The personality of
an individual is no more than a byproduct of that individual's thoughts. In
other words, that individual has become what that individual thinks he
or she is—a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Studies have shown a
close correlation between cancer and personality, that is, the mind.
According to the
Chicago Study on cancer, chronic depression plays a pivotal role in the
development of cancer. The research findings indicated that the ability to
express anger and the fighting spirit against cancer can significantly affect
the outcome of the disease. As a further testament, cancer patients who are
determined to conduct their own therapy treatments (although this is not what
their doctors want) are most likely to get better.
Other cancer studies
also indicated that even cancer denial is an effective cancer-coping mechanism
in some cancer patients.
In short, your
personality, developed and determined by your mind, is critical to the
prognosis of your cancer, and hence its ultimate recovery.
Cancer and the Body
and the Mind
According to
best-selling author Wayne Dyer, “the positive effect of kindness on
the immune system and on the increased production of serotonin in the brain has
been proved on research studies.” In other words, the mind does have a positive
impact on the functioning of the immune system, and hence your combat against
cancer.
According to Alastair
J. Cunningham, Ph.D. of the Ontario Cancer Institute, cancer patients who
had worked the hardest at transforming themselves psychologically in their
fight against cancer lived at least three times longer than what their doctors
had predicted. Therefore, it makes sense that those cancer patients who have
fought the hardest psychologically live the longest. Unfortunately, not too
many cancer patients will do just that—fighting their cancers with all their
might; many of them simply give up half way, and give in to cancer.
There is often a
close connection between the body and the mind. The body affects the mind as
much as the mind affects the body; it may be a case of the chicken-and-the-egg.
The Physical Effect
of the Mind
Psychoneuroimmunology
(PNI) is a study of how the mind can affect the immune system. There is
increasing scientific evidence that the immune system learns to recognize
cancer cells and therefore has the potential to destroy them before they become
lethal; that may explain the spontaneous remission of established malignant
cancers in some cancer patients.
Chronic stress is
one of the major factors contributing to the development of cancer because
under duress, the nervous system secrets the hormone cortisol that weakens or
suppresses the immune system.
Although the exact
mechanism by which emotions and depression may affect the development and
prognosis of cancer is relatively unknown, evidently the mind can positively or
negatively alter the beginning and outcome of cancer.
Stephen Lau
Copyright©2018 by
Stephen Lau
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