What to do if you have cancer?

This list details some helpful things you can do to deal with the panic factor that comes when diagnosed with cancer. Engrain these thoughts in your heart and mind; they will help you understand the situation you are in and will empower you to make a choice.
Some thoughts for cancer patients:

• Do not take your doctor’s diagnosis as a voodoo curse. Think of all the hundreds—and maybe thousands—of people who have been given a certain amount of time to live and have contradicted the doctor’s diagnosis by beating the cancer and living cancer-free beyond their doctor’s allotted time.
• Decide whether you are going to beat the cancer or whether you will let it beat you. You have a choice to make.
• Remember that your body works to keep you healthy and that you just need to provide the opportunity. Cancer did not fall out of the sky and attack you—you harbored it by lifestyle. Avoid blame, and just get prepared to make some changes.
• Remember that you are in control. Stay focused. We all have inherent intelligence when it comes to nutrition and nature’s laws. If you are getting advice from a natural health practitioner that doesn’t make sense to you, do not follow it; seek someone else. (Word-of-mouth referrals are usually the best.)
• Do not jump from practitioner to practitioner—you will confuse yourself. Find a good holistic nutritionist or herbalist and a good medical doctor, and use their skills and caring to help you heal yourself. Sometimes your medical doctor will be open and willing to write a prescription to see your natural health care provider. This prescription might help you get reimbursed by your medical insurance for your natural health care.
• Your body is constantly being rebuilt, cell by cell. In fact, you have a whole new body every seven years. Give your body what it needs to start rebuilding the good cells today!
• If you are spiritually connected (or want to be), pray. God answers prayers; pray for the right help to come to you, and pray that you will recognize it when it does.
• ➤ Read inspiring books by people who have fought cancer naturally and won:
• Sir Jason Winters Story: From Deadly Cancer to Perfect Health by Benjamin Roth Smythe and Jason Winters, 1997

• Beating Cancer with Nutrition: Clinically Proven and Easy-to-Follow Strategies to Dramatically Improve Quality and Quantity of Life by Patrick Quillin and Noreen Quillin (Contributor), 1998

• You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. Hay, 1987
• Remember that attitude is 90 percent of anything. Enhance your attitude of gratitude for the good things you have in your life.
• Have faith. Don’t worry about money, time, or anything else. Focus on healing yourself, and the universe will provide you with what you need.
• Be open to learning a whole bunch about yourself in a short period of time. Old thought patterns that do not serve you will be busted up during your true healing process. Many times we realize we are harboring negative emotions that fester as a cancer in the body. This is your opportunity to make your peace with yourself and others.

All these things might sound naive, but, this is how most people overcome any potentially life-threatening disease. Once you are on the other side of the battle, you will be a whole new person—literally cell by cell!