thing to do to treat cancer is to clean up your diet. That seems simple enough. Just start eating and drinking the right things in the right way. Then I received an email from a woman who has done that most of her life, and STILL got cancer. That seems to be a mighty poor testament to my step #1, doesn't it? Well, not exactly. And that brings me to Step 2. HOW TO HANDLE CANCER - Step #2 is this: 2. GET all useless sources of stress and suppression out of your life NOW, IMMEDIATELY, without excuse or delay. In reality, people only get cancer because of stress in one or more of the following areas:
I dealt briefly with the biggest part of the Physical stress - your diet. Now I am going to explain the biggest part of the Mental stress. Before getting profound on this topic, I should explain what I mean by "stress" or "suppression". In respect to your health, you can use the terms interchangeably. Basically, you can define stress as follows: STRESS is force our pressure you feel that directs you against your noble worthy goals, or against your best interest. It is characterized by a lose-lose scenario - whether you go in the direction of the stress or you resist the stress, you still LOSE. Normally human life contains pressures. They are recognized as a tension between what you want as a noble goal and the apparent reality you have to deal with in life circumstances. Some pressures on you can be good, such the pressure to win at a sport, to earn more money, to prepare a delicious meal. These are USEFUL pressures, because they are in your best interest, and in alignment with noble, worthy goals. But other pressures can be bad. A harping spouse, hateful mother-in-law, badgering boss, your artistic "critic", or even your own "bad" habits, or self-defeating mental attitudes. In every case I know of, bad pressure (STRESS) has the nature of being bad for you regardless of the outcome. In other words, if you give into the stress, you get crushed. And if you fight back, you still get crushed, only HARDER. Either way, you pay a big price. Look closely at this. Look around you at the people you see and their relationships with each other. I am talking about stress, and I am saying, point-blanks, that it is important to identify the characteristics of stressful relationships because THEY are not good for your health. I will explain how they harm your health shortly, but first let us look at the relationships. Suppose you live with a harping spouse. Such a spouse spends a lot of time treating you with disrespect, acting like you are stupid, implying that your opinion does not matter, robbing you of your dignity, denigrating or belittling you privately and possibly even publicly, showing disdain, and so on. Maybe it happens all the time, and maybe it happens only enough to where you can say in your heart "I live with a harping spouse". What can we see in this situation? Maybe you are creating the circumstances that cause the harping, such as continually breaking agreements you have made, and you reason therefore that you deserve the harping. In that case, you are the cause of the stress, and you need to change your agreements or start living by them. But maybe just the fact that you consume oxygen and generate carbon dioxide seems to irritate your spouse, and you don't deserve the harping. In this case your spouse needs an improvement in mental health and personal ethics. Most likely nothing you say will correct the harping, nor will anything you do. What this second scenario points out to you is that the cause of the harping is beyond your control. In other words, even if you give in to the harping it will continue, and you will feel more stress. Almost certainly nothing you do will be "good enough" and you will get lambasted for that. On the other hand, if you try to ignore it, the harping will continue or get worse. Either way, you lose. If you complain at your spouse, a physical or verbal fight erupts, causing huge emotional turmoil, deeper resentment, and hurt feelings in both directions from lies uttered with the intention to lashback, justify, or defend. The whole matter creates an unbearable pressure in your inner being. How many people do you suppose live with this kind of stress every day? How many of such people do you personally know? What do you think it does to them physically? Look around at the people you know. How many are both physically ill AND in a stressful situation? HOW STRESS MAKES YOU SICK Aside from the fact that any doctor will tell you that more than 50% of our illnesses are psychomatic, you can see the correlation between stress and poor health just by looking at your own family. Stress and health are more than randomly related. There is a cause-effect relationship. Stress makes you sick. I am not going into the finer points of psychsomatics. That is for another message. But I will say that the impossible task of resolving stressful situations (such as the harping spouse) causes dramatic though gradual changes in the endocrine (glandular) system, and those changes effect body metabolism. For example, if someone challenges you, your brain commands the adrenal glands to release adrenalin. That commands the cells to increase metabolism, and the liver to release glucose into the blood. Glucose hits the cells, nerves become alert, muscles ready for action, tension fills the air, AND your body. In temporary or short-duration periods of stress, such metabolic changes are welcome and life-saving. They let you spring into action to "save the day" in a life crisis situation. But when your life at home is preoccupied with continual episodes of such high-stress situations, your home becomes more like a war zone than a place of refuge and rest. In fact, many people report feeling more restful and relaxed at work than they do at home, for just this reason. Well here is a question for you: Where do you suppose the adrenalin, glucose, and other nutrients come from that are needed to respond to a stressful situation? Ultimately they come from food, so if your diet is not right, you soon get depleted of those vital chemicals and nutrients. Even IF your diet is right, you will eventually get depleted. The human body is not made to tolerate continuous stress. Neither is the mind. The depletion process continues till areas of the body begin to malfunction. One example of such a malfunction is that the cancer cells that are throughout the body anyway are not killed off as in less stressful lives, but instead they begin to grow and evolve brand new kinds of tissue inside your existing organs. The organs and glands become debilitated as a result, and therefore they become unable to participate properly in normal body chemistry. This causes further breakdown or dysfunction. And you end up with cancer. HOW TO HANDLE STRESS The way to handle stress is to get rid of it. There are many techniques, but I will give you a four-phase process. Use it and the stress will go. But first, let us look at who's responsible for the stress in your life. If you believe the stress in your life is coming from your own behavior and attitudes, you are 100% right, no matter who or what else seems to be the source. YOU are the cause of your problems, and you (exclusively) are responsible for the condition you are in. This is true even though your father hosewhipped you when you were a kid, your mother hated your guts, your kid brother always lied about you to get you in trouble. It IS, after all, YOUR life. And YOU are the captain of your own ship. If it runs aground, it is your fault if it is anyone. That really needed to be said, and you need to come to terms with it, so I will repeat it: YOUR situation is YOUR fault and it is up to YOU to resolve it. Here are the steps. A. Call it what it is Step A in handling stress is to realize that it does exist and it is 100% YOUR responsibility to handle it. Don't expect anything from anyone else. You have to handle it, and if you don't, it will get WORSE until it KILLS YOU. If not from cancer, you will die prematurely from an accident, a fistfight, heart failure, you-name-it, UNLESS you take full responsibility for your condition and prepare to bring it under your personal control. Furthermore, you must identify the nature of the stress, suppression, or unhealthy tension. What exactly IS the stressful situation or condition you are in. Pick the most obvious and troublesome one. So, go ahead and admit it out loud - "I am under stress by _________ (fill in the blank), I am responsible for it, and I must and will handle it, starting now". Say it again loudly to the wall so you believe it: "I have arrived. _________ is causing me to feel stress. I am responsible for it. I must and will handle it, starting NOW." Feels better already, doesn't it? Step A works. B. Illuminate the most apparent source of stress. Now it is time to identify the source of the stress, and for goodness sake, don't keep it to yourself! That's right, you have to confront the Monstrous Beast itself, head-on, right up in the face so close you can see its nosehairs. It won't be easy, but do it anyway, even if it is YOU. After all, what is the worse that can happen? You die, maybe? Forget about it. You're going to die anyway. That IS what we are talking about here, right? Which is worse - dying right now while confronting the Monstrous Beast, or living miserably under the awesome force of the beast's stress for another few years and THEN dying? You know the answer. Face the Beast. What this means is that you have to go to the person causing the stress and tell him he or she is a source of intolerable stress. Be very specific, and not general about this. Specify exactly what behaviors are stress-inducing, when they typically occur, the precise nature of them, and that they are intolerable. Here you will learn whether the stress was intentional or not. If you are intelligent and not just reactionary, you will realize that many people will put you under stress with no evil intent at all, just because they leave something of a shockwave in their wakes as they plough through life. Some high-energy people are like that. A person might be standing on your foot, for example and not be aware of it. Or a person may be so preoccupied with his own stress that he encroaches on your territory or disturbs you with bad manners. Letting a person know that his behavior is unacceptable is necessary to removing stress, but it is equally important not to be unduly judgemental or harsh in the process. If you get an amiable and compliant response, the problem is well on its way to resolution. A simple conversation may bring resolution. Otherwise you need to go to step C. C. Employ STRESS to correct the STRESS That's right - you fight fire with fire. This does not mean that you return evil for evil. It means you impose pressure on the other person to correct the stressful behavior, and a penalty for not correcting it (if necessary). Two kinds of pressure work well:
These are just variants of negotiation techniques. Whatever else happens, the condition of stress or threat of continued stress is NOT a negotiating factor. The stress upon you is intolerable and its demise cannot be negotiated. If negotiations don't work, there is only one phase left. D. Disappear Yes, the ultimate effective way to get rid of stress is to leave the stressful scene. Whether it is a job, a boyfriend, a spouse, grandma, aunt Doris, or a mean dog, or your horse's ass teenager, your final solution is to put physical, emotional, and spiritual distance between you and the source of the stress, and do it fast, in one fell swoop, not gradually. Then, don't look back. This world is loaded with people, jobs, and life circumstances that will not be an unending source of intolerable stress. And, it is okay to admit that you made a mistake in your choice of people to be around, even if they are your children past puberty and early adolescence. There are many others who will love you and treat you with dignity and respect if you only get out and meet them. If all else fails, leave 'em, throw 'em out, or change YOUR ways so you aren't stressfully driving them nuts. Regardless of anything else, the stress must go. If you don't get rid of it, it will kill you. If the process of getting rid of it kills you, so what? You were going to die anyway. And DON'T try to tell me there are no more options after physical death! Are you kidding? The universe is full of excitement and adventure, and it might be that YOU are just getting started. I wish you a grand adventure indeed. Love,
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