ldbug's Cancer Blog

March 17, 2010

A few major things happening for me…..

#1 – BeatSarcoma is putting on their annual Fun Run 5K/10K fundraiser at Golden Gate Park Conservatory of Flowers on Sunday April 25 (go to beatsarcoma.org for info). I’m in charge of getting the massage therapists – which is not what I wanted to help with, but I guess it’s what was needed.

#2 – I’m going to speak with the Executive Director of Circulo de Vida – a cancer support group for Latino and Spanish-speaking people living with cancer. I’m going to offer free reiki and chair massages at some point in their program & hopefully get the patients and family as semi-regular massage clients so they don’t have to wait until the next program begins.

And #3 – I moved massage spaces, I’m starting with the new space in April. It’s a lot smaller, but its in a newly-opened acupuncture clinic where I have ALL Sundays to myself from 10-5 to do massages and reiki for paying clients.

Posted on March 17, 2010 at 1:56:10 PM by Alyssa ( Quick Check-in and SF Sarcoma Event, 0 comments)

March 5, 2010

Someone sent me an amazing book – Anatomy of the Spirit. The author is a Medical Intuitive that started out in journalism and book publishing.

I’m still on chapter 1, but it has shaken something inside me as I read that feels true only because of what I know of my mom and her life. The author talks about how our bodies, even down to the cells, are all energy and we react to/absorb the energy outside of us (even thoughts from the past) which effects the way our cells form into healthy or diseased cells. Whether the energy we absorb is from one another or from our surroundings – energy is a source of life that just keeps changing form, it cannot be created or destroyed.
She writes about how holding emotions or trauma (which carry their own energetic vibration) can manifest into pain and illness, like in somatic psychology. The book will eventually go into self-diagnosis, balancing our chakras and taking note of the 7 sacraments, scripts from the Kabbalah, Hinduism, and Buddhism if the reader is willing to adopt the info into part of their personal healing philosophies

Have you ever heard stories when people have an actual pain and the doctors don’t see anything abnormal on scans or blood tests, etc., but they patient KNOWS something is off and there’s nothing anyone can do until the illness/disease appears. She suggests that we should participate in the responsibility of healing ourselves…it is our lives, our bodies after all. Your thoughts will turn into words, Your words will turn into your actions, your actions will turn into your reality.

Mom had a rough life and she had a lot of trauma, and, eventually, a lot of health issues. I always believe that the mind is very powerful and once mom got into the habit of being sick, it became who she was – a sick person. I know that she would consciously NEVER EVER ask for any illness, for the rare cancer that doctors told her she had, and convinced her that she couldn’t be saved from.
Those thoughts became part of her being, her reality…and of course who can argue with the doctors holding the proof?
My family refused to accept a lot of their BS and mom was almost encouraged to have even more faith, and for a moment we crated a miracle. Even if it was the chinese herbs, or the daily encouragements from us, or both, her WBC count went back up to normal, her NG tube was taken out…but those docs and nurses felt it was necessary to bring her back to their reality and remind her how sick she was.

What I’m saying is that the illness may have been a sign that something was wrong BEFORE it manifested into disease. Something that needed to be healed that couldn’t be ignored, so it made itself known one day. Like the pain that doesn’t show up on a scan, but it’s real, it’s a suffering and you’re feeling it. And that is what needs attention as well as the current illness, or else, even if you’re cured, it may return as something else…maybe.

The reading is helping me be more open to my own truths and I’m sharing with my dad and younger brother. We all, in general, have issues…but if holding onto to a resentment, let’s say, to keep some kind of power or upper hand instead of forgiving will eventually turn into an ulcer, I’d rather work on forgiving and let go of than holding on to the need to feel in-control or powerful.

Anyhow, I think it’s a great book so far, I highly recommend it.

Posted on March 5, 2010 at 11:26:49 AM by Alyssa ( Reading and Healing Arts, 2 comments)

Thank you for your review of this book. I’ll go get myself a copy. It goes along with what I’ve always believed and now I’m following a program called The Healing Codes. It has been one of the most effective and helpful things I’ve done for myself before and during treatment. I’ll continue with it for the rest of my life. I can’t say enough good things about it. You can find out more on my blog if you want.

I love hearing about complementary methods that people are using along with the traditional treatment. Whatever we can do to help ourselves and feel more in control the better.

Hugs,
Theresa

Posted on March 5, 2010 at 1:00:54 PM by theresam

Alyssa,

The book sounds interesting, I am thinking about picking it up at the bookstore this weekend. Thank you for sharing! I have seen a lot of clients (I’m a therapist) with emotional difficulties manifesting as physical complaints. Mind-Body-Spirit connection is recently being looked at closely, and there is definitely a strong connection/correlation.

Love,
Yuyu

Posted on March 7, 2010 at 11:55:08 AM by yuyu