My Experience With "Power Thinking"
Dear Thtlandckptii,
Thank you for your post on cancer. I decided to make my response a post in its own right.
I've had a special interest in cancer over the years, particularly because both my maternal and paternal grandfathers and my father died horribly painful deaths from the disease. While I do not fear death itself, I prefer dying from just wearing out rather than enduring lengthy painful stays in a nursing home or hospice. I have come to see a combination of power thinking and balanced moderate nutrition is the best for me. Here's why.
During my younger (pre-sixties) years I religiously practiced what I call "Integral Mind Power", which seems similar, if not equivalent, to what your paper calls "Power Thinking." For many years it worked well, that is, until my early sixties when my body began to go through major metabolic change usually associated with older age. Along with other emerging maladies a skin lesion diagnosed as the beginning of melanoma appeared on my left forearm along with some other lesser lesions.
About ten years ago, after much research I began a major overhaul of my life style, a significant portion of which involved adopting a new integral nutrition regimen similar to what is known today as The Zone and South Beach Diet, respectively. (See my SIA Share post "Integral Healthful Aging: My Noetic-Based Checklist," http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/3130).
I continued my Integral Mind Power affirmations but added my new integral nutrition practice.
Within three months of replacing my old helter-skelter carbohydrates-dominated diet with this new moderate, balanced integral nutrition program consisting of animal and soy protein, complex carbohydrates, monounsaturated fats and Omega 3 to my diet, the melanoma patch and other skin lesions dried up. I have had no reoccurence of the melanoma nor has any other variety of cancer emerged. All this was verified by annual physical exams and one colonscopy every five years.
So at chrono-age 77 I have outlived by two years my longest living cancer-ridden ancestor and am completely cancer free. I enjoy generally superb mind-body health as well. For the past ten years my physician has ended by annual physical exams with "Bob, you are boringly healthy" or "You're disgustingly healthy."
In summary, as an integral ageless mind-spirit operating through an older mortal biological body, I have come to see the vital importance of using both Power Thinking (Integral Mind Power)and balanced, moderate nutrition in both the prevention and remediation of cancer as well as other diseases normally associated with older age.
Yours in integral health with best wishes,
Bob Johnston
