By Andreas Moritz

All events in life that appear to be negative are in fact unique opportunities to become more complete and whole inside, and to move forward in life. Whenever we need to give ourselves more love, time and appreciation, but fail to fulfill these essential needs, there will be someone or something in our life that pushes us in that direction. Feeling rejected by or being disappointed and angry with another person highlights a lack in taking responsibility for the negative things that happen to us. Blaming someone else or oneself for an unfortunate situation results in the feeling of being a victim of sorts and is likely to manifest as disease.

Moreover, if we cannot understand its accompanying message we may even have to face death to appreciate life or living. Cancer, in an unconventional way, is a way out of a deadlock situation that paralyses the heart of a person. It helps to break down old rigid patterns of guilt and shame that keep it imprisoned and bound by constant poor self-worthiness. The current medical approach does not target this major issue behind cancer, but the ‘disease process’ does, provided it is allowed to take its course.

Chemotherapy, radiation and surgery encourage a victim mentality in the patient and are unlikely to heal the root causes of this affliction. Miracle cures happen when the patient frees himself/herself of the need for victim-hood and self-attack, and when external problems fail to have a major impact on the person’s inner wellbeing and self-acceptance. Just removing the external problems in life may not be sufficient to induce a spontaneous remission. The patient needs to make room for enjoyment and pleasure, and take time for himself, for meditation, for self-reflection, for being in nature and sensing the joy and energy it is able to evoke in us.

Cancer cells are cells fighting to survive in a ‘hostile’, toxic environment. Letting go of the need to fight in life reprograms the DNA of the body, changing its course of warfare and eventual annihilation to one of healthy reproduction. Not needing to fight for their survival gives the cancer cells a chance to be accepted again by the entire ‘family’ of cells in the body. Cancer cells are normal cells that are rejected by what they consider home. They are deprived of proper nourishment and support. In their desperation to survive, they grab everything they can find to live on, even cellular waste products and toxins. This practically turns them into ‘outcasts’.

However, just as we want to be loved, cancer cells also need to know that they are loved. Cutting them out of the body through surgery, or destroying them with poisonous drugs or deadly radiation just adds even more violence to the body than it already has to deal with. To live in health and peace, we especially need to be friends with the cells of the body, including cancer cells. The saying, “love thy enemy” applies to cancer cells just as it applies to people.

Oftentimes, the cause of cancer is a lack of self-appreciation, a feeling of not being loved and wanted and not being worthy or good enough.If we could only see that what we call disease is a perfect representation of our inner world, we would pay more attention to what is going on inside rather than trying to fix something that does not really need fixing.

Cancer, as hard as this may be to understand, has profound meaning to it. Its purpose is not to destroy but to heal what is not whole anymore.

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This is an excerpt from my book CANCER IS NOT A DISEASE! – IT’S A SURVIVAL MECHANISM

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