A statement I heard years ago has been forever etched in my brain: “Top Oncologist (cancer specialist) on the East coast: “The #1 question I ask: Tell me about your stress level in the last 5 – 10 years?”

In my mind there is no question the interrelatedness between stress, the psyche, the individual’s energy vibration, and the ultimate creation of disease.

Yesterday a friend suggested I check out the work of Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer’s New Medicine, German author of Cancer, Disease of the Psyche and Legacy of a New Medicine. See http://www.newmedicine.ca.

To quote the site: That there is a connection between the psyche and disease is neither a new discovery, nor is it Dr. Hamer’s discovery. To quote Dr. Hamer:

“Through the millennia, humanity has more or less consciously known that all diseases ultimately have a psychic origin and it became a “scientific” asset firmly anchored in the inheritance of universal knowledge; it is only modern medicine that has turned our animated beings into a bag full of chemical formulas.”

The following information is taken from the above site:

“Twenty years ago, Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, a German doctor with his own practice in Rome, Italy, received a call in the middle of the night. His 17-year old son had been shot while on holiday in the Mediterranean. Three months later, Dirk died and shortly after, Dr. Hamer, who had been healthy all his life, but who was utterly devastated by this catastrophe, found he had testicular cancer. Rather suspicious about this coincidence, he set about doing research on the personal histories of cancer patients to see whether they had suffered some shock, distress or trauma before their illness.

In time, after extensive research of thousands of patients, Dr. Hamer was finally able to conclude that disease is only brought about by a shock for which we are totally unprepared. This last point is very important. If we can in any way be prepared for the shocking event, we will not become ill. In fact, Dr. Hamer does not like to say ‘cancer’. Rather, it is a special biological response to an unusual situation, and when the ‘shock’ situation is resolved, the body sets about returning to normality. This is a very simplified account, of course.”

Dr. Hamer was ostracized for his beliefs, but it did not deter him from continuing his research which is thoroughly explained on his web site.

“Dr. Hamer realized that his wife’s death and his own cancer had to be connected somehow with the tragic shooting and eventual death of their son, Dirk. As a medical doctor, scientific researcher and head internist of an oncology clinic in Munich, Dr. Hamer was in the position to be able to come to the conclusion that a physical event can create a biological conflict shock that manifests in a visible physical transformation in the brain, and leads to a measurable change in physical-nervous parameters and to the development of cancerous growths, ulcerations, necroses and functional disturbances in specific organs of the body.

After twenty years of research and therapy with over 31,000 patients, Dr. Hamer finally established firmly, logically and empirically how biological conflict-shock results in a cold cancerous or necrotic phase and how, if the conflict is resolved, the cancerous or necrotic process is reversed to repair the damage and return the individual to health.”

Please refer the site to understand Dr. Hamer’s research in its entirety. Here are a few intriguing examples of what you will find on his site:

• Observing the diseases of the different germ layers separately, Dr. Hamer established that there was obviously a biological meaning. He realized that “diseases” were not meaningless mistakes of nature that should be fought, but meaningful events that serve to restore equilibrium.
• If the crisis remains unresolved, the individual often dies as a result of the transformation brought about by the growth (increased hormonal release, increased digestive activity, increased strength of a tissue, etc.). If the crisis is resolved, healing sets in and the tissue or organ is often left stronger than it was before.

Examples from daily life:

Example 1: Suppose a mother is standing on the sidewalk holding her child by the hand, and chatting with her neighbour. The child pulls away and runs onto the street. The screech of brakes is heard as the child is hit by a car. The mother has no warning and is caught totally off guard. She freezes from the shock. The child is taken to the hospital and is in critical condition for days. The mother gets ice cold hands, cannot sleep or eat and experiences constant stress from which a knot begins to grow in her left breast, if she is right ­handed. She suffers a typical mother-child conflict, with a target formation in the right cerebellum. From the moment the child returns home and the doctor says “We were lucky, the child is well again” the mother’s hands will warm up and the conflict-solving phase will start; she will sleep better and regain her appetite. This is a typical conflict with the same consequences in humans and animals.

Example 2: A woman catches her husband in bed with her best girlfriend. She will suffer a sexual-frustration conflict. In biological language, the conflict being copulation, it will cause a carcinoma in the uterus of a right ­handed woman. Not everyone would necessarily get such a conflict in the same situation. For instance, if the woman didn’t love her husband and was contemplating divorcing him, she would not feel this shock as a sexual conflict but rather as a human conflict because of the lack of togetherness in the family. The conflict would then be a partner-conflict that would cause breast cancer in the right breast if the woman was right-handed. What appears to be the same event will have a different psychological significance for every individual.

That there is an emotional component to disease is further supported by Dr. Hamer’s work. All the more reason for each of us to 1) be aware of what is happening in our lives and 2) take active steps to make the elimination of stress in our lives a high priority. Our health and life span depend upon it.

I knew it wasn’t right to go to bed commiserating over a problem I am dealing with, nor was it right to refocus on it upon awakening. It is so easy to know that that technique is not effective, but getting oneself to stop the chattering in the mind, when faced with a tough situation, is quite another.

 Looking for words of wisdom, I sorted through my morning affirmations. Waa laa, look at the first message I read:

“Tell you what, Rosie: If you can get happy right now, in spite of any problems, challenges, and circumstances that now seem to taunt you, I’ll take care of those problems, challenges, and circumstances, as well as ‘ever-after.’

Agh-hmm… Please, do the math, take the bait, and never look back.

    The Universe”

How much happiness, how much life, is squandered away by focusing on problems, which only attracts more problems and more negative energy? Not to mention the stress inflicted on the adrenals as they struggle to keep us in balance.

The following quote jumped out from another early morning message:

“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.”

                                                       ~ Christopher Morley, 1890-1957

 OK, how to be happy, no matter what, is the battle cry for the day! Having gone to bed with an achy leg (go figure – did that not match my mood?), I was next drawn to the following article in the www.mercola.com newsletter this morning:

 Use Quantum Physics to Send ‘Messages’ to Your Body to Get Well

Dr. Mercola interviewed Richard Bartlett, D.C., N.D., developer of Matrix Energetics, a powerful new paradigm one can harness to transform your life. “Your right brain can give you information that is normally blocked by your conscious attention.”

Consciousness Technology to Help Transform Your Life

As stated in the article, “Dr. Bartlett’s Matrix Energetics is a form of ‘consciousness technology’ that involves your right brain and the field of your heart. Your right brain is capable of processing 11 billion bits of information per second, while your conscious left brain processes about 15 bytes of information per second.

Your right brain can actually access information that is normally blocked by your conscious attention, if you allow that information to come through and pay attention to it. So, as Dr. Bartlett is fond of saying, ‘notice what you notice,’ without any rules or preconceived notions about what it might mean.”

I found myself very much drawn to the following subheadline and paragraph:

Practical Tips to Help You Access Your Subconscious Abilities

“Don’t ever let anyone tell you what to do when your heart tells you differently, and pay attention to what shows up in the next moment and realize every moment is full of grace, miracles, majesty and possibility.”

I also appreciate Dr. Mercola’s advice: “I encourage everyone reading this to print out that passage, put it someplace prominent, and read it several times a day. As you begin to deconstruct the rules of society and life in general, you’ll begin to become open to the powers of your subconscious, or what some may call your ‘instincts.’”

Hmm, when faced with a problem, perhaps a smarter approach is to simply listen to your heart? It sure beats commiserating about a problem, turning it over and over and over a thousand times in your mind.

Perhaps the message for today is, “Follow your heart..be happy.”

When I opened my email this morning, the first message I came to was my daily communiqué from tut.com:

Excuse me, Rosie, but I don’t think I noticed, “do a little dance,” on your “to-do list.”

You do plan to dance today, don’t you?

Get down,

The Universe

Well, I’ll be, another “Gotcha!” – two days in a row. No, up to this point, there wasn’t “do a little dance” on my list….but I think I’ll change that. Is your day looking like mine…filled to the brim with all the things to be completed before the Friday pm whistle blows? Perhaps it will help to begin our day with a few deep breaths, the extraction of our shoulders from our ears, and a conscious effort to sprinkle laughter throughout our day.

It is well documented that laughter reduces the level of stress hormones, such as cortisol, epinephrine, and dopamine. On the other hand, laughter increases the level of health-enhancing hormones such as the endorphins and neurotransmitters. Laughter also increases the number of antibody-producing cells and enhances the effectiveness of T cells. What this means for us is a stronger immune system and fewer physical effects of stress. In fact, laughter is so powerful, it has been known to cure “incurable” cancer.

A quick search on Google shows statistics that a child laughs anywhere from 150 – 400 times a day, compared to an average of 5 – 15 times a day for an adult. Whoa, maybe it is time to do a little dance? Might it be time to awaken that little inner child?

Here’s some sage advice from various authors:

“Seven days without laughter makes one weak.” ~Mort Walker

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” ~Victor Hugo

“Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.” ~Arnold Glasow

“A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.” ~Raymond Hitchcock

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” ~Irish Proverb

“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” ~Bob Newhart

“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.” ~Yiddish Proverb

“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.” ~Jean Houston

Is the bottom line that we’ll be a whole heck of a lot better off, and more will be accomplished, if we do a little dance and laugh a little more today?

These past couple of weeks it seems that I am hearing the same message from various sources. So obvious is the message, I would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to miss it. It must be for this reason that this little book jumped off the shelf at me this weekend, as if saying, “You need to read me next.” Where did I get this book? I don’t even remember purchasing it, yet there it was on my shelf among the other unread books, sitting there waiting for their turn to be read.

Gratitude, Affirming the Good Things in Life by Melody Beattie is an amazing little book. Just 88 pages, it is a quick read. She opens her book with the following passages:

“Every day we face interruptions, delays, changes, and challenges. We face personality conflicts and disappointments. Often when we’re feeling overwhelmed, we can’t see the lessons in these experiences.

One simple concept can get us through the most stressful of times. It’s called gratitude. We learn to say thank you for these problems and feelings. Thank you for the way things are. I don’t like this experience, but thank you anyway.”

The concept she teaches is that gratitude turns all things into more. Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. All we have to do is start today and then “let it work its magic.”

Do we have the belief that there is enough, we are enough, and we are deserving? Beattie stresses that believing we deserve good things is as important as gratitude. Listen to your thoughts. What do you say when you look in the mirror or pay your bills or face a problem? A tool to embed positive messages into our subconscious are affirmations. “They’re the antidote to all the negative garbage we’ve been feeding ourselves for years. We change what we say so we can change what we see.”

The next section of her book speaks to the absolute need to nurture ourselves…unconditional love and acceptance. “If we ask ourselves what would help us feel better or what we need, then listen, we’ll hear the answer.”

Beattie speaks about having an attitude of self care. She addresses many responsibilities we have, and the one that jumped out at me said, “I am responsible for how much I enjoy life, for how much pleasure I find in daily activities.” Another strong message: “Quit abusing your mind. Worry and obsession constitute mental abuse. Stop doing those things.”

Her section on goal setting had a spin to it that I had not quite considered before:

“Once we begin to discover the good things in life, we naturally want to keep the momentum going. That’s where goal setting comes in. There is magic in setting goals. Things happen. Things change. Goals are gratitude in action. Turn everything into a goal. If you have a problem, make its solution your goal.

Do what you can, one day at a time. Do God’s will for that day. Do what you are inspired to do. Do what comes your way that needs to be done. Do it with gratitude.”

A good way to close today’s article is the way Beattie closed her book…

“Come back into today, the present moment. Do not obsess. Do not become fearful. Become excited. Live today fully, expressing gratitude for all you have been, all you are right now, and all you are becoming.

Say ‘thank you’ for all things – and expect good things.”

PS, after I closed my blog for today, I went to my inbox and found the following daily message from www.tut.com.  I had to go back and add a “PS”!  :  )

Just curious, Rosie, when was the last time you looked into a mirror and addressed yourself as “Gorgeous,” “Magnificent,” or “Sublime”?

Rosie, it matters.

Tallyho,
The Universe