Showing posts with label medical tests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical tests. Show all posts

Friday, 15 October 2010

11: Cancer medication & chemotherapy &side effects

Background from Fiona
This was and remains a painful session I had with the guides (Zoe channelling). It probed many of my fears, upsets, views and prejudices. I was pretty grumpy and upset towards the end and the guides were pretty straight talking in their responses to me!



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FIONA: Many people taking medication for cancer for both the short or long term get painful side effects and symptoms. What is your advice?

GUIDES: If this is the best that is given, and you believe it will help you, then understand that whatever you put into the body will have an effect on the body. Do not allow your spirits to be brought down. For example, those who choose to try mangisteen would soon find it has a huge laxative effect. That is cause and effect. You eat more mangisteen and have to spend time on the loo. If you consume pharmaceuticals you will experience an effect on the body.

Humans only wish to experience positive effects and wish to eradicate the negative effects- this is not always possible. But whilst there may be unpleasant effects, and what might seem downright unkind effects of medication, remember why you are taking this.

Do not allow your mind to cause further suffering by dwelling on these side effects. Embrace the possibilities they are presenting to you. You are already ingesting them and they are already at work within your system.
Have we answered this?

FIONA: Yes. I have been wondering whether the harsh effects of chemotherapy, such as losing hair, feeling ill, vomiting, etc, are some way of us wanting to punish ourselves.

GUIDES: We would love, in the future, for medical studies to include a mental and emotional response to a drug. This would be very difficult. All that is ever important is the relationship between one’s self and the drug.

On the diagnosis of cancer one feels like a failure, then one’s option, when one already feels like a failure, is to take what feels like poison. You are on to something, Fiona.

However, for as long as this is the best that is available then, for those who wish to extend their lives and have a window of hope, this is the best option. How you respond to this option mentally and emotionally is crucial. We see that there are now support centres for those diagnosed with cancer, coming to terms with the words, “you have cancer”. We applaud this. This is what is needed. You did not give yourself cancer. You did not do this to punish yourself. This was not a conscious choice.

Similarly there are a tiny amount of you who would choose chemotherapy or other forms, as a way to punish yourself consciously. We often hear, from the hearts and minds of those going through this: “I deserve this”. “This is my worth”. “This is it now”. This saddens us a great deal. There is no need for punishment; this is simply the best of what is available. The medics understand it is crude. However, it is the best of what is available. Nothing is ever willingly given to someone as the worst option. Medicine is not an instrument of torture although for some it feels as if it is.

Therefore, we say, come to terms with your diagnosis as quickly as possible. Understand the mechanisms that have been happening within the body. Boost the life affirm-ment in life and you will cope, with not only the diagnosis, with not only the medication, but the within the body living as well. After all, that is what you are here doing. A diagnosis and forms of medication is all part of living at this moment. Coming to terms with this will help you immensely and certainly aid the recovery that is available to you.

FIONA: I don’t believe that chemo is always the best option.

GUIDES: That is your opinion.

FIONA: But you said it is the best option available to people.

GUIDES: You wouldn’t. Look at your relationship with it.

FIONA: But if you look at the statistics, for example, for those with early stage breast cancer the percentage increase in survival with some types of chemo for some patient groups is only around 3%. This is for a therapy which may cause other physical issues to the body which may then take years to recover from.

GUIDES: Then why not die immediately? Why bother speaking to a Dr?

The fact that there is a mechanism, you say a 3% chance of help, is a wonder of life. Just because it does not come in a pleasant bottle does not mean that it does not say love and life within it. We have yet to meet many people who enjoy chemotherapy. Having an appropriate mental and emotional response to the medicine of choice is helpful. What is the medicine of choice? That is the medicine of choice you are offered from your practitioner. You always have the ability to say yes or no to it.

You are at a different stage now, Fiona. That 3% would have meant more to you then than it does now.

FIONA: I know someone who was killed by chemotherapy. Her cancer was early stage. What are your thoughts?

GUIDES: That is an individual case.
We can say that for many an exit clause is given prior to greater suffering. When the time of passing is near there needs to be a mechanism to take you from where you are to where we are. That can be a bee sting; that can be a car.

All of you: be careful of where the mind and the heart wish to rest on the subject of medication for you. For as long as you are taking medication be proud of the fact that you are affirming to yourself that you want something better than where you are, and work towards achieving that.

Lift your hearts and minds to the possibility of creating a better life. Medicines and foods were not put in place to make your lives worse, to take a bad situation and compound it even further. But to give you light, hope.

We leave you with this for today, Fiona. We ask you to look at your personal relationship with your medication.

Tuesday, 1 June 2010

6: Your body did not do this to you

Background to call: Fiona is feeling ill

FIONA: WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO START TO TRUST YOUR BODY AGAIN AFTER A DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER? MANY PEOPLE FEEL THEY CANNOT TRUST THEIR BODIES. THEY FEEL THEY HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THEIR BODIES AND HAVE BEEN BETRAYED BY THEIR BODIES.

GUIDES
: Yes, this is a very relevant question.

It is often the case that their body has done this to them. Their body has taken away life from them. What they fail to understand is that they had taken away life from themselves and the body simply responded.

Understand, all of you who are living with the name cancer or who are waiting for a period of time to pass until you don’t need to use it anymore. Understand that the body did not let you down; neither did you deliberately chose cancer.

Sometimes within the alternative movement you are told that, “you created it yourself”. Whilst your body responded to your relationship with your life, we are not sure if we have ever experienced an individual who sat down and deliberately manifested cancer cells to overrun their immune system and create a mass. So understand that the body didn’t let you down. There was something happening in your life to the point of diagnosis and perhaps to this point today, that opened up the mechanism for exit.

With this knowledge understand that you can now support your body, for it is only your body that can rid itself of this. It may be able to do so if it not too far down the track to the connection with exit. How far down are you on that connection to exit? Only you can know that. Your Drs may give you insight based on what they have seen with other people but only you can know how alive you are. Even if you are feeling alive the connection to exit may still be in place for you for it has been firmly established and cannot be overwritten. But until you know that, live and enjoy life.

Your body did not do this to you and you did not do this to your body with deliberate intention. However, the manifestation to the exit did occur. This usually happens for there has been a lack of connection to life. Very occasionally the connection to exit can occur because spiritually your time has come. A time will come for all of you. We hope this work survives its co-creators but it will come for them too.

We certainly do not do this to your bodies. Sometimes you blame God: “God did this to me”. Or, God is a real “bleep” because he won’t take this away. Or, where are my angels now that I am dying? Your angels now are always with you, including when you are dying.

So, understand that the body requires care and attention. The more fearful you are of the body, the more we urge you to love your body; the more you continue to fear and resent your body, the more you will disconnect from the reality of life which is - you are alive within your body. Do whatever it takes for you to begin to love your body again and by this we do not mean lose weight or gain weight. We mean love. It is not about the form of the body or what the form represents to those around you or what you believe the form means because of standards that others, including your society. Love yourself for who you are. Care for your body. The more you are fearful, the more you must work at this. The greater the journey will be for you to love yourself once more.

You cannot heal and disrespect your body at the same time. Healing must come via the physical. It can be positively influenced via the mind and via the spirit but its mechanisms must work via the cellular functioning’s of the body. You cannot do this by hating and resenting your body. So, your body did something that you didn’t consciously wish it to do; it is still giving you an opportunity to wake up. So, wake up and begin loving your body. Whatever this means. We have seen that for many this means taking up forms of dance, forms of creative expression via the body and we support this. We would also see a greater appreciation for the role of sexuality in your body. Genuine, authentic, feel good sexuality in your body.

What this is not to be is a drive to force the body back to health, devoid of love, such as we see. We see this on juice diets. “This will make you healthy, body; I don’t care if you don’t like it, body (i.e. it doesn’t taste good), you‘re having it”. That is not love. Nurture and nourish your body, with love. This is more powerful than any antioxidant you can put into your system. Understand this. Ideally, do both. When the body is in a state that has formed a mass, it is out of balance. Do what you have to do to bring it back into balance, with love. The prescription is love at the top and juice diets at the bottom, if at all.
Have we answered your question?

FIONA: YES, THANK YOU. I AM NOT GOING TO ASK ANYMORE QUESTIONS TODAY AS WE HAVE COVERED A LOT.

GUIDES: Yes, we agree. Your system has had enough. Recognise that you will be tired today, Fiona, for your system is out of balance and has been exposed to us!

FIONA: WHAT SHOULD I DO TO BRING IT BACK INTO BALANCE?

GUIDES: Rest, all you need is rest. You have been exerting yourself physically more than you are capable of doing. Do not allow the mind to do more than the body is able to handle.

You understand this? We will speak about this next time, this is very important. This is why many of you manifest a mechanism to exit. The body becomes so disengaged from the desires and the driving force of the mind. So learn the lesson with the virus and who knows maybe the cells with the “c” word will take care of themselves.

FIONA: IS THAT SUPPOSED TO TELL ME THAT I STILL HAVE NAUGHTY CELLS IN MY BODY?!

GUIDES: No, we are laughing at this. We knew this came next. It is our joke. You always have cells of these in the body.

FIONA: THAT IS TRUE

GUIDES: Use this part of the conversation on the blog. We leave you now. Goodbye and thank you.

FIONA: SEE YOU NEXT TIME

GUIDES: Yes, we won’t go anywhere.

Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Medical tests and Dr's appointments

FIONA: WHAT ABOUT OTHER FEARS CONNECTED TO LIVING, SUCH AS ONCOLOGIST APPOINTMENTS WHICH ARE OFTEN VERY FEARFUL, PARTICULARLY IF YOU ARE EXPECTING TEST RESULTS?

GUIDES: We find this ironic, that the weight of the world is given to one person to tell you, when the reality is already within your own body. Recognise this: there is nothing that someone can tell you that you that you are not already living with. You are the truth of your health. Another that has access to equipment that can measure things, that can tell you how things stack against another, simply has insight on this issue. These people, most of them, who do this work- and who would wish to do this work? Let us think about it. Who would wish to work with people with cancer? Have compassion for the people who throughout their day may not know who they have to give their life or death diagnosis to.

You are the one who has the power. You are the one who has the power to connect to you. You are the one who inhabits the body together with the mass that you may be about to hear about. You are not separate in any way yet there is great fear about this ‘thing’ that lives in you as if it is a parasite. Really, this is the mechanism to take you to your exit. That is all it is.

If you don’t like the fact that the mechanism to take you to your exit has kicked off, connect to the opposite side, which is life. There are times in life where you are given bad news or bad life events happen to you; by ‘bad’ we mean that which you wouldn’t choose consciously. But recognise this is part of the process of learning to be a happy, healthy, balanced human being. You have many, many sayings for this: rolling with punches is one we particularly like. We like it for you can come back from punches and it can feel like a punch and you can simply roll. Why not roll from a punch? It is better than having a bleeding nose! We jest on this. Simply understand that you are in control of your health and this situation.

This person who chooses to do this for a living has an infinite capacity for the suffering of man. No joy is ever taken from giving information such as, ‘we think this is terminal’. So have understanding of self, understanding that, for whatever reason that you may or may not be aware of, the mechanism to the exit has been activated. You can do what you choose to do to take you back to life.

Remember that you have not exited yet and for as long as there is life within, you are life itself, so live. These people have no power over you and in many ways have one of the best and the worst jobs in the world; they get to explore the depth of humanity.

FIONA: YOU SAID THAT THESE DRS HAVE NO POWER OVER YOU. HOWEVER, THERE IS OFTEN A VERY STRONGLY PERCEIVED NOTION OF POWER OVER THE PATEINT, IN TERMS OF THE DRS PROGNOSIS. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT DRS VIEWS AND HOW THEY MAY OR MAY NOT BE FACTUAL?

GUIDES: The best thing about cancer is that it shouts loudest of all: wake up! There are other diagnoses such as AIDs where currently there is no wake up call that can be chosen. Their call is simply ‘wake up’ and know that you are on your way to the exit. Cancer is not known. The body, however, will present itself to a Dr at some stage of manifestation towards the exit. The closer to the exit, the more serious the words that might be used, the word ‘terminal’ might be used. This is your reality, not the Drs.

The Drs simply impart an opinion that is prevalent and from their perspective it would be insane to ignore it. This is the position of power you are asking about. From their perspective, as a profession, it would be insane to ignore a chance to recover. Their entire profession is geared up to keep you alive. So, if they believe that you may respond to a treatment they will think it is insane that you may not chose it. For they have chosen to align their lives with keeping you alive. This is the power you think of; they are on, for most of the time, your side. Yet because they give you the bad news, because the deliver the wake up call, from yourself to you, you often fail to recognise them. And you fail to recognise them as human beings.

After all, all they do is read out a piece of paper or information from a computer screen. And you trade yourself for that information. Do you wish to take this further?

FIONA: YES, WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO STAY CONNECTED TO LIVING?

GUIDES: Love the Dr. Understand that their Dr simply gives them verbal information about what is happening in them. The Dr has no power over them. So, simply love and feel compassionate for the person who has to tell you whether you are about to have a good day or a bad day, independently of you, it seems, at times. They understand their position of power and sometimes they can have a bad day.

FIONA: IF, AFTER SUCH A MEETING IF YOU DON’T FEEL IN YOUR POWER, WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO CONNECT BACK TO LIFE?

GUIDES: This will be different for every individual. What ‘life’ means to an individual is different from one to the next. What ‘life’ means to an individual at one time can be different from the next time. So there is time where the best thing in the world can feel like a summer day with a book and there is another time where the best thing in the world can be snow and a fire. Sometimes, the best thing in the world can be all of your friends, there are times when it can be none of your friends.

Connect with who you are at that time and give yourself what it is you need. Recognise though, that if you have opened the mechanism to exit, you have not been giving yourself what you need for a sustained time. So, it will not be the first chocolate bar, or holiday, or meaningful romance, or 6 kilos that you've put on that will re-establish your connection to life and disable the mechanism to the exit. There must be at least as many connections to life, at least, as there was to the mechanism that kicked off the exit. Does this make sense?

FIONA: YES

GUIDES: Many give up on this and think: I’ll do this, I’ll do this, and I’ll do this. Oh look, the Drs told me that I’m still dying. The reality is that you are dying anyway. You only have one exit. But you can be in charge of the quality of how you live while you are alive and this may be enough to disable the mechanism towards the exit.