Reflections on
the impact of
thoughts in the
therapy
of
cancer
Faith does not
change the laws
of nature, does
not make
miracles, but
can help the
work of a very
good medical
team, making big
difference in a
hospital
treatment
It is common,
after overcoming
a cancer, that
patients need
emotional
support for
returning to
their routine of
life, because
they are still
need special
care, physically
and emotionally,
knowing that
each case
involves
specific
aspects.
Because steps
are many and
painful:
diagnosis,
examinations,
research,
surgery,
chemotherapy,
radiotherapy and
other medical
procedures, the
recovering
person is
fragile and
requires careful
monitoring.
Winning a cancer
and immediately
return to an
active life,
although there
isn’t the rule,
does not mean
that the disease
cannot be won.
According to
reports of
patients,
suffering is not
only from the
disease itself,
but also from
treatments
themselves,
often marked by
side effects. It
is common to
observe
emotional wounds
and changes in
the style of
living of
patients and
their family. To
minimize a
little the
traumas left by
the therapeutic
process,
emotional
support relieves
distress and
fear of
recurrence.
Spiritists are
aware that
patients, when
arrive at the
hospital, brings
with themselves,
in addition to
their disease,
their history of
past and current
life. Their
emotional state
is the result of
vectors and
structure of
personality,
interpretation
and experience
of events,
considering
aspects of
imaginary and
real, and other
variables of
causes of
disease.
Science and
technology
increasingly
allow early
diagnosis and
appropriate
treatment of
disease,
monitoring its
development and
even obtaining
success in many
cases.
Mind can
influence the
outcome of
treatment
However, even
with such
scientific
advances, many
diseases promote
organic,
emotional and
social changes,
that require
constant care,
and therefore
adaptive
processes.
Remember, above
all, "the
valuable
contribution of
academic
medicine, when
is not
accompanied by a
good
doctor-patient
relationship,
results
incomplete to
achieve the
excruciating
causes of
disease and
distress." (1)
Currently,
studies are made
on optimism,
spirituality,
creativity,
religious faith
and especially,
the complex
universe of
thought that
have been
associated with
the welfare and
quality of life
of people with
chronic
diseases.
Furthermore,
research on
human health
that is
analysing if
mind, through a
psychological or
emotional state
has the ability
to cure disease.
A study done by
scientists of
the University
of Pennsylvania,
in the United
States, attempts
to demonstrate
that the fact
that people with
cancer are
optimistic or
pessimistic does
not directly
influence the
chances of
survival to the
disease. For
consistent
reasons, we
disagree with
these arguments;
since evidence
suggests that in
several cases of
serious
illnesses (such
as advanced
cancer), mind
(the way of
thinking) can
influence the
outcome of
treatment, not
disconsider the
value of
doctors, of
course.
Strictly
speaking, faith
(in the concept
of common sense)
does not change
the laws of
nature, does not
make "miracles",
but it may help,
concurrently,
the work of a
good medical
team, making
large difference
in hospital
treatment.
Facing disease
many people
transform pain
into hope
It is imperative
and appropriate
to consider,
that stating
that one has
religious faith
to "feel"
powerful when
facing disease
does not solve
the issue of
pain, because
the "titles of
faith” are not
mere words to
cover our
deficiencies and
weaknesses. They
express duties
of improvement
that we cannot
escape without
further
obligations. In
our circles of
work, thus, it
not enough
simply believe
and convince. "
(2)
There are
specialists who
support this
argument,
considering that
the look
optimistic about
disease, and
firm thought in
healing are
powerful
mechanisms that
can help
patients cope
better with the
treatment of
cancer and
resume a normal
life. As an
example we have
what happens to
the
Vice-President
of Brazil - José
Alencar.
Currently, more
and more people
are surviving
cancer and this
survival, are
related, without
doubt, to
emotions and
thoughts, rich
content of
vibration
between the
patient and the
Creator. Many
patients, before
the diagnosis of
disease,
transform pain
into hope, and
awaken in them
the will to
fight for a
better life.
Others, however,
give up,
assuming they
are under a
death sentence.
Regarding the
process of human
thought, the
academic
science, which
is materialist
by excellence,
purpose that the
phenomenon is
purely
physiological,
due to incessant
activity
neuronal. But
the Spiritists
know that the
mental matter is
the creation of
energy that
externalises
from the spirit
and spreads by a
flow of
particles and
waves, as any
other form of
propagation of
energy in the
universe. As in
physical field,
thought, in vary
degrees of
excitement,
generates waves
of length and
frequency
correspondents
to the content
of the creator
impulse of will
or desired
objective.
The reflections
of thoughts
returns to
ourselves
Thinking is a
process of
projection of
mental matter
and this matter
"is the subtle
instrument of
will, working in
formation of
physical matter,
generating the
motives of
pleasure or
grief, joy or
pain, optimism
or despair,
which do not
reduce,
effectively,
abstractions,
because they
represent eddies
of force where
soul creates its
own states of
inductive mind,
drawing to
itself the
players [for now
imponderables]
of light or
shadow, victory
or defeat,
happiness or
misfortune. "
(3) In this
respect, thought
is not
intangible
anymore to
substantiate in
the condition of
matter in
motion.
The reflections
of negative
feelings and
thoughts that we
feed ourselves
come back to us,
after being
transformed in
mental waves,
confusing our
organics
functions. So,
thought, as a
subtle form of
energy, acting
in a kind of
wave, with a
speed much
higher than
light, when
passing by
places and
creatures,
situations and
things, affects
integrally our
health. "When we
surrender
ourselves to
imbalance or
disruption or
when we
establish
perturbation
against us
(...), we
reflect in the
psychosomatics
tissues certain
fields of
rupture in cells
harmony,
creating morbid
predisposition
for this or that
disease, and
therefore the
entire area
affected becomes
susceptible to
microbial
invasion. " (4)
By thoughts of
fear,
exacerbated
anxiety,
disappointment,
we slave
ourselves in
trunks of
painful
punishment,
sentencing us,
sometimes, to
years of
pilgrimage in
the tracks of
spiritual
uneasiness. And
to shorten the
torment that
plagues us in
many ways our
conscience, it
is essential the
renewal of our
mind, the only
way of recovery
of spiritual
harmony and
physical health.
Never
discouraged when
facing
challenges of
any disease
Given this, try
adopting strict
discipline of
mental and moral
habits, setting
as goals putting
our duties above
worldly
pleasures and
keeping us calm
with the unique
opportunity of
current physical
experience,
which help us
with spiritual
information.
Seek, above all,
healthy habits
of prayer,
meditation and
work, trying to
enrich us with
hope and joy, so
we will never
discouraged when
facing the
challenges any
disease. "We
must watch and
pray so we will
not fall in
temptations,
because it is
better cry on
the prods the
resistance
than smile under
drugs of fall."
(5)
For all ills,
and any
diseases, focus
our thoughts on
Jesus, because
"our medicine is
and will always
be Jesus”. We
should adjust
ourselves to the
Redeemer Gospel,
because Christ
is the goal of
our renovation.
"By regenerating
our existence by
His standards we
restructure the
intimate lives
of those that
are around us.
The Gospel of
the Lord
explains that
the pure and
working thought
is the force
that excels us
from the
darkness to
light, from
hatred to love,
from pain to
joy. " (6)
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Franco Pereira.
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Joanna de
Angelis, in
mediumistic
session of the
night of
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Path of
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Spiritist Center
in Salvador,
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taken from the
preface of the
book: Attendance
Fraternal spirit
dictated by
Philomena Manoel
de Miranda.
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Mechanisms of
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