Cancer As A Wake Up Call, and How To Listen Wisely

Cancer is a mutation of our normal cells in our body. When our bodies develop cancer it is a wake up call. The question is: Will we wisely listen to the wake up call? And, what do after the call is heard?

At the current rate of cancer appearing in our United States population, anywhere from a one in two, to a one in three individuals will be diagnosed with cancer for either men or women. The variations depend upon the type of cancer, risk factors, gender and life style. Those are some strong numbers that require us to set the alarm bell, and get us looking at what we can do to reduce those numbers.

The good news is that there is a great deal each person can to prevent or reduce the risk of cancer. In the ground breaking, mind-body healing series, Cancer As A Turning Point: From Surviving to Thriving you will learn from some of the best healers alive today about how to increase survival and go beyond to survival to vibrancy.

Even the most confident person will admit that a cancer diagnosis is a strong blow to everything they thought was essential. Everything is life stops for a time. Sex, money, social life, all of our possessions suddenly don’t seem so important. A cancer diagnosis creates a crisis, throwing even the most self-assured individual into a life changing event affecting the of body, the mind, and spirit.

To survive cancer, and then go beyond surviving to a strong sense of thriving after cancer, we must call into action all of our physical, emotional, mental and inner resources.

In the series Cancer as a Turning Point, nine best-selling authors and healers, most of whom are thriving after cancer diagnoses, take us on a journey to reframe the healing process in the most positive, constructive, resourceful and spiritual way. The change our perspectives giving new hope, meaning and even a sense of the purpose for illnesses like cancer. This series is distilled from the nationally acclaimed “Healing Journeys” conferences.

Cancer as a Turning Point collects the sessions most relevant and useful to anyone whose life has been touched by cancer or other life-threatening illnesses. Cancer As A Turning Point provides insightful information provides the anthology of practical, useful and helpful wisdom on how to deal with cancer and heal from cancer. The series includes the following authors on these subjects:

1. Jeanne Achterberg, PhD

Transpersonal Medicine: The Role of Sacred Ritual in Women’s Healing –
A pioneer in the use of imagery in healing explores the healing potentials of ritual and community. Referencing rituals from varied cultures, Achterberg illustrates how ritual gives meaning to life-threatening illness and how this meaning is medicine.

2. Dawna Markova, PhD

No Enemies Within: A Creative Process for Discovering What’s Right About What’s Wrong-

Internationally known for her research in perception and learning, Markova offers a model for looking at illness as a way of becoming whole. She teaches that by reclaiming our shadows as the parts of ourselves that are most difficult to accept—we can reconnect with the world and find greater fulfillment.

3. Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD

The Power of Myth and Truth in Healing -

Renowned for her best-selling classic about feminine archetypes, Goddesses in Every woman, this gifted Jungian analyst and clinical professor of psychiatry shows how illness can be viewed as a mythological descent into the underworld and how this framework can lead us to a greater understanding of ourselves.

4. Joan Borysenko, PhD, Fire in the Soul -

Borysenko transformed the way we approach healing in her bestselling book, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind. Here, this medical scientist, psychologist, and leader in mind/body medicine guides us through the soul-searching that arises in the face of a cancer diagnosis, and shows how we can use this process to rally our physical, emotional, and spiritual resources.

5. Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, Healing Medicine: Recovering the Heart of Health Care -

The author of the national bestseller Kitchen Table Wisdom draws from her own 40-year experience with a life-threatening disease to show how a recognition of the body’s innate healing power is crucial to restore the spirit of service to healthcare, and to further its ability to heal.

6. Deena Metzger, writer, The Creative Use of Imagination in Healing -

In this personal and passionate talk about her journey through cancer treatment, the author of Writing for Your Life shares how she discovered her creativity and regained inner spiritual balance in the midst of crisis.

7. Caryle Hirshberg, PhD – The Remission Project and Implications for Patient Care -

Hirshberg provides an inside look at the probabilities of actual and continued remission. Illustrated by real-life stories of cancer survivors, Hirshberg discusses the groundbreaking work of “The Remission Project.”

8. Michael Lerner, PhD – Choices in Cancer Treatment and the Emerging Environmental Health Movement -

The founder of Commonweal, the institution that pioneered alternative and complementary cancer treatment, explains their fivefold approach to healing. Includes a detailed survey of traditional and nontraditional cancer treatments.

9. Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst, Every Inch a Queen -

Taking inspiration from King Lear’s Every Inch a King, Jungian analyst and author Marion Woodman shares how a shift in attitude helped her survive cancer and approach life with renewed confidence and dignity.

Cancer As A Turning Point series details: 8 CD ‘s, running time 7 hours, 30 minutes.

This series is helpful in guiding cancer patients, their families, care givers or friends through a difficult time. It gives new meaning to the process of illness and healing creating expanded thinking. That expanded thinking is critical to well-being.

Wishing you good health,

Christopher Lee May

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