If we don’t understand the root of the problem we won’t be able to solve it, so Let us ask ourselves: what is the origin of cancer?
I start from the unlikely existence of a single cause and I am totally convinced that the altered genes, the mutations, are not an origin but a consequence.
And why are those genes activated? Numerous chemical, physical and biological agents are the main causes of the problem, but it is probably a mistake to focus only on these factors and neglect other no less fundamental ones, such as emotional conflicts.
At the end of a recent radio interview for the presentation of my book, Anti-Cancer Power (Ed. Paidós), off the air, the announcer told me that a good friend of his, a well-known politician, contracted a tumor a few months after the death of his wife.
The body is a unit where the psychic and the organic are connected.
The question was immediate: Juan, in the eyes of science, could this apparent connection be sustained? At present, it is already scientifically proven that the central nervous, endocrine and immune systems, until recently considered isolated systems, make up a single system, whose function is to maintain the organic balanceregulating the defensive and adaptive capacity of the individual.
The human being is one and it is not divided into watertight departments, but rather all the parts are interrelated and influence the health-disease process.
The connection between cancer and emotions
Both anxiety and continued sadness are capable of modify the function of the immune systema fact that can perfectly influence the development or growth of a tumor disease.
Similarly, we also know that there are predisposed personalities to cancer, for presenting a behavioral pattern of inhibition and denial of negative emotional reactions. However, the scientific community is very reluctant to establish connections between emotions and diseases, even more so in the case of cancer.
My intuition and my belief are that diseases are partly a adaptive emergency solution on the part of our body, the best solution it has found to adapt and combine what is lived psychically with external behavior.
It would be something like a pressure cooker exhaust valve. But intuitions and convictions must be evidenced. Most likely a new emerging science, the epigeneticsyou will be able to explain how genes can be expressed or silenced by emotional and behavioral influences.
The challenge we must face is to confirm or refute the existence of topographic brain maps that connect emotional conflicts and their corresponding target organs. The physical, emotional and transcendent dimensions make up the totality of the human being, come into action in the genesis of the disease and must be treated together, yes or yes.
Let’s properly manage our emotions, let’s avoid demotivation, the existential void, in short, internal incoherence, which may be triggers that initiate or maintain the tumor process. Undoubtedly, these are, together with the physical and biological dimensions, effective methods of prevention and treatment against cancer.
manage emotions
Many professionals of integrative medicine and psychosomatics maintain based on their experience that emotions are involved in the onset and development of the disease.
The inhibition and denial of anxiety, aggressiveness or anger, as well as the stoic acceptance of problems and the renunciation of one’s own rights and needs are associated with a predisposition towards cancer.
The non-resolution of conflicts related to a continuous situation of stress It constitutes a favorable terrain for the disease.
Living according to our needs is part of prevention.
Illness can reveal that our way of being in the world not in tune with inner reality.
A very traumatic experience, lived in solitude, can manifest simultaneously on a psychic, cerebral and organic level. It is possible that the involvement of a certain area of the brain explains the place where the tumor develops.
Express and share emotions It is preventive and can be part of the treatment.