When you ask someone “What is your greatest health fear, or worry for yourself or for a loved one?” You usually get a quick one-word answer – Cancer. It lies in the pit of all our fears, that one word which covers so many different conditions, diagnoses and prognoses.
Because it covers such a broad area, has so many possible aspects, it’s takes on a powerful, scary mystery. Like a capricious monster able to strike anyone anywhere with impunity. Almost everyone has some experience with family or friends, colleagues or church members who have lost some loved one to cancer.
The media plays on this atavistic fear too, breathless headlines of the latest celebrity “victim” of cancer. Just in the past few days were had the headlines of – Rush Limbaugh announces he has ‘advanced lung cancer’ https://www.npr.org/2020/02/03/802388079/rush-limbaugh-says-he-has-been-diagnosed-with-advanced-lung-cancer And, Shannen Doherty says she has stage 4 breast cancer! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shannen-doherty-reveals-stage-4-breast-cancer-diagnosis-1276188
This deep-seated fear can play havoc with your emotions and health when you or a loved one is confronted by a cancer diagnosis. That fear can be almost as debilitating as the disease or possible treatments proscribed.
The truth is that medical science has improved your survival odds tremendously from almost any type of cancer over the past couple of decades. New treatments, drugs, and procedures are increasing life spans and preventing the spread or re-occurrence of a treated cancer.
Mainstream Medical Science is also embracing non-traditional options as well, such as Hypnosis! According to Cancernetwork.com (which is the online home of the journal Oncology) – “Hypnosis has been specifically employed in the palliative care of cancer patients to reduce symptoms associated with radiation and chemotherapy, such as pain, nausea, fatigue, hot flashes, and sleep dysfunction. … The practice of self-hypnosis helps patients achieve a relaxed, therapeutic, hypnotic state”.
I have had extensive experience in both my personal life and professional life with the concept and reality of what Cancer can do to a person’s mind, body and spirit. I understand and can offer my Hypnosis expertise to help you or a loved one.
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