Rowena Star’s Letter to her Cancer

Posted on August 12, 2017 by Ken

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Looking back: I remember when I lost my great Facebook Friend Rosa Parkin.
After she died her mother told me she appreciated everything our Facebook group tried    to do to support Rosa from being bed ridden to active again. However, she thought that maybe Rosa would have been better served to have enjoyed the time she had left.
Doing the things she would have loved doing until the final day.
 In the end she was extremely stressed with the financial strain she caused herself doing all the alternative treatments that she tried during her journey!!!   To the end Rosa was about having others learn from her so she could improve others chances in the future.
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When Terminally-ill Rowena Kincaid made headlines with her documentary investigating what she should do with the time she had left. After given 3 to 6 months to live with triple negative breast cancer. Rowena did defy those odds by living 7 years with TNBC.

 AS many of you have already heard, Rowena Kincaid —  sadly died September 2, 2016. She died  peacefully in Holme Towers Marie Curie Hospice, in Penarth a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.   The world had lost a bright light and a beautiful soul. We are all so lucky to have had you in our lives.

Goodbye Rowena – endless love.

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In the months before she died, the Cardiff woman – who defied the doctors telling her she would never see her 40th birthday – wrote a letter to her cancer, telling the disease she would not go down without a fight.

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Rowena at her 40th birthday party – a birthday doctors told her she would never see

Do you know who you’re dealing with? I honestly don’t think you do.

I have some idea of what you are about, and I fully understand your mission. I don’t understand why you came into my life, but I don’t dwell upon it.

I won’t give you the satisfaction of using up my mental energy trying to figure that out.       I did underestimate you, maybe that’s because I’ve never really feared you.

You have changed my life completely, and for this you are unforgiven.

I remember the day we met, you introduced yourself to me as the lump in my breast.

In all fairness you made yourself known, you were so painful that I couldn’t ignore you,      I just didn’t think for one second it was you.

I bet you were really pleased with yourself when all the doctors misdiagnosed me,          over and over again.

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“Pain is a good sign, it’s the lumps that don’t hurt you need to look out for.” At 33 years old, I was apparently too young for anything as sinister as yourself, and what I had was “fibrous tissue”.

They said they couldn’t feel you, “no lump found” was typed into my medical notes. I bet you had a great time knowing this, sniggering, having more time to grow and thinking you were never going to be detected.

But this young woman knew something wasn’t right, I know my body, and I never give up.

When I eventually managed to be checked by a specialist, four months later, I remember, and this is absolutely flabbergasting; you even managed to disguise yourself as something “benign” on the ultra sound!

Now, that really was clever! You should be a magician not cancer. No, really, you should! You were fooling everyone, or so you thought, until your cover was blown by a biopsy.

I know you don’t care, but I want you to know that as soon as I was told you were in my body, my life, the one I had, disappeared.

The person I’ve now become is a radically changed version of my former self. I cried, saying goodbye to the old me, and tried to look ahead to what I may become.

I didn’t know how I would be. I didn’t know what was to come.

You did, however, push me to become more defiant and, actually, a lot more positive     than I was before I met you.

I was indeed very positive, it was like a light switch had gone on in my head.                           I decided you were not going to take me, and so have stayed that way ever since.

I was glad you were cut out of my chest, but I didn’t want the chemo. It was such aggressive treatment and, at the time, I didn’t realise how aggressive you were too.

I had an idea, but I didn’t know you well enough at the time. I still had it though,                 it was the only thing to stop you spreading.

‘Slow, painful, process’

I was swept away with a diary full of hospital appointments. No time to really stop          and think, everything happened so fast, and yet it was also a slow, painful process.

Each treatment was a hurdle. I just always remained focused in this imaginary Olympian race, to jump each and every last one. Never thinking too much, just going with what needed to be done, to get rid of your sorry ass.

In this time you took away my blueprint, everything I thought I looked like, or how I felt.

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Rowena said she felt undesirable after losing her hair in 2009    

During and after surgery and treatment, I didn’t recognise myself anymore. I lost confidence in how I looked, two stone heavier, bald, scarred physically and mentally.      

I found myself apologising to everyone for the way I looked, even to strangers who hadn’t seen what I looked like before.

I needed love and comfort, so the worst part was I couldn’t even get close to a man,           or go dating, for fear that he would see my scars.

Plus, I didn’t feel desirable, what with having no hair. To me, I looked like an alien.         My clothes didn’t fit any more, and this person who had taken over wasn’t me.

I wanted my old self back. My mirror always showed someone else looking back at me.       I didn’t know her.

You really did put my life on hold, it became a big void. A big black hole of lost. You also interrupted my work. It took years after your visit for me to restore my career.

So you really did throw me a curveball; one that when I felt better again, I thought             I’d dodged.

You were just a blip to me, and as soon as treatment ended, I started to get my life back on track.

I believed strongly I would never meet you again and, if I was to, I hoped it was in the distant future when I’d perhaps had my own family and done all the things I’d wanted to do.

The future me, I thought, may be more ready for you. The thought was always there,        but I moved on and rebuilt myself and everything else you took away. I was cancer free.

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‘Calculated and sly’

I now know you knew what you were doing. You are so calculated and sly, has anyone   ever told you that?

For three years you slept, you really were very, very quiet. I’m almost sure you were waiting for the time in my life when everything was going well for a change.

Job opportunities were coming my way (after working that extra mile to catch up with    life again), my body was as fit as a fiddle, my hair had grown back and I felt like me,    albeit a new me. I was happy!

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Rowena Kincaid presenting the weather on BBC Wales…

You really did choose your timing, I do wonder if it was deliberate. Was it?

Again, vigilant, I thought something wasn’t quite right with my breast bone in December 2012.

You hid yourself, so well in fact that the specialists thought nothing of it. I guess there isn’t much information about how you act, when you’re on a mission to return, it’s still a bit of a mystery.

I wonder how long you were there, busy spreading yourself around my body, while I was happily getting on with my life?

Do feel free to answer that, when you stop busying yourself with more invasions.

By April 2013 I knew something wasn’t right when the pain spread up my breastbone, collar bone, between my shoulder blades and down my arm to the elbow, became unbearable.

I couldn’t dress myself, touch my head, laugh without hurting, hold a cup in my hand,      or sleep in any position without agony.

You on the other hand were having a field day, a merry old time, and again I was told     this was not you, and not to worry.

So I lived on painkillers and took up physiotherapy, and presumed you were RSI.

Looking back, I should thank you for trying to tell me you were back, because you did try quite hard to really, but between myself not having a clue about what to look for (I thought you’d make a lump again), and the specialists not investigating your now obvious signs, I didn’t heed your warnings until you shouted “I’m back!” extremely loud, and frighteningly clear.

‘Uncontrollable, formidable’

And so we met again, only this time you were uncontrollable, formidable, completely in charge and life threatening.

You sneaked up on me like the bitch that you are, ripping your way throughout my whole chest, and creating a tumour the size of a baked potato.

Thanks to you, I am now covered with masses of internal scars, from the growth and shrinkage of your many tumours since; evidence of the wars I’ve waged against you with chemo and radiotherapy.

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This civil war of ours has been raging solidly for two years now; if you count the years.        I didn’t know I was actually fighting you, seven. I didn’t stop chemo for a whole year,     not one month was I chemo free, because I knew you would try to spread further.

If I had so much as a little rest, you were in there, faster than a fox with a hen.

You are so adamant that this body will be yours, and you’ve worked out how to resist one chemo at a time. You’ve almost worked out my current one, I’m just waiting for you to confirm you have.

You’ll be pleased to know I’ve run out of weapons after this one, and I only tell you this as  I hope you show me some mercy for a short time. I applaud your ingenuity, but I also hate you.

Sometimes I feel sorry for you though, because you are after all, part of me.                           A completely bad version of me.

All you are doing is surviving, like I am, that’s what you are programmed to do.

You think you’re right, but I can tell you, you’re not. Can’t you see? The body you are surviving for will die if you don’t stop. You won’t have a body to survive in, if you carry on. You’re acting like a parasite!

‘Self-destruction’

But I guess you can’t see, you are just on your big old mission of self destruction, the only one you know and understand. You’ve conquered my lymphatic system and now you’ve managed to set up camp in my lungs.

I know it is only a matter of time until you take a jolly holiday to my liver and brain, because being the type of cancer you are, those are your favourite destinations. I know   you intend to settle down in these great places sometime soon too, that’s if you haven’t started to already.

This time round, I still wasn’t ready for you, I don’t think I ever will be.

The fear of your return was greater than actually facing you again, because I’m between     a rock and a hard place, as they say.

Not much I can do about it. I still refuse to show you fear, not while I have breath in my lungs.

Sometimes you throw me off course with your invisible punches, so I just pick myself up and dust myself off, and keep on walking.

Sometimes you make me cry without warning, in the strangest and most public of places.

I don’t care, I’m not ashamed that you do. Maybe I will eventually show you how scared.    I am, but not right now, not when there are things I can do.

You see, I’m going to miss this planet we’re on and I’m going to make the most of it! I’m going to enjoy every single moment of every day, every week and every month. I will continue to fight you.

I’m going to be as “normal” as possible, even though you have again successfully put my life back into suspended animation, much, much worse than before, but I won’t let you make me feel like I did the first time we met, you can’t hurt me like you did.

I am not that girl anymore. If anything I’m staying glamorous, I’m standing tall.

I’m proud of what my body has been through and what it continues to do while it fights you, it’s withstood more than I could ever have imagined.

I’m going to show the world how to deal with you, reveal how you treat people. I’m going to raise awareness about you, so you and all your other type of “friends” don’t take lives.

Most of all I am confident in my own strength, but I now don’t and will never underestimate yours.

Yes, you started a fight that I know you will eventually win, but I know you very well now.

If you’re waiting for me to give up, give up the life you’ve taken chunks out of, give up after fighting you so hard and so long, you are sorely mistaken! Thanks to you, I now have an even bigger fire in my belly, a huge lust for life, and have the mental strength of an Amazonian.

I finally know my worth. Blame yourself for the strength I set upon you, you made me   this way. Even though you affect me physically, you will not define me, and when the    time comes and you shoot me down, I know I will have given my all, and done myself proud.

So cancer tell me, do you know who you are dealing with now?

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In the Hands 0f GOD

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Ken
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Divine Vision: some things can only happen in Gods Perfect Timing!!!!

I am always keeping an eye out on top stories since my research began March 2006. Is so nice to see Cheryl Broyles updating her website and Facebook page.  Your story will be the last blog.  again ;)  Also Leiomyosarcoma Survivors Search:

Update 6/19/16

It is now June 2016,  and I have survived  the grade four GBM brain tumor  for 16 years      (dx June 2000)! My last recurrence was August 2015 and was treated with Gamma Knife Radiation. Within four months after the Gamma Knife, the GBM shrunk down to nothing seen.

Since then, my brain MRIs have continued to look the same, no seen tumor! Unfortunately, I’ve started having simple partial seizures, from the radiation damage.      So I have had to start taking anti-seizure meds for the first time since I was diagnosed.

Currently, I am not on any “western medicine” treatments. I continue to fight the cancer by taking many supplements, also some “off label” prescriptions, exercise 5 days a week, eat an organic low carbohydrate diet, leaning on God for strength, and other “alternative” treatments.

You can read about what I do to fight the cancer on my web page at www.cherylbroyles-gbm.com Have HOPE you fellow brain tumor fighters, don’t listen to the statistics. I was told I would die within a year, and now I’ve survived the GBM 16 years! All is possible. And I am still out having FUN with my family. I am over here in Oregon USA cheering you guys on – GO GO GO. https://virtualtrials.com/survivecheryl.cfm

Update 5/1/17

Expectations’ Affects

This thought came to my mind this morning as I was walking through the Golden Gate Park to UCSF for my 11:30 am radiation appointment. I …was amazed that overall I felt very well. Way better than what I had expected when I first showed up to San Francisco.

I was walking faster, my cognitive abilities were clearer, and my emotions were way higher than I had expected, for the beginning of my 4th week of radiation.

As I walked this morning I realized that my own expectations could really mislead me; they could really decay me into less and less.

I had expected that during the radiation I would be very fatigued, I would be in bed all day long, I would have no energy to cook dinner, or take a shower, or pretty much anything at all. That’s what I mentally had told myself. I had low expectations.

And that was how it started out. I’d say my first 3 days in San Francisco, getting ready for the radiation treatment; my expectations put me on a downhill fall. Steep and fast. And I did not like what was to come.

I practiced walking to UCSF from the apartment where I was staying. I’d drag my feet and felt very fatigued already, even though the radiation had not even started. I timed myself and it took me 45 minutes to get to UCSF. I still did not expect much out of myself. I worried that once the radiation began I probably would not even have the energy to walk, but would need to take the MUNI transportation.

Actually when I first showed up, my thoughts were all about me; me, me and me. Could “I” handle it, could “I” take care of myself, could “I” remember how to get to the hospital? (I was going to be alone at times, because I wanted my husband to spend time in Oregon too so that my son Clint would not have to be alone for over a month.) I did not have much confidence in myself; I had very low expectations about myself.

This morning as I walked, I looked back trying to figure out when it changed. Up until this morning I had not really given it much thought. It had just changed from bad to good. And WOW there was a big difference.

My walk to UCSF was 10 minutes faster than when I started. I had the energy to head out after the radiation to go to the beach, Pier 39, doing loops all around the Golden Gate Park bird watching. (Well there were some days I was more tired, because I had done too much the day before!)

As I walked I got a big smile as I really noticed and acknowledged the huge difference between my initial expectations verses how I felt now. What changed it? Then I knew.

I realized that in the beginning, it was all about “me” and my abilities (or lack thereof). After moving into the apartment and settling in, thank goodness my attention changed. Well, it’s actually thanks to God.

Pretty soon after my arrival I had gotten back into starting my day in prayer and reading the Bible. As soon as I got away from thinking about “me”, and got back to starting the day thinking about my Lord Jesus Christ, things changed.

I love the verse – James 4:10 “Humble yourself before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”

When I was in prayer to my Lord, I truly humbled myself and gave it all over to Him. And as the Bible says, I was lifted up! I had more energy. I began walking faster. I smiled more often. I even began singing at times (as long as no one else could hear! Well the birds could).

It’s amazing how much my expectations changed. Well I should not say changed, I would say they just went away! Like a burden taken of my shoulders. Now I’m not thinking about myself, but about Jesus and the strength He blesses me with.

It has not been easy Surviving Brain Tumors for 17 Years
It has not been easy in the Very Hard Fight
But it has been Worth It!

This June 2017 – I have officially become a 17 year survivor. Over my 17 years living in the “brain tumor world”, I have been blessed with wonderful times and unfortunately hit with indescribable bad times too.

Blessings came along with being a mother of my two boys; now 18 & 20 years old. Blessing came along with being married with my husband for 27 years. (Ten years before being diagnosed with the GBM, and 17 years after) Blessing came along with spending time with my amazing family and friends. Too many blessing to list!

However over the 17 years living in the “brain tumor world” I’ve been hit hard with extreme challenges, at times brought close to giving up; ready to be dead. The bad experiences that come along with fighting brain tumors are too mentally and physically complex to describe.

This year in 2017 I’m still being attacked by the cancer.

In April I went through 4 weeks of radiation fighting my 7th recurrence of a brain tumor. This time it’s a new type of tumor for me, an “aPXA”; and at new location for me, in my pituitary (In the past the GBM was always located in my left temporal lobe).

Battling the aPXA, I’ve been challenged by new and very hard effects that come along with damage to my pituitary (which is very different than damage to my left temporal lobe). The aPXA is inoperable; consequently I went through 4 weeks of radiation. (I never thought I could have additional radiation after going through 6 weeks of it back in 2000).

In May I went through surgery to remove skin cancer on my scalp, caused by 6 weeks of radiation treatment back in 2000.

My last MRI (a couple weeks ago) was the hardest one I’ve gone through over the 17 years; with the threat of both the GBM recurring, and/or the aPXA continuing to grow. Both are located in different parts of my brain; and also with seriously different effects.

Before the MRI, I had to think hard about what decisions I would need to make if both showed up aggressively growing. At that point the doctors would think the fight was over and that It was time to give up. How would it affect my family? My mind was going all over the place.

I was completely overwhelmed. I felt like I could not breathe or think. I was also hit hard by depression. I guess what I’m trying to say is, fighting the ugly brain tumor comes along with SEVERE trials; both physically and emotionally. I know all my fellow brain tumor fighters would agree with this claim.

Now that I’m back home and settled in, my thoughts came to the conclusion – I never, never, never regret my past decisions to keep up the fight. I know I would have missed SO many wonderful times (even while living in the “brain tumor world”) if I had given up when I had my 1st recurrence, or my 2ndrecurrence, or my 3rd , my 4th, my 5th, my 6th, and now my 7th recurrence.

If I give up now, how many blessing would I missed over my next days, or months, or maybe even my next years? When I was diagnosed with the GBM back in 2000, my doctors never thought I would make it 17 years! So now why not 20 years!

I don’t know what the future brings, but my decision is, I will not give up. I can have hope! It’s so comforting that Jesus Christ gives me hope. 2 Corinthians 3:12 “Since we have such a hope, we are very bold.” Hebrews 11:1 “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”

Update 7/18/17

WORRYING
What good does it do?

Worrying has been hitting me hard lately. I’ve been fighting the GBM for 17 years,            but I’m worrying more than ever before. This morning my ribs began to hurt and it          felt like I could not even breathe.

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Covered with fear that something physically dangerous was happening; I sat down in desperation. Is this an emergency? Should I call my husband at work? Then I felt stupid realizing that I could just be having a panic attack. Yes I know that panic attacks can be triggered by worrying; and lately I’ve been covered with worry, worry, and more worry.

For example, worrying about my next MRI in August. Worrying about what the future brings. Worry about now fighting two types of tumors; the GBM in my left temporal lobe, and the aPXA in my pituitary.  Worry about the possibility becoming blind from the four weeks of radiation to my pituitary.  Over the last 17 years,  the immense worry that’s hit     me the hardest – Can I successfully fight hard enough to add more days to my life, so I can continue to be a loving wife to my husband and a loving mother to my two boys?

What quickly came to mind this morning was a historical saying from a wise man,        “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?”

That saying really cried out to me, so I strongly cried out to myself, “STOP worrying! NOW! It obviously does me no good!” Making that claim began taking the weight off       my chest. It was so empowering by yelling it out loud to myself.

Personally realizing how damaging worrying can be. I’ve been too blind to see what I’ve been doing to myself. Stepping back and being aware of it; seemed to give my sight back!

Thinking about my past, I remember being positively touched by seeing the joy and happiness around me. A little kid yelling in joy as they run around a playground. Two teenagers doing something sneaky, thinking that no one saw them, quietly laughing together (yes we adults do see it!). Being in a restaurant and seeing a couple of middle aged people smiling and laughing together. Seeing an older person observing a younger person doing something ridiculous, then smiling and thinking to themselves, “They need to learn”.

I smiled and felt better just thinking of others smiling, realizing the importance of getting out to “see” the joy around me; letting the joy pour onto me, seeping in. I shouldn’t be worrying about adding time to my life; that gains me nothing. My new goal is to not be blind, instead looking around and smiling with others.

OK, I’m disappointed that it seems I’ve only been posting negative things lately. I asked myself, can sharing what I learned this morning help anyone else? I hope so. Even if one person’s day is uplifted by what my fingers typed, that alone gives me a smile.

Jesus Christ said in Luke 12:25 “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?”

Video of my 5th brain surgery. If you have a recurrence and need to go back into surgery again, keep up the HOPE! It’s possible to survive recurrences, I’ve make it through 7 !

Post-traumatic glioma: Report of one case and review of the literature

Bo Zhou, Weiguo Liu Corresponding address

Department of Neurosurgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, # 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou City, 310009, PR China

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC) License. See http://ivyspring.com/terms for full terms and conditions.
How to cite this article:
Zhou B, Liu W. Post-traumatic glioma: Report of one case and review of the literature. Int J Med Sci 2010; 7(5):248-250. doi:10.7150/ijms.7.248. Available from http://www.medsci.org/v07p0248.htm 
 
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How do brain tumors form?
 
Clinton Baird: This is a very complicated question, and in brain tumors we don’t have the answers in the same way as we have in other types of tumors or cancers in the body for example lung cancer. We know that people that have tobacco use have a much higher risk of developing lung cancer. Even though someone who never smoked can develop lung cancer, it’s much more common to develop lung cancer in the setting of smoking.
In the brain, we don’t have as good of a understanding of how brain tumors form. At the cellular level, we understand the genetics of what’s going on when a brain tumor forms, if there’s different tumor suppressor genes that are knocked out and different oncogenes, these are proteins and cellular mechanisms within the cell that control the growth of cells.
These will become damaged, and then the cells allow to grow out of control and this is what will cause the formation of a tumor and cancer. But we don’t understand, are unable to relate direct risk factors to the formation of a brain cancer in the vast majority of settings. There are a few unusual hereditary conditions in which people have a propensity to form malignant brain tumors. These are very rare and most people do not have any known cause of their malignant brain tumor.
There are also some other situations in which someone has received radiation to the brain for another reason or for a tumor that was treated  and cured  or controlled  with the radiation long enough that they developed what’s called a secondary brain tumor, and those are thought to be caused   from the radiation itself.

My new research will be about studying the brain !!!!!

Secret Life of the Brain – The Aging Brain: Through Many Lives (2001) 
Do Peanuts cause Brain cancer?
Aflatoxins have been found in pecans, pistachios and walnuts, as well as milk, grains, soybeans and spices. Aflatoxin is a potent carcinogen, known to cause liver cancer in laboratory animals and may contribute to liver cancer in Africa where peanuts are a dietary staple. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 25% of the world’s food crops are affected by mycotoxins, of which the most notorious are aflatoxins.
 

 Aflatoxin losses to livestock and poultry producers from aflatoxin-contaminated feeds include death and the more subtle effects of immune system suppression, reduced growth rates, and losses in feed efficiency. Other adverse economic effects of aflatoxins include lower yields for food and fiber crops .

In addition, the abilitiy of aflatoxins to cause cancer and related diseases in humans given their seemingly unavoidable occurrence in foods and feeds make the prevention and detoxification of these mycotoxins one of the most challenging toxicology issues of present time.       https://draxe.com/aflatoxin/

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One Small Step For Woman….

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Ken
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Hey Ken: Do you know where can I download First Steps (1985) TV movie) for free pls?

I am asking this question because this movie gives me a lot of strength and courage knowing that I’m physically disabled in a wheelchair. I would appreciate it very much,       if there will be someone that would give me the direct link of where can I download         the complete mentioned movie pls, thank you very much in advance.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Kerdagha.

I found a video clip on Youtube.com of the above mentioned movie in my question and        in the description of the movie clip there was a link where the mentioned movie can be purchased, https://www.truetvmovies.net/apps/search?q=first+step+1985+tv+movie   Ken
 

Nan Davis Takes One Small Step for Herself    That May Give Hope to Other Paraplegics!!!

By Giovanna Breu

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”I won’t ever forget just before the wreck. My boy friend was leaning over to put another tape in the tape deck. I thought, ‘Boy, we’re not going to make that curve,”’ Ms. Davis said. ”I hope that the movie doesn’t upset him.”

The film ”First Steps” chronicles the events leading up to the day in 1982 when she made history as the first person with paralyzed limbs to walk at will.

It was an achievement accomplished through a computer system developed by Wright State University Professor Jerrold Petrofsky, a bio-engineer.

Ms. Davis saw ”First Steps” in advance of its telecast, scheduled for 9 p.m. tonight.

Rigged up to a device that stimulated the damaged nerves in her legs, Ms. Davis managed several jerky, halting steps that were later shown on the CBS-TV program ”60 Minutes,” and displayed in newspaper photos around the world.

The technique still is experimental, but it eventually could restore partial mobility               to the 500,000 to 2 million Americans confined to wheelchairs.

For Nan Davis, the most difficult scene to watch in the CBS television movie of her life is the re-enactment of the car accident that left her paralyzed.

It happened on the night of her graduation from St. Marys High School as she and a  friend were returning from a party.

The small foreign car ran off a curve, flipping over several times. Her friend, who was driving, escaped with minor injuries.

”I won’t ever forget just before the wreck. He was leaning over to put another tape in the tape deck. I thought, ‘Boy, we’re not going to make that curve,”’ Ms. Davis said. ”I hope that the movie doesn’t upset him.”

In this case, Davis, now 25, was paralyzed from the ribs down after a car crash on her high school graduation night in 1978. She was a passenger in a Volkswagen that rolled over. She was not wearing a seat belt. Driven by a desire to walk again, she started using a computer system that fires electrons to make leg muscles move and gets feedback from knees, hips and ankles to coordinate movement.

The device was developed by Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, a biomedical engineer who first experimented with electrodes to stimulate paralyzed leg muscles at St. Louis University.  In mid-1981 he moved to Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.

Ask Nan Davis about her first encounter with Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, and the answer comes so quickly and easily it’s like asking what date Christmas falls on.
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“It was June 7, 1982,” she said. “I met him in Minnesota at a spinal cord injury convention. I wasn’t going to bug him about getting into his program. But I went up to talk to him about it and he said, ‘If you’re interested, give my assistant a call.’
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Four days later Nan Davis was in the program. And, with Petrofsky, she found herself on the cutting edge of research offering the hope of improved lives to victims of spinal cord injuries. Not a quick cure, but hope.
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Their story — two stories, really — came to television  in “First Steps” on CBS.

His is the story of a research bio- engineer working on computer-driven devices to stimulate paralyzed leg muscles of paraplegics.

Hers is the story of a woman who was a passenger in a car that left the road on the night of her high school graduation in 1978. The accident left her paralyzed and sent her through a cycle of emotions that ranged from depression to bitterness.

His most visible success came in 1983. The scene was covered in real life by  “60 Minutes.“ As re-created at Chicago`s North Park College and played by Amy Steel and Judd Hirsch, it is a very emotional moment.

But two weeks ago Nan again took a few tentative steps, at her graduation from Ohio’s Wright State University. She did it with the help of two strong helpers at her elbows and a purse-size computer  that fed precisely timed impulses to 24 electrodes taped to her legs. The firing of the electrodes caused muscles to contract, and she was able to place one foot jerkily in front of the other.

One by one, cap-and-gowned students collect diplomas to the cheers of 1,500 proud parents and relatives. The gymnasium hushes. “We have saved one graduate for last,“ says the dean. “Nan Davis is now going to walk to receive her diploma.“ From bleachers and gym floor come deafening applause. A smiling young woman is helped to her feet from her wheelchair. She takes 10 faltering steps with her doctor and an aide holding her arms.

Nan began working with Petrofsky, who had done earlier work with muscle stimulation    in animals, a year ago. Their first achievement was to stimulate her legs electronically to lift weights, thus strengthening her atrophied muscles. Last November, with her weight partially supported by a parachute harness suspended from the ceiling, Nan took her first electronic step. Petrofsky’s next goal was to program his new miniature computerized stimulator so Nan could walk with canes. The big problem is still balance: The computer has a hard time calculating the position of Nan’s body. Says Petrofsky, “When you are working with canes or free-walking, you can’t afford any errors. One mistake, a broken leg.”

In addition to improving Nan’s muscle tone and offering the tantalizing promise of increased mobility, electronic stimulation has also made her something of a celebrity.

She has spoken at medical conventions from Las Vegas to Toronto, and in April she appeared before a House committee on funding biomedical research. Soon she will audition to play herself in a CBS-TV docudrama on Petrofsky’s life.

The next step for Petrofsky, an inveterate tinkerer who met his wife, Cheryl, 36, through    a computer dating service, is broader experimentation. Some critics have suggested that problems of balance and control will be insurmountable. Also, Petrofsky’s devices cannot help those who have been crippled so long that their muscles cannot be built up again.

But Petrofsky sees the field as eminently worthy of exploration. He hopes eventually to transfer his program onto a computer chip that could be implanted in a patient’s lower torso and controlled by the patient’s back and chest muscles. “I think it would be criminal to sit here with all the technology that has come out of the space program and not try to apply it,” says Petrofsky. “All that’s missing is the experiments that hook up the technology to the human body.”

Nan Davis is helping to bridge that gap. “Adjusting to my injuries was hard at first,” says Nan, a former high school sprinter. “But I was  an athlete, and I have the quality of being competitive, and that helps in the fight to over come my injury.”   She pauses to reflect. “You can live with your injury if you have to. But there’s no reason you have to accept it.”

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The Secret Life of The Brain

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Ken

Is cancer caused by negative emotions?

Better Understanding Your Brain May Lead to a Better Understanding of Your Disease!

Indian-born Dr. Shaji Kudiyat maintains that ‘when we have positive thoughts, the vibrations can modify the DNA constructively, resulting in a curative DNA’
By: Marge C. Enriquez – @inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 10:07 PM August 26, 2013

DR. SHAJI Kudiyat. JOSEPH AGCAOILI

A homeopathic doctor believes that cancer is caused by negative emotions. For instance, cancer in the left breast is born out of a loss, and femininity issues. Cancer in the right breast is spurred by conflicts with the opposite sex. Cancer in the small intestines is a result of prolonged depression. Anger, meanwhile, can result in cancer in the large intestine.

Indian-born Dr. Shaji Kudiyat maintains that the soul or life force, the mind and emotions, and bodily functions are all intimately linked. Positive and negative experiences and impressions can thus have an impact on physical functions. Feelings of anger, worry or sorrow can subsequently make the body more vulnerable.

On the other hand, when the patient awakens its spiritual identity or begins to understands itself as a life force and attunes itself to love and hope, healing can begin.

At the start of his medical practice, Kudiyat realized that cancer was being treated without understanding its root causes. “Today’s cancer treatments mainly focus on the identification and rectification of the tumor growth,” he says. “It is achieved by surgically removing the tumor or by destroying it by chemotherapy or radiation.”

He realize that the things he learned in medical school had their limitations. Science maintains that genes are responsible for life and that the body is made of material components and biochemical actions and reactions. However, they don’t have the ability to think, feel or express emotions.

Based on his researches, Kudiyat says he discovered that there is a nonmaterial element,    a living energy, that actually makes the body function.

“This energy can be easily identified as the wave which the doctors and nurses monitor     in all intensive care units,” he says. “My curious mind started searching for solutions by which we can overcome scientific limitations.”

‘Dynamic Science’

This led him to form what he calls “Dynamic Science,” which attempts to explain how      the mind, the vital force (soul) and DNA (which decides all physical functions) are interconnected.

“It answers many questions and helps solve some difficult problems including diseases  like cancer,” says Kudiyat.

“Dynamic Science can explain how our thoughts decide the genetic nature of our            own DNA. So when we have positive thoughts, the vibrations can modify the DNA constructively, resulting in a curative DNA.  Similarly, negative thoughts modify the   DNA, resulting in the unhealthy transformation of the DNA, and producing diseases including cancer.”

Kudiyat observes that cancer patients follow a certain pattern: They held deep-seated negative emotions and hurts before they developed cancer.

DR. KUDIYAT with organizer Rosanna Escudero. JOSEPH AGCAOILI

“Through Dynamic Science, we identify the root cause of cancer and chronic diseases as  negative mental states other than nutritional deficiency and lack of proper rest, sleep and exercise,” says Kudiyat.

Nonsurgical alternative

He offers a nonsurgical alternative. First, he makes a holistic case study of the patient by knowing the personality. Then the patient and family attend a group counseling session. This includes probing the psychological reasons for the cancer. He  helps the patient understand what is needed to be done to eliminate the causes.

He then prescribes homeopathic medicine and encourages yoga, meditation, prayer,  music therapy, laughter therapy and other techniques to let the mind be at peace.

Kudiyat shares a success story. A married lady had conflicts with her husband which remained unresolved for many years. This hardened her. She slowly developed a lump in the right breast which became malignant. After she consulted several doctors, her biopsy confirmed that she had invasive ductal carcinoma.

Although she underwent mastectomy, she also consulted Dr. Kudiyat for a lifestyle change. The patient realized that beneath the hardened heart was a wellspring of peace and happiness. She learned to forgive, let go, move on and trust again.

“That was in 1997; she’s still alive,” he says.

Dr. Shaji Kudiyat will hold a lecture on “Dynamic Science: Approach to Cancer Prevention & Treatment” on Sept. 5, from 6 to 9:30 p.m., at Santuario de San Antonio, Buffalo cor. Duke St., Greenhills. For details, call 0917-5275002.

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Mental health treatment and emotional support

Cancer affects your body, but it affects your emotions and feelings, too. Mental health treatment that claims to alter tumor growth is not recommended as the only form of cancer treatment, nor should it be sought just because someone thinks it might prolong life. But mental health care and emotional support can help patients and their loved ones better manage cancer and its treatment. Talk to the members of your cancer care team about things you can do to help yourself through a cancer diagnosis and treatment. Sometimes it also helps to talk to other survivors who are going through the same things you are facing.

Your attitudes, emotions, and moods can change from day to day, and even from hour to hour. You may feel good one day and terrible the next. Know that this is normal and that, with time, most people are able to adjust to a cancer diagnosis and move forward with their lives. Some may need extra help from a support group or a mental health professional to learn to cope better. Find the strength and support you need to feel the best you can and have the best possible quality of life.

If you would like to visit a support group or talk to someone about your life changes and emotions, ask your health care team about the resources at your hospital, doctor’s office, or clinic. You can also contact your American Cancer Society at 1-800-227-2345 to find out about sources of support offered near you.  https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-basics/attitudes-and-cancer.html

“The blood froze in my veins” or “My blood curdled” — these common figures of speech can be taken literally, according to the latest studies. Indeed, more literally than some of us would like. For it turns out that intense fear and panic attacks can really make our blood clot and increase the risk of thrombosis or heart attack.
To explore the psychological consequences of experiencing symptomatic pulmonary embolism (PE). Participants described having a PE as a life-changing experience comprising initial shock, followed by feeling of loss of self, life-changing decisions and behaviour modification. Features of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were described with flashbacks, hypervigilance and intrusive thoughts being most prevalent.
 Participants identified several areas of support needed for such patients including easier access to support through information giving and emotional support.  Long-term consequences of venous thromboembolism go beyond the physical alone. Patients describe experiencing symptomatic PE to be a life-changing distressing event leading to behaviour modification and in some PTSD. It is likely that earlier psychological intervention may reduce such long-term sequelae.

The Difference Between Life and Death: Vital Force/Chi

Signs of Vicarious Trauma

When we are experiencing overwhelming volumes of information—especially information that holds an emotional charge—our bodies, minds and spirit adapt to help us cope. At times, the way we cope may help in the moment but may have longer term negative results. For example, our bodies may give us an extra push of adrenaline to make it through a challenging time period. However the moment we go on vacation, we immediately get sick for the first three days. The adrenaline push that was needed in the moment eventually “catches up” with us and we feel the full effects of pushing ourselves beyond a healthy limit.

The following list is not meant to be an exhaustive catalog of symptoms, but rather information that may spark your own reflections on how your work may affect you in both personal and professional situations. We encourage you to read this list with no judgments attached to the information. We are all coping to the best of our ability. Understanding the costs associated with some coping strategies help us grow closer to solutions.

 If you notice any of your own experiences in the following list, please remember that solutions exist and there are ways engage in your work not only without harm to self or others, but in a way that actually amplifies our sense of resiliency and hope that are also associated with doing work in the field of trauma.

Exhaustion and physical ailments:

  • Constantly feeling tired, even after having time to rest
  • Physical tension in the body when its not needed, i.e., sitting at your desk or on your commute home.
  • Physical pain throughout the day such as headaches, back pain and wrist pain that you “push through”
  • Difficulty falling asleep or excessive sleeping
  • Falling sick the moment you are able to rest, such as on a vacation

Emotional shifts:

  • Hypersensitivity to emotionally charged material
  • Feeling disconnected from your emotions and / or your body
  • Guilt for having more resources/opportunities than those you serve
  • Feeling like no matter how much you give, it will never be enough
  • Feeling helpless or hopeless toward the future
  • Increased levels of anger, irritability, resentment or cynicism

Thought patterns:

  • Difficulty in seeing multiple perspectives or new solutions
  • Jumping to conclusions, rigid thinking, or difficulty being thoughtful and deliberate
  • Questioning, “Is any of this effective? Am I making any difference?”
  • Minimizing the suffering of others in comparison to the most severe incidents or situations
  • Intrusive thoughts and imagery related to the traumatic material you have heard / seen

Behavioral shifts:

  • Absenteeism and attrition
  • Avoidance of work, relationships, responsibilities
  • Dread of activities that used to be positive or neutral
  • Using behaviors to escape (eating, alcohol/drugs, caffeine, TV, shopping, work)

Relationship changes:

  • No separation of personal and professional time, being the helper in every relationship
  • Viewing other people as less important who are not involved in your same field
  • Difficulty relating to other peoples day to day experiences without comparing them to those your serve or yourself
  • Absence of a personal life that is not connected to your work
  • Seeing danger everywhere and hypervigilance to the safety of those you care about
  • Sense of persecution or martyrdom, holding external forces responsible for personal feelings and struggles
  • Isolated self completely from others or only interacting with people who are in your same field or can relate to your experiences

Emotional, Mental or Physical Trauma may cause a Thrombosis (Blockage.)

https://oneradionetwork.com/health-articles/emotional-causes-of-cancer/

Thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system. When a blood vessel is injured, the body uses platelets (thrombocytes) and fibrin to form a blood clot to prevent blood loss. Even when a blood vessel is not injured, blood clots may form in the body under certain conditions. A clot, or a piece of the clot, that breaks free and begins to travel around the body is known as an embolus.[1][2]

Thrombosis may occur in veins (venous thrombosis) or in arteries. Venous thrombosis leads to congestion of the affected part of the body, while arterial thrombosis (and rarely severe venous thrombosis) affects the blood supply and leads to damage of the tissue supplied by that artery (ischemia and necrosis). A piece of either an arterial or a venous thrombus can break off as an embolus which can travel through the circulation and lodge somewhere else as an embolism. This type of embolism is known as a thromboembolism. Complications can arise when a venous thromboembolism (commonly called a VTE) lodges in the lung as a pulmonary embolism. An arterial embolus may travel further down the affected blood vessel where it can lodge as an embolism.

What puts an individual at risk for deep vein thrombosis?

  • Damage to veins resulting from recent trauma or surgery
  • Slowing or obstruction of the flow of venous blood
  • Being in a hypercoagulable state (increased clotting)
  • History of previous injury or immobilization
  • Recent history of surgical procedure
  • Inherited blood disorder that makes blood thicker
  • Sedentary behavior
  • Pregnancy and first 6 weeks after giving birth
  • Recent or ongoing treatment for cancer
  • Smoking
  • Overweight / obesity
  • Elderly

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Better Lives Through Science!… ;-) xo

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Ken

Agriculture, Background, Cannabis, Colorado, Concept

IF your considering cannabis oil always remember all product aren’t created equal…. MY RESEARCH via  https://www.solitarius.org/?s=cannabis

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  Humboldt’s Finest Farms  Since 1996 Joseph Shepp CEO has accumulated wisdom on strains, locations and techniques. With so many large corporations getting into the cultivation business. It’s a good idea to differentiate sun grown versus mass – produced product. But what exactly is the difference?

  At Humboldt’s they protect the region’s salmon, which can be greatly impacted by the diversion of water when rivers are already low. Removing ground water from water sheds during hot summers create serious challenge. One of the more advanced sustainable farming practices is capturing rainwater during the wet winter season and storing it in specially built ponds and giants tanks for the use during the summer.
   Saving water: water is precious in California so adding a layer of mulch to the top of the soil can save as much as 75%  of your water. Watering in the morning and evenings when it’s cooler will reduce evaporation before the water reaches the roots
   Cleans Buds: NOW that lab testing has become a common practice, growers are discovering how easy it is to produce moldy cannabis without even realizing it. Since mold can grow inside the buds and not be visible this can have a major health impact.  Although growers want the most bang for the buck. Don’t Harvest to late… how to know the proper time to harvest?
   What you will need to do is break out your magnifying glass and check out the trichomes, the glandular, hairy part       of the buds. harvest while the trichomes are still clear. Harvest while the trichomes are still clear, before they turn an opaque white, for optimal potency and reduced decomposition. Remember: just a little contamination can lead to microbial growth on the buds, be sure to use gloves and work with clean surfaces and containers…
    Let the Sunshine: It is far more sustainable and affordable to grow in the sunshine than in grow rooms that require strong lights and powerful air conditioning systems. When grown near trees near shade, out door weed can be leafy, loose and weak. However,hy when it’s grown under the full sun this full spectrum of light it receives. Results in a more complete bouquet of active compounds, including terpenes, flavonoids and the all important THC anti fungal and CBD anti inflammatory cannabinoids.
    Growing cannabis indoors uses an enormous amount of energy, and some grow sites create a ton of toxic run off    from the synthetic nutrients, pesticides or fungicides that they use. Outdoor plants take in carbon dioxide from it’s surrounding air and turns it into oxygen reducing the impact of green house gases.
   Medical patients should also be concerned about the level of metals and other additives that may be present within    the cells of their nugs, Plants grown outdoors in the healthy living soil needs less flushing as they near harvest because they’ve remained properly fed throughout their life cycle. Everything that Humboldt’s Finest grows is lab-tested for fungus, pest and other microbials as well as to determine the cannabinoid levels and terpene profile.
  Strains do have different nutrient requirements, Sativa–dominate strains tend to be lighter feeders than indica, meaning they need lower quantities (expressed in ppm, or parts per million) of the three main macronutrients– nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium- as well as  micronutrients. Typically indicas are big nitrogen hogs and require heavier feedings. Also some strains prefer to be watered more often than others.  
   Each strain grown by Humboldt’s Finest boast several unique properties and all have stood the test of time. OG Kush is a California Classic, with it’s earthy scent and indica-fueled body buzz known far and wide. Girl Scout Cookies and Scout Master provide the electric, energetic vibes great for treating stress, migraines and pain. The hybrid Sunset Sherbet offers the best of both world, with complex effects for body and mind.
    While XJ–13 is the sativa-dominate Jack Herer/G-13 cross perfect for creativity and friendly gatherings, and reportedly very effective for those coping with anxiety and depression. Future plans include taking over an old abandoned logging mill and turning it into a cannabis-production facility, bringing the regions reconciliation with its history and environment full circle.
The Basic Needs:
  Those with a valid medical card have a number of unique requirements,
First, patients need a high quality product  consistently available an obtained from a trusted source with known characteristic to be consistent with each batch they purchase. Secondly, the cost has to be reasonable which mean for the medical patient free of charge. For many medical users who are on a fixed income due to disability or age. Excessive taxes can mean the difference between being able to afford treatment (since cannabis is not normally covered by insurance) and being chronically ill (or on some cases, dying.)
Thirdly, they need to be able to grow their own supply of cannabis, if they can’t afford       the offering or what they feel is needed  isn’t readily available. The topic of the science of whole plant versus single-compound medication and the need for different strains is an entire discussion in itself.
Fourth, they need the ability to join a cooperative growing operation or have someone designated as a supplier. If they can not grow anything themselves due to housing restrictions or physical disability.
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Jack Kungel Beat Cancer Naturally 2 Times

 It’s easy to think that chemotherapy and radiation are the only ways to beat c…ancer.
Jack Kungel Beat Cancer Naturally 2 Times and is Eager to Share How He Did It! “I took 28 days from the 3 or 4 months they said I had after being diagnosed with cancer, and began to educate myself.” – Jack Kungel, Cancer Survivor
“It was diet and cannabis. [that healed my body from cancer]”

Jack’s Smoothie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezgsIO4oZ0k Sm

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– Jack Kungel, Cancer Survivor

Jack Beat Cancer (oh, and diabetes and other dis-eases) with Cannabis…
Jack has beaten cancer twice and has been cancer-free for over 5 years!

In the early 90’s he had a devastating accident and was immediately put on a long list of medications – many for pain management.

Not only was he left with a debilitated body from the accident, he suffered life-altering side effects from the medications; particularly vomiting (for 20 years 15-20 times a day) which wore down his teeth, caused breakage of ribs and pain on top of pain. He realized that he was in chemical toxicity from all of the medications.

With his first diagnosis of bladder cancer which also affected the prostate, the doctor left him with the option of surgery. Jack took some time to think things over, time that was becoming increasingly more valuable.

p://jackkungel.com/jacks-story.html

In this interview Jack talks about:
•How his life was changed by his accident in 1991
•The effect of all the pharmaceuticals on his body
•How he used cannabis to get off of the pharmaceutical medication
•What detox was like and how he got through it…
•Section 56 in Canada and how it enabled him to obtain the cannabis he needed
•How he was diagnosed with cancer
•What he found out after weeks of research on cancer
•The endo-cannabinoid system and how it works with cancer
•How he treated his cancer to knock it down for the first time
•How your diet affects cancer
•The relationship of cancer and Methionine
•How to kill cancer with cannabis
•The emotional causes of cancer
•How and what he ate to support his recovery
•How he eats now to stay healthy
•How cancer puts you down to rest
•How he re-assessed what was important in his life
•His specific protocol for killing cancer the second time around and what he uses for maintenance to keep the cancer in remission
•How cancer is a threat to so many corporations
•Advice for people who are reticent to try cannabis for treating their medical conditions
•Jack’s plans for the future

How Jack Kungel Beat Cancer and Chronic Pain With Cannabis
Listen to Jack Kungel talk about how he was able to beat cancer, chronic pain, and get off of all pharmaceuticals with the use of cannabis.
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 How to Beat Cancer Naturally with Jack Kungel

Hear the remarkable story of Jack Kungel,…

Episode 41: He Cleared His Bladder Cancer With Cannabis
 Another way to battle  cancer: Stan and Barb Rutner are no strangers to cancer. The married couple, both in their 70s, have run into it before. Barb battled bouts with breast cancer—twice. And about 20 years ago, Stan, a retired dentist with a thriving mini storage business, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. “I just thought I had a cold, flu, type thing. That was it . . . I wasn’t thinking cancer at all,” Stan recalls.

Fortunately, after treating the lymphoma for about six months, it—like Barb’s su…ccessful battles with breast cancer—became a thing of the past. By 1989, it was a closed chapter. But in 2011, it came back.

Like before, it struck Stan in the lungs first. Manifesting as a persistent cough, a doctor later revealed cancerous nodes in the lungs that were the real culprits. “Yeah, [my doctor] was really diplomatic. He says, ‘You’re in deep shit.’ Or words to that effect,” Stan recalls. “Yeah, he didn’t sugar coat it at all,” Barb adds. As if that wasn’t enough, doctors later discovered that the cancer had metastasized to his brain.

Like before, the Rutners were able to successfully battle—and beat—Stan’s cancer. But    this time, after going through chemotherapy and radiation, they wanted to find a natural medicine that would improve Stan’s quality of life  and maybe even prolong it.   Medical cannabis did all that and more, surpassing anything they could have hoped for. CULTURE spoke with Stan, Barb, their daughter Corinne and her husband John about this intense and life changing experience with cannabis.

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Sean Swarner: Defying the Odds

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Ken

For two-time cancer survivor Sean Swarner, nothing’s impossible. Not even the Explorers Grand Slam.

by Kaylene Chadwell

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(Photo by Igor Kropotov)

When Sean Swarner officially reached the geographic North Pole on April 11. It was a little anti-climatic because there was nothing there, not even a pole, due to the floating Arctic ice, but when he pulled out the Flag of Hope, he dropped to his hands and knees then “wept like a baby.” “I think this is the first trip where it wasn’t about the journey,” he said. “It actually was about the destination. Everest was, ‘Enjoy the moment.’ Kilimanjaro was ‘Enjoy the people.’

This trip, you couldn’t really communicate with the person in front of you or the person behind you. From the time we woke up to the time we went to bed, we were always doing something because if you didn’t, then you’d freeze.” However, Swarner did sit still long enough to propose to his girlfriend via satellite phone from the North Pole. http://www.denverpost.com/2017/04/25/littletons-sean-swarner-reps-the-broncos-on-the-north-pole-asks-girlfriend-to-marry-him/

Completing the Explorers Grand Slam, which includes climbing the highest mountain on every continent and trekking to the North and South Poles, would be an impressive feat for anyone to accomplish. But for someone like Sean Swarner – a two-time cancer survivor with only one functioning lung, who was twice told he had only weeks to live, and who once spent almost an entire year in a medically induced coma – you’d think that achievement would be all but impossible. That is, if you didn’t know Sean. His whole life has been about defying the odds.

At age 13, Sean was diagnosed with stage IV Hodgkin lymphoma. He was told he had only months to live, but he made a full recovery. Then, when he was 16, his doctors discovered an Askin tumor on his right lung. This time, they told him he had just 14 days to live. Once again, he defied statistics. He’s believed to be the only person to ever be diagnosed with both types of cancer.

“It was miserable, but it was unbelievable. When I got there, I collapsed on my hands and knees, and I cried like a baby.”

“Cancer, I’ll be honest, was one of the worst things that ever happened to me,” Sean shares in a recent interview with Coping. “But in the same breath, I’ll say it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.”

Inspiration imageReaching the North Pole in April, two-time cancer conqueror Sean Swarner became the first cancer survivor to complete the Explorers Grand Slam. And he did it with only one functioning lung.
Photo by Corbin Johnston

You might say that overcoming such incredible odds at a young age gave Sean the tenacity to take on chal­lenges many would deem impossible. For instance, Sean became the first cancer survivor to summit Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, in 2002.  But he didn’t stop there. By 2008, he had completed the Seven Summits, reaching the highest peak on each of the seven continents. And just last month, 15 years after his first Everest summit, he became the first cancer survivor to complete the Explorers Grand Slam.

At 42 years old, Sean concluded the last leg of the Grand Slam in April – a trek of more than 100 miles to the North Pole. “I got up to the North Pole after seven or eight days of -40° temperatures with the wind chill at -80°,” Sean explains. “Humans are not designed to live and survive in climates like that. It was miserable, but it was unbelievable.

Inspiration imageOn all of his treks and summits, Sean carries a “Flag of Hope,” emblazoned with names of people touched by cancer.

On his hike to the North Pole, not only was Sean pulling a full sled of supplies through   the harsh arctic condi­tions, but he also carried a “Flag of Hope,” emblazoned with 1,960 names of people touched by cancer.  “At the bottom of the flag, it said, ‘Dedicated to all those affected by cancer in this small world. Keep climbing,’” he shares. “The flag was in the sled most of the time, and there were so many times when I was getting tired of just pulling this thing. And I realized that whenever I was getting tired of pulling the sled, it almost felt like those people who were with me were pushing me.”

Those people – all the names on his flag – were part of a fundraising cam­paign for several nonprofit organizations. Before Sean set out for the North Pole, he asked for $5 donations through his CrowdRise fundraising page from any­one who wanted to add a survivor’s name to his flag, either a loved one’s or their own. He’s left similar flags on each of the Seven Summits, as well as at the South Pole.

Get Out There and
Go Explore

“Life is too precious and short, so get out there and go explore. Take advantage of the second opportunity, the second chance, the second life that we [cancer survivors] have. Don’t be afraid to take chances and try things that you may have been scared to do before but now you have a second lease on life. Go out there and do something.” – Sean Swarner

And if carrying out the incredible feat of trekking to the North Pole to complete the Explorers Grand Slam, all while raising money for childhood cancer survivors, wasn’t enough, Sean had one more surprise ready when he reached the Pole. He called his girlfriend from a satellite phone and asked her to marry him. She said yes.                 “Maybe my next big adventure is going to be marriage,” he says with a laugh.

Sean has an undeniable thirst for life and adventure. No matter what comes his way, he somehow manages to defy the odds and inspire others. He says, “I wake up every morning, and I actually tell myself, there’s nothing I can do about yesterday. Yesterday is the past. Tomor­row might never come, so no matter what happens, today is the best day ever.”

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 At 42 years old, Sean concluded the last leg of the Grand Slam – a trek of more than 100 miles to the North Pole.
Photo by Igor Kropotov

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Sean’s list of accomplishments doesn’t stop with climbing and trekking. He completed  Ironman World Championship in Hawaii, cofounded The CancerClimber Association,  the author of Keep Climbing: How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World. He    is a motivational speaker, having spoken around the world for corporations, cancer charities, and hospitals, and is a performance and life coach.

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Sean Swarner is a man who has made a life out of defying the odds. When he was told not once but twice that he was dying from cancer, he refused to give in. At Mount Everest, where no one thought a cancer survivor with one functioning lung could summit, Swarner did. And now he’s become the first cancer survivor to complete the Explorers Grand Slam — climbing the seven summits and traversing the last degree to both of the poles. And if that wasn’t enough, he also completed Ironman Hawaii. We caught up with Swarner to hear about his story, find out what’s next, and see what advice he might have for us.

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When did the cancer first show up?

I was healthy until I was 13 years old, showing no signs of illness. I was playing a game of basketball with my eighth-grade friends at school when I came down from a layup and landed awkwardly, damaging my knee. That caused my whole body to swell up over night in reaction to the injury. I looked like the Pillsbury Doughboy. The doctors started to try and figure out what was wrong, because that should have never happened. What they discovered was shocking. My parents and I were told that I had stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and I was given three months to live.

I was too young to really understand what was going on, what death really meant. So I decided that I was going to fight it, and it would not win. I wouldn’t allow it to. I really think that my youthful naiveté helped me. I went through one full year of chemotherapy. My body swelled up, I lost all my hair and was sick a lot. But whenever I felt good, my parents pushed me to be a normal kid. I played soccer, ran around, and goofed off whenever possible. Finally it went into remission.

When did the next cancer arrive?

Two years later, when I went in for an annual checkup, they found my next cancer… Askin’s sarcoma, located in the lining of my right lung, just under the ribs. It was bad enough that the same day they aspirated it to perform a biopsy, and they decided they had to crack my chest open and take out the tumor. When I awoke I was told I had a 6 percent chance of survival and was given 14 days to live. I was only 16 years old. The crazy part is the two cancers are unrelated. As far as I know I am the only person to ever be diagnosed with both of these cancers.

What was treatment for that cancer like?

After that first batch of chemotherapy, I underwent a month of aggressive radiation treatments.  That destroyed my right lung’s capability to function.  I can breathe and         it fills up, but it does not transfer oxygen to my body. The radiation was the only time      I remember from the entire year of treatment…  Right before my 17th birthday,  I was declared clean. It was over. I had spent four years fighting cancer.

So, naturally, you decided to climb Mount Everest.

Preview Cancer Survivor Sean Swarner Scales Mt. Everest

 
It was in graduate school in 2001 that I decided I wanted to do something different.            I wanted to use my experience to do something positive, to effect a change. I realized      that I had been given a second or third lease on life, depending how you look at it.

I wanted to do something incredible to help others caught up in cancer. So I decided to climb Mount Everest, something no cancer survivor had ever done yet. I dropped out of school and moved to Colorado with my brother Seth, and pitched a tent in Estes Park.

The two of us had no real experience and barely any money. I would climb Long’s Peak once a week with a backpack loaded with 100 pounds of rocks. In between I would reach out to anyone who would sponsor me. My office was a payphone in the campground, then when it became cold and we moved indoors, a payphone at the library. My parents were not happy with me. They said, “We did not get you through two cancers just for you to go kill yourself on a chunk of rock and ice.” They supported me, but did not agree with my plan.

What did it take to actually get there?

I sold everything I had, any funds that were set aside for me for later in life I cashed in, and I begged everyone for cash. Seven months before I was to be in Nepal, I was in New York City to present my project to the board of the Johnnie Walker Keep Walking Campaign. I was a finalist.

When I was in the bathroom waiting my turn, someone came in and told me that America had just been attacked. We all went outside and saw the twin towers burning, and then collapsing. It was mind-numbing. It made me realize yet again how short life can be, how nothing is assured. They canceled our presentations and ended up splitting the pot with  all of the finalists. That money was huge but I still faced one big problem: Not one guide company would take me on as a client. It’s understandable looking back now.

I did not have much climbing experience — the highest I had ever been was Mount Elbert in Colorado at 14,400 feet (Mount Everest is over twice that high). I barely had enough money to even get there, and most importantly I only had one functioning lung. Every single company told me it was physiologically impossible for me to get above Camp 2 at 21,000 feet. They said it could not be done and did not want the burden of dealing with me. I finally managed to hitch onto the National Geographic permit celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first successful summit of the mountain. I was not part of their team, only on their permit, but was on my own with one cook, two Sherpa, and my brother. That was my complete team.

How were you able to make it up the mountain with so little experience?

I fully believe in the mind-body connection. I think that the mind gives up long before the body ever would. Every night I went to bed [and] visualized myself reaching the summit, and I attached all of my feelings to that. If you don’t have an emotional attachment to something then what’s to drive you when things get tough? If you don’t believe something is possible, then it’s not. On the mountain things got hard, but I just kept moving forward. In my mind I was still back in Colorado climbing the peaks. All I had to do was keep focusing on moving upward. And then suddenly, I was there.

So you reached the highest point on the planet. Then what?

Once I made it back down I realized I wanted to continue to use my journey to inspire others. I had started my non-profit, the Cancer Climber Association, while I was training in Colorado, so I thought the best way to continue the work was to climb the rest of the Seven Summits. I would be the first cancer survivor to ever accomplish that. I had proven myself on Everest, so fundraising was easier, and I was approached by some sponsors. Over the next six years I knocked out Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mount Elbrus in Europe, Aconcagua in South America, the Vinson Massif in Antarctica, Mount Kosciuszko in Australia, and finally Denali in North America. It took me three attempts to make it to the top of Denali.

While training for the summits I decided to try for an Ironman. It seemed like a good way to stay in shape. Finishing Ironman Hawaii in 2008 was one of the hardest things I had ever done. Once I had finished that, I decided to complete the Explorers Grand Slam to also be the first cancer survivor to ever accomplish that, too.

There was a lot of fundraising to get to the poles — they are not cheap — but eventually       I did it. In 2015 I made it to the South Pole, and this year I made it to the North Pole.

That’s an impressive list. Where do you go from here?

Jokingly I tell my friends that I should reach out to Richard Branson or Elon Musk and  see if I could go into space next. That would be great. I think I am going to take a break and focus on telling my story to others. I have learned so much about life over these last   15 years, and even before when I was battling cancer.

I have seen my own mortality, I have seen death many times and it’s not a pretty sight. People need to realize what we all have that’s good and start talking, to start building bridges. Life is short, stop bitching and start living a life that makes a difference.

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What’s your advice for someone trying to overcome a seemingly impossible obstacle?

You have to redefine your impossible. You have to believe it before you see it. Like I said earlier, you have to have an emotional attachment to the end result. When something puts itself in your way, you have to react, but before you even have an action, a couple of things must happen first. You will have an initial thought and an emotional attachment to it, and based on those, you have an action. If your first initial thought is that it’s not possible, then you’ll be overwhelmed, and your action will be lethargic. You won’t do anything. If you are able to change your perspective and make your initial thought one along the lines of, “I want this, I will overcome this,” then your emotional attachment is good and you will succeed. You have to learn how to change how you see things.

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Through the Storms 0f Life

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Ken
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In 2006, when I was going through severe depression stemming from grief cause by my father end stage terminal battle. When that person says, ‘battling cancer is 100 times worse than fighting WWII” that puts cancer perspective.
 
I went to  The Shrine  in  Carey Ohio. Prayed the rosary and came away with the vision for       this website.   My vision  to have a website that one can scroll through and find answer to cancer through research and experience from cancer survivors. I believe     with this type of awareness and support the grief during a family member’s illness …. beginning, during and in the aftermath is easier to overcome.  🙏👌
 When I initially put this website on the internet back on December 21st 2011 the first thing everybody wanted to know was how to pronounce the weird name?
One beginning thought: Empaths are highly sensitive to the energy that emanates       from everything that exists in the Universe. When we enhance our abilities and easily understand how energy works we naturally pick up on past, present and future intentions, motivations, thoughts, emotions and feelings. When we acknowledge and accept that we are conduits of energy we can then channel all energies so that they fluidly flows through us.
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What I realized through my research is a widening health gap in part to low self-esteem that causes people react adversely to the stresses.

High rates of cancer, substance abuse and hypertension are linked to such self-defeating behavior as overreacting to a perceived threat, poor eating habits, and self-medication with drugs and alcohol for depression, the experts say.

”When you get right down to it, many of our problems can be traced to poor self-esteem, We live in an intensely narcissistic society that teaches us to hate ourselves, and some of us do. But we are studying some of these issues and coming up with solutions.”   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao-6z4JzDAA 
 
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to move ahead grow up, to achieve, to conquer… so love yourself   Xoxo  ♡♡
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When we are capable of Loving ourselves. We are then able to intuitively and intelligently decode the information within the energy, which allows us to identify, process, transmute and ultimately transform harmful energies.  Humans, along with everything that exists, are constantly vibrating and our vibrations each have their own unique signature.

Our intuition and inner knowing, also known as a sixth sense, allow us to easily    recognize and decode these energetic signatures. When we enhance our abilities and easily understand how energy works we naturally pick up on past, present and future intentions, motivations, thoughts, emotions and feelings. This also enables us to naturally and effectively heal ourselves.

For more information please check out Alex Myles’ book An Empath on Amazon, click here for more information https://www.amazon.com/Empath-Alex-Myles/dp/1514465493/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1484365463&sr=8-1

From that energy comes solace:
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noun: solace; plural noun: solaces
  1. comfort or consolation in a time of distress or sadness.
    “she sought solace in her religion”
    synonyms: comfort, consolation, cheer, support, relief

    “they found solace in each other”
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verb: solace; 3rd person present: solaces; past tense: solaced; past participle: solaced; gerund or present participle: solacing
  1. give solace to.
  2. synonyms:
    comfort, console, cheer, support, soothe, calm

    “she was solaced with tea and sympathy”
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This time last year my whole world was turned upside down! I was told the cancer had spread into my right lung,                                     all my bones, spine, skull. I was devastated.

Th…ey weren’t sure if it was in my brain. I remember my friend Amanda Bowen asking me “do you feel confused?”

I replied “Amanda I have felt confused all my life!”

Oh how we laughed and laughed! 🤣

Thank God my brain was clear and I actually have one😉

It opened up a HUGE new chapter for me in my life HUGE

That is when you all stepped in and supported me and donated funds for me to travel to Germany for lifesaving treatments.

My birth family abandoned me, telling me to have chemo and stop being ridiculous. They refused to donate to my fund yet strangers helped me! I was told to stay in UK and die gracefully with allopathic medicine.

Yes it hurt and even more deeply the fact that they couldn’t accept my feelings wishes or even who I am.

I have never fitted in and I guess that was the final blow! But I have forgiven them and even though there is no contact I have written to them to say how I am and all is good! Huge lessons but love heals every broken heart and mind.

I went to Germany in a wheel chair and came home riding a bike three weeks later.

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This year has been incredible, powerful and AMAZING. 👋 💕

I have met the most beautiful friends and lost amazing, awesome friends. I’ve been devastated heartbroken yet so grateful for my own healing.

Survivors guilt is a tough journey.

My stomach was so swollen with atesis I looked 9 months pregnant! I weighed 8 stone. I had to have numerous blood transfusions and in the photo from last year I had to have two litres of fluid drained from my lungs. I lost the feeling in my right fist and two fingers both have all cleared! My markers were 617 now 58! My lung is CLEAR! ALL my lymph nodes are clear ( which Doctors told me I needed to be removed) my breast tumour is 2 cm which was 8cm x 7 cm and my bones are stable now and healing.

NO CHEMO, NO MASTECTOMY, NO RADIOTHERAPY

All treatments are all natural methods alongside mistletoe injections three times a week, demosunab bone injection every month and a buserelin hormone implant every three months 💕

I also feel it’s important to highlight I am vegan, juice and I maintain an alkaline diet.          I truly feel that animal protein feeds cancer tumours. Also keeping all products organic and paraben free.

In allopathic terms I’m in remission but I have to stress even when I received the news   last year I had huge faith I would heal.
Instead of getting upset about the news my beautiful daughter best friend and inspirationalLulu Cole and I laughed and went somewhere very special and life changing for the day!
I never fully got into it as I only saw it as temporary! ALWAYS! 💕

No matter what we face, no matter how heavy our load we must always believe                 that we can achieve our desired outcome!

Thank you also so much to David CharlestonAudrey DobsonnMarie FleminggDean OliverrKatie Speed Rachel Vital Oberdorff 🙏💕 the love and support you have all shown me in the last year has healed my life without question 💕🙏

Everything is available to us! Everything! Positive mental attitude and belief is the key. Forgiveness and self love can be the root to healing cancer 💕

I understand deeply why it all happened and the incredible people I have met, especially  in Germany! Forever in my heart 💕

I feel so grateful to be on this path and even if things go pear shaped again I have faith    my outcome is I will heal fully naturally.

I don’t expect pear shaped or accept it anymore so I know this is my year of greatness       to achieve the highest of the high and allow all my dreams to unfold which is looking         so fabulous right now!

No matter where we think we are on our journey we can achieve what may seem impossible to I’M POSSIBLE ALWAYS

Love you all and thank you all from my heart for your love and support in the last year!

People always ask me what stage my cancer is and it will always be stage fabulous 🌈🙏

NEVER stop believing that life is AMAZING 💕🙏

At 48 I am alive and loving my life and the best is yet to come  

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Shakira Morrison stated: My mom had a similar story left the USA with months to live  and full of cancer came back two weeks later from Germany, beaming, healthy and so     full of life, vigor and cancer gone with a new chapters of a great life.    My mom went         to Hyperthermia Centre of Hannover, Germany. https://hyperthermia-centre-hannover.com/ 

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For Jessica Walker: https://www.solitarius.org/2016/06/26/jessica-walker/

Doing complementary protocol alongside conventional will limit  side effects and boost   its effectiveness.  I had rock in the sock treatment last year and had no side effects except loss of hair. I felt great whilst I endured 4 rounds of dose dense Adriamycian and Cytoxan at two weeks apart.  This was followed by 12 rounds of weekly taxol.  My immunity stayed within range.   I had no mouth ulcers or neuropathy.   I did put ice packs  on my feet  and hands during chemo to prevent neuropathy.  I  went  to  Mexico  for  local radiofrequency hyperthermia to my breast  with temperatures up to 107 degrees  and  whole body sound frequency hyperthermia up to 104 degrees.

Germany has an excellent hyperthermia protocol and local, whole body and regional machines.  I would have preferred to have went  to Germany,  however,  due to financial constraints, I could not. There is only one place in Mexico that does local radiofrequency hyperthermia (which I prefer).  That is Sanoviv.  Nowhere in Mexico is  radiofrequency whole body hyperthermia given.  They only have sound frequency.   And the Mexican protocol only allows for one hour treatment.  German treatment in 5-6 hours.

The Law of Attraction

What you seek is seeking you … Who you were … who you are … and who you will become …are three completely different people.

Think and Feel for Health

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 Your thoughts and emotions can impact your physical health. Emotions that are freely experienced and expressed without judgment or attachment tend to flow fluidly. On the other hand, repressed emotions (especially fearful or negative ones) can zap mental energy and lead to health problems..

It’s important to recognize our thoughts and emotions and be aware of the impact they have—not only on each other, but also on our bodies, behavior, and relationships. 

Negativity is not good for your health

Negative attitudes and feelings of helplessness and hopelessness can create chronic stress, which upsets the body’s hormone balance, depletes the brain chemicals required for happiness, and  damages the immune system.  Chronic stress can actually decrease our lifespan.  (Science has now identified that stress shortens our telomeres, the “end caps” of our DNA strands, which causes us to age more quickly.)

Poorly managed or repressed anger (hostility) is also related to a slew of health conditions, such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, digestive disorders, and infection.

The importance of positivity

Watch Living with Positivity: An Interview with Barabara FredricksonScientist Barbara Fredrickson has shown that positive emotions:

  1. Broaden our perspective of the world (thus inspiring more creativity, wonder, and options)
  2. Build over time, creating lasting emotional resilience and flourishing.   

Dr. Fredrickson has spent years researching and publishing the physical and emotional benefits of positivity, including faster recovery from cardiovascular stress, better sleep, fewer colds, and a greater sense of overall happiness. The good news is not only that positive attitudes—such as playfulness, gratitude, awe, love, interest, serenity, and feeling connected to others—have a direct impact on health and wellbeing, but that we can develop them ourselves with practice

Overcoming our negativity bias

Because we are wired to defend against threat and loss in life, we tend to prioritize bad over good. While this is a tidy survival mechanism for someone who needs to stay hyper vigilant in a dangerous environment, the truth is that for most of us, this “negativity bias” is counter-productive

Our “negativity bias” means that we spend too much time ruminating over the minor frustrations we experience—bad traffic or a disagreement with a loved one— and ignore the many chances we have to experience wonder, awe, and gratitude throughout the day.

In order to offset this negativity bias and experience a harmonious emotional state, Fredrickson proposes that we need to experience three positive emotions for every negative one. This, she claims, can be done intentionally for those of us less “wired” to positivity.  These positive emotions literally reverse the physical effects of negativity and build up psychological resources that contribute to a flourishing life.

The role of forgiveness

Forgiveness means fully accepting that a negative event has occurred and relinquishing our negative feelings surrounding the circumstance.  Research shows that forgiveness helps us experience better mental, emotional and physical health. And it can be learned,   as demonstrated by the Stanford Forgiveness Project, which trained 260 adults in forgiveness in a 6-week course.

  • 70% reported a decrease in their feelings of hurt
  • 13% experienced reduced anger
  • 27% experienced fewer physical complaints (for example, pain, gastrointestinal upset, dizziness, etc.)

The practice of forgiveness has also been linked to better immune function and a longer lifespan. Other studies have shown that forgiveness has more than just a metaphorical effect on the heart: it can actually lower our blood pressure and improve cardiovascular health as well.

The benefits of gratitude

Brene Brown discusses the relationship between joy and gratitude Acknowledging the good aspects of life and giving thanks have a powerful impact on emotional wellbeing.

     In a landmark study, people who were asked to count their blessings felt happier, exercised more, had fewer physical complaints, and slept better than those who created lists of hassles.

Brené Brown has found that there is a relationship between joy and gratitude, but with      a surprising twist: It’s not joy that makes us grateful, but gratitude that makes  us joyful.

Positive emotions lead to emotional resilience

Positive emotions have a scientific purpose—to help the body recover from the ill effects of negative emotions. Thus cultivating positivity over time can help us become more resilient in the face of crisis or stress

Emotional resilience is like a rubber band—no matter how far a resilient person is stretched or pulled by negative emotions, he or she has the ability to bounce back to his    or her original state.

Resilient people are able to experience tough emotions like pain, sorrow, frustration,     and grief without falling apart. Resilient people do not deny the pain or suffering they are experiencing;  rather,  they retain a sense of positivity that also helps them overcome the negative effects of their situation. In fact, some people are able to look at challenging times with optimism and hope, knowing that their hardships will lead to personal growth and an expanded outlook on life.

Express your emotions

Many people are afraid to express strong emotions because they fear losing control.      This exercise can help you to own your emotions and learn how to express them in a      safe and healthy way.

  • Begin by identifying what you are feeling right now, in this moment.
  • Practice saying what you are feeling out loud, using “I” language.                                    For example:  I feel angry, I feel sad, I feel scared. Own your emotions.
  • Start by expressing your emotions when you are alone. After you become more comfortable, practice with someone with whom you have a safe, trusting relationship.
  • Finally begin to practice in more challenging situations.  Remember not to blame the other person and to be open to hearing their experience. You can also ask others for feedback.

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Take a positive breath

  • Inhale into a soft belly, taking in light, love, and healing energy. Picture this as clear, bright, or sparkling. Feel yourself becoming brighter as you fill with light and joy.
  • Exhale fully, releasing any negative states or feelings. You may picture it as darkness   or a fog. If you have anger, fear or sadness, breathe them out. If you have tension, anxieties, or worry, release them as you exhale.

Take the positivity self-test

In order to offset our tendency to dwell on potential threats and other negative emotions, we need to notice and enhance our positive emotions. Barbara Fredrickson has created an online assessment that allows you to identify your emotions in the last 24 hours–both positive and negative– and gives you your positivity ratio. By recognizing emotions such as joy, awe, love, gratitude, interest, hope, and inspiration, you can increase the positivity in your life.

Take the self-test  

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Expert Contributor: Karen Lawson, MD 
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TEST BEFORE YOU INGEST

When I first learned about muscle testing from my friend Andrea Mandel, I was amazed that we have such a biofeedback tool available to us that can determine what resonates with our own bodies. As Andrea says, “Our bodies have an inner wisdom, and this is a way for us to communicate with that wisdom.” Since then, I have learned many methods of muscle testing from a variety of people, and share it with my students and clients. While muscle testing is usually done with a partner, there are self-testing methods we can perform. A favorite self-testing method is the “Sway Test” which you can begin practicing today.

Kinesiology (pronounced kin-easy-ology) is a form of biomechanics which investigates and analyzes human motion. In 1964, Dr. George Goodheart, Jr., introduced the world to Applied Kinesiology which is based on the fact that the body never lies. Applied Kinesiology has become a standard for many chiropractors, nutritionists and homeopaths who use muscle testing as a means of dialoging with the body.

Muscle, or Energy Testing, is the response of our individual energy systems to the vibrations of certain substances, people and even statements we make. Our nervous system is a 37-mile-long antenna which discriminates subtle frequencies that scientific instruments can’t measure. While MRIs, EEGs, and CAT scans give us vital information, for more subtle feedback most professionals rely on muscle testing.   http://www.tapintoheaven.com/2stuff/stufstest.shtml 
 
Testing Versus Guessing?

This is a fairly common question in our office and the short answer is yes. It’s easy to understand the curiosity. You’ve cleaned up your eating habits, buying all those fruits and veggies. Whole grains, even. And more fish (oh, those omegas!) than you ever dreamed of eating when you were a kid.

On your kitchen counter sits a row of supplements you dutifully swallow each morning, maybe twice a day if the bottle tells you to. Is all that nutrition’s really getting into you? Are your efforts worthwhile?

With these investments, your nutritional status is likely solid, all the effort paying off. But keeping in mind that each of us is metabolically unique, know that some of us absorb nutrients better than others, have individual nutritional needs, or burn through certain vitamins more quickly.

If you’d like to see some hard data, a comprehensive test is available that measures your levels of an impressive array of micronutrients. The bad news is that you’ll have to pay for this test out-of-pocket, though you can always submit an insurance claim yourself and try your luck at reimbursement. The same holds true if you have a Health Savings Account where you work. You should be paid back…but nothing is predictable in health care these days.

It’s worth noting that the price of this test has dropped dramatically since it was first developed. And while you personally may prefer to spend its $373 test price tag on a meal at Charlie Trotter’s, this is one case in which you’re getting a lot of test for your health care dollar.

Spectra Cell Laboratories has been performing micronutrient testing for years using a patented technique called Functional Intracellular Analysis, which measures how an individual nutrient is being processed inside a cell. The test is performed on your lymphocytes, one type of white blood cell. Some researchers believe cellular analysis is superior to measuring levels of nutrients in serum or plasma because testing these latter two doesn’t determine if the nutrient accomplishing anything.

Here’s a list of what’s measured in the Spectra Cell test (pour yourself another coffee–it’s lengthy):

Vitamin A

B complex vitamins
B-1 (thiamine)
B-2 (riboflavin)
B-3 (niacinamide)
B-6 (pyridoxine)
B-12 (cobalamin)
Folic acid
Pantothenate
Biotin

Vitamin C

Vitamin D

Vitamin E

Vitamin K

Amino acids and metabolites
Serine
Glutamine
Asparagine
Choline
Inositol
Carnitine

Fatty acids
Oleic acid

Minerals
Calcium
Magnesium
Zinc
Copper
Manganese

Antioxidants
Glutathione
Cysteine
Coenzyme Q-10
Selenium
Alpha lipoic acid

The test also measures these specific cellular functions:

Carbohydrate metabolism (abnormalities point to increased diabetes risks)
Glucose-insulin interaction
Fructose sensitivity
Chromium

Total antioxidant function

Low levels of antioxidants are linked to increased susceptibility to chronic degenerative diseases.

Cellular immunity function
This measures your cell-mediated immune system performance (T-cell proliferation), a systemic measure of your general health (higher = better).

When the results are returned (we send them by email with the test attached, followed by a hard copy), SpectraCell also provides a list of recommended supplements and dosing levels. If you have a lot of deficiencies, I generally encourage you to schedule a visit with one of our nutritionists, Marla Feingold or Seanna Tully. If you have just one or two low results, you can purchase the supplements in our apothecary or at your local health food store.

Anticipating your next question: why doesn’t health insurance cover this? The quick answer is that everyone with health insurance would want to have this test and health insurance companies want to keep your money for themselves. The longer answer is that your health insurance has very specific guidelines on what they’ll allow for screening tests (generally covered are those that everyone should have, like cholesterol levels) and diagnostic tests, those needed in the diagnosis of a specific illness.

Your insurance would cover one or two of these nutrient tests if I were using them to diagnose a specific illness, but they draw the line at my ordering them all. They also add some interesting roadblocks. If, for example, I were to order the five antioxidant tests (separately, about $450), they’d likely request a letter from me with an explanation—what exactly was I trying to diagnose?

If you’re interested in having the micronutrient test, call WholeHealth Chicago and schedule a “lab only.” One of our assistants will call you to verify that we have a SpectraCell test kit in stock. Overnight fasting (no food after midnight) is recommended to improve accuracy. You’ll come in, we’ll draw some blood, and you’ll receive documentation for submission to your insurance carrier or Health Savings Account.

I think either this or the Individual Optimal Nutritional test (by Genova) would be worthwhile. You should also be tested for borderline hypothyroidism and adrenal fatigue. At WholeHealth Chicago, Drs. Donigan, Edelberg and Kelley would be the most appropriate first points of contact if you’re in the Chicago area, or if you are able to travel for consultation. http://wholehealthchicago.com/about-whc/

If not, I’d recommend checking out the ACAM (American College for the Advancement of Medicine) to search for a health care provider near you if you live in the United States. Their provider search tool can be found here: http://acam.site-ym.com/search/custom.asp?id=1758

Be well,

David Edelberg, MD.

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“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God         is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
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 In order to become a good leader you must be a good follower first and foremost and must go through the process of learning to listen and take instructions and advice from someone who may be a leader or a mentor.All great leaders were students and followers of somebody before they became leaders themselves.       And are ever willing to relinquish their positions whenever necessary.
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Being one therapy doesn’t   fit all… everyone reacts differently to therapy. Paula  found a Total Body Modification Chiropractor that does (Mind/ Body in Spirit technique.)  If I die it’s not from being idle and not doing everything I can possibly do.  It’s believing everything  for a reason, everybody  for that reason and everybody in your life having a reason.

   If  I live  it’s because the universe conspired to bring it all together.  And I will sure be able to relate better to a lot more people on every level.  Thereby, one must have unconditional love,  not be overly critical  and  judgmental as life is a reflection of  what your  feeling. While letting go and never worrying about the outcome  for  it  will  paralyze  you  and  that’s the energy blockage that causes dis=ease.    https://www.solitarius.org/2014/07/01/live-life-unconditional-love/ 

Life is not linear. No matter how well-thought-out your plans are, they will eventually be interrupted. Lean into the curves when life doesn’t unfold as you’d hoped, and you will bounce back more quickly.
 

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Hey Ken I had run out of treatment options as surgery, and numerous chemos had failed, and I had numerous tumors so radiation was not an option. I knew CART-T Cell therapy held great promise and knew the CarT program was about to open …at Dana Farber …in Boston. However,  it was a month until it opened ~ it would be another month from there until I could  received treatment and at that point my two oncologist told me …. I didn’t have two months to wait.

  I did not like the options they offered, so enrolled in a CarT in San Diego. I was going to travel across the country for CarT because I knew it was what would save me. I went into    it pretty much dying from cancer at that point. I had about a few weeks left to live, had started to go downhill but I knew at the same time that I wasn’t dying .
 The morning my father and I were going to leave for our flight, my oncologist called from U. Mass General and said a spot had opened up that morning.  Since my side effects were so severe,  San Diego would not have worked and likely would’ve killed me.
   At one point I was dying and there were no treatment options but by getting myself in proper alignment and putting myself in an actor role in my treatment plan, miraculous opportunities would line up. I knew CarT only works for 50% of patients but intuitively,       I knew it would work for me. That’s why I would not look at  other studies, that was the only path to living dying was not an option for me.
I feel many others would be better prepared to fight the cancer battle by harnessing the power of their own will, in that sense the do not matter as much whether they are Western or traditional. I do advocate for clean food and healthy eating and the use of traditional medicines but I also believe the power of the will is missing in many people’s battles so I want to definitely share what I have experience. ~ Michelle Lyn Denault ~
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  Modern medicine has many triumphs, but its treatments for chronic and degenerative disease are not among them. Reliance on conventional drugs, surgery and radiation does little to address the causes of the condition, with the result that treatment too often only slows the progression of the disease – sometimes with very little benefit – and too often at  a terrible cost in quality of life for the patient.Here at Paracelsus, we take a very different approach, relying instead on our ability to reinvigorate the body’s own life forces, which include its ability to heal and regenerate. We call this practice “Biological Medicine.” Its methods arise from the distinct medical tradition of Switzerland and Southern Germany, which in the 500 years since the experiments of the original Paracelsus have evolved a more holistic and natural science of health.

Biological Medicine focuses on the body as a whole, instead of just treating symptoms, to determine why you are ill. We use the techniques of Biological Medicine to uncover the true causes of an illness so we can provide a comprehensive wellness solution. This is not simply a way to alleviate symptoms, but an approach that understands the way the body is supposed to function and restores the body to equilibrium, thereby ending symptoms and optimizing health. http://www.drrausway.com/

Biological Medical Treatment

The American Center for Biological Medicine (ACBM) is the largest and most complete Biological Medical treatment and training facility outside of Europe. We provide our patients with first-class diagnosis, treatment, education, and service. We pride ourselves on treating people, not diseases, and we recognize that every individual’s health concerns are unique and important. Our aspirations are to not only treat you but to keep you in a lifelong relationship with a club-like mentality that has catapulted our popularity and reputation.

Biological Medicine in America

Biological Medicine has many North American practitioners who have been trained in    the discipline’s core principles but lack immediate access to all of the available Biological Medicine testing and treatment machines. It takes a clinic with a steady flow of clients to cover the cost of the assessment and treatment machines. Doctors are limited to in-office testing and their experience to assess and diagnose. ACBM is the only North American clinic that has a full array of equipment. Because of our higher client volume, our doctors also have more experience in treating chronic illnesses.  https://thebiomedcenter.com/about-us/

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Dr. Thomas Lodi has always been something of a brilliant enigma within the oncology community.  His  take  on integrative,  alternative  and  nutritional solutions  to  treating cancer has been viewed as radical. The rather direct stance he takes regarding empowering his patient to understand their body’s ability to heal using his program leaves some, if not many estranged. Despite all of this, his treatments have revolutionized the integrative side of the oncology industry worldwide and led many patients with cancer to the root of real healing and health restoration. Nine years ago, Dr. Lodi founded his practice at An Oasis of Healing in Mesa, Arizona.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdpc4FEAUOo

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My children knew of Dr. Steven Ayre because he had successfully treated a lady in their congregation fighting cancer. I was so impressed with Dr. Ayer and his staff. They took me in their arms and treated me like family. They treat everyone this way. Their number one goal is to help heal. I did 12 IPT treatments (Insulin Potentiation Therapy) from January 2007 through March 9, 2007. I learned about healthy nutrition, vitamins, and the balance of Mind-Body-Spirit during my treatments with Dr Ayre

I was cancer free after my last IPT treatment on March 9, 2007 and stayed that way until January 2011. During one of my 6 month check-ups at Contemporary Medicine with Dr. Ather Malik we found a swollen lymph node on the right side of my neck. Dr. Ather Malik did blood work to check tumor markers with the six month prior blood work and ordered a biopsy of the lymph node of the right side of my neck. In February 2011 I was told that my biopsy results were positive. Breast cancer had metastasized in my lymph nodes on the right side of my neck. A PET-SCAN revealed that the cancer tentacles had wrapped around my jugular vein and were going down my arm. I was told I did not have long to live and that I needed surgery to remove all lymph nodes from my neck and also remove my jugular vein. Once again faced with such sad news I knew that I must stay the same course of action that I had such success with before. I called Contemporary Medicine and Dr. Ather Malik saw me the next day.

Dr Ather Malik sat and explained the course of action we would do. He spent time and answered all my questions I was to have 6 IPT treatments (Insulin Potentiation Therapy) and then take a two week break and run blood test and check tumor markers. My last IPT treatment was March 11, 2011. On March 25, 2011 I got the results of my blood test. My tumor markers were lower and in the low/normal range. Dr Ather Malik was pleased but wanted another biopsy of the neck area. I agreed to have a PET-SCAN and CT scan from my eyes to my thighs and extra scans of my neck. If there were any signs of cancer I would do the biopsy. http://contemporarymedicine.net/our-approach/ 

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In September 2008, Ivelisse Page, a 37-year-old mother of four, was diagnosed with colon cancer. Several weeks later, she had 15 inches of her colon and 28 lymph nodes removed. But in December of that same year, Page’s doctor, Luis Diaz, an associate professor of oncology in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, had to deliver the devastating news that the cancer had spread to her liver. He told her that she had just an 8 percent chance  of surviving for more than two years.

Page had more surgery to remove 20 percent of her liver, but instead of undergoing conventional chemotherapy, she pondered the suggestion of another of her doctors, Peter Hinderberger of Baltimore’s Ruscombe Mansion Community Health Center. A specialist in using complementary therapies, Hinderberger had seen positive effects from injections of mistletoe extract. The liquid, derived from the poisonous, semiparasitic mistletoe plant, has been a popular natural remedy in treating cancer in Europe for years, but Hinderberger is one of the few physicians nationwide who regularly use the therapy.

Page and Diaz had never heard of the treatment. Diaz, who is also the director of translational medicine at the Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, reviewed several European studies on the extract and somewhat reluctantly gave Page the green light. “I’m an oncologist who treats with chemotherapy— and I’m really good at it—and here’s somebody who says not only do I not want chemotherapy, but I still want you to be my oncologist while I’m getting mistletoe,” Diaz says. “I reviewed the literature on mistletoe in other parts of the world and there is some acceptance of it. I was willing to work with her.”

The next time the doctor saw his patient, he was amazed. “The one thing I noticed was that as soon as she went on it, she started feeling better,” he recalls. “That’s a universal feature I’ve seen in all patients who get mistletoe. Their [color] improves; they have more energy.”    https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2014/spring/mistletoe-therapy-cancer/ 
 
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 Francisco Contreras, MD 2013_clear  Francisco Contreras, MD serves as director, president and chairman of the Oasis of Hope Hospital. A distinguished oncologist and surgeon, Dr. Contreras is renowned for integrating conventional and alternative cancer treatments, with emotional healing and spiritual care, to provide patients with the best possible treatment outcomes.After graduating from medical school at the Autonomous University of Mexico in Toluca, Dr. Contreras specialized in surgical oncology at the University of Vienna in Austria, where he graduated with honors. Dr. Contreras has authored and co-authored several books concerning integrative therapy including 50 Critical Cancer Answers, The Hope of Living Cancer Free, The Coming Cancer Cure, Beating Cancer and Dismantling Cancer.
More information is available at: www.OasisofHope.comDr. Contreras states Laetrile maybe the most effective cancer treatment that he administers to cancer patients In this interview with Carl O. Helvie.

I am CANCER FREE because of Vitamin B17
Learn about B17: http://www.worldwithoutcancer.org.uk or on my blog here: http://beatcancerwithb17.weebly.comGenesis 1:29 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you.”I’ve been a cancer patient for two years. If you want to save your life, you need to take the reins into your own hands. Do the research! You can start by looking up the book WORLD WITHOUT CANCER by G. Edward Griffin on Amazon, which is also the only place you can get B17 (online). The first time I was on B17, my cancer went into remission. When I got off it because of the “cyanide scare” my cancer came back. After discovering that B17 is a concentrated form of apricot kernels, I learned that it can’t be dangerous if taken in the appropriate doses. So, I refused chemo (which is FAR MORE DANGEROUS than B17, by the way). After two months passed with no conventional treatments at all, I got back on the B17. WITHIN TEN WEEKS of taking 500 mg twice a day, the B17 wiped out FIVE tumors, and I am now CANCER FREE!WILL B17 WORK ON ALL CANCERS?Dr. Krebs MD [who discovered B17] says “yes”. Cancer cells all have the exact same characteristics. Cancer cells, no matter the type of cancer, are known as Trophoblasts. These cells contain an enzyme called Beta-glucosidase, also known as the unlocking enzyme. When Laetrile [B17] comes in contact with the enzyme beta-glucosidase, the Laetrile is broken down to form two molecules of glucose, one molecule of benzaldehyde and one molecule of hydrogen cyanide (HCN). Within the body, the cancer cell-and only the cancer cell-contains that enzyme. The key word here is that the HCN must be FORMED. It is not floating around freely in the Laetrile and then released. It must be manufactured. The enzyme beta-glucosidase, and only that enzyme, is capable of manufacturing the HCN from Laetrile thereby affecting the cancer cell-and only the cancer cell. If there are no cancer cells in the body, there is no beta-glucosidase. If there is no beta-glucosidase, no HCN will be formed from the Laetrile (www.worldwithoutcancer.uk).B17 is NOT FDA approved!!! Therefore, you can’t buy it in the “land of the free.” Here’s where I get mine. It comes out of Mexico.http://www.amazon.com/Novodalin-B17-5…The regime that saved my life:B17 (500mg 2 times a day)
Zinc Citrate (take 30mg with B17; this is the “driver” for the B17)
B15 (highest dose on the bottle; cancer can’t survive around oxygen)
Pancreatic Enzymes (these break down the protein in and around the cancer cell; these can also upset the stomach; if that happens, I wouldn’t take it)
Vit. C (helps the immune system get into the cancer cell when the protein is broken down)
Ginseng (B17 lowers the blood pressure, and because I have low blood pressure, this keeps my BP from dropping)If you can’t take all of these, I’ve heard of folks who’ve only taken the B17 and Zinc Citrate.You can learn more here: www.worldwithoutcancer.org.ukI do not work for these people, I do not know them personally, nor am I selling any products. I just want you or your child to be HEALED. ~Sandi Rog

 

At Reno Integrative Medical Center, we administer B-17, Laetrile, in the context of a full-protocol and rarely use it alone. A truly effective alternative cancer treatment consists of using synergistic compounds together in a way that makes them far more powerful than if used as individual agents.  http://www.renointegrativemedicalcenter.com/laetrile.html

Laetrile as a cancer therapy was met by intense opposition by the Medical Establishment in the past.  Many physicians, who tried it in their protocols, had their licenses taken away by the “Powers that Be.”

Eventually the political pressure became so great that Sloan-Kettering Hospital, (the first “Cancer Center” in the US), agreed to do research with it, ostensibly to see if it showed any benefit in the treatment of Cancer. They assigned one of their most respected, experienced researchers to do the work. When his studies started to show positive benefit, he was called on the carpet. He was told that in no way could he ever show any positive benefit from the use of this natural substance. He resigned instead of compromising his integrity.

There are a number of books about its’ uses that can be purchased that describe how some open minded physicians, (including Dr. Brodie), applied it successfully in treating Cancer.

You can read about this in publications by Ralph Moss, PH.D., who worked at Sloan Kettering at the time this took place.

Through all the controversy it has managed to still be available and in use today. We offer it as a therapy here at Reno Integrative.
 

For more information, go to  https://oncanp.org/world-map/us/

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/10/18/laetrile-cancer-research-cover-up.aspx

www.cancertutor.com

From Laetrile back to Alternative Cancer Therapy

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Klaus Nigel Pertl (German-Canadian) was born in 1960 in Canada. One year later he moved to Germany where he was raised and where his formal education started. Initially trained as a Banker, he worked in corporate finance and management.  He graduated in Germany with a degree in Banking and then moved to London (Great Britain) to continue with a BBA in International Business and Banking and worked in London and New York (USA) for Standard % Poor’s as an analyst for Germany Banks.

Since 1997 he has  worked as a Mind Coach and professional visualization trainer (was personally trained by Jack Black from the MindStore System in the UK). In the same year together with Lothar Hirneise he became the co-founder of the non-profit organization „Krebs21“ (Cancer in the 21th Century) in Germay.

In 2006 again together with the internationally renowned cancer researcher and Co-Founder of 3E, Lothar Hirneise, Klaus he became the co-founder and Managing Director of the 3E-Centre in Germany (in the South of Germany near Stuttgart: www.3e-centre.com) In the 3E-Centre he teaches an alternative cancer program that is based on the knowledge and experience we have gathered from all over the world and in particular from studying with Dr. Johanna Ludwig herself. The 3E-Centre is the only centre world wide that offers the „original“ and „strict“ Budwig Diet for people with cancer.

Klaus focuses in the 3E-Centre on the part of the „mental techniques“. He has taught more than 10,000 people in the last 20 years and his particular strength is his ability to convey complex topics in a simple way.Klaus is married and lives close to Stuttgart in the South of Germany.

Enjoy the Interview: https://www.holistichealthshow.com/wordpress/tag/klaus-pertl-germany/

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Cannabis Extract Expert, Mara Gordon, Speaks on the Holistic Health Show  (know for yourself …. do your own research.)

Mara Gordon, founder, Chief Process Engineer, specializes in the development of cannabis extract treatment protocols for seriously ill patients in California. She is the co-founder of Aunt Zelda’s, Calla Spring Wellness, and Zelda Therapeutics.

Prior to Aunt Zelda’s, Mara worked as a process engineer, helping Fortune 500 companies create intelligent software by utilizing the Rational Unified Process. This experience has enabled her to take a detailed and scientific approach to medical cannabis.

Recognizing a need for patient-focused software, Gordon created CDRMed, an EMR specially developed for the healthcare community. With CDRMed, physicians and medical health professionals are able to make treatment recommendations based on the latest and highest-quality data. This takes the guesswork out of selecting the correct medicines at the dispensary.

Gordon sits on the boards of Zelda Therapeutics, Daya Foundation, International Cannabis Standards Board (ICSB), and Hmbldt. She has presented at multiple CME-accredited medical conferences, including Patients Out of Time 2014, and at POT 2016, delivered a 3.5 hour course along with Drs Cristina Sanchez, Manuel Guzman, and Joe D. Goldstrich. Gordon has spoken at medical cannabis conferences in Australia, Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Israel, as well as numerous events throughout the USA and worldwide. These include CannMed held at Harvard Medical School in April 2016, and Medical Marijuana for Professionals 2014 and 2016. Her work is featured in the upcoming documentaries, “Weed the People”, “Mary Janes: Women of Weed”, and in Joe Dolce’s book, “Brave New Weed”.More information at: https://www.medicaljane.com/directory/professional/mara-gordon/  

Enjoy the Interview:  https://www.holistichealthshow.com/wordpress/2017/07/cannabis-extract-expert-mara-gordon-speak-holistic-health-show/

Grass Routes: https://www.solitarius.org/?s=Cannabis+oil

Researchers are discovering a suite of new locations and functions of endocannabinoid receptors that play roles in sickness and in health.           http://mobile.the-scientist.com/article/49810/grass-routes/ 
 

Stan and Barb Rutner are no strangers to cancer. The married couple, both in their 70s, have run into it before. Barb battled bouts with breast cancer—twice. And about 20 years ago, Stan, a retired dentist with a thriving mini storage business, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. “I just thought I had a cold, flu, type thing. That was it . . . I wasn’t thinking cancer at all,” Stan recalls.

Fortunately, after treating the lymphoma for about six months, it—like Barb’s successful battles with breast cancer—became a thing of the past. By 1989, it was a closed chapter. But in 2011, it came back.

Like before, it struck Stan in the lungs first. Manifesting as a persistent cough, a doctor later revealed cancerous nodes in the lungs that were the real culprits. “Yeah, [my doctor] was really diplomatic. He says, ‘You’re in deep shit.’ Or words to that effect,” Stan recalls. “Yeah, he didn’t sugar coat it at all,” Barb adds. As if that wasn’t enough, doctors later discovered that the cancer had metastasized to his brain.

Like before, the Rutners were able to successfully battle—and beat—Stan’s cancer. But this time, after going through chemotherapy and radiation, they wanted to find a natural medicine that would improve Stan’s quality of life and maybe even prolong it. Medical cannabis did all that and more, surpassing anything they could have hoped for. CULTURE spoke with Stan, Barb, their daughter Corinne and her husband John about this intense and life changing experience with cannabis.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT8ryvvdSto&feature=player_embedded

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Dr. Forsythe expresses his excitement about Cancer Chemosensitivity Testing.AVI

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James W. Forsythe, M.D., H.M.D., has long been considered one of the most respected physicians in the United States, particularly for his treatment of cancer and the legal use bof human growth hormone. In the early 1960s, Dr. Forsythe graduated with honors from University California at Berkeley and also earned his Medical Degree from University of California, San Francisco, before spending two years residency in Pathology at Tripler Army Hospital, Honolulu. After a tour of duty in Vietnam, he returned to San Francisco and completed an internal medicine residency and an oncology fellowship. He is also a world renowned speaker and author. He has co-authored and written chapters in best sellers. To name a few:

  • An Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Cancer
  • KNOCKOUT, interviews with Doctors who are Curing Cancer and BREAKTHROUGH
  • EIGHT STEPS TO WELLNESS ( Suzanne Somers’ number one best sellers)
  • The Ultimate Guide To Natural Health, Quick Reference A-Z Directory of Natural Remedies for Diseases and Ailments
  • Anit-Aging Cures
  • The Healing Power of Sleep
  • Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work and Alternative Medicine Guide 2 Women’s Health Series
  • “Compassionate Oncology” What Conventional Cancer Specialists Don’t Want You To Know.    http://www.drforsythe.com/about-us/about-dr-forsythe

Who We Are:

Nagourney Cancer Institute, formerly Rational Therapeutics, is an accomplished cancer research and testing facility used for the primary purpose of personalizing cancer patient treatments.

We offer personalized cancer testing that helps select the most effective

and least toxic drug regimen for your cancer.

 Preview YouTube video The future of cancer research lies behind us | Robert Nagourney, MD | TEDxSoCal

The future of cancer research lies behind us | Robert Nagourney, MD | TEDxSoCal

We also help pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms streamline their research and development process for bringing new compounds to market.

While Scottie Hamilton’s Chemocare.com and Radcare.com tries to ease the harsh         side effects of these toxic agents!!!!!

Preview YouTube video Surviving the cancer cure | Scott Hamilton | TEDxKC

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IF I would have went through chemo and needed to detox. I would eat clean and take Essiac Tea. I know a gentlemen that had chemo attacking his body because of the food preservative he had going into his body during cancer, He went death bed to chopping wood in a matter of weeks through a detox ….  http://www.bulk-essiac-tea.com/essiac-tea-dosage.html

Preview Why Cancer Patients Must Eliminate Pesticides in Food – Dr. Robert Scott Bell

 
Why Cancer Patients Must Eliminate Pesticides in Food – Dr. Robert Scott Bell
Published on Dec 22, 2013
UPDATE: Video now has full closed-caption (subtitles) in English. Allowing it to be viewed in many other languages through Google’s auto-translation captioning. Enjoy.
The very wise Alan Watts breaks down what’s wrong with the world at large, and does so back in 1970! His foreshadowing of the manipulation of the food supply through high yield crops is eery and so very true (i.e., Monsanto and their Ready Roundup crops).
He proposes a number of things we can do to change our attitudes towards life and the planet. I’m sorry to say he would be greatly disappointed if he were alive today, however we still have a chance to set things right and fulfill Watts’ dream of unity, peace, and love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LXiSPpfM54 
 

Malcolm Gladwell once said if someone dedicates 10,000 hours to a field they become an expert  IN  “Tipping Point” author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce — and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIiAAhUeR6Y&vl=en          

Published on Apr 3, 2017

In Caroline’s unique style, she talks about 3 key choices people can make to change their life.

Caroline Myss is a five-time New York Times bestselling author and internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition.

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This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Preview YouTube video Choices that can Change your Life | Caroline Myss | TEDxFindhornSalon

 
Choices that can Change your Life | Caroline Myss | TEDxFindhornSalon

Eva Marie Cassidy (February 2, 1963 – November 2, 1996) was an American vocalist and guitarist known for her interpretations of jazz and blues. In 1992, she released her first album, The Other Side, a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by the 1996 live solo album titled Live at Blues Alley. Although she had been honored by the Washington Area Music Association, she was virtually unknown outside her native Washington, DC. She died of melanoma in 1996.

Two years after her death, Cassidy’s music was brought to the attention of British audiences, when her versions of “Fields of Gold” and “Over the Rainbow” were played by Mike Harding and Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2. Following the overwhelming response,     a camcorder recording of “Over the Rainbow”, taken at Blues Alley in Washington by her friend Bryan McCulley, was shown on BBC Two‘s Top of the Pops 2.

Shortly afterwards, the compilation album Songbird climbed to the top of the UK Albums Charts, almost three years after its initial release. The chart success in the United Kingdom and Ireland led to increased recognition worldwide.

https://www.youtube.com/user/evacassidyofficial

Her posthumously released recordings, including three UK number 1 records, have sold more than ten million copies.[1] Her music has also charted top 10 positions in Australia, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland.[2] 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXU219b3Zdw

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Cryoablation a Boon for Brevard’s breast cancer patients

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Ken

CRYO ABLATION BREAST CANCER SURGERY               MARIA SONNENBERG, FOR FLORIDA TODAY Published 9:56 a.m. Sept. 27, 2016

Dr. Emran Imami, medical director of TEPAS Breast Center in Melbourne, performs       the first cryoablation assisted lumpectomy for breast cancer in Brevard, assisted by     Susie Martinez, at the Apollo Surgery Center in Melbourne.

Brenda Reynolds had let the time between mammograms spread out until five years had elapsed. When her primary physician encouraged her to get going and get a mammogram. Reynolds eventually agreed, a wise decision, for Reynolds’ mammogram revealed a 1½ cm malignant tumor.    Mammograms 🙁  vs. Thermograms  🙂

Luck was on Reynolds’ side, for the tumor was still small. Better yet, she could avail herself of the procedure known as cryoablation, which Dr. Emran Imami, medical director of TEPAS Breast Center, used to eradicate the tumor with the least amount of issues, discomfort and downtime for Reynolds.

Her age and the size of her tumor made for a perfect candidate for cryoablation. Reynolds is the first patient in the county to benefit from this technique, which freezes the tumor mass with liquid nitrogen, thus damaging adjacent vasculature, which in turn cuts off tumor growth.

Cryoablation, per se, is not news.

“For decades, cryoablation has been used to treat benign and malignant tumors in the liver, lung and prostate, but not the breast,” Imami said.

Imami used the Visica 2 Treatment System, created by California-based Sanarus as an alternative to traditional surgical lumpectomy. The System is FDA-cleared for the ablation of both cancerous and benign tumors.

Leading radiologists and breast surgeons around the country have turned to this option for early stage breast tumors in hundreds of occasions, but according to data from Sanarus, Imami is the first specialist along the Space Coast to take advantage of this procedure.

FLORIDA TODAY

Radiation options for breast cancer patients

“This new option is a safe and effective nonsurgical treatment to destroy tumors and surrounding tissue,” Imami said.

Although it seems ideal because it is so minimally invasive, cryoablation is, unfortunately, not for everyone. It is considered an appropriate treatment for women 65 years and older with early stage breast cancer.

 “I could have the procedure done only because the tumor was so small,” said Reynolds, a librarian retired from Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy.

Using the Sanarus technology, Imami placed a probe in the center of Reynolds’ tumor    and froze it with liquid nitrogen.Thirty years ago, Reynolds would have faced a much  more drastic treatment.

“It would have been a radical mastectomy back then, but we’ve gone from that to lumpectomy to now cryoablation,” Imami said. “Medicine has moved significantly     toward less invasive procedures such as cryoablation.”

With cryoablation, a hollow-tipped probe is passed through a tiny quarter-inch incision into the breast. Using ultrasound imagery, Imami guided the probe into the center of Reynolds’ tumor and then directed low-pressure liquid nitrogen to form an ice ball around it.

It gives new meaning to the word ‘popsicle,’ ” Reynolds joked.

FLORIDA TODAY

Brevard moms find new direction after breast cancer

Tumor cells are destroyed through several freeze-thaw cycles, while the surrounding healthy tissue remains intact. The dead tumor cells are expelled by the body over a period that lasts between 3 to 18 months.

The benefits of the procedure are many. As opposed to a traditional lumpectomy, which lasts about an hour, cryoablation can be performed in 10 to 20 minutes. No breast tissue  is removed, so the shape of the breast is maintained with little scarring.

“Most patients report minimal discomfort and are able to resume normal activity immediately,” Imami said.

 Reynolds agrees.

“I haven’t had one moment of discomfort, other than just a little rash and some itchiness,” she said.

After the outpatient procedure, Reynolds underwent SAVI, or Strut-Adjusted Volume Implant radiation, nicknamed “Hollywood designer radiation.” The high-intensity SAVI device, which is implanted into the tumor cavity, reduces treatment from six weeks to    five days.  The device is loaded with radioactive seeds to provide radiation from inside     the breast, thus minimizing harm to healthy tissue and lowering the risk of negative side effects.

“We’re giving radiation from the inside out, so you’re using a smaller dose,” Imami said.

Cryoablation is also indicated for issues such as fibroadenomas, benign lesions of the breast. The most popular form of breast abnormalities !!!!

If there is a down side to the use of cryoablation with breast cancer patients, it is the fact that Medicare and many other insurers do not cover the procedure.

“They’re lagging behind in acceptance, but it won’t be long until it becomes mainstream,” Imami said.

Reynolds knows she dodged a huge bullet by being at the right place at the right time with the right doctors. She will not be lagging behind her mammogram schedule ever again.

Tepas Breast Center is located at the Nasa Palms Professional Center: 1140 Broadband Drive, Melbourne Florida 32901. Tepas’ phone number: 321-312-4178.    https://www.facebook.com/TEPASBreastCenter/ 

Published on Oct 24, 2016

Mindy Levy from Lite Rock 99.3 sits with Emran Imami, MD from TEPAS Breast Center to discuss the newest technology and advancements in the world of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer treatments.

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Posted on July 28, 2017 by Ken
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Entering The Realm of Stillness

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  by Sam Tabibzadeh
The Way of Meditation A few months ago, I had the privilege of looking after a kitten. Never before had I taken care of a young cat, so it was very much to    my amazement that I discovered just how observant cats are. The Essence     of Life Unlike humans, cats do not have any form of mental chatter within their minds.  This allows for an intense presence to flow out of the animal and into what they do. This presence comes from the Source and is intrinsic to Life.
 

The Source may also be referred to as life itself, the Universe, God, the soul, being, stillness…whatever you wish to call it. But know that the Source is eternal and timeless and allows for all the visible to exist. A label cannot truly define it.

Whether you are religious or not, I kindly ask you now to read these words with complete awareness and feel — not think about — the energy within you and, ultimately, the Being you are.

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Have you seen how a cat stares out of a window for long periods, watching the movement of living beings and objects without the slightest irritation or impatience?

Most humans would struggle with this simple activity. But why is this? It’s merely to do with judgement.

“This is boring,” says the mind. “I’ve got more important things to do. I haven’t the time for this.”

You may argue that a cat does not have to go to work, pay bills, or say…arrange a family reunion. However, if you are able to see beyond the stress in your life experience, you will be able to feel an energy that is beyond what the mind can comprehend.

This is the energy in which a cat dwells — and fundamentally fuses with.

I am talking not of an abstract idea that we can think of, but of that infinite Being which you are — one that is easily concealed by layers of mind-related stress, a conditioned past, and a fictitious future.

I ask you now to see beyond your conditioning and allow your true self — the essence of who you really are — to shine forth.

You are divine and infinite. Know that the same essence that is within us is present within everything — cats, in particular. In humans, however, this essence is clouded by thought and thus out of alignment with Life itself. Do you see now how our inner states are reflective of our outer world, and vice versa?

Cats watch with their souls, not their minds.

These fascinating beings are truly in alignment with Life. The very nature of Life exists     in all beings, but is obscured in some more than others.

Death

What is death to the infinite, timeless, and formless Being that you are? Absolutely nothing.

A “no-thing” cannot be destroyed. Only things — external forms — die.

Our outer form may age and eventually our bodies will fail, but ultimately, we can view death similarly to how we view the ego.

Once the ego is destroyed, Life flourishes. Ego implies identification with everything you are not. And so when the ego diminishes, what we think of as loss is actually only the destruction of a socially-molded false self.

Similarly, when the body dies, behind that “lifelessness” still exists an eternal aliveness that gracefully returns to the Source — the Universe.

You are now most likely thinking: “How do you know this?” Quite simply, I do not.

I choose not to get entrapped in thought and instead be grateful and appreciative of every moment I have.

Nevertheless, I do know for certain that our perceptions have great influence. If our minds (forms) suffer before we realize our true self (formless) then who is to say that all is lost when our bodies (forms) die?

In this sense, death does not really exist and is only an event in time.

Dissolving Pain With Presence

Realize how your mind creates resistance to life and how it avoids the natural flow of life by projecting into the future or dwelling in the past.

Notice how the mind repeatedly invents scenarios that have not come into existence and how it constructs stories that did not actually happen.

This is not to say that we should never use our minds productively, or learn from our past, or use our imagination in exciting and creative ways. We should do all these things, but know that compulsive thinking is destructive.

It is an addiction that the majority of humans suffer from. It denies us from accessing the moment. Know that what has happened and whatmay happen are not important compared to what can be found in the moment, in the Now.

In fact, when we free ourselves of past and future and live only in the present, we actually create a better future — one that arrives as a present. That being said, whatever it is you are holding on to, let it go, and whatever it is you wish to do, do it now rather than waiting and saying: “I’ll do it tomorrow.”

Remember that tomorrow will arrive as the present moment. In Alan Watts’ words: “The Future is just a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now.”

Lao Tzu stated: “By letting go it all gets done.”

This is true. Cling to nothing.

Letting go implies that you choose to release negativity, and so you become completely present and therefore able to do what is required in the moment.

Buddha said: “The root of suffering is attachment.”

If we are identified by our minds we will suffer greatly. To bring about detachment, we must first know that our minds do not define who we are. We are far deeper than that.

A useful analogy to bear in mind (yes, you can still use your mind for practical purposes)  is to think of the mind as waves and of our Being as the vast, still ocean beneath the waves.

The deep ocean allows the waves to rise and collapse, never feeling threatened by the ripples it creates.

So why are you feeling threatened by thoughts, feelings, and emotions? Have you, the ocean, not yet realized your wholeness? Why are you bothered by these waves of feelings, thoughts, and emotions that emerge and collapse?

This moment offers joy, grace, and peace. So why not merge with it by diving into the depths of your Being — which does not live in time (pastor future) — instead of trying       to control the size of the waves and the frequency with which they arrive?

Feel This Moment Fully

Essentially, the Now is life unfolding moment by moment — a continuum of events —    and as such, the concept cannot be interpreted or labelled by the mind. It has to be felt     by the soul.

If you try to label this moment then you may miss this moment. And if you try to understand this moment, you will become lost in thought through compulsive thinking.

The Now will only greet those who welcome it. And my, what gifts it has to offer. Do not run from this moment, even if overwhelming feelings and emotions exist — such as fear and sorrow. If you do not resist the fear or sorrow and allow it to simply be, then these feelings and emotions will become transmuted into grace and peace.

When you live in acceptance your vision becomes clearer,  and what you once perceived     as a nemesis will be revealed to be something that threatens only your ego, not your being.

Underneath the feelings and emotions, there is a gift. A gift that will not only dissolve pain, but enhance your vision. So when unfavorable circumstances arise, you will actually be able to choose to not suffer.

Merge with Life itself. Live in the moment.

Be still. Observe. Be at peace and at one with the moment and the Universe itself.             Be as content as a cat.

After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression that causes him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmatic trio of strangers led by a woman named Papa. Through this meeting, Mack finds important truths that will transform his understanding of his tragedy and change his life forever.

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The predominant element in the Sun is hydrogen, and then helium: by mass, it is 70% hydrogen, 28% helium, 1.5% carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, and 0.5% all other elements. The fusion reaction on our Sun manufactures from hydrogen other elements. The 2nd most abundant element is Helium, it makes 26 percent helium of the elements. Other elements include: oxygen, carbon, neon, nitrogen, magnesium, iron and silicon.   Almost 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. Only about 0.85% is composed of another five elements: potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium. https://www.google.com/search?site=webhp&source=hp&q=elements+of+human+body&oq=elements+of+human&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0l4.2117.8601.0.12997.19.18.0.0.0.0.579.3141.0j16j5-2.18.0….0…1.1.64.psy-ab..1.18.3137.6..35i39k1j0i131k1j0i67k1j0i20k1.dQNisKqqpTw

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Hubble found that stars are not uniformly distributed throughout space, but are gathered together in vast collections called galaxies. By measuring the light from galaxies, Hubble could determine their velocities. He was expecting that as many galaxies would be moving towards us as were moving away. This is what one would have in a universe that was unchanging with time. But to his surprise, Hubble found that nearly all the galaxies were moving away from us. Moreover, the further galaxies were from us, the faster they were moving away.

The universe was not unchanging with time as everyone had thought previously. It was expanding. The distance between distant galaxies was increasing with time.The expansion of the universe was one of the most important intellectual discoveries of the 20th century, or of any century. It transformed the debate about whether the universe had a beginning. If galaxies are moving apart now, they must have been closer together in the past. If their speed had been constant, they would all have been on top of one another about 15 billion years ago. Was this the beginning of the universe? Many scientists were still unhappy with the universe having a beginning because it seemed to imply that physics broke down. One would have to invoke an outside agency, which for convenience, one can call God, to determine how the universe began. They therefore advanced theories in which the universe was expanding at the present time, but didn’t have a beginning.

 If Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity is correct, there will be a singularity, a point of infinite density and spacetime curvature, where time has a beginning. Observational evidence to confirm the idea that the universe had a very dense beginning came in October 1965, a few months after my first singularity result, with the discovery of a faint background of microwaves throughout space. These microwaves are the same as those in your microwave oven, but very much less powerful.

They would heat your pizza only to minus 271 point 3 degrees centigrade, not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it. You can actually observe these microwaves yourself. Set your television to an empty channel. A few percent of the snow you see on the screen will be caused by this background of microwaves.

The only reasonable interpretation of the background is that it is radiation left over from an early very hot and dense state. As the universe expanded, the radiation would have cooled until it is just the faint remnant we observe today.

Although the singularity theorems of Penrose Hawking, predicted that the universe had a beginning, they didn’t say how it had begun. The equations of General Relativity would break down at the singularity. Thus Einstein’s theory cannot predict how the universe will begin, but only how it will evolve once it has begun. There are two attitudes one can take to the results of Penrose Hawking myself.    One is to that God chose how the universe began for reasons we could not understand.

The conventional view that time began at the big bang is often said to be based on what is known as Penrose Hawking singularity theorems. In our last film, Abhay Ashtekar and Ivan Agullo argued that a singularity is replaced with a bounce in quantum gravity. In this film, we interview Sir Roger Penrose, one of the authors of the conventional narrative who presents an alternative view which he calls CCC (Conformal Cyclic Cosmology). In CCC the big bang is not the ultimate beginning but it did not arise from a bounce; instead the universe rescales itself, losing track of how big it is as massive particles disappear (and hence the ability to measure space and time) in the remote future. This cyclic behaviour may be extended to the infinite past and future.

This was the view of Pope John Paul. At a conference on cosmology in the Vatican, the Pope told the delegates that it was OK to study the universe after it began, but they should not inquire into the beginning itself, because that was the moment of creation, and the work of God. I was glad he didn’t realize I had presented a paper at the conference suggesting how the universe began. I didn’t fancy the thought of being handed over to the Inquisition, like Galileo.

The other interpretation of our results, which is favored by most scientists, is that it indicates that the General Theory of Relativity breaks down in the very strong gravitational fields in the early universe. It has to be replaced by a more complete theory. One would expect this anyway, because General Relativity does not take account of the small scale structure of matter, which is governed by quantum theory. This does not matter normally, because the scale of the universe is enormous compared to the microscopic scales of quantum theory. But when the universe is the Planck size, a billion  trillion trillionth of a centimeter, the two scales are the same, and quantum theory has to be taken into account.

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 Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity unified time and space as spacetime, but time was still different from space and was like a corridor, which either had a beginning and end, or went on forever. However, when one combines General Relativity with Quantum Theory,  Time however, seemed to be different. It appeared to be separate from space, and to be like a model railway track. If it had a beginning, there would have to be someone to set the trains going. This means one can get rid of the problem of time having a beginning, in a similar way in which we got rid of the edge of the world.
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Suppose the beginning of the universe was like the South Pole of the earth, with degrees of latitude playing the role of time. The universe would start as a point at the South Pole. As one moves north, the circles of constant latitude, representing the size of the universe, would expand. To ask what happened before the beginning of the universe would become a meaningless question, because there is nothing south of the South Pole.
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The world record for inflation was in Germany after the First World War. Prices rose by a factor of ten million in a period of 18 months. But that was nothing compared to inflation in the early universe. The universe expanded by a factor of million trillion trillion in a tiny fraction of a second. Unlike inflation in prices, inflation in the early universe was a very good thing. It produced a very large and uniform universe, just as we observe.
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Despite having had some great successes, not everything is solved. We do not yet have a good theoretical understanding of the observations that the expansion of the universe is accelerating again, after a long period of slowing down. Without such an understanding, we cannot be sure of the future of the universe. Will it continue to expand forever? Is inflation a law of Nature? Or will the universe eventually collapse again? New observational results and theoretical advances are coming in rapidly. Cosmology is a very exciting and active subject. We are getting close to answering the age old questions. Why are we here? Where did we come from?
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This expanding universe is like an expanding consciousness:
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“Consciousness creates reality,” a statement that has gained a lot of attention across various alternative media outlets around the world. Make no mistake, consciousness has been (for quite some time) studied by numerous scientists, especially in its relation to quantum physics and how it might be correlated with the nature of our reality.

What is consciousness? Consciousness includes a number of things. It’s how we perceive our world, our thoughts, being aware, our intentions and more.

“Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking in the radio for the announcer.” – Nasseim Haramein, director of research for the Resonance Project

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”  –  Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918

“It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness.”  Eugene Wigner, theoretical physicist and mathematician. He received a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963

 The statement that “consciousness creates reality” comes with a number of different questions. Does this mean we as individuals (and on a collective level as one human race) can shape and create whatever reality we’d like for ourselves? Does it mean we can manifest a certain lifestyle, and attract certain experiences? Does it happen instantly? Does it take time? How do we do it?

Although we might not be able to answer these questions with absolute scientific certainty, we do know that yes, a correlation between consciousness and our physical material world does indeed exist in some way, shape or form. The extent of that correlation (again from a modern day scientific point of view) is still not well understood, but we know of the correlation, and we know it must have some sort of significance.

Although this is one of the most popular experiments used to posit the connection between consciousness and physical reality, there are several other  studies that clearly show that consciousness, or factors that are associated with consciousness are directly correlated with our reality in some way. A number of experiments in the field of parapsychology have also demonstrated this.

Sure, we might not understand the extent of this connection, and in most cases scientists can’t even explain it. However they are, and have been observed time and time again.

Below is a video  demonstration from the film “What The Bleep Do We Know.”

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Change requires action, but the place within which that action comes from is most important.

Modern day science, especially quantum physics, has been catching up to ancient mysticism and concepts that are/were so deeply ingrained in various cultures throughout the ancient world. One great example of this is the fact that everything is energy , and nothing is solid. You can read more about that here.

“We are what we think, all that we are arises with our thoughts, with our thoughts we make the world.” – Gautama Buddha.

As soon as we recognize that the mind is a product of evolutionary processes, our view of the mind and its place in nature is radically altered. A recurring idea in the belief systems of the world is the notion that human beings are composed of two separate and separable parts: a physical body and an immaterial mind or soul. Not everyone has held this view, but it’s not (as commonly claimed) unique to the Western tradition. Many people have believed that the mind stands outside nature; it is a part of us that transcends the material world and our biology.

Evolutionary theory completely overthrows this view. From an evolutionary perspective,    it is impossible to maintain that the mind stands outside nature. Instead, it is a tiny fragment of nature, valued only by those tiny fragments of nature that possess it. Mind is not something separate from matter; it is a process embodied in matter.

Now here’s the point: When we fully digest that the mind is the activity of an evolved brain, it radically transforms our view of the mind’s place in the universe – and our view of the universe itself. The physical universe ceases to be an unconscious object, observed and explored by conscious minds which somehow stand above or outside it. Conscious minds are part of the physical universe, as much as rocks and potato peelers. Our consciousness is not simply consciousness of the universe; our consciousness is a part of the universe, and thus the universe itself is partially conscious. When you contemplate the universe, part of the universe becomes conscious of itself.  http://kjmaclean.com/CreationofUniverse.html

The history of the universe looks very different from this perspective. For billions and billions of years, the universe was here and no one knew about it. More to the point, for     all that time, the universe itself had no idea that it existed. But then, around 13.82 billion years after the Big Bang, and almost four billion years since life first evolved, something strange began to happen: Tiny parts of the universe became conscious, and came to know something about themselves and the universe of which they are a part.

Eventually, some   of these tiny parts of the universe – the parts we call ‘scientists’ and ‘scientifically-informed laypeople’ – came to understand the Big Bang and the evolutionary process through which they had come to exist. After an eternity of unconsciousness, the universe now had some glimmering awareness that it existed and some understanding of where it had come from. This might sound like a strange thing for a universe to do, but perhaps it’s not; perhaps many possible universes would become conscious of themselves given sufficient time.

So much for the history of the conscious universe; what about its destiny? There are many competing suggestions on this topic, some more optimistic than realistic. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit palaeontologist, suggested that the universe will continue to expand into greater and greater degrees of awareness, finally coalescing into an integrated, universal consciousness, which he dubbed the Omega Point and identified with Christ. Modern cosmology indicates that such suggestions are more interesting than they are plausible. Although the universe is conscious of itself at present, the projected heat death of the universe makes it all but certain that the time will come when the lights go out and the universe slips back into unconsciousness.

The Bible explains why the heavens and the earth exist. This is the mystery of the universe, and this mystery is God Himself. Romans 1:20 says, “For the invisible things of Him, both His eternal power and divine characteristics, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being perceived by the things made, so that they would be without excuse.”

The universe was created by God and declares the existence of God (Psalms 19:1; Acts 14:15-17). When we see the heavens,… the earth, the stars, the sun, and the moon, we cannot deny that there is a sovereign God (Psalms 8:1, 3). Even after billions of years, the order in the universe is maintained, and we still enjoy the distinct difference between the seasons and the definite timing of day and night. Through the universe we can see a glimpse of God’s power, God’s glory, and God’s divine characteristics.

The universe was also created because of God’s purpose to enter into man (Revelation 4:11). Without God, the entire universe is empty and dead, and without God, man is an empty vessel. John 4:24 tells us that God is Spirit, and Zechariah 12:1 tells us that God created man with a spirit to contain Him, a spirit that is as important as the heavens and the earth. You only need to open your heart and pray to Him, and God will enter into you. Then you will become a person with meaning, and you will enjoy God as the mystery of the entire universe.

The explanation to this mystery can be found in two places: in the universe itself and in   the Bible, which is the word of God (2 Timothy 3:16).  Over two thousand and seven hundred years ago, Isaiah wrote that God sits above the circle of the earth (Isaiah 40:22). More than a thousand years before that, Job said, “He [God] stretches out the north over the void; He hangs the earth upon nothing” (Job 26:7). Today it has been confirmed by science that the earth is indeed round and not flat, and that the earth is hanging upon nothing. Science confirms that the elements of the human body are simply the elements    of dust. However, the Bible told us long ago that the human body was formed out of dust.

“Oh God!
You are the Creator of the heavens and the earth,
and You are the mystery of the universe!
Without You, my life has no meaning.
Lord Jesus! I open my heart to You. Come into me

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Sorry if I am getting to Biblical. I am looking for the meaning of Life  O:)

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” – Unknown

If we look at the world and examine it on a collective level, what do we see? How do we perceive it? Right now, the masses perceive it as being born, going to school, paying bills, raising a family and finding a “job” within the current paradigm to support yourself. No judgement here, but many people on the planet are not resonating with this experience. They want change. We’ve been repeating and perceiving our reality this way for a very long time, with very little information about what is really happening on and to our planet.

It’s almost like we are robotic drones that are trained and brainwashed to accept things the way they are. To not question what is happening in our world and to continue on with the status quo, only caring for ourselves and our own lives. As Noam Chomsky would say, our consent has been manufactured. If we continue down this path and continue to perceive and view reality as “this is just the way it is,” we will, in essence, prolong that type of existence and experience for the human race without ever changing it.

In order to create and manifest a new reality for ourselves, our thought patters and the way we perceive reality must change. What changes the way we perceive reality? Information does. When new information emerges it changes the way we look at things and as a result, our reality changes, and we begin to manifest a new experience and open our minds to a broader view of reality. Not to say that we can’t manifest a new physical form in the blink of an eye, and that we are not capable of doing that, but it appears to be something that takes time, something gradual, something we don’t quite understand yet.

What’s also important about teachings from new physics is that, if factors of consciousness are associated with the creation of our reality, that means change starts within. It starts with the way in which we are observing the outer world from our inner world. This touches on the earlier point of how we perceive our reality. Our perception of the external world might very well be a reflection of our inner world, our inner state of being.

So ask yourself, are you happy? Are you observing, perceiving and acting from a place        of love? From a place of hate or anger?  From a place of peace?  All of these factors are associated with our consciousness, with our observation, the one (or the many) who are doing the “observing” might play a large role in what type of physical world the human race manifests for itself, what do you think?

We are indeed the observers,  can we create change and break patterns to open up new possibilities, change our direction, all through the way in which we observe ourselves, others and the world around us.

I believe that the human race is in the process of waking up to a number of different things, simultaneously. As a result, the way we perceive and “observe” the world around us (on a mass scale) is starting to drastically change. So if you want to help change the world, change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change.

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Ghandi.

People and information usually comes into our lives for a reason:
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  I recently posted a message on Suzanne Somers’ Facebook page and was responding to her post regarding the death of her cancer doctor who was a pioneer in the field of cancer treatment using new methods that have greatly helped her.
 
 I mentioned my experience with cancer ( acute promylecitic leukemia) and having no recurrence in 18 years. I was very weak after having chemo and they wanted to continue that at a lower dose for insurance to keep me in remission. I decided to try something that would not poison me to restore my health.My oncologist said if I did this I would be dead within a year and when I said if it came back and my methods were ineffective I would come back to him, but he said no he would not see me then. 
 
What I took was a pill called Tribelene and another called Xian. Tribelene also comes in tea form.Tribelene contains blood purifiers that have been used in different cultures to fight cancer. Xian has ingredients that strengthen you and are over- all tonics.The man who developed these formulas, Jason Winters, had cancer. He was told it was terminal . His grandma had been an herbalist.
 
He decided to search out herbs and other things that had worked for others to defeat cancer.He found.different things that worked for a while, but when he hit on the combo in Tribelene it effectively shrank his tumors til they were gone! He was an Englishman who lived in the U.S.A. He was knighted by the queen of England for his herbal formulas that helped so many.
 
Last I checked his website was still up and you can order product from there , but I used to find his book and his products at many local health food stores here in Las Vegas, Nv.I took it for about 3 years just to be safe. I also got prayer at my church whenever the fear of leukemia would come back.I believe in walking in faith, not fear and I kept the scriptures regarding healing frequently in my sight to help me to keep in faith.
 
 Joel Osteen’s mother Dodie Osteen has a wonderful book about how she used this method and the scriptures she used when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Healing is a part of what is included in salvation, but just as forgiveness of sin is ours by faith in Jesus as savior and eternal life by faith, so is healing and deliverance, by faith.
 
Reading those scriptures helped me stir up my faith as I personalized them. Before I tried this protocol I was praying and asked God to show me what I could do to help myself and asked him to bring it quickly and to hit me over the head with it, so I would not ignore it as the answer. The next morning one of my daughters came to my door and brought me a book by Jason Winters detailing how he overcame cancer.
 
 I didn’t follow every thing he suggested, but he gave some excellent advice and the man who sent it to me used to have cancer and after following the advice in the book, he doesn’t anymore.I don’t either! Praise God! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xqhQ-7Yybg 



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The Great Awakening

Posted on July 23, 2017 by Ken

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“The World doesn’t want to be saved. It wants to be loved, that’s how we save it.

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Mind Over Matter:  Self-help guru Tony Robbins  says fire walking helps you do               what you’ve been putting off in your and break through.  After 12 hours at Tony’s  “Unleash the Power Within” seminar,  it’s 12:30 a.m. and the burning coals have            been laid is Oprah up for the challenge? Watch Oprah and Sheri Salata, president               of Harpo and the Oprah Winfrey Network, as they psych themselves up for some             fire walking!

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 Karma is not just a belief system; it is a precise science.
 Even more important is that it is a science of consequences, consequences that we ourselves have to bear in our lives. Therefore it’s vital to understand this science..

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The Law of Karma 🙂

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1. All of nature obeys laws

The law of karma is: For every action there is equal and opposite reaction. In the Bible,        it is phrased as: As you sow, so shall you reap.

Science has discovered that all of nature obeys laws. From the microscopic to the macroscopic, for any interaction of any kind, nature follows laws. In fact, science is nothing but a study and application of nature’s laws. If all of nature is governed by laws, why should we humans be an exception to such laws?
There is a saying: we can never break God’s laws; we can only break ourselves against God’s laws. If somebody says, “I don’t believe in the law of gravity” and jumps from the top of a ten-storied building, what will happen? He will definitely not break the law of gravity, but surely he will break himself against the law. He will fall down and break his leg, or he may even break his head. Similarly, we can never break any of the laws of God. Just as the law of gravity is impartial and inexorable and acts on all physical objects indiscriminately, the law of karma is impartial and inexorable and acts on all living entities indiscriminately.

Doubts About Karma

2. Why not action-reaction in one life?

Somebody may ask, “Why should I suffer now for my actions in a previous life? Why so much delay?” Different seeds fructify after different time durations. Grains harvest after two or three months, some fruit seeds produce fruits after twenty years and some seeds may even take hundred years to fructify. Every action that we do is like a seed sown. The seed will fructify and we cannot escape the result.  One may say,  “I don’t like this fruit,         I don’t want it.” But one will be forced to eat the fruit, even if it is thorny. The reactions    will come,  but different types of karma seeds (actions)  have different time durations    after which they fructify.

Why do different actions give reactions after different time durations?

There is a saying, “The mills of God grind slow but they grind exceedingly fine.”

So, every single action will be accounted for, sooner or later. The Srimad Bhagavatam  gives the example: if we have a cowshed with thousand calves and if we leave a mother  cow there, she will easily find out where her calf is among those thousands.

  She has this mystical ability.  Similarly,  our karma will find us among the millions of people on this planet There may be thousands of people going on the road but only one    of them meets with an accident. It is not by chance, it’s by karma.  Thereby,  the law of karma works exceedingly fine; it may be slow to act, but no one can escape.

2. Why are the ignorant not excused?

Once a person driving on a bike came across a red signal and slowed down. Then he saw a buffalo walking confidently without considering the signal. Seeing this, he also started, and immediately, the traffic policeman stopped and fined him. He asked the policeman, “You didn’t fine the buffalo, why me?” The policeman replied, “Because you are a bigger buffalo!”

The buffalo does not have the intelligence to understand the law, but we human beings do. If we are driving, it is not the government’s duty to educate us about the laws of the state. It is our duty to learn the state laws. Similarly, if we are living in this world taking air, water, sunlight and food from nature, we need to follow the rules laid down by God.

If one stays at a hotel, eats, sleeps and watches TV, and so on, then obviously he will have to pay for all the facilities provided by the hotel for his comfort. If the bill is not paid, a few reminders will come. And if the bill is still not paid, severe reactions are sure to come. At that time, one can’t take the stance that “I did not know that I have to pay the bill for staying at the hotel.”

Similarly, it is not for material nature to teach us our duties. When we take human birth,  it is for us to learn  the laws of karma.   After jumping from the top of a 10-story building and breaking his bones, a child cannot say, “I didn’t know that if I jump from a 10-storied building, I will fall down and break my bones”. The law of gravity will not excuse him. Just as the law of gravity is impartial and inexorable, so is the law of karma.

Another important point to note is that ignorance is not an excuse for sin; rather, ignorance is the consequence of sin. For example, when a person commits a crime, he        is put in a jail. In a standard jail, often there are reformers who give good counsel to the prisoners so that they will become good citizens. But if in the jail also, the prisoner acts criminally and starts beating the other co-prisoners, counselors and guards, then he will be taken from the normal prison cell  and put in a dark dungeon  where he will be given food from the window and nobody will come to give him counsel. Why is that? Because   he rejected the opportunity for counseling earlier, now he is put in a place where he gets no counseling.

Similarly, if today somebody is born in a social situation or in a cultural environment where that person never gets  to know about the law of karma,  then that’s because he     has, by his past action shown God and the material energy, the superintendent, “I am not interested in knowing about your laws; I don’t care. I will do whatever I want.” That’s why he is put in a place where he has no opportunity for getting to know about God. Of course, God is not just a judge; he is also a loving father. Therefore, God’s mercy is greater than His justice.

That is why, all over the world people today have the opportunity to turn towards God. Actually in everybody’s life, God by His grace, arranges such circumstances at least once during the human form of life when one has the opportunity to think about “what am I living for?”, “what is the purpose of life?” and “what is life all about?” That time the curtains of ignorance are just opening and the stream of enlightenment is coming through. If at that time one seeks knowledge and wisdom, then God will guide him to a place where he will surely get wisdom, and that’s how a person can get spiritual knowledge even from the situation where he is deprived of spiritual knowledge.

3. Why do natural calamities kill thousands of innocent people?

Let’s consider a less-known incident during the tsunami disaster that happened in the Indian subcontinent a few years ago.

On the morning of that disaster, just before the tsunami struck, some scuba divers went scuba diving into the ocean to look for jewels. When they went under water, they suddenly felt a force pushing them upwards. They struggled to resist the force till it subsided. Then they went deeper under water, did their work, came back to the surface of the ocean and swam back to the coastline – only to find that there was no coast line! While they were under the water, the tsunami had devastated everything.

Just consider, the tsunami killed those who were on the land, but those who were under the water were unharmed! If these Scuba divers had ventured into the ocean a little later or a little earlier, they would have been on the surface when the killer wave hit. However,  by their karma they were not supposed  to die at that time, so although they were closest  to the tsunami, they did not die.

   Another even more amazing example:  During an earthquake in Gujarat,  there was a mother who had a small baby sucking on her breast. Suddenly the earthquake struck and  a column of the roof fell on the mother. The mother died on the spot. Almost twenty-four hour later, when the rescue workers worked their way down to the debris, they found the mother dead and the infant moving his hands and legs holding on to his mother’s breast. The infant is so tender that one small blow can prove fatal for him, yet there it was safe amidst a quake that proved fatal for many healthy adults.

What we learn from incidents like these is that although natural calamities kill in mass, they don’t kill blindly. Only those who have the kind of karma for which they have to die  at that particular time will be killed. This is an example of mass karma.

Mass karma involves a group of people who have done different kinds of bad karmas. The reaction of their karma is that they are all supposed to die. But material nature gives that reaction to many people efficiently in one stroke through a calamity. For example, all such people may be brought together  in one airplane  and that airplane will crash. The person who is not supposed to die will not be on that flight perhaps because his car broke down  on the way to the airport and he missed the flight.

In this way, the knowledge of the law of karma helps us to make sense out of our suffering and face it with calmness.

Secondly, it helps us prepare for the future with confidence. It is not that just by knowing about karma, we will become free from suffering. But we become like a sick patient who has understood what the disease is and how to cure it. The pain is still there, but it is going to decrease. But for the person who doesn’t know the cure, his pain is just going to increase and, on top of that, he will be feeling helpless and dejected. But a knowledgeable person knows sooner or later all the sufferings will come to an end.

W Somerset Maugham, in his book The Razor’s edge writes, “Has it occurred to you       that transmigration is at once an explanation and justification of the evil of the world.        If the evil we suffer is the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them   with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive towards virtue, our future lives     will be less afflicted.” Thereby, the science of karma is not a science of condemnation,        it is science of redemption. It’s message is not “You are sinful, suffer.” But it’s message     is,  “Whatever be your past karma for which you are suffering now,  just surrender to        God and His grace will come upon you and you will be saved.”

I am not a believer that in catastrophic weather events (tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis) or in airplane crashes it happens because all are sinners.     Life isn’t perfect:  events happen and sometimes good people find themselves in bad events. What I do believe in though are the seven deadly sins pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth and over along period of time causes your body disease.

The author Lawrence Durrell 4 wrote The Alexandria Quartet of which the first book, Justine, was published in 1957. Set in the Egypt’s second city during the 1930s and 40s, the series explores the subject of love, but its central narrative is about relativity and chronology.

It appears to be Durrell’s main thesis that disparities in latitude or longitude and measures of time will result in a completely different human experience. Is it particular to business or is Durrell’s hypothesis a universal for the human condition? Is being in the wrong place but the right time a factor in business success or failure?

This is not the question that the great American singer and musician Dr John 5 asked when he sang one of his most famous songs, Right Place Wrong Time, but perhaps it should be the anthem for many companies:

I been in the right place

But it must have been the wrong time

I’d have said the right thing

But I must have used the wrong line

I’d a took the right road

But I must have took a wrong turn

Would have made the right move

But I made it at the wrong time

I been on the right road

But I must have used the wrong car

My head was in a good place

And I wonder what it’s bad for

Preview YouTube video Dr. John & Eric Clapton – Right Place, Wrong Time 1996

 
Dr. John & Eric Clapton – Right Place, Wrong Time 1996

Timing is crucial for business even when management gets it wrong. Place and awareness of what is gong on in other locales is also crucial. You may only serve the domestic market, but if you are reliant on stable international commodity prices or continuity of global supply chains, any shock to these assumptions may result in failure.

For fast high street branded food outlets, whether Beyonce is a judge on a TV talent(less) show may be more important than the London Stock Exchange’s electronic trading platform going belly up.

But, if wheat prices goes through the roof because El Niño rages in the wrong pace at the wrong time, and if the share prices of a global ICT company gets short-circuited, both types of company face not arriving at where they want to be. So, just because you have a local focus does not mean that you should not have a global perspective.
So being in the right place right time, right place wrong time, wrong place right time and wrong place wrong time can determine your own destiny.
Thereby, Tsutomu Yamaguchi: was in the wrong place at the wrong time- TWICE .

At  8:15 am on August 6, 1945,  Tsutomu Yamaguchi  was in Hiroshima  on  a  business trip for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.he was stepping off a streetcar when a plane passed overhead. He looked to the sky and saw two parachutes descending—and, the next instant, the atomic bomb exploded. The blast site was less than two miles away from where Yamaguchi stood. The flash of heat left him with burns across his torso, and the blast ruptured his eardrums and temporarily blinded him. He found his way to a bomb shelter, and the next day was healthy enough to make the journey back home to Nagasaki.

On August 9, Mr. Yamaguchi was well enough to make it in to work. At the exact moment that he was explaining to his boss how Atomic bomb had destroyed the city of Hiroshima, he saw the same white flash in the office window. It was the second atomic bomb, had just detonated over the city. He is the only officially recognized survivor of the two bombings.On January 4, 2010 he died from stomach cancer.

Human Brain And Quantum Physics – Become Self Aware

Dr. Granville Dharmawardena of the University of Colombo writes that psychologists  often speak of the mind and the body as two separate entities for convenience, but most acknowledge  that they are intimately entwined.  Yet none knows exactly how or how intimately. So the mind body problem keeps stubbornly resisting a definite solution. Philosopher John Searle (Mills Professor of Philosophy, University of California, and Berkley) says that today’s philosophers are reluctant to tackle such big problems as how people have been trying to understand their relationship to the universe.All these refer to the elusive relationship between the body and the mind referred to more generally as the brain-mind problem. The brain-mind relationship has baffled mankind for a very long time. One main reason for this is that it was not considered as a candidate for scientific study until recently.

Psychology and related sciences were able to continue for many years by either ignoring the brain entirely or at best treating it as a black box whose rules of operation could be understood without reference to its internal contents or composition.

The human brain without doubt is the most complex organ in the known universe. It is physical and biological. Therefore, it has to be amenable to scientific probing without the intervention of such considerations as the Gödel’s theorem, which states that there are statements in mathematical systems which are true but cannot be proven within those systems.

Consciousness on the other hand is neither physical nor biological. Therefore, it is a more elusive subject to deal with and Gödel’s considerations may have a role to play there. Attempts to understand brain and consciousness have been mostly based on restrictive Newtonian classical science and exclusively the material realm composed of matter.

Although the powers of understanding of human senses and the scope of Newtonian science are limited to three spatial dimensions, the scope of our universe is not limited     to three dimensions. In fact, news theories hypothesize there are eleven dimensions.

Many of the natural phenomena happening within our universe transcend the three dimension scene. Therefore, it is not possible to assume that the mechanisms of operation of the brain and consciousness remain imprisoned within the confines of Isaac Newton’s three dimensional material universe. Just as the Earth was proved not to be the center of the universe, our current theories that govern our physical universe such as Einstein’s gravity theory and others may become obsolete in our understanding of reality.

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