Your MINDSET on Disease

I think that if I'd been born and brought up in a country like China, ...Traditional Chinese Medicine and their ideas and views, would have worked for me.  I love the ideology of their culture towards treating people and their views on sickness and disease.  If we could only embrace those facts here on our side of the world, we would be far better off and much more healthier and heal ourselves so much better.  But ... one word ... MINDSET!

Are you aware that in China; CANCER is often referred to as Western People's disease?  Are you aware that the incidence of cancer in China, Japan and even India is far lower than in the Western countries?

Some people think it's because of diet, but I feel that's only a small part of it.  Another possibility even a larger factor, maybe the mindset the Western Civilization has that they believe in ... for example ... Cancer.  Or I should say they believe in the FEAR that this word instills.  And how can we Westerners not be afraid of it when there are the constant awareness campaigns that conventional Western Medicine and Westerners focus on.  We are constantly being bombared with ads about detecting cancer and donating to cancer research, every corner we turn, everyday on the T.V., in the newspapers, magazines, bus stops, etc., etc. Heck, we even have a whole month dedicated to wearing PINK!!!  It's crazy how far it has gone, it is constantly around us.  We are constantly focusing on it whether it's consciously or unconsciously! Also our ideals focus on Technology and diagnostics rather than promoting overall physical and mental well being and balance.

The Western doctors focus only on the cancer and trying to make you feel as though something external is attacking your body and has to be gotten rid of.  In otherwords, Cancer is the enemy and has to be attacked by their diagnosis and horrid treatments, which always instills fear.  Whereas Chinese medicine looks at your well being more wholistically.  They have your TOTAL well being in mind more so and they have you believing that your body has a way of healing from it's imbalances, not just physical ones, but emotional and mental as well.  They believe that the cancer is actually an ally.  Now, these methods are much more comfortable, reassuring, and can give you hope.

The cancer itself wasn't the enemy or the disease .. It was in fact the body's way of trying to heal itself.  Viewing cancer as an enemy that needed to be annihilated doesn't get rid of the underlying problem that caused it in the first place.  Something deeper is addressing and triggering the cancer cells to appear.  Think of it from the prospective that these diseases being actually mental and spiritual diseases that manifest in the body.  Treatments that address the mind and spirit will have a much better chance of affecting change than an approach that merely deals with the person in the physical ...and any modality that is wholeheartedly supported by the surrounding culture will be more effective than one without such underlying strength, especially if the method addresses a patient's mindset and spiritual outlook.  Such diseases in specific cases are a disease of the mind and the soul, not just the body.  The physical manifestation is merely a symptom of something much deeper. Scientists look in all the wrong places.  They are only studying the symptoms not the cause and then creating drugs to mask the symptoms.  They may be able to manage the symptoms, but do they find a cure? 

I do suggest ... not looking at or doing any treatment program that only is looking at the symptoms as something to be gotten rid of like an enemy.  This is a fear based reaction.  These symptoms are your body's way of trying to heal.  I know that if you try to eliminate the illness with an adverse idea or attitude, you end up doing the opposite and embedding it deeper into the illness mindset .  It doesn't mean necessarily that you don't go to see a doctor, I'm really referring to how to look at the disease or physical manifestations of the body...  The idea is not to obsess about it and to have your days revolve around doing things for the sole purpose of getting rid of the illness.  It's actually far more productive to distract yourself and stay occupied with activities that stimulate you in positive and creative ways.   Escape the prison that you have put yourself in and try to free yourself from needing your health to be a certain way in order to find happiness or just create ... enjoying the moment as though you were already healthy.  Living in the present means not carrying anymore baggage from one segment of time until the next ... every instant is unique and can't be replicated.

It's our choice whether to carry our fears with us, keeping us stuck in an illness.   You don't have to be spiritual guru or anything, just make the most of every minute, living it to the fullest and doing things that make you happy.    Know that every part of you is magnificent, your ego, intellect body and spirit ,... it's who you are...a beautiful product of the universe.  Every aspect of you is already perfect. There's nothing to let go ... nothing to forgive... nothing to attain.  You are already everything you need to be.  It can seem so complicated, but it's not.  It's all about BALANCE, and your MINDSET!