Ian Gawler - You Can Conquer Cancer - The ground-breaking self-help manual including nutrition, meditation and lifestyle management techniques

Based upon many years of clinical experience and supported by the most recent research, the way to activate healing through your own efforts is easy to define. Your body’s capacity to heal is directly affected by what you eat, what you drink, and whether or not you smoke. Sunlight, vitamin D and exercise all play important roles, as does your emotional life and state of mind. How you manage stress, your capacity to relax, to be mindful and to meditate—along with the way your spiritual view impacts on your life and those around you; all these factors impact on the inner healer.

While I have to say it strikes me as a somewhat bland term, all these elements are best described as being under the banner of lifestyle medicine—they are to do with the things you can control and do in the course of your daily life. And the key? It is your mind. Again, it is your mind that decides what you eat and drink. It is the mind that helps you to adopt a healthy, healing lifestyle or remain stuck in old unhelpful habits. Truly, it is the mind that changes everything and so we will begin the road to recovery with the mind.

To embark on the healing journey, to embrace outer help with conventional medicine, TM and CAM, to begin to activate the inner healer—all this is best achieved by being in a stable state of mind, clear and confident. What meditation promises and reliably delivers is a stable, clear mind. As stability becomes more constant, clarity more natural, and confidence more assured, it becomes easier to go from the broad recommendations regarding what to eat, how much to exercise and so on, and to be able to personalize those recommendations. Therefore, in seeking a stable, calm and clear mind, we begin with meditation.

To Those Interested in Prevention

If you are well, just how well are you? Are you just symptom free or are you as fit as your true potential allows?

When this book was first written in 1984, the statistic quoted was that “one in three people alive in the United States today will get cancer during their lifetime. One in five in Australia will die from it.” Now the figure is closer to one in two people alive today will develop cancer and currently one in four Australians dies of cancer. This is not scare-mongering. This is fact. Cancer is a lifestyle disease. Are you prepared to learn the lesson of this disease and take up on a lifestyle aimed for optimal health? A lifestyle that is highly likely to prevent the majority of cancers?

These techniques we talk of can save the lives of people affected by cancer. We have seen them work for many other disease conditions as well. Also they can make a basically well person a picture of health. Back in 1981, in his landmark work, The Causes of Cancer, 5Professor R. Doll gave the medical evidence that 85 percent of all cancers could be prevented by changes in lifestyle! The challenge is there. It takes effort; it requires commitment and an ability to be open to change. Again, it can be done. Our natural state is health. Please take up that challenge. It would be wonderful to see people learning from the difficulties of others and not having the need for change forced upon them by physical disease. While it is wonderful to help people to recover from cancer, how much better—and wiser—not to get sick in the first place.

Four Features of Long-Term Survivors with Advanced Malignancy

Throughout this book you will pick up many features of long-term survivors and gain insights into what they did to recover. However, reflecting on a long and illustrious career as a cancer surgeon, Professor Gabriel Kune highlighted special characteristics of a particular group—people with advanced malignancy who became unexpectedly long-term survivors, and I quote:

1. They seek a wide exposure to conventional medical opinion and treatment.

They take “control” of their health. They will decide for themselves what advised treatment to have and what treatment not to have. They are often critical of their medical management.

2. They seek a wide exposure to nonconventional opinion and treatment.

Again, they will decide for themselves what they will choose to have and they are often critical of nonconventional management.

3. They operate at an intuitive level.

They are usually not “thinkers” or intellectuals. They tend not to operate at a rational level as their main guide for making decisions and appear to make decisions “intuitively.”

4. They are at peace with themselves.

One often gets a sense of tranquility, peace and spirituality while in their presence. They are not at all fearful. 6

Now, in my own experience I would agree with all this generally, and while I certainly recognize the importance of the intuition in decision making, many of the long-term survivors I have known have also been very smart and drawn on their intellects well. Where people can get into trouble is when they think too much, get lost in the range of options, lost in doubt and worry, and as such do not access their intuition, do not make clear and confident decisions, do not commit to what they are doing.

Maybe we can summarize Professor Kune’s four points by saying that long-term survivors have a calm and clear mind. This enables them to think clearly, to make good decisions and to be at peace with the world and themselves. Given all the challenges cancer can present, how do we avoid fear and even panic? How do we develop a calm and clear mind? Meditation provides a well-proven solution, plus it has real healing benefits in its own right. In the next chapter we will begin to unlock meditation’s secrets.

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