ADVANCED   PROSTATE   CANCER

--How Mind-Body Therapy May Improve
       Both Outcome And Survival

by Norman D. Ford, Health Reporter

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This report is about using Mind-Body Therapy to improve the outcome, and to obtain a longer and better quality of survival, from current medical treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer.  For example, a man who strongly believes in the success of a drug he is taking is likely to derive some 33 percent more benefit from the drug than a man who has no such opinion.

Actually, many of the Mind-Body techniques described in this report may also improve both Outcome and Survival for other advanced Cancers closely related to Prostate Cancer, such as Breast and Colon Cancer.

Ten years ago, diagnosis with most cancers was equivalent to a death sentence.  But new breakthrough drugs are making it possible to live for years with malignancies that have spread or are incurable. . .but that can be controlled and managed by taking the new smart drugs for the rest of one's life.

Exciting new drugs that are already in use, or are coming down the pipeline, are likely to help manage and control diseases like Advanced Breast and Prostate Cancer.  The new drugs target pathways for cell growth, typically cutting off blood vessels that supply the blood that feeds malignant tumors.

Actually, the body's own immune system could totally destroy cancer cells and tumors.   But it doesn't because cancer cells are our own SELF cells and the immune system can't identify them as hostile.  Yet new gene therapy plus new anti-cancer vaccines, both under development, may soon be stimulating our immune systems to identify cancer cells as foreign antigens and to send out CD8 killer cells to destroy them.

Not all cancers can yet be managed and there is still no cure for Advanced Breast and Prostate Cancer.  But today, tens of thousands of Americans are living WITH these cancers that have spread and are no longer curable.  And many are enjoying the same activities and lifestyle as before diagnosis.    Meanwhile it becomes increasingly clear that their wildly-multiplying cancer cells may not all have to be annihilated  but merely managed and controlled by drugs at a  level  one can live with.

When we enhance the benefits of these new breakthrough drugs by adding Mind-Body Therapy, we're dealing  Advanced Prostate Cancer a powerful double whammy!

A Disease Of Older Men And Wildly Raging Hormones

Prostate Cancer (henceforth abbreviated to PC) is an age-related and hormone-dependent disease that promotes malignant tumors in the prostates of older men.  Early stage PC, that has not spread outside the prostate capsule, is usually considered curable.  PC tends to be slow-growing and up to 90 percent of all PC remains dormant and clinically harmless, often for decades.  But if left untreated or unobserved, the PC cells may eventually break out of the prostate and spread to organs or bones in other areas of the body, a process called metastasis.

Once metastasis occurs, the disease is considered incurable and is known as Advanced Prostate Cancer (henceforth abbreviated to APC).   We chose APC to demonstrate Mind-Body Therapy in this report because it is the most common type of incurable Cancer in American men.

Roughly 90 percent of the "fuel" that drives PC consists of the male hormone testosterone that is released by the testes.  The remainder consists of the closely-related  hormones  epinephrine and norepinephrine plus cortisone.  These are stress hormones released by the adrenal glands.   And along with testosterone, all are known as androgens.

Medical treatment for APC usually begins with Hormone Therapy, administered every 3 months by injection and designed to deprive the prostate of the male hormone testosterone.  The drug employed is usually Lupron and its effects last from 16-24 months, perhaps longer with Mind-Body Therapy.   Lupron or similar drugs suppress production of testosterone, causing tumors to shrink or grow more slowly; and the drug controls pain and may  keep APC at bay, or even in remission, for several years.

Significant slowing in the progress of APC is possible but eventually, cancer cells become resistant to Hormone Therapy.    Anti-androgen drugs are then added to block the ability  of APC to utilize androgens released by the adrenal glands.  The result is a Total Androgen Blockade.  That lasts until the cancer cells learn to live without androgens and begin to grow again, a condition known as being "Hormone Refractory."

All this may take several years or longer while  new breakthrough drugs can often extend periods of wellness for 2-3 years each.  One drug is used till it ceases to work.  Then doctors switch to another drug, often buying years of productive living and a quality of life that may be better than that of other incurable diseases.  Which isn't bad when you consider that many men have already lived into their late-seventies or eighties before they are diagnosed with APC or other types of cancer.

Men of this age frequently have other diseases--such as heart disease or type-2 diabetes--from which they die before APC becomes fatal.  So it's often said that more men die with APC than from it.  But treating another disease at the same time as treating APC may complicate the medical treatment for cancer.  Having another disease at the same time as APC is called "co-morbidity."

Co-morbidity can be largely prevented, or even reversed, by modifying one's diet and lifestyle.  And the best way to do it is to adopt the Live-To-Be-90 Lifestyle Plan which is described in the rest of this website.  Optimizing your health by adopting a healthful lifestyle significantly increases your chances of improving the outcome and experiencing a longer and better quality of survival from APC.

Incidentally, one reason, we discovered,  why some older men reach an advanced stage of PC before learning they have the disease, is that they are lifetime vegetarians or exercise buffs who believe they are so fit and healthy that they are  immune  to any form of Cancer.  This works for most diseases like heart disease,  Type-2 diabetes or hypertension that can be prevented or reversed by a healthy diet and exercise regime.  But the underlying cause of PC is unresolved emotional stress, not high cholesterol or sedentary living.  So even if you are superfit and healthy, we recommend taking a PSA test on a regular schedule, regardless of your age.

Unresolved Emotional Stress Is A Primary Cause Of Prostate Cancer

Most medical sources dismiss the cause of PC as "unknown: more research is needed."  But in the winter of 2006-7, radical new discoveries revealed that  exposure to stress hormones may accelerate the speed of Cancer growth.  Scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine were the first to report that the stress hormone Norepinephrine causes degenerative changes in PC cells that make them resistant to medical treatment.  The medical treatment in this case, was designed to cause cancer cells to self-destruct (aka aptosis).

Previous research had already shown that prolonged exposure to Norepinephrine increases risk of cancer metastasis, aids in growth of blood vessels that feed malignant tumors, and suppresses the immune system.  All this left little doubt that Norepinephrine can contribute to the genesis of PC and can sabotage the effectiveness of medical treatment.

Above all, prolonged exposure to any of the adrenalin hormones can lead to premature aging of our body cells.  For example, the cells of a man aged 60 who was exposed to prolonged stress might typically have a biological age of 75. Which means his risk for PC is equal to that of a man 15 years older.  PC is a disease of older men.  It's almost unknown before age 50.  When the biological age of a man's cells is significantly higher than his chronological age,  that man has a higher risk for PC.

Physicians  often notice that almost every man with PC ( or women with breast cancer ) has undergone an extended period of stress earlier in life.  Stress caused by an ugly divorce, a period of guilt or anxiety, or wartime stress, lack of health insurance or health care, racial discrimination, unforgiveness or anger, retirement, debt, relocation, unemployment, death of a spouse or other serious loss,  all may involve prolonged exposure to Norepinephrine or other adrenal hormones.

(Premature aging may also be caused by Smoking or Chewing Tobacco; A Deficiency of Vitamin D3; Lack of Physical Activity; Being Overweight or Obese; Overuse of Alcohol or Other Drugs; and a Diet Low in Plant-Based Foods and Fiber and High in Animal Fats and Protein.  Along with Growing Older, all work synergistically or alone to create premature aging in specific organs or common Cancer sites.  The most common form of premature aging is shortening of telomeres that may lead to Breast Cancer in women; Prostate Cancer in men; Lung Cancer in smokers; Being Overweight, which intensifies risk of many cancers; Eating a diet high in red meat and low in plant-based, high-fiber foods; and experiencing a prolonged period of Emotional Stress.  Having one or more of these risk factors does not guarantee you will get Cancer.  But it does increase the risk.)

Premature aging weakens our cells and may lead to a pre-cancerous condition called Prostate Intra-Epithelial Neoplasm (PIN).  It's not cancer but refers to the presence of abnormal cells that are likely to become malignant in future.  PIN may appear in a man up to ten years before he is diagnosed with PC.  It cannot be treated by standard medical treatment.

The more a man's cells age through exposure to stress hormones, the more prone he becomes to PC.  That sounds as if men are at the mercy of their raging adrenal hormones.  Yet we can restore calm and re-balance our hormones by using Mind-Body Therapy to re-program the thoughts and feelings in our minds.

But before we do, here are 4 Natural Steps we should be sure to adopt.  They are rarely mentioned by medical doctors.  Each is under our own personal control and each can contribute to a more successful outcome for any level of Prostate Cancer.

Four Natural Steps To A Better Outcome From Prostate Cancer
 

STEP 1: KNOWLEDGE  THERAPY--Make Yourself a Medically-Educated Layperson.

The more you know about APC, the more power you have over it.  For instance, several hospital studies have demonstrated that the more a patient understands about his/her disease, and how the treatment works, the more he/she is likely to believe it will succeed.  The Power of Belief is one of the primary techniques of Mind-Body Therapy.

You can understand and learn more about Prostate Cancer by reading some of the websites listed below.  Eventually, you may know as much (in theory) about APC as the average M.D. does.  Besides giving yourself a leg-up, this knowledge helps you to make intelligent choices, together with your urologist, about which drugs and treatment you will use.  It also helps you to work as a partner with your doctor.

One thing you may learn is that any side effects from Hormone Therapy can be reduced by using the treatment intermittently.  According to some sources, Intermittent Hormone Therapy may be used on and off for several years without needing total hormone blockage.  For instance, loss of Bone Density --one of the side effects of Hormone Therapy--can be reduced by using the drugs intermittently instead of continuously.  While this is something for your urologist to decide, it might easily be overlooked in the rush of an interview in your doctor's office.   So it wouldn't hurt to ask your doctor about it.

By the way, in browsing the Web while searching for these websites, we did not discover a single documented case of PC confirmed by biopsy that had been cured with herbs or detoxification or other unproven alternative therapies.  At GOOD HEALTH WITHOUT DRUGS we're not enthusiastic about unnecessary drugs or medical treatment.   But when it comes to PC or APC, we have to admit that medical treatment is the only thing that seems to work.

For an overall introduction to the entire field of PC, our favorite websites are:-

http://adam.about.com/reports/Prostate-cancer.htm?once=true&/
The best and most complete report on every aspect of Prostate health we have seen.  Illustrated and printable.

www.mayoclinic.com/health/prostate-cancer/PC99999/
Another great site.  Click on "Print All Sections".

Here are more invaluable info sources:-

www.hrpca.org/
Covers entire field of Hormone Resistant PC and the various options available, all in non-technical style.  Includes a priceless, free On-Line book "A Patient's Guide to Managing Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer" with 21 fact-packed chapters.  To find it, type  "A Patients Guide to Managing Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer" into the Search field.

www:bonetumor.org/
The Web's most comprehensive source for bone tumor information.

www.niams.nih.gov/bone/
The National Institutes of Health Osteoporosis & Related Bone Disease website.

www.nof.org/
The National Osteoporosis Foundation's website with excellent coverage of osteoporosis, calcium and Vitamin D.

http://nccam.nih.gov/health/backgrounds/mindbody.htm#intervention
A wonderful Overview of Mind-Body Therapy  from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.  DON'T MISS IT!!!

www.ridetolive.org/ccc.nsf/bioview2/DP/
Cyclists Combating Cancer: a valuable site featuring the case history of Damon Phinney, a Boulder CO cyclist who was diagnosed with PC at age 60. But after 18 months of Hormone Therapy, he achieved a remission that lasted 7.5 years.  Treatment was then continued until he died of PC 13.5 years after diagnosis.   Almost all this time, he led an active lifestyle, bicycling over many of the major passes in the Alps and Rockies.  Phinney attributed much of his survival to his vigorous physical exercise.  Altogether he cycled 50,000 miles during his bout with PC.  This is an inspiring story and there is more about it on:
http://psa-rising.com/voices/damon.htm/
 

STEP 2: VITAMIN D3 THERAPY-- For Better Outcomes and Survival In a Variety of Diseases

Vitamin D3 is a mild steroid hormone that is synthesized in the skin by exposure to sunlight.  A cascade of new evidence is suggesting that D3 enhances health in a variety of ways, including  inhibition of lung and colon cancer, and very possibly breast and prostate cancer.  In many areas of medicine and health, men and women with the highest levels of Vitamin D3 have significantly better outcomes and survival than those with the lowest levels.  Across the world, scientists are investigating Vitamin D3 as one of the most promising therapies in the fight against Cancer.

Actually, Vitamin D3 has two primary functions:-

1.  It works as a catalyst to help Calcium maintain strong bones.

2.  It provides vital support that can help guard against a host of age-related problems.  Literally, scores of studies have demonstrated that D3 plus Calcium can improve bone mass and muscle strength.  And it lowers risk of falling by improving balance and muscle performance.

In animals with cancer given D3, researchers have seen a dramatic decrease in tumor growth.  D3 appears to inhibit cell degeneration, making cancer cells slower to proliferate, more likely to self destruct through aptosis, and less likely to build new blood vessels to feed malignant tumors, or to metastasize.    It also boosts the competence of the immune system and lowers risk of auto-immune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and Type-1 diabetes.

However, the National Osteoporosis Foundation, plus many other top health advisory agencies, have concluded that Vitamin D3 deficiency is widespread throughout the world as well as in the U.S., particularly in adults aged 50 or older.  And a deficiency of D3 can be potentially devastating to your health.

That's partly because people have been over-cautioned about the dangers of skin cancer due to excessive sun exposure, and partly because in the temperate zones of the world, the amount of sunshine is too low in winter to synthesize D3 in the skin.  For example, the threshold of D3 in the bloodstream for optimal bone health is 75-80 Nanomoles per Liter.  But during winter in Boston,  the average person has a D3 blood level of  just 40 Nanomoles.

Having a dark skin also prevents absorption of D3 from sunlight, which appears to be borne out by the excessively high risk of PC in dark-skinned Americans.

The Solution?  Some foods like milk have been fortified with Vitamin D but you can do a better job yourself by taking Vitamin D3 supplements plus supplemental calcium.  Based on substantial research and the concensus of leading experts, the National Osteoporosis Foundation recently upgraded its recommendation for adequate daily D3 and Calcium intake to :-

1,200 mgs of Calcium per day for adults 50 and over
800-1,000  I.U. per day of Vitamin D3 for adults 50 and over

These levels are primarily for preventing bone density loss, which is a side effect of Prostate Cancer and medications for treating PC and APC. Unless you spend adequate time outdoors each day in sufficiently strong sunlight, taking the recommended levels of D3 and Calcium should be mandatory, especially for women.  Blood tests for D3 levels are simple and inexpensive and your level should be at least 55 Ng/Ml or higher.  If it isn't, you can increase it by taking 1,000 I.U. of supplemental D3 per day until you reach a level of 75-80.  For maximum safety, it's best to let your doctor know what you're doing.  In most cases, your doctor must authorize your blood test anyway.

As people age, they synthesize less D3 through the skin and absorb less from supplements yet need more.  And many experts on Vitamin D3 Therapy  recommend taking more of the Vitamin so that enough is available to work against Cancer.  A maximum of 2,000 I.U. daily is considered a Safe Tolerable Level (yet many experts consider it the minimum).  Vitamin D3 and Calcium are really dirt cheap and a year's supply of both can be had for $35-50.
There are3 types of Vitamin D3 supplements and two of  Calcium.

Some D3 supplements are available made from fish liver oil.  Some scientists object to these because they contain a significantly high level of Vitamin A (retinol) which  itself reduces bone density and they may be contaminated with PCBs or mercury.  However, fish oil has other health benefits.  These supplements are available at most healthfood stores.

Most D3 supplements today are made from lanolin, a mixture of cholesterol and fatty acids found in sheeps' wool.

Other D3 supplements consist of pharmaceutical grade Vitamin D3 made in a lab.  These are free of Vitamin A.  They can be ordered On-Line from the Life Extension Foundation (www.lef.com/) and elsewhere.  They are best taken after a fatty meal (or take them with half a teaspoon of peanut butter or a teaspoon of olive oil).  Vitamin D3 comes in pills or capsules each containing 400 I.U. or 1,000 I.U.  Since both sizes cost the same, it is always cheaper to buy the 1,000 I.U. size.  D3 is a fat-soluble vitamin and can be stored in the body's fat cells.

Calcium Carbonate tablets containing 600 mgs each can be purchased in most large supermarkets for around $7 per jar of 250 tablets.  Said to be no more effective but easier to swallow--and believed to be more readily absorbed--are the more expensive Calcium Citrate capsules containing 250 mgs each.  Calcium is best absorbed if 500-600 mgs is taken in the morning and the same amount in the evening.

You can click on the following websites to learn more about  Vitamin D & Calcium Therapy.

The Vitamin D Council .  www.vitamindcouncil.org
Focuses on the Vitamin D Deficiency Syndrome which is reaching unprecedented levels in Western nations and is responsible for an epidemic of diseases related to aging and loss of bone density.

Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center. www.sunarc.org/index.htm/ Maps demonstrate coordination of sunshine and Cancer.

Strategy For Strong Bones. www.nohypehealth.org/osteop.html#BONE/
Our own website's In-Depth report on avoiding bone loss and pathological fractures of the hip and spine.

New Study Reveals That Vitamin D May Boost
Survival Odds From Colon Cancer By 48 Percent

Supporting all that's been said about Vitamin D Therapy so far, a new study released in June 2008 revealed that Colon Cancer patients with high blood levels of Vitamin D may boost their survival odds by 48 percent.  According to Dr. Kimmie Ng, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and the study's lead researcher, Vitamin D3 may improve survival in Colon Cancer patients  by slowing the growth of tumor cells.  It may also be involved in killing malignant cells and inhibiting the growth of blood vessels in tumors.  The study was documented in the June 20, 2008 edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In the study, Ng's team used data from 304 patients diagnosed with Colon Cancer from either the Nurses Health Study or the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.  The researchers found that patients with the highest levels of Vitamin D were 48 percent less likely to die from Colon Cancer, or any other cause, compared with those who had the lowest levels.

(Our comment: Colon Cancer has many similarities to Breast and Prostate Cancer and it seems quite probable that Prostate Cancer patients might experience similar benefits to those reported in the study.)
 

STEP 3: EXERCISE  THERAPY--More Effective Than Many Drugs

Daily exercise--or just plain physical activity--is the most powerful health-promoting therapy in existance.  It works on the Whole Person simultaneously, swiftly bringing a host of health-enhancing benefits to both Body and Mind.

After 30 minutes of brisk walking, for example, any downer feelings of pessimism, pain, depression or hopelessness are likely to be replaced by a "feel-good" mood of optimism, confidence, and hope.  A brisk 30-minutes walk or swim, or any similar rythmic exercise, should leave you feeling great for the rest of the day.

This exuberant mood unlocks psychological benefits on every level of the human mind.  It helps defuse the stress of modern living.  And it helps to produce healthy outcomes, faster healing, swifter recovery from surgery, and a more powerful immune system to fight off infections and reduce the risk of co-morbidity, which could complicate the  treatment of Prostate Cancer.

Writing in the E-Book "A 21st Approach to Prostate Cancer,"the British scientist A.G. Bates comments:" The wider context of an overall strategy to combat Prostate Cancer has to include physical exercise.  Physical exercise has shown itself to be protective across a wide spectrum of disease and is particularly relevent for battling Prostate Cancer.  Exercise enhances androgen production and androgen forms the basis for anabolic (body building) chemicals.

Exercise will cause muscle growth as an adaption to increased physical stresses on the body.  In its turn, increased muscle growth triggers increased androgen production to maintain the new level of muscularity.  This is a natural feedback loop employed by smart body builders ; they do not need nandrolone injections since their own bodies produce natural androgen.  Just as you never hear of a young man with high levels of natural androgen being diagnosed with Prostate Cancer, so you will never hear of older men who have maintained high androgen levels throughout their lives by body building, succumb to Prostate Cancer." End of Quote.

Anther strong benefit of exercise--especially strength-building and balancing exercises--is that they help to prevent older people from falling.  Out of every six hip fractures, five are caused by falls.  Use exercise to lower your chance of falling, and you can dramatically cut the risk of fracturing your hip (or wrist or other bone).  In fact, strength-building exercise lowers the risk of fracturing your hip more than does taking a bisphosphonate drug--and at much lower cost.  You also eliminate the risk to your kidneys that taking these drugs may involve.

Exercising regularly also significantly  lowers your risk of becoming overweight or obese.   Being obese appears to increase the chance that a man with Prostate Cancer will die from it, according to two recent studies in the journal "Cancer."

In the National Cancer Institute Study, men with PC who were mildly obese had a 46% higher risk of dying from it within 5 years than those with normal weight , and very obese men were twice as likely to die from PC.  The second study, from the Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, found that obesity triples the likelihood that PC will spread.  Numerous other studies have linked obesity with progression of Prostate Cancer.

To learn more about the benefits of exercise, and how to begin an exercise program, click on this website's report "Exercise--The Real Fountain of Youth" at
www.nohypehealth.org/aerobic.html/

Just in as we go to press  on July 26, 2008, two new On-Line reports were released about the benefits of both aerobic and strength-building exercise on men with Advanced Prostate Cancer:

www.enotalone.com/article/5746.html  Healing The Body With Exercise.   In this magnificent report, cyclist-oncologist Anna L. Schwarz, Ph D, describes how men with Advanced Prostate Cancer can increase their survival odds by creating and following an aerobic exercise program based on bicycling that counteracts the side effects of medical treatment, speeds up recovery, and reduces risk of a recurrence.  Uses cycling to demonstrate
how aerobic exercise could help cancer patients manage their disease, their treatment and their recovery.  A MUST READ!

http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/full/21/9/1653.
Although a trifle technical, this report describes the numerous benefits that accrued to a 155-man group, all with Advanced Prostate Cancer, who followed a 12-weeks program of strength-building exercise compared to a similar-sized control group who did not exercise.  The exercisers reported a significent reduction in fatigue and a higher quality of life plus increased muscular fitness and a marked decrease in side effects from medication.

Simultaneously, Duke University's August 2008 Duke Medicine Newsletter came out with an exciting story headlined, "Exercise Improves Cancer Survival Rates in Men" that described how Walking or Cycling for at least 30 Minutes a Day May Increase Your Chance of Surviving Cancer by 33 percent.  It is becoming increasingly clear that Exercise is rapidly emerging as an Essential Part of Treatment for a Variety of Cancers, especially Advanced Prostate Cancer.   And Exercise Treatment should include both aerobic and strength-building exercise.
 

STEP 4: NUTRITION  THERAPY--Foods That Grow On Plants May Help Cancer Treatment

The time for a diet to prevent Cancer may be in the very early stages of the disease when an antioxidant-rich diet of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds and legumes may have some effect.  But diets designed to slow the growth of PC or APC have shown mixed results.  Recent advisories, however, recommend that  foods containing a generous amount of lycopene--a deep red colored nutrient (found in ketchup, or in tomato and pasta sauce cooked in olive oil)--may help slow the growth of aggressive and late-stage Prostate Cancer tumors, especially in older men.  About 4 tablespoons of red sauce should be stirred into a dish of cooked brown rice (or similar whole grain) to which brocoli and other multi-colored vegetables can be added.

But when it comes to preventing co-morbidity--that is, developing another disease like heart disease, hypertension or Type-2 diabetes that can seriously complicate medical treatment for PC or APC--foods that grow on plants play a key role.  These chronic diseases can easily be prevented, or even reversed, by a combination of daily exercise and a diet based on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and legumes.  Occasional servings of canned sardines packed in olive oil, tomato sauce or water (but not other cooking oils) can be added along with canned or fresh Alaskan salmon (canned Alaskan salmon is quite cheap).  .

Constipation is another unpleasant side effect of most medications for PC and APC.  But a diet, like the one just described for preventing co-morbidity, is also packed with fiber that can work wonders in helping to maintain regularity.  Coupled with a daily exercise program, it should make laxatives almost unnecessary.  Adding a generous serving of canned Pork & Beans (Baked Beans) to your luncheon salad and also to dinner, is another powerful  preventer of constipation (Vegetarian Baked Beans are also available.)  So is adding some Wheat Bran to your breakfast cereal.  (Be sure to remove any white cubes of saturated fat that may be floating atop the beans when you open the can.)

By far the most health-wrecking foods in existance include bacon, burgers, ground beef or red meat--especially if grilled, processed, smoked  or barbecued.   That's because they're chockfull of saturated fat that clogs arteries and triggers heart attacks.  Excepting non-fat varieties, milk and dairy foods also contain varying amounts of saturated fat while margarine has a high content of Trans-Fatty Acids, another proven artery blocker.

Some people also suspect that the calcium in milk and dairy products speeds the growth of PC and APC.  More likely, in men who are deficient in Vitamin D3, the calcium sops up all the available D3, leaving the men even more deficient in Vitamin D3.  And as you'll have read earlier in this report, a deficiency of Vitamin D3 can lead to increased risk of PC and APC.  Other people suspect that cow's milk contains the growth hormone  igf-1 or Insulin-Like Growth Factor Type 1, which has a molecular pattern very similar to that of human growth hormone.

An easy way to avoid these risks is to use soy milk and soy products instead of milk and dairy products.  Vegetarians have a wide choice of soy products including milk, cheese, yogurt, tofu and even soy burgers, all free of saturated fats and animal protein.

Sugar or refined (white) flour or anything made from these foods, including bread, cakes, cookies, hot cakes, flour tortillas and ice cream have been linked to diabetes and obesity, common conditions of co-morbidity that can intefere with medical treatment for PC and APC.

Eggs?  Four a week are considered a safe level and there seems nothing on  record that associates eggs with onset of PC or APC.

Ideally, breakfast should be the largest meal of the day and it can consist of a whole grain cereal with soy milk plus 3 fresh fruits cut up and spread over the cereal, all set off by a topping of soy yogurt.  In an optimally healthful diet, lunch might consist of a raw vegetable salad with an avocado sandwich and a small serving of nuts and seeds with raisins.  Dinner can be baked or steamed brown rice mixed with 4 tablespoons of tomato sauce plus several steamed vegetables and baked Alaska salmon with a tapioca pudding for dessert.

No! We can't eat away Cancer.  But indirectly, what we eat does have a significant effect on the success of any medical treatment for PC or APC.
 
 

THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION

--Positive  Thoughts  Can  Be  As  Powerful  As  Drugs

Modern science and immunology have completely changed the way we think about the Body-Mind.

 Instead of regarding the Body and Mind as separate entities, they have revealed that each of us is a single, Whole Person consisting of some 50 trillion microscopic cells.  Body and Mind are One.  And each of our cells has an incredibly small speck of “intelligence.”

To a limited extent, every cell in our body-mind is able to “think.”  Every one of our cells is also connected by Neuro-Peptides, hormones  or similar communication channels to the “Master Mind” located in our brain.  And all of our cells are listening 24/7 for messages from our Master-Mind (aka the Mind).

The messages aren’t in words or even mind-pictures.  Our cells understand only messages that describe the feelings (emotions) currently being experienced  by our Master Mind..

Messages from the Master Mind describe only two extremes of feeling: Love and Fear.

LOVE: is felt whenever the thoughts in our Master Mind become balanced and calm and cause us to feel happy, enthusiastic, eager, excited and joyful.  In this exuberant state, communications between the Master Mind and all of our cells are boosted, allowing trillions of cells all over our bodies to experience the same joyful feelings that exist in our Master Mind.  When we feel happy, we feel happy all over.

Often referred to as the Flow, this is a happy, stress-free, balanced state of mind, such as when we lose ourselves in a creative pursuit and become so deeply immersed in an activity we love, that there is no room left for negative (fearful) thoughts or emotions.

FEAR: is felt whenever the thoughts in our minds become  turbulent and provoke feelings of anger, stress, resentment, envy, guilt, worry, depression or similar negative (fearful) emotions.  They prevent our Master Mind from experiencing calm and balance, and they inhibit communication between our Master Mind and our body cells.  In the process, they separate us from the healing power of our Mind.

Nowhere else in the body is the effect of our feelings so intensely felt as in our immune system.  The immune system is a scrappy complex of fighting cells that patrol the body and protect us from infection.

A whole branch of medical science called Psycho-Neuro-Immunology has clearly demonstrated that the competence of our immune system exactly mirrors the mood of our thoughts, our beliefs and our emotions.

Positive thoughts and feelings enhance our immuno-competence, meaning that they boost our protection against many diseases.  Negative thoughts and feelings suppress the vigor of our immunity, meaning that they weaken our defenses against these same diseases.

This can be equally true of most other organs and parts of our bodies.  Our thoughts, beliefs and feelings can make us sick.  Or they can help to make us well.  While they can’t cure Advanced Cancer, they can often influence the outcome of serious diseases like APC.

The range of feelings experienced by your cells can vary from max-positive to max-negative or to any gradation in between.  The power of a message also varies with its intensity and emotional content.  Your cells can also "talk" to each other, and they can talk back to your Master Mind (perhaps as "gut feelings).

Except for Laughter Therapy, almost all our Body-Mind techniques require you to take an active role in your own recovery.  That's a big plus over most medical treatment which simply require that you take a pill while you passively watch TV, using neither your Body or Mind to help speed recovery.
 

The Awesome Healing Power Of The Mind

Mind-Body Therapy isn't some new, fleeting fad du jour.  Down through the ages, witch doctors have practiced it with visible success.  That was because the witch doctors' dancing and chanting, with perhaps an animal sacrifice, led patients to STRONGLY BELIEVE and to EXPECT they would actually get well.  While tribal witch doctors (and curanderos) still practice among Indians in the high Andes and even in Mexico, modern psychology has revealed how Mind-Body Therapy works. . .and how we can harness the Mind to help heal illness, to promote high-level health and to enjoy a sunny, positive mood at all times.

In recent times, Deepak Chopra, M.D., head of the Chopra Center in Carlsbad CA, has  publicized the benefits of Mind-Body healing through his best-selling books.  His 1989 book Quantum Healing fuses western science with eastern wisdom.  And a later book, Magical Mind, Magical Body continues to explain how the Mind can exert a powerful influence on body health.  Chopra's principles have been further exemplified by  energy therapist Carol Tuttle and by cell biologist Bruce Lipton, both of whom explain Mind-Body healing on their lecture circuits.

All appear to employ the same basic principles of Mind-Body as exemplified in the paragraphs that follow.

The Mind is an organ in which we create our own thoughts.  Even when we wake up, see another gloomy, rainy day and begin to feel blue and depressed, we can still create positive thoughts in our Mind that can swiftly change our mood to one of feeling sunny and happy for the rest of the day.

Every feeling we experience is triggered by a thought that precedes it.  Each time we wake up feeling blue, we have already glimpsed the rain and overcast, and our mind has triggered the habitual thought that turns on our depression.

Next time you wake up and glimpse a gloomy, rainy day, Do This.  In your mind, immediately visualize yourself on a beautiful sunny, tropical beach.   (Almost always, a mental picture accompanies whatever we are thinking about.)

Hold this picture in your "mind's eye" for as long as you can.  "Feel" the sand crunch under your feet and "hear" the palm leaves rustling in the breeze.  A few tiny white tufts of cloud are all that fleck the wide, blue sky.  And away on the horizon you see the white sails of fishing boats.

Really FEEL and experience this thought-image for as long as you can.  Chances are that, within a few minutes your  spirits will lift and you'll have forgotten all about the rain outside.  Continue using this imagery each time you wake up to a rainy or overcast morning.

Psychologists call this technique "Guided Imagery. "  Provided you experience it intensely enough to feel a positive emotion, that should be the end of rainy day gloom and depression.

We Become What We Think About

We have total control over the thoughts in our Mind.  At any moment, we can create whichever thought-image we desire.   Regardless how negative our current feelings are, we can create positive thoughts that turn on positive feelings. These positive emotions then quickly squelch our negative feelings.

We can create positive thoughts about our health that turn on positive feelings that help us stay well.  At any time, we can turn on the positive, joyful mood we wish to experience by first thinking positive thoughts.

This is equally effective over a longer time scale.  Our energy flows to whatever we think about a lot, speak about often, and respond to with emotion.  At every moment of every day, our body is being influenced by what we think about most.  Our bodies are actually becoming our thoughts.  Which is entirely possible when you recall that all our cells are linked to the Master Mind in the brain.

Our Mind is not merely in our head.  It exists all over our body.

So visualize yourself often, completely healed and in optimal health (even if you're not).  For that will be the direction in which your body-mind takes you.  And as they say in psycho-therapy," What You See Is What You Get!"

A Caveat Before You Begin

Almost everyone can safely use the imagery steps described in this report.  But if you have any emotional instability, or if you hallucinate or are schizophrenic, psychotic or prone to hysteria, or if you have any other mental or psychological dysfunction, you should obtain your doctor's permission before using any of the techniques in this report.

Since we often "get" what we visualize, never visualize anything that might be detrimental to your eyes, eardrums, heart, brain or any other fragile organ in your body.  It's OK to visualize yourself with improved eyesight , but  never visualize your eyes removed from your head.  And do not picture a knife or nail driven into your eyes, ears, arteries, heart or any other fragile organ.

Several psycho-therapists have told me in confidence that they prefer patients with a four-year college degree.
 
 

Mind-Body Technique #1: Harnessing The Placebo Effect
 

The Placebo Effect is a healing mechanism in the Mind that boosts our response to the effectiveness of almost any drug or medical procedure by approximately 33 per cent.

All we need do to harness this incredible healing power is to develop a strong and powerful faith and belief in the effectiveness of whatever medical treatment we are using.

Numerous studies show that the Placebo Effect can improve a person's chances of recovery from a long list of ailments and injuries--including surgery (or even alternative medicine or herbs or supplements)-- by an average of 33 per cent.

For example, most people who strongly believe that they will recover, are up and around after surgery in one-third less time than those with weaker beliefs.

Put another way, approximately one-third of the benefit derived from any drug or medical treatment arises from the Placebo Effect experienced in the mind of each patient.

To offset the Placebo Effect during clinical trials of new drugs, the action of the Placebo Effect must be added to the action of the drug in assessing results.  Nowadays, research centers are using brain imagery and blood chemistry to trace the biological influence of the Placebo Effect.  In these trials, it's not unusual for results to show that the Placebo Effect  provides a benefit equal to, or greater than, the pharmaceutical action of the drug being tested.

Extensive tests and studies have been made of every aspect of the Placebo Effect, and researchers now have a much better understanding of its dynamics.  Here are some of their conclusions:-

• The more you believe and expect that you will benefit from a drug or medical treatment, the more likely it is that you will.

• It is in your self-interest to believe that your treatment will work.  Unless you have faith in your treatment, its benefit may be 33 per cent less and you could be wasting some of your money.

• The Placebo Effect exists in the mind of the believer.  It boosts your response to a drug or procedure so that you experience a reaction approximately 33 per cent stronger than without this belief.

Harnessing Your Mind's Power To Heal

We can put the Placebo Effect to work immediately by mobilizing a strong faith and belief in the healing power of whatever treatments we are using.  This will enhance their healing ability by up to 33 per cent, and in some cases possibly more.  Then by using other psychological healing mechanisms--such as laughter or meditation or visualization--we can magnify the benefits of the Placebo Effect even more.

There's no doubt that the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled study paid for and undertaken by an independent source (not the drug manufacturer) provides the best base for developing the strongest belief in a drug's power to heal.

Next is a series of authentic and validated case histories describing  the drug's strong and consistent benefits to real patients taking the drug.  (Care is needed here because medical writers frequently exaggerate or use fictional case histories when writing about the healing power of drugs to boost the sale of the drug or the sale of a book or promotional material on behalf of the drug manufacturer.)

The best case histories are ones about local people you know, or about relatives that you know are true.

Among drugs commonly used to treat Advanced Cancers of the Prostate or Breast, Lupron is the most widely used and it consistently provides dependable benefits over a period that averages 16-24 months, possibly longer if Mind-Body techniques are used in addition.

Thus here is a drug taken by almost every man or woman with advanced Hormone-Related Cancer in which we can safely increase its effectiveness by holding the strongest beliefs.

Another combination which provides almost universal benefits for health and healing is when an adult takes 2,000 (or more) International Units of Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) together with 1,200-1,500 mgs of Calcium Carbonate or Calcium Citrate per day.  These are non-prescription supplements available inexpensively in almost any health food store.  Indications are that such a combination can help to retard the onset of Advanced Hormone-Related  Cancers and an accompanying case of loss of bone mineral density.

For a complete introduction to the worldwide deficiency of Vitamin D3, which is widespread in Western nations, and is largely responsible for an epidemic of osteoporosis and other life-shortening diseases, check on the website of The Vitamin D Council at < www.vitamindcouncil.org>/  Just about every word of the Council's advice is totally believable.

Another drug treatment that it pays to believe in are bisphosphonates like Fosamax, Actonel and the injected type called Zometa.  These drugs prevent bone loss in post-menopausal women,  and also bone loss in both men and women from treatment for Advanced Breast and Prostate Cancer.  To take them without believing that they will succeed is to reduce their effectiveness by one third.

Healing Affirmations That Power Strong Beliefs

Here are some affirmations held by patients with Advanced Prostate or Breast Cancer that may have helped retard the growth of these diseases.

"Speaking" to those cells in her body which remain cancer-free, one woman affirms," Healthy Cells!  United We Stand!  I believe that our Need, Power and Ability to Stay Alive, Well and Thriving is greater than the Power of almost any disease to Harm or Kill Us."

One man with Advanced Prostate Cancer affirms daily that," I strongly believe that my Prostate Cancer Treatment is always successful and that the Lupron and other medications always suppress the Cancer with zero pain or side effects."

Another man diagnosed with Metastatic Prostate Cancer frequently affirms,"I strongly believe that my back pain may well be due to degenerative changes in the skeletal bones, cartilage and muscle spasm in my back.  I believe that my back pain will heal up completely, just as it already has on three prior occasions , with no indication of Metastatic Prostate Cancer."
 

Empowering Ourselves With The Enabling Effect

The Enabling Effect is the term for the empowerment we experience when a drug or treatment in which we strongly believe actually does improve our health or make us feel better.  Our belief then becomes even stronger.  According to several immunological studies, it may boost our Placebo Effect from an average of 33 per cent to as high as 45 per cent.

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Mind-Body Technique #2:  Beat  Immuno-Suppression With Laughter  Therapy

Boosting the Power of your Immune System by Laughter Therapy is Virtually Identical with Improving Both Outcome and Survival From Advanced Breast or Prostate Cancer

A  good laugh can do more to boost your immunity in less time than anything else.  That's because the immune system responds within minutes to any change in mood.  And the more upbeat our mood, the more it sets the strings of the immune system zinging.

Recent studies at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California found that laughing boosts the immune system on a broad front.  It boosts production of Natural Killer Cells that destroy viruses and tumors, and it raises levels of gamma-interferon, a powerful disease-fighting immune-system component.  It also stimulates increases in T- and B-cell populations and speeds up antibody production.

These data were presented by Drs. Berk and Tan at a recent meeting of the American Association for Therapeutic Humor , a group of physicians, psycho-therapists and other health-care professionals who use therapeutic humor as part of their treatment.  Dr. Tan, an expert on the effect of laughter on the mind-body, believes  that laughing blocks secretion of the stress hormones adrenalin and cortisol which are released in response to anger, hostility and rage.  Both hormones re powerful immuno-suppressors.

A later study at the University of Maryland School of Medicine found that laughter causes the tissues that form the inner lining of blood vessels to expand, increasing blood flow to heart and other organs.

Laughter  Reinforces  Immunity  Faster  Than  Any  Pill

Since stress is the underlying cause of most immuno-suppression, the fact is that you can't laugh and feel happy and be stressed-out by immune-weakening hormones at the same time.  Other, later studies have demonstrated that laughter works on a Whole-Person level to produce multiple benefits, including:-

• Inhibiting the secretion of  immune-suppressing growth hormones.

• Slowing brainwave frequency and inducing relaxation.

• Defusing all negative emotions.

• Relieving muscular tension all over the body, especially in the face, diaphragm and abdomen.

• Releasing hormones that stimulate blood flow and increasing the oxygenation of cells throughout the body.

• Benefitting the endocrine, immune and nervous systems and releasing brain chemicals that make the mind smarter.
• Releasing beta-endorphins that create feelings of joy and euphoria, and reduce perception of pain.

Rapid  Immune  Enhancement

Gelatology, as laughter therapy is known, is one of few magic bullets that really work.  If you could bottle guffaws or compress belly laughs into pills, therapeutic laughter supplements would be an immediate sellout.  As it is, the benefits of laughter therapy are free to anyone willing to make the effort, and adverse side effects are nil.

Down through the centuries physicians have recognized the therapeutic power of laughter.  A biblical proverb tells us:" A merry heart doeth like a medicine and a broken spirit dryeth the bone."  In recent times, the healing power of mirth was first chronicled by the late Norman Cousins, former editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, when he laughed himself back to health after developing a life-threatening auto-immune disease.

Soon afterwards, researchers began to measure the benefits of laughter on the immune system and health.  William Fry, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School in California, measured the effect of laughter on blood pressure and pulse rate and found that laughter can be as beneficial as exercise and a healthy diet combined.

Although laughter can be performed on a couch, Professor Fry discovered that laughing benefits muscles all  over the body, and  improves both circulation and heart action.  Many of the benefits listed above were discovered by Dr. Fry.

Put Behavioural Medicine To Work

If you're really committed to improving the outcome of Advanced Breast or Prostate Cancer, you can't afford to have a downer, even for an hour.  Remember that your "feel good" mechanism is inside your head.  It's not affected by the events and circumstances going on around you.

Behavioural Medicine (a new term in Mind-Body therapy) is based on the principle that at any time we can change the way we feel by changing the way we act.  We can turn on the feel-good mechanism inside our Minds by changing our physical behaviour.  Recent studies have shown that wearing a smile, whether real or simulated, can elevate a person's mood.  Changing your facial expression by smiling or laughing doesn't merely reflect your mood, IT CREATES YOUR MOOD!

Back in 1984, researcher Dr. Paul Ekman of the University of California, San Francisco found that a mock smile creates the same upbeat feeling as a real smile.  Whether your smile or laughter is real or simulated, it sets off physiological actions that increase your heart and breathing rates and your oxygen uptake.  It relaxes your muscles and lowers your blood pressure.  And it makes you feel good and boosts your immunity.

You can start using Behavioural Medicine right away.  Here are 5 Natural Ways to introduce more laughter, joy and playfulness into your life.
 

5  STEPS  TO  BOLSTER  YOUR  OUTCOME  AND  SURVIVAL  FROM  ADVANCED  BREAST  OR  PROSTATE  CANCER  BY  LAUGHING  AND  FEELING  GOOD

Step 1.  Start Off The Day With The Zen Morning Laugh

While studying Zen at Boulder, CO, I learned to start off the day with the Zen morning laugh.  For five minutes, everyone would sit cross-legged on the floor and go through the physical motions of laughing without having anything funny to laugh about.  Within fifteen seconds, I'd feel so good that everything seemed funny and I just continued laughing and laughing and feeling better all the time.

Try it.  Sit down (on a chair if you like) and begin to laugh.  If you can't,  it's probably because our culture teaches us that it's inappropriate to laugh at nothing.  In the West, only crazy people do that.  But don't let cultural inhibitions hold you back.   Professor William Fry, who has been researching the medical benefits of laughter since 1953, discovered that mock laughter--just pretending to laugh--provides the same health benefits as real laughter.

Several recent studies have found that the diaphragm doesn't know the difference between real and simulated laughter.  The act of laughing, which causes the diaphragm to pulsate, doesn't merely reflect our mood. As I said before, IT CREATES OUR MOOD!

When you mimic a facial expression associated either with happiness or with fear and disgust, your facial muscles set off the same body-mind changes that the genuine emotion creates.  Smile and your pulse rate drops, your brainwave frequency falls to a more relaxed level, and tensions flows out of taut muscles all over your body.

By changing our physical behaviour through smiling, we can change the way we feel--surely a classic example of behavioural medicine at work.  Incidentally, if you're in a situation where laughing out loud is inappropriate, simply visualize yourself laughing.

Step 2:  Enjoy  Every  Moment  Of  Every  Day

You'll be much more attuned to laughing and having fun if you turn off all violent and disturbing TV programs and give yourself good messages instead.  The good messages you need  are such affirmations as "I choose to enjoy every moment of every day regardless where I am, how I'm feeling, whom I'm with, or what I'm doing."

Or tell yourself," I live each moment to its fullest measure.  I experience the beauty of every moment.  I realize all my dreams and goals.  "  Or how about," Life is just a fun game.  To exist is bliss.  To be alive is joy.  To be here is happiness."

Repeat each affirmation three or four times each day while you concentrate on its full meaning.  The simple act of realizing the meaning of the phrases can exert a strongly positive effect on your subconscious mind.

If you doubt it, repeat this affirmation as you focus on its meaning. " I forgive everyone, everything and every circumstance unconditionally, totally and right now."  Then experience relief as the burden of one or more grudges slides from your shoulders.

Or try making up a positive affirmation of your own.  Any one of these may remove an emotional roadblock that is preventing you from enjoying every moment of every day.

Or take a minute and read this powerful Joy-Motivator, published January 19 2008 on Ralph Marston's Daily Motivator (http://greatday.com) and titled "LIVE WITH JOY:-

Find joy in doing nothing and you can find it in everything.  Experience happiness without a reason and you can create happiness for any reason.

Realize happiness is not the result of good things.  There is nothing you need to be happy other than the choice to be.

Imagine living this day filled with joy, happiness and positive purpose.  Imagine it! Then take one more step and actually do it!

Let go of any concern for what does or does not come your way.  Focus instead on the good and valuable things that you can give, create,  inspire and choose to experience.

Don't allow the world to pull you down with its negativity.  Choose to transform the world around you with your own positive outlook.

Real joy is always a choice you can make.  Live with joy, let happiness flow out from you, and life becomes more radiant with each passing moment.
 
 

Step 3:  Say  Yes  To  Life

When you lighten up and laugh at life's problems, they don't seem as big any more.  Next time you're stuck in a long line waiting at the bank or supermarket, visualize the clerk with a tortoiseshell on his or her back.  Then visualize the woman ahead of you draped in cobwebs and the man behind you growing a long beard.  To make it even sillier, imagine the manager serving snacks and setting up portable toilets as he apologizes for the long time you must wait.  When we say Yes to Life, we can laugh at all the hurdles and traffic delays instead of fuming and feeling angry and upset.

****To help you say YES to life, Click-On  the Internet Address below. It takes you direct to a wealth of Secrets About How To Be Happy from the website of Dr. Mercola (www.mercola.com).  Be sure to Click-On and read all of the underlined Links that take you to other priceless reports and gems of wisdom, including the Link "20 Ways to Find, Sustain and Share Happiness ," by acclaimed Energy Therapist Carol Tuttle.  All reflect the healing traditions of the amazing New Biology and its awesome Energy Psychology.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/1/19/simple-secrets-of-how-to-be-happy.aspx

Step 4: Watch  Funny  Shows

See funny plays and movies and watch slapstick videos and TV comedies that really make you laugh.  You need deep belly laughs to boost your immune system and turn on your body's healing-regeneration powers--not just mild amusement.  That accounts for the popularity of old-time films featuring Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Our Gang, the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers.  British comedy series like "Mr. Bean,"  "Waiting for God,"  "Keeping Up Appearances," " Are You Being Served," the slightly older "Fawltie Towers" series  and those featuring the late Benny Hill are also hilarious.  So are the more recent Dorf videos starring Tim Conway.  Undoubtedly you have your own favorites.

Exactly what turns us on so our sides are splitting with laughter is something each of us must discover for ourselves.  Slapstick comedy sends some people into paroxysms of laughter, while others are turned on by more subtle sitcoms.

Make a list of all the videos or programs that give you a good hearty laugh.  That is your source of fun and laughter.  Whenever you need a laugh, watch the video or play the DVD and laugh all over again.  That way, you can swiftly have yourself laughing whenever you feel a downer approaching.

Classic vintage comedy movies from yesteryear are available for sale on DVDs at  www.comonline.com/  and  www.glorydaysentertainment.com/.  However, this is for information and is not a recommendation.

Step 5: Laugh  Up  Your  Immunity

I've never forgotten the evening I spent in a class that taught us how to laugh away stress.  Right off, we each grabbed a hat and stick and acted like vaudeville hoofers as we danced and cavorted to lively polka music.  Next, we tossed a ball, tried our hand at juggling, made faces in a mirror and danced, clapped and jumped around.  Within minutes we'd all become kids again.  We felt so freed up that we could laugh at ourselves and act and look as silly as we wished.

The instructor told us that it is not until we can laugh at ourselves that we are really in control of our lives.  Then she explained that we reach the peak of self esteem when we can joke about ourselves and find humor in our own mistakes.

That class, held in Boulder CO, was the best antidote to stress that I've ever encountered.  But each of us can create the same effects on our own.  All we need is a room to ourselves with a mirror on the wall and some polka music or Sousa marches, and we can duplicate the entire routine without anyone seeing us.  When we do that we can laugh ourselves into an immune-boosting mind state at any time we choose.
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Mind-Body Technique #3: Optimism Is Your Best Ally In Fighting Cancer

Numerous studies have confirmed that maintaining a persistantly Positive Outlook is your
best ally in the fight against both Advanced Breast and Prostate Cancer.

 For example, people who express a high level of joy mobilize approximately 50 per cent more antibodies than the average person in response to 'flu vaccines.  And heart attack rates among optimistic people are half those among pessimistic men and women, equal to the difference between smokers and non-smokers.

Then to cap it all, men and women whose outlook consistently expresses Optimism, Hope and Expectancy have half the risk of death in any one year than people who are pessimistic. Again, a study of Hopefulness found that this mental state protects both men and women against hypertension (high blood pressure), Type 2 Diabetes and Upper Respiratory infections.  Optimistic people were also found to have a significantly lower level of cortisol--a hormone produced by the Adrenal Glands in response to stress-- than pessimistic people.

Linking Optimism to a steady drop in a man's PSA level is not yet scientifically possible.  But almost as significant are observations by researchers and doctors that Optimism--especially Expectation and Hopefulness--boost the population of Natural Killer cells in a man's immune system. . .and in just twenty minutes.  Another universal observations by medical personnel is that your hopes and expectations about a treatment create a powerful biochemical effect in the brain.  Men who display a sense of hopelessness and helplessness are the first to die from PC and APC.

We haven't mentioned the possibility of a remission from PC or APC until now.  Though rare, a temporary remission from these cancers is entirely possible.   A well documented case is that of Damon Phinney, a well-known Boulder CO cyclist, who was diagnosed with APC at age 60 in the late 1980s.  But after 18 months of Hormone Therapy--during which Phinney led a very active lifestyle, bicycling over many of the highest mountain passes in the Alps and Rockies--he achieved a remission which lasted more than six years.

Whether his remission was due to drug treatment or to vigorous exercise or to an outright Optimistic mind state--or to a combination of all three--is not totally clear. But Phinney's inspiring story does illustrate that a temporary remission from PC or APC, and probably Breast Cancer, is entirely possible.  You can read all about it by reading the listing for Cyclists Combating Cancer which you'll find  under Four Natural Steps to a Better Outcome from Prostate Cancer, Step One--Knowledge Therapy, all listed earlier in this report.

Some physicians have suggested that mentioning the possibility of a remission from non-medical sources like Exercise and Mind-Body Therapy is raising false hopes.  But other experts, like Herbert Benson, M.D., of Harvard Medical School, claim there is no such thing as  false hope.

If after trying stents and the newest drugs, your doctor tells you,"There's nothing more that modern medicine can do for you," he is probably correct.  But that doesn't include the powerful benefits of vigorous Exercise, Vitamin D Therapy, and Mind-Body Therapy.

They can't cure Cancer.  But they could  turn on a fresh outlook on life that might well lead to the Best Possible Outcome, or even a remission--and which cannot be turned on by surgery or drugs.

We have no guarantee that you will get a remission.  But almost every man who does has a strongly Optimistic outlook with a strong focus on Hope and Expectation.
 

Optimism is often described as an umbrella mood consisting of a mix and mingling of two or more of the following mind-states:-
 

• Expectation and Hopefulness:  Expecting the Best to Happen and Holding the Strongest Hopes for the Best Possible Outcome and Survival are among the Most Powerful Ways to use the Healing Tool that is Your Mind.  .

• Visualization (aka Guided Imagery): is based on What you See in Your Mind is What You Get.  Keeping your Mind Focused on Strongly Positive Thoughts and Feelings--and Visualizing Them Frequently as Mental Pictures--Helps to Maintain a Strongly Optimistic and Upbeat Mood.

• Mindfulness: This Popular Form of Meditation not only Restores Calm to the Mind but Helps to Block Out Negative Thoughts and Feelings that may be Destroying Your Health.

• Goals:  By setting Highly-Desired Goals for the Near-Term, Mid-Term and Far Future, You Boost Your Chances of Living Long Enough to Realize Them.

• Forgiveness: May Save Your Life!

Optimism Booster #1 :  Hope and Expect a Better Outcome and Survival

Expectation and Hopefulness aren't quite the same thing but together they form what many psycho-immunologists believe is the Mind's most powerful healing combination.

For instance, it's the expectation of improvement that powers the Placebo Effect.  In some cases, 75 percent of a drug's benefit arises from our expectation that it will make us well.  Expectations are based on what we believe will happen to us.  Together, our hopes and expectations create a strong bio-chemical effect in the brain's front lobal area.  When that happens, many people feel better for no other reason than they expect to.

Example: arthroscopy of the knee is a minor surgical procedure done to repair the meniscus cartilage in the knee.  Despite widespread warnings by health advisory agencies that this procedure offers absolutely no benefit for Osteo-Arthritis,  word has somehow spread that it is highly beneficial for people suffering from Osteo-Arthritis.  Recently, tens of thousands of  Americans with painful Osteo-Arthritis were still undergoing this procedure each year.  And incredibly, at least half of them experienced  significant relief from their Arthritis pain--FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN THEY EXPECTED TO.

Many people still hesitate to hope and expect that the Best will happen because if it doesn't, it will weaken their confidence in Mind-Body Therapy.  The obvious flaw here is that unless you fully hope and expect an improvement, you are not practicing Hopefulness nor Expectancy.
 

How Smiley Face Can Fill Your Mind With Hope and Expectation

Sit down in a quiet place, take five, deep slow breaths and visualize a large, round yellow-orange Smiley Face perched on your left (or right) shoulder.  Smiley Face is always Hopeful and Expectant and filled with warm, comforting thoughts about the Good Things in Life.  He loves to hear you silently read and concentrate on several or more of the following affirmations.  As you do, Smiley Face fills your entire body with feelings of Hope and Expectancy combined with Peace, Love, Forgiveness and Joy.  Here are the affirmations:-

"I feel comfort, pleasure, warmth and happiness all over."

"I am happy, delighted, grateful and thankful."

"I feel terrific, exuberant, optimistic, cheerful, elated and filled with Hope and Expectancy for the Best Possible Outcome and Survival from Cancer."

"As I Hope and Expect, so I become!  Every Day in Every Way, I'm Getting Better and Better!"

"I was born under a Lucky Star!  I was always a Survivor.  I Hope and Expect to be a Survivor of Advanced Hormone-Related Cancer."

"I am Fitter and Healthier than the Majority of Americans my Age!"

"How Fortunate I am to Be Alive."

"How beautiful Nature is!"  Stop here for a Moment and Visualize the most Beautiful Place you have ever Been In."

" I Hope and Expect to Have More Good Luck and Good Health."
 

Stop and Use this Visualization at any time should you feel a downer approaching, or when you're waiting in a dentist's office, and preferably at least once a day.  Or whenever Smiley Face appears and says you need to reinforce your Hopes and Expectations.
 

Optimism Booster #2 : Transform Stress Into Joy With Mindfulness

Meditation, or Mindfulness as it's often called today, lets you brush away the turbulent thoughts and emotions that may be racing through your mind and reach a mind-state so calm that you can freely think any thought that you wish.  Or you can enter a deep state of silence by ceasing to think any thoughts at all.  Mindfulness puts you in full control of your thoughts and your emotions which is exactly like being in full control of your Mind and your Health.

All this sounds pretty Subjective.  But is it really true?

Well, try it for yourself.  Follow the instructions in the simple visualization below and in a few minutes you should be in a state of deep meditation, entirely free of any negative thoughts or emotions.

To begin, go to a quiet room where you will not be disturbed, turn off the phone and sit in a comfortable chair.  Relax and take a slow, deep breath, filling the lower part of your lungs first and the upper part last.  Hold for 3 seconds then slowly exhale.  Repeat slowly four more times--for a total of five slow, deep breaths--all the while focusing your attention on your breath  By now, you should already be relaxed , your blood pressure should have fallen, and your pulse rate will have noticeably slowed.

Continue to breathe in a relaxed manner while you visualize the following scene.

Picture yourself in a beautiful garden full of flowers and shrubs.  You are standing at the top of a wide, marble stairway.  Twelve steps lead down to a deep, transparent spring.  So clear is the water that every detail is visible on the white, sandy bottom fifty feet below.

In your mind, picture yourself descending the steps.  As you take the first step down, begin to count silently backwards from twelve.  At the second step, silently say eleven.  Count on down backwards as you descend the remaining steps.  At the count of Zero, you should be standing beside the spring.

Next, see yourself tossing a shiny, new dime into the clear spring.  Watch the coin glide, flash, turn and dart as it slides, twists and rolls its way down and down, deeper and deeper into the silent depths of the spring. In about a minute, the dime comes to rest on the white, sandy bottom.

You are now in the deepest part of the spring, completely isolated from noise, deadlines, problems and pressures.  Here, far from freeways and telephones, all is completely calm, tranquil, still and relaxed.

Silently tell yourself," My mind and body are deeply relaxed.  My mind is silent and still.  Whether positive or negative, I'm totally free of all thoughts and emotions, especially those that might harm my health."

Though you can't live in a state of meditation, the more you meditate, the closer you come to living in a state of Mindfulness.  What that means is paying attention and being here and now all of the time.   No longer can your mind run on automatic pilot while you daydream and let your mind drift.

Mindfulness swiftly restores balance to your Body-Mind.  Which is why this psychological healing tool is being taught in so many hospitals and clinics across the U.S.A.   Hundreds of Yoga Centers also teach an ancient form of meditation, almost identical with modern Mindfulness.

Living in a state of Mindfulness means that negative thoughts and emotions cannot exist.  Gone are hate, hostility, anger, hopelessness, pessimism, anxiety, depression, loneliness, helplessness and indifference--the destructive mind states that cause and worsen so many diseases.

No wonder meditation is being recommended by so many doctors and specialists to beat the stress of modern life.  But you can achieve similar results at any time by watching a dime descend into the depths of a spring.
 

Optimism Booster #3:  Having Strong Goals Helps Us Live Long Enough To Realize Them

By setting goals for the future, patients with APC can help to ensure that they will live long enough--and remain sufficiently healthy--to fulfil them.  And that may take achieving a healthier outcome and a longer survival than they currently anticipate.

Knowing this, we can create a series of clear, strong goals that we can look forward to achieving.  Despite having incurable Cancer, setting goals enhances our meaning and purpose for living.  Many men with APC are still able to take a cruise, and at least a fourth can still play 18-holes of golf  with the aid of a cart.

For maximum benefit, our goals should be varied and should include goals for physical activity, mental activity, cultivating  positive emotions, and enhancing our career and personal growth.  The goals we choose should make maximum use of our talents and abilities.  We should also have goals for fun and relaxation, strengthening relationships and family ties, developing love and romance, and widening social contacts.

Consider, for example, having three or more goals to be achieved within six weeks, three more to be achieved within six months, and three or more to be achieved within six years.  Our short-term goals might be to stop smoking within twelve days; to begin an exercise program within twenty-one days; and to learn to dance within thirty days.

Our inter-mediate goals might include to lose twelve pounds within six months; to enrol in the first available class in public speaking; and to spend our fall vacation bicycling through New England.  Our long-term goals might be to live to be 90; to move to a small town within three years; and to become a freelance writer.

Never Be Without Strong and Achievable Goals

As soon as one goal is achieved, replace it with another.  "Without goals, there is no reason to get up in the morning," a spry nonegarian told me," Without goals, our will to live begins to falter. " Each goal should state a definite objective and timetable.

It's important to select goals that, in view of our health, are clearly attainable.  Don't waste time setting impossible goals.  Set a goal for something you can achieve within a certain period of time.  To get started, think of several small successes, each of which you could attain in fifteen minutes.  Then think of several, each of which  you could achieve in an hour.  And perhaps a couple, each of which you could complete in a day.

Achieving a series of small successes will make it easier to achieve larger goals.
 

How One Reader Of This Website Has Planned His Goals

Near-Term Goals

I Hope to form a relationship with a woman with similar interests.

I Hope and Expect my PSA to move down and stay permanently below 10 or lower.

I Hope and Expect to regain much of the mobility, health, fitness, strength, stamina , flexibility, zest and aliveness that I had at half my present age; to rejuvenate my memory and speed up my reflexes; and to develop a sharper and more nimble mind.

Mid-Term Goals

I  Hope and Expect to stay on Lupron alone or to achieve a Remission.

I  Hope and Expect to undergo Knee-Replacement Surgery, nowadays a far simpler and more effective procedure than formerly.

I Hope and Expect to recover all or some of my earlier muscle strength, bone-density and endurance.

Long-Term Goals

I strongly Expect to enjoy a High-Quality life with robust Health for at least six more one-year stages to Age 90 or more.

I Intend to stay out of a nursing home at all costs and to remain in my own home with access to the Internet even if I must pay for home-health-care, yard-care service or a live-in caregiver.

I Hope and Expect to achieve independence and robust health for the rest of my days, based on the lifestyle, diet and other principles described in the website GOOD HEALTH WITHOUT DRUGS that you are reading now.
 
 
 

Optimism Booster # 4:  The  Incredible  Healing  Power  Of   Therapeutic  Imagery

Can you visualize?

Make a mental picture of a dog in your mind and hold it for 20 seconds.  If you can do this successfully, the answer is Yes.  Almost all of us can visualize and most of us are very good at it.  Every thought is actually a thought-image and when we visualize we are focusing on the image part of a thought that already exists in our Minds.  Visualize a motor cycle and that mind-picture has to be preceded by a very brief, momentary thought about a motor cycle.

Since we have direct control of our thoughts at any time, this means we also have direct control of our feelings, including the feelings that tell our immune system what we want it to do.

Because functions of our immune-system can be easily observed and measured, most research on Visualization Therapy has been carried out on our immune systems, a complex system of cells that defends the body against infections and other diseases.

The ability to make mental images allows us to communicate directly with our immune-system.  That's because our immune-system "speaks" in images and it communicates through feelings.  Start feeling good, and in a minute or so, molecular messengers called Neuropeptides begin conveying that feeling to billions of cells in your immune system.  At the same time, hormones carry similar information to every cell and organ in your body.

When we feel cheerful and positive, Neuropeptides carry this message to every cell in the immune-system and our entire immune-system becomes stronger and more vigorous.  When we feel anxious and depressed, these feelings are swiftly relayed to the immune-system which responds by losing vigor and strength.

By using the language of imagery, visualization provides us with direct sensory access to our immune-system.  We can create images in our minds that are blueprints, telling our immune system what we want it to do.

For example, visualization is quite effective in mobilizing the immune system to make warts disappear.  Dermatologists freeze warts with liquid nitrogen.  Even then, some may be difficult to remove.  But warts are caused by a virus.  By regularly creating a mental blueprint showing that your wart has already disappeared, you can often make a stubborn wart vanish in a couple of weeks.  (Lesser warts may disappear in a few days.)

One study involved people with Rheumatoid Arthritis that was believed caused when overactive immune-system cells called Neutrophils attacked the lining of joints in the knee, wrist and elbow.  To slow the neutrophil activity, participants visualized their neutrophils as ping-pong balls covered with honey.  These sticky "neutrophils" then adhered to everything they touched and they were inactivated.  This prevented them from attacking joint linings and causing Rheumatoid Arthritis.

The result?  Blood tests showed that  participants who regularly practiced this imagery were selectively able to increase the stickiness of the real neutrophil cells in their immune-systems.

A quick word here:  don't expect Visualization to cure Cancer.  When it comes to Cancer, Visualization works well as a Complementary Therapy to regular medical treatment for Cancer.  It can be employed in a variety of ways to enhance the effect of medical treatment on the patient's outcome and survival.    But it is not a substitute for essential medical treatment.

Nonetheless, it can be a huge help in beating diseases like Heart Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, hypertension and similar ailments that are easily reversed by changing to a healthier lifestyle and diet.

Visualization, aka Guided Imagery, has a long history of proven success.  It was originally used by sports psychologists to train athletes for world class sports events.  Millions of Americans also used used visualization programs such as "inner golf," "inner tennis," or "inner swimming."  Each is based on making mental pictures of successful sports techniques then reinforcing these images with silent verbal suggestions.

From using imagery to learn new golf and tennis strokes, it was just a short step to using visualization to promote health and healing.  Early experimenters soon discovered that imagery worked wonders in helping to achieve health goals.  In fact, you can jump-start your way towards realizing any readily-attainable goal by regularly visualizing yourself as having already achieved it.

Want to stay healthy for the next twelve years?  Then visualize yourself attending the high-school graduation of a grandchild currently aged six.  And you can significantly boost your chances of living at least another twelve years--and that means twelve years free of any serious disease or dysfunction that might prevent your living to attend your grandchild's graduation.

Visualize Only Goals You Can Achieve On Your Own

To achieve a visualized goal, that goal must be thoroughly feasible and it must be attainable without the help of another person.  For example, if you're 95 years old, it may not be feasible to expect to live another 15 years.  And regardless of age, it is not feasible to visualize yourself becoming president of the United States  or even a celebrity.  But it is feasible to visualize yourself becoming more slender and fit.

When Visualization is used to promote health and healing, we call it Therapeutic Imagery.  It works in exactly the same way as when you rehearse an athletic routine.  In your Mind, you see yourself as already healed and healthy.  Then you reinforce your imagery with silent but strongly positive verbal images and phrases.

Total Immersion Through Therapeutic Imagery

By communicating in symbol language with the right brain and in silent verbal language with the left brain, you create an inner dialog that by-passes your conscious mind and saturates the subconscious with messages about how you feel.

Since the subconscious uncritically accepts all images and suggestions that we make, it communicates our feelings to the immune-system and also to every cell in every nerve, gland, muscle and organ in the body.  Powerful inner forces then work subliminally to transform the goals we have visualized into physical reality.

Therapeutic Imagery clearly and definitely can boost immuno-competence.  That means it can help your immune-system overcome many types of infectious disease.  Therapeutic Imagery is even more successful when we use it to help change behaviours that are detrimental to the competence of our immunity.

For example, exercise definitely helps invigorate immunity.  But if you lack the motivation to take a brisk daily walk, you can empower yourself to begin a walking program by visualizing yourself enjoying a pleasant walk each day.

Using Therapeutic Imagery

Call it self-hypnosis, but the Mind will automatically carry out whatever instructions we give it while we're relaxed and using mental imagery.  The reason is that what we "see" in our Minds and what we "say" to ourselves, is almost always what we "get."

In pain clinics, where it is often used to reduce pain, therapeutic imagery is often referred to as Relaxation Visualization.  Visualization works best when we're deeply relaxed.  A quick way to relax the Mind (and body) is the dime and spring visualization described in Technique # 2  "Transform Stress Into Joy With Mindfulness"
After practicing it a few times, you should easily be able to enter a state of deep relaxation in two minutes or less.

When you relax the Mind, you automatically relax the body and you enter a state of focused awareness.  Rather than wander from thought to thought, your Mind becomes completely absorbed in your imagery and suggestions.  All other thoughts are excluded.

Once relaxed, you simply begin making mental pictures of whatever you wish to achieve while you reinforce these images with silent verbal suggestions.  Often, imagery alone may accomplish your goal and verbal suggestions may not be necessary.

Portray  Your  Goal  As  Already Accomplished

However you choose to employ therapeutic imagery, use images and suggestions that portray your goal as already accomplished.  To motivate yourself to walk 3 brisk miles each day, visualize yourself as already walking those 3 miles and use suggestions that reinforce this goal.

To help recover from an infection, use images and suggestions that show the infection as already healed and gone.  Do this, even though you still have the infection.  Phrase and visualize everything you wish to happen as though it were already accomplished.

No, it's not denial.  Visualizing yourself free of an infection or disease is not the same as denying you have it.  Instead, Therapeutic Imagery merely supplies your body-mind with a blueprint to recovery.

Make  Your  Images  Vivid  and  Graphic

Try to use scenes and symbols that bring alive your positive feelings.

Suppose you have an infection in your ankle that prevents you from walking.  One of the most powerful visualizations you can use is to picture yourself in perfect health with a trim, athletic build walking briskly along a beach without a single ache or pain in your body.  As you "see" yourself walking, use your imagination to "experience" sensory impressions that reinforce the emotional content of your images.

Mentally "experience" how good it feels to be lean, light and flexible and free of the infection in your ankle.  As you "see" yourself striding along the beach , mentally "feel" the grains of sand under your toes, "smell" the tang of salt in the air, and "hear" the screech of gulls as they wheel overhead.

For example, when I visualize myself working out with weights, I "see" myself lifting a barbell at least ten pounds heavier than any I have lifted in real life.  As I do this, I "hear"the clink of barbells and weights.  And when I picture myself swimming faster than I ever have in reality, I "hear" the hiss of water surging past my ear.

If you work out on strength-training machines in a gym, you can still "experience" similar sounds and feelings.  Involving all your senses in your imagery brings you mental pictures alive, and in the process it makes your visualization far stronger and more effective.
 

Use  Strongly  Positive  Images And  Suggestions

Your silent verbal suggestions should be strongly positive.  Use the present tense and speak as though your goal were already achieved.  Telling yourself "My immune system will be stronger tomorrow" sounds weak compared with," My immune system is powerful, vigorous, strong and aggressive."

Likewise, telling yourself,"My entire body is deeply relaxed" is far more effective than saying,"I will never feel tense again."

Avoid suggestions that begin with"I would like to ---";"I won't ---"; or" I don't ---."  It's far more effective to say,"I am walking three brisk miles each day" than "I would like to walk three miles each day."

Choose phrases that express feelings and endeavor to experience these feelings as you continue making images.  Telling yourself "I am happy and delighted to be walking half an hour each day" allows you to "experience" these strongly positive feelings as you continue to visualize yourself walking each day.

Similarly, telling yourself "Becoming a non-smoker has made me really proud of myself" empowers this suggestion with strongly positive feelings.  You will find this is true, even though you may not yet have quit smoking.

Repeat each phrase at least four times during each imagery session.  Say it slowly, silently and clearly.  Repeat each suggestion with enthusiasm and anticipation and avoid being hesitant or reticent.

Ending Your Visualization Session

As you wind up your imagery session, experience gratitude that the goal of your imagery has been achieved.  For instance, if you are visualizing your immune system attacking bacteria that are causing an infection in your right elbow, experience gratitude that your inner healing powers have helped to overcome the infection.  Do this, even though in reality you are still suffering from the infection.

And do recall that Mind-Body Therapy is not a substitute for necessary medical treatment.  It simply complements medical treatment that--in the case of most Cancers and many infections-- may be essential.

So really FEEL grateful and thankful as you repeat such phrases as "I feel pleasure, health, comfort and happiness in my right elbow.  I am happy, delighted and thankful that my immune system has subdued the infection."

Finally, congratulate yourself for having taken a completely active step in your own recovery.  Tell yourself," I feel terrific, optimistic, cheerful and filled with energy and hope.  As I think, feel, say, believe and visualize, so I become.  What I 'see' is what I get.  Every day in every way I'm getting better and better. "  These are vital steps in making the visualization process work and for invoking your inner healing-regeneration powers.
 

Technique #5  :  Forgiveness  May  Save  Your  Life

Unforgiveness is a stressful state, a bitter mixture of anger, hostility, fear, vengeance, resentment, jealousy and hatred that sends blood pressure soaring, suppresses the immune system, and almost certainly worsens hormone-related diseases like Breast and Prostate Cancer.

People who nurse a grudge, or keep track of slights, have higher levels of stress hormones and invariably suffer from a weakened immune system.

"If you spend your life seeking revenge, first dig two graves," quotes Edward M. Hallowel, Harvard psychiatrist and author of "Dare to Forgive."  Persistent unforgiveness almost always works to the detriment of health.

So what is the solution?  Can unforgiveness be cured?  Yes, unforgiveness can be totally cured, usually in just a few days.  Not by a drug!  But by a simple Do-It-Yourself Body-Mind technique called "Forgiveness."

"Tofu of the Soul." is how Dean Ornish, M.D., describes Forgiveness--a healthful alternative to anger and revenge.  Thoroughly and Truly FORGIVE an unfaithful lover, or someone you think stole something from you , and you can almost feel the weight of the grudge slide from your shoulders.  You begin to experience tremendous relief and you start feeling better almost immediately.

In our violent and competitive society, millions of Americans have grown up believing that to forgive someone is wimpish.  But feeling resentment, or bearing a grudge against a person we think may have harmed us, rarely harms the person at all--nor does it make them pay.

In fact, the only person who pays is the one seeking revenge--which could very possibly be you.  Over time, failing to forgive can trigger a variety of negative thoughts and feelings, including some that may lead to serious diseases like Breast or Prostate Cancer.

Sure, forgiveness goes against human nature and must be cultivated.  The natural tendency is to seek revenge.  Yet forgivess remains a healthful alternative that may well prove life-saving.

To do it, you simply DO IT!  You forgive and you keep forgiving whenever an urge for revenge reappears.  Soon, the Mind-Body learns that it's much pleasanter, and more comfortable to forgive.  And the urge to seek revenge vanishes along with its harmful effects upon the Mind and Body.

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In conclusion, here is the link to one of the most inspiring and optimistic websites on the Net.  This mood-uplifting program brings alive many of the principles in our Mind-Body Connection.
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Artist-Composer-Poet  Ralph S. Marston and his DAILY MOTIVATOR , a free six-days-a-week message to calm the mind and provide a powerful and reliable positive mood-boost each day.  The brainchild of Ralph S. Marston, this program has been running for over six years  and you can access the extensive archives of over 2,000 motivational messages, each of which is based on similar principles to our Mind-Body Therapy.

CLICK HERE
to go to The Daily Motivator website (http://greatday.com)

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Now We
Present  The  Most  Mind-Blowing  Reports  Ever Published
 About  Using  Your  Mind  As A  Healing  Tool

IN  COMES  THE  NEW  BIOLOGY

Using your mind as a healing tool is based on a revolutionary new concept called The New Biology.  Millions of Americans who consult On-Line health advisory websites are familiar with that of Dr. Joseph Mercola,  the most widely read  health advisory site on the Internet today (www.mercola.com)

Through his website, Dr. Mercola has introduced thousands of his readers to The New Biology and to several other websites which describe The New Biology in greater detail.  So let's begin with a quote from Dr. Mercola about The New Biology, followed by the URLs for several other websites that expand on various aspects of this exciting new form of Mind-Body Therapy.

Dr. Mercola's Comments (slightly abbreviated)

Your mind is intricately connected to your body, and those in the forefront of science are now offering hard evidence of this intuitive relationship.

I am a major fan of Dr. Bruce Lipton's work (in developing The New Biology).  He is a forerunner in the field of
Epigenetics and The New Biology and has carefully documented how emotions are one of the most important factors in your health.

And when you think about it, it makes perfect sense.  You are made out of energy and so is your mind.  So it's only natural that your body is influenced by energetic forces.

You have already experienced the impact of your emotions on your physical being.  Butterflies in your stomach, sweaty palms when you're nervous, and increased energy when you're excited are all common examples.

The New Biology takes things a step further.  It demonstrates why the belief that your genes control your future health is outdated and just plain wrong.

This was proven through a massive genetic study, The Genome Project.  It found that the pre-conceived idea that each gene creates one protein was incorrect.  Rather, each of your genes can create up to 30,000 proteins , any and all of which can create a different outcome.  So the fact that you have a genetic "predisposition" for breast cancer for example, does not mean you will develop breast cancer at some time in your life.

According to Lipton's research, the controlling factor in deciding what your genes express--in deciding how your future health will play out--is not your genes, your family history or even the strength of your immune system.

Instead, it is YOUR  MIND!!!

This is fascinating stuff.  The challenge is that most of us are so busy, we don't have time to learn it.
But I know for myself, the single most powerful health tool I have is my ability to use energy psychology [The New Biology] to remediate subconscious programming that typically causes devastating physical health traumas.
 

What To Do Next!

To learn more about The New Biology, we recommend first going to the website
http://www.brucelipton.com/article/the-wisdom-of-your-cells/
It's called Uncovering the Biology Of Belief--The Wisdom Of Your Cells Part 1.
Like all the text files on Bruce Lipton's website, it can be printed off in pdf version and I recommend making a copy of it plus each of the following files

The Wisdom of your Cells Part 2

The Wisdom of your Cells Part 3--this is currently listed under "articles" at top of home page (www.brucelipton.com) and can also be printed in pdf version.

Uncovering The Biology of Belief--Insights Into The Convergence Of Science And Spirituality

Uncovering The Biology Of Belief--The Rise Of The Phoenix
 

Next, go to the following website about EFT--Emotional Freedom Techniques, frequently recommended by Dr. Mercola
http://www.emofree.com/newcomer.htm
This large website by Dr. Gary Craig describes how to replace destructive emotions with good emotions that benefit your health

Next, go to the YouTube website at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iCcnDuY6-4

This is a video website with several short videos about The New Biology.

Also interesting, though complicated and difficult to follow, is the website called The New German Medicine by Dr. Geerd Hamer at:
http://germannewmedicine.ca/documents/welcome.html
However, it contains easily-understood gems of wisdom that explain many phenomenon of Mind-Body Therapy.
 

How Your Thoughts Can Cause or Cure Cancer

From here on, we present two recent reports from Dr. Mercola's website.  Each of Dr. Mercola's reports was first preceded by a video lecture presented by a leading authority in energy healing.  Although we were unable to transfer the videos to our site, nevertheless in his commentaries, Dr. Mercola graphically describes each video and the role played by its contents in the emerging field of energy healing.

It must be emphasized that the claims and techniques described in each report are those of the author and are not necessarily shared by this site you are reading, namely Good Health Without Drugs.  However, we have benefitted in many ways by reading every issue of Dr. Mercola's On-Line Newsletter.  And whether you're interested in improving your health  naturally or  by Mind-Body healing, we strongly recommend that you read Dr. Mercola's website at  www.mercola.com/

In this first video,  cellular biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton explains how your thoughts, and the thoughts of those around you, can directly influence the state of your health. Amazingly, the power of your own thoughts can affect the expression of your genes -- and even potentially cure cancer and other diseases.

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

Imagine having the power to control your own health destiny right now - from the moment you wake up in the morning through the moment you fall asleep.

Thanks to scientists like Bruce Lipton, PhD., who is a forerunner in the field of Epigenetics and The New Biology, the power of your mind is finally gaining the attention it deserves.

This fascinating new field breaks you free from the misguided belief that your genes control you. In reality, your genes are merely storage facilities, and they have no intelligence whatsoever. What IS important, however, is the expression of your genes.

Your Mind Can Create, or CURE, Disease

Your mind doesn't care which one. You can think of your body as a blank page, waiting for you to tell it what to do. Unfortunately, your body is not set to some magical "good" default so that it will automatically convert all your thoughts to a beneficial result. It is completely neutral to the outcome, and only you can control the signals.
Unfortunately, most people tend to be caught up with their negative emotions. This is an easy trap to fall into as it seems to be the cultural norm. So you may easily allow fear, anxiety, anger, sadness, guilt or countless other negative thoughts to interfere with your day. Yet, when you do this, your body will manifest these negativities into physical disease.

A classic example is a woman who believes she will get breast cancer because her mother had it. Well, if you believe it for long enough, your body will make sure that it comes true. But this is far from the only example. Everything from childhood traumas to your overall outlook on life will playa role.

You have likely heard of the Placebo effect -- the very real phenomenon of people becoming healed after taking a sugar pill or other sham treatment. Well, this is directly a result of your mind believing that you will get better after the fake treatment.

It is also not unusual for people to experience spontaneous remissions from cancer and other diseases simply because they have had a profound change in their beliefs or outlook on life.

But it works both ways. The "nocebo effect" refers to the fact that, just as positive beliefs can heal you, your negative beliefs can make you sick.

What are Your Thoughts Saying?

Most people, if given the choice, would like to use their mind to help heal their body. You may be wondering, if this is true, why many haven't heard about it before.

In a word, money.

What do you think would happen if everyone started to tap into their inner ability to heal disease - and stopped relying on drugs and surgery? Pharmaceutical companies would lose out big time, and so they would rather keep you completely in the dark.

You Can Choose Either Health or Disease

Your beliefs are energy fields, and they are working to promote either health or disease in your body right now.
Which one is up to you.

When it comes to the ability of your mind to heal you, there are NO limitations. The sky is the limit!
However, there is something you should know. Other people can influence your perception of things and ultimately your ability to express your true beliefs.

So, perhaps you feel thrilled to have learned this information, but when you share it with your spouse or coworkers, they may not feel the same way. Their negativity could then easily transfer to you and cause you to doubt your mind's healing abilities (thus making your mind unable to manifest healing).

I therefore have two suggestions for you if you would like to use your thoughts to help you permanently resolve disease. One of the most important is to let go of your own emotional blocks. There are many ways to do this, but my favorite are energy psychology tools like Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT\. Again, there are many different and highly effective energy psychology tools, but EFT is one of the most popular. This simple psychological accupressure technique will help you to resolve the emotional traumas and doubts that are lingering in your mind.

And two, surround yourself with positive people as much as possible. Their positive outlook will help to support your own. For times when you must be around someone who has a more negative outlook, you can use EFT to keep their negativity from brushing off on you.
 
 

Did You  Know Healing Could be So Simple?

In this second video, Dr. David Holt explains the fundamental workings of how your body begins to heal once emotional blockages are removed. Somewhat counter­intuitively, what appears to be the onset of disease may in fact be just a natural step in your healing process!

Through the use of the principles of Dr. Geerd Hamer's German New Medicine, Dr. Holt explains how an astonishing variety of illnesses have an emotional cause -- and an emotional cure.

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

I hope you enjoyed this video as much as I did. It's only a tiny fraction of the full three-hour incredible interview I did with Dr. Holt.  There are also loads of other benefits.

If you believe that your emotional state plays a role in most ailments and diseases that befall you, would you go as far as including heart disease,  arthritis and cancer? According to Dr. Geerd Hamer's "German New Medicine," this is a scientifically provable fact.

The Only Thing New is the Science to Back it Up

The idea that your emotions impact your health and the development of disease is not new. Even the conservative Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stated that 85 percent of all diseases appear to have an emotional element, but that the actual percentage is likely to be even higher.

Dr Hamer's research, which spans  the last three decades, has produced scientific proof indicating that your current health status is due to your mental and emotional reactions to events that take place during your lifetime.
Bruce Lipton's "New Biology" is another school of scientific thought that adds to this "new" way of thinking about disease.

Like I said. These ideas are not really new.

Bruce Lipton, much like Dr. Hamer, has also been at it for more than 20 years. The only thing "new" here is the fact that they are finally able to provide overwhelming, and in many cases indisputable scientific proof of HOW it actually works - even down to the cellular level.

As it turns out, this is not a popular truth.

People are not embracing these facts with open arms, jumping for joy at being told, "You are completely in charge of your health!" For most, it's a frightening proposition, despite its promise of ultimate freedom.

Additionally, removing an ingrained medical dogma is difficult, takes time, and
comes at a price for those who are willing to advocate it.  Dr.Hamer has already
served time in prison for refusing to disavow his medical findings, despite the fact that it has an astounding, verifiable, overall success rate of 92 percent.

However, I believe we're nearing the point of breaking through. Soon, there will be no denying the fact that your physical health is deeply connected to your mental projections and beliefs.

Things May Not Be What They Seem

German New Medicine (GNM), as explained in part in this video, operates under the premise that every disease, . originates from an unexpected  shock experience. This experience does not necessarily have to appear traumatic to others. However, it's simply shocking and unexpected to you.   Someone else may not react or deal with it the same way when put in a similar situation.

According to GNM, the resolution phase-- the healing phase -- is as long as the trauma phase, which is why you are recommended to always deal with your emotional trauma as swiftly as possible. The faster you resolve your trauma, mentally and emotionally, the faster your body can proceed through the healing phase.

Now, why is this important? You want your healing phase to be as short as possible, because GNM also claims that all "diseases" are in fact your body going through the resolution phase, meaning what appears to be a disease is in fact your body healing itself.

Serious trouble can arise if your trauma phase was quite extended, as your body will need the equal amount of time to heal -- which will appear as a "disease"-- as it took for the initial damage to take place.

New Solutions For Old Problems

If your emotions play such a significant role in your health, and I'm convinced they do, treating your emotions becomes an essential part of optimal health.

But how?

Learning how to use energy psychology tools, such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), for example, which works on several levels of your collective mind-body-spirit simultaneously, can help you get a better handle on your emotions and buried pain, including the stress from unexpected tragedies.

Optimal health might really hinge on dealing with, and resolving your emotional traumas as quickly as possible; not letting old emotional wounds linger and fester.
 

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Frequently Asked Questions About
Spontaneous Remission From Cancer

These Answers From The Institute Of Noetic Sciences Reveal That A Remission Is Not Necessarily A Cure But That Spontaneous Remission From Cancer May Be Far More Common Than We Think

To find out more about this exciting phenomenon, go to the Google Search Engine and type in "Noetic Sciences Spontaneous Cancer Remission" (www.noetic.org) and you will discover a series of articles based on the largest database of medically-reported  cases of Spontaneous Remission from Cancer in the world.  All bear a strong resemblance to the New Biology and to the Energy Psychology that we have just been reading about on this website.  Most are from the files of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, founded by atronaut Edgar Mitchell after his trip to the moon. Dedicated to expanding science beyond conventional paradigms, the Institute conducts and sponsors leading-edge research into the Powers and Potentials of the human Mind.

Printed below is the article, "Frequently Asked Qu