Foreword by Dr. Martin Rossman, MD.
Healing Cancer with Your Mind: 7 Strategies to Help YOU Survive reveals the personal power that you possess for self-healing. Learning and applying the 7 strategies discussed in this book will guide you on a journey to spiritual and physical healing. Whether you are a cancer patient yourself or supporting someone who is, this book should be an essential element in your treatment and healing arsenal. Even if you are well and want to see strategies to prevent cancer, this book is for you.
Healing Cancer with Your Mind guides you and your family through the difficult times of a cancer diagnosis. The Seven Strategies to Help YOU Survive will help you and your loved ones to
- Get inspired to take charge of your medical treatment, be involved with and be truthfully informed by your doctors, oncologists, and surgeons.
- Investigate which alternative and complementary medical practices can benefit you and your situation.
- Discover the lifestyle changes you may want to make to better you healing chances.
- Learn how meditation practices can help you make responsible decisions for your care and feel confident that you made the right decision and much more.
- Rely on your family and friends to get things done for you that you can’t do for yourself.
- Build a medical team of physicians and other practitioners that you can trust.
- Give back to your community when you are ready and able.
From the Foreword:
“As a physician who has practiced holistic medicine, now called Integrative Medicine, for over 4 decades, I can attest to the value of the strategies that Dr. Freedman recommends including in your treatment program.” —Martin Rossman, MD, author of The Worry Solution and Guided Imagery for Self-Healing
Here is what Dr. Kelly Turner, Ph D has to say about Healing Cancer with YOUR Mind:
’Dr. Freedman speaks from experience, both as a cancer survivor himself, and the father of a Radical Remission cancer survivor. His book, ’Healing Cancer with Your Mind’ gives readers a nurturing, helping hand throughout the entire cancer journey, especially with regard to developing a meditation practice. –Kelly Turner, Ph D, Author of the NYTimes Bestseller ’Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds’
One of his main healers was the Isadora Duncan Award winner and innovative dance performer and teacher, Anna Halprin:
“I am a cancer survivor, so what I have to share comes from personal experience. Cancer is like enlightenment at gunpoint. One must face it and do something. The 7 Strategies … provides us with realistic and practical modalities that give us strength to face the challenges of cancer and hope to survive. This is a must read book for anyone facing cancer or their caretaker.” —Anna Halprin, Ph D, dance pioneer, author, choreographer, and winner of the Isadora Duncan award and many others.
A seminar participant had this to say:
“As a nutritionist and naturopath, I was drawn to the event because I found it fascinating that mindfulness could heal cancer. Originally thinking I would only stay a few minutes for the event, I not only stayed the whole time, but learned so much from Jerome and the 7 strategies.Jerome is such an amazing person who has contributed so much and the mindfulness meditation sessions during the event and discussion amongst the attendees was dynamic to say the least. I believe Jerome’s testimony and book gives people power. Power that they can overcome the biggest of odds.Power that there are alternatives to just chemotherapy.. –Immanuel Lewis, an elite holistic and naturopathic nutritionist practicing in Santa Monica.
Innehållsförteckning
TABLE OF CONTENTS 3
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 6
FOREWORD BY DR. MARTIN ROSSMAN, MD 11
PROLOG 15
I Have Survived 15
I have Thrived 16
1 INTRODUCTION 17
Micah’s Story 17
Stopping Cancer in its Tracks 18
Cancer Again? 18
7 Strategies to Help You Survive 20
2 7 STRATEGIES TO HELP YOU SURVIVE 23
Be Your own Advocate 23
Investigate Alternatives 24
Make Health-promoting Lifestyle Changes 24
Practice Daily Meditation 25
Reach Out to Others 25
Create Your Own Medical Team 25
Give Back to Your community 26
How To Use This Book 26
3 BE YOUR OWN ADVOCATE 29
4 INVESTIGATE ALTERNATIVES 33
Homeopathy 33
Faith Healing and Shamanism 35
Acupuncture 37
Massage and Body Work 38
Guided Imagery 40
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy 42
Ayurveda 43
Immunotherapy and Off Label Treatments 44
Genetic Interventions 50
Medical Marijuana 51
Dr. Dean Ornish’s Spectrum Program 52
Suppressed Cancer Treatments 52
5 MAKE HEALTH-PROMOTING LIFESTYLE CHANGES 58
Exercise 58
The Cancer Diet 60
Strawberries, Blueberries, and Raspberries 62
Non-GMO Foods 62
Mindful Consumption 63
6 PRACTICE DAILY MEDITATION 67
Types of Meditation 70
Mindfulness of Breathing 71
Walking Meditation 76
The Body Scan and Deep Relaxation 79
Loving Kindness Meditation 83
Gratitude Meditation 89
Forgiveness Meditation 92
Mindful Eating 96
Sound Meditation Practices 100
Contemplations 103
7 REACH OUT TO OTHERS 110
Support Groups 111
Meditation Groups 114
8 CREATE YOUR OWN MEDICAL TEAM 119
Finding a Medical Expert 124
9 GIVE BACK 126
10 EPILOGUE 128
Onset of Disease 128
Retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh 129
First Return of Cancer 129
Giving Back to My Community 130
More Cancer Episodes 130
7 Strategies to Help You Survive 131
Closing Remarks 132
11 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 134
Also by Dr. Freedman 135
Guided Meditation Recordings 135
12 DEDICATION 137
13 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 139
14 WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING 143
15 REFERENCES 147
END NOTES 149
Om författaren
Dr. Jerome Freedman is an author, mindfulness meditation teacher, and a cancer survivor since 1997. He is a long-time practitioner in the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in which he is an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing an Earth Holder. His recent article in The Mindfulness Bell titled ’Healthy and Free’ touched many people. He is also a certified teacher of the Enneagram in the Oral Tradition with Helen Palmer.
Jerome currently teaches Mindfulness in Healing at the Pine Street Clinic in San Anselmo, California and writes daily on his blog, Meditation Practices. He is a contributing author of I Am With You: Love Letters to Cancer Patients, Nancy Novak, Ph D, and Barbara K. Richardson.
Dr. Freedman served on Board of Directors of the Marin AIDS Project and the Advisory Council of the Institute for Health and Healing between 2007 and 2010. Now he is actively engaged in the Buddhist Climate Action Network, Plum Village Climate Response, the Order of Interbeing, Marin Sangha (with Phillip Moffitt), and the Shabbat Sangha near his home in Greenbrae, California.
Dr. Freedman holds a Ph. D. in computer science, along with two master’s degrees in physics and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. He still consults internationally on software engineering problems and expert witness cases.
He successfully interviewed Dr. Neil de Grasse Tyson on cosmology and Buddhist thought in 2011.
He can be reached by for consultations, dharma talks, lectures, and days of mindfulness by email at [email protected].
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