Using Herbs and Supplements 129 4 舛砌ツ尾 / なルん〃 / 〃イ ... イ / ん go 記 / 硼ん。を 4 0 厖ケどル / れ ga ど . ルどア 4 ル 4 / ん比あ 4 / 砌イ←一イ ッィー“研 We 翔ノ阨な 4 加 . 外 4 〃ルんな / 4 襯市″尾 z 〃イ g 房〃 g / 印な ッル 4 〃必 0 〃 D ど化み ON E OF TH E most important healing factors for Jenny was find- ing the right combination Of supplements that gave her immune system the boost it needed to remove cancer fully 伝 om her body. Although the supplements alone would notlikely have led to her remission, the supplements combined with all the other lifestyle changes she made was the recipe her particular body needed for healing. Action 5 ps Most of the RadicaI Remissron survivors I study take supplements that 信Ⅱ into the following three categories. Keep in mind, though, that just as Jenny spent hours researching on her own and consult- ing with qualified nutritionists and doctors, you t00 should d0 your 0 、 research and find a qualified nutritionist or dOCtor tO help you choose the supplements that are best suited tO your particular health situation. ( 0 90 One: Supplements わ Help YOU Digest 「 F00d ・ D をど市方〃ぉ . These help your digestive system break down 応 od. Specific examples include proteolytic enzymes and pancreat1C enzymes.

Fo 〃 0 Ⅳ ing u 司 n ル市 on return [ 0 her conventional medicine doctors. After all, she had lntuitively chosen tO use Other methods tO heal, and She kne 、 that nothing they could say to her now would convince her to stop doing what she was doing. Therefore, she decided she would simply use the disappearance of her symptoms—and the factthatshe was still alive after one year—as indicators that the cancer 、 gone. It'S now been five years she received a diagnosis of metastatic pancreatic cancer, and while She has not returned [ 0 her doctors and therefore has not definitively confirmed the disappear- ance Of the cancer With Western medicine S scans, symptoms are gone and she has greatly outlived her doctors' dire prognosis of being dead in less than a year. More important, she feels healthier and happier than ever: . / 切どど classic 加ルゞゞ爿〃化加 c んノッ / . ' ... / 魵 0 ル 坊行ルん坊 / ″イな砌化加ど . ・ / co 〃な c んど .... ど加ルゞアケ。 pp 。加〃 み孕ア砌ゞ 0 / な 4 なんヮ / な 4 訪房化 , 4 〃イ どツおルどんど 4 房化 4 んおイ 0 曜〃どん〃 4 〃イ 4 〃イ〃 4 0 ル . Whether circuitOUS or straight, susan's choice t0 follow her intu- ition and try alternative healing methods certainly led her back to a place health. Nowadays, as an avocation, she helps other people, including some with cancer diagnoses, find their own umque paths healing by encouraging them to 応Ⅱ ow their intuition and teach- ing them how to find areas of stuck energy in their bodies:

Deepening / bu 「 Spiritual Connection 231 ing schedule left him little time for a sociallife or sleep. He was no longer living with friends as he had during college, he was still heal- ing from a recent romantic breakup, and he remembers feeling a bit depressed in general ・ lt was during this time that Matthew's headaches began. One day around ten in the morning he got a fairly strong headache, but it passed after a few hours, so he thought nothing of it. The same thing happened the next morning—an unusually strong headache struck around ten, which faded after a few hours. This went on for a few days, getting worse and lasting longer with each day. He saw a massage therapist and a chiropractor, but both provided only tem- porary relief. A local doctor diagnosed him with migraines, but even heavy-duty painkillers did not help with the pain. After two weeks, the pain was lasting around the ClOCk and was SO severe that it was making Matthew vomit. Unfortunately, because he had invested all his money in buying his piece ofland, he did not have any health rnsurance at that time, but his bOSS gave him S01 蝨 e sound advice: り既コッんがリ g 。どん呼 / ノ g な ッ 0 / ア阨鑽″ , ん 4 れ〃イ c 加 0 どワル Matthew was able to get in for the last MRI the day at a nearby hospital, and he remembers writhing in pain on the 、 yaiting れ couch. Finally, the results came in: ん加ルルんヮみん歸 0 房″ル勗襯ノなケ 〃をんコん比訪ど市ぉ。ん呼 / 加な を〃イイどワ , みッ 0 〃ん怩加なな尾側ノをん加ル ーー〃尾房〃 g ア 4 り 0 / 所ん .

Following u 司 n ルⅲ on 95 ッ房 / イ佃どんど g 切 4 ア化ル加尾 / Susan s in-depth knowledge 0f the meridian system shows Just hOW much She learned about the intricacies Of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), although her unique view of TCM was strongly influenced by Donna Eden, an energy healer. Many people think acupuncture IS a treatment that iS only physical (due tO 1tS nee- dles) and energetic (because the needles are designed tO stimulate energy). }40 、 as Susan discovered in her studies, alSO Offers intrrcate theories on hOW emotions interact with the physical body. For example, in Donna Eden's vrew, the energy pathway or meridian" refers tO as the "triple warmer" iS known for pro- cessing emotlons related [ 0 feeling safe and protected. SO, in Susan S healing work, part of unblocking her "stuck" energy meant cultivat- ing a strong sense Of emotional safety and unguardedness. Another part of Susan s emotional unblocking work had to do with her job and career. Before she came down with her cough, she had an exciting job at a company that sponsored early child- hood education programs. As the manager of a new pilot program there, she felt empowered by her position, appreciated its positive contribution tO SOC1ety, and enJOyed the travel that 、 sometlmes required. However, the pilot pr0Ject—and therefore her job— eventually came tO an end, at 、 point her intuition tOId her tO move on tO something ne 、 v. 140 、 Mever, her financial fears led her tO accept a different position in the company, one that involved 、 ing alone in her home Office managing databases:

224 R A 田 C A L R E M 引 0 N feel as strongly as Brahmdev does about the primacy of the spirit over the physical body; however, almost all of them believe that spiritual energy iS an important aspect Of 、 Mh() 、 are as human beings and connecting to it regularly can significantly help the physical body heal. THE IMPORTANCE OF REGULAR PRACTICE MOSt people read accounts Of spiritual healing in WhiCh a person IS flooded with spiritual energy, merges with the "oneness," and heals shortly thereafter, and they think to themselves, ん ん 4 砌どみ″ル辺〃孕ア砌加ど . I used t0 be one of those people, because I did not know I could slowly develop a practice that allowed me to feel more palpably the sensation of spiritual energy coursing through my body. ln many of the spiritual heal- ing stories 、 read, people are flOOded 、 this spiritual energy instantly and inexplicably, without much effort on their part. However, one thing I have learned from Radical Remiss10n survrvors iS that, 、 some may be lucky enough tO experience an lnstant flOOd Of spiritual energy, most Of us have tO 、 up tO it slowly with regular, committed practice. The analogy I like [ 0 use is weight lifting. You cannot walk into a gym having not lifted a weight in five years ()r more!) and expect suddenly to bench- press tWO hundred pounds. SimiIarly, you cannot Sit on a medita- tion cushion having never meditated and expect tO have spiritual energy instantly inundate your entire being. Rather' just like the weight lifter, you need to start small and build up your ability with regular—ideally daily—practice. Furthermore, just like weight lift- ing, if you take a month 0 仼 from your practice, メ ou cannot neces- sarily jump back in where you left off; instead' you may have t0 start back at the beginning ・

196 R A 田 C A L R E M 引 0 N 笳磋ん加靃ん〃ぉ , 訪どル辺ど加〃を厖 " / / / , 〃。劭 / ca / んイ 4 ル笳んん〃訪イガ / 砌必加 co ど知〃をん 4 〃イ眦み諸ど砿 4 加〃 . " . , 0 〃なななら / / どア , ・ / ルど加んど . ス / なん / 着眦尾砿ど , z 〃 & な″ / 〃 g ノ磋お , ア / - ing 郷 / らん″ / 4 / イ〃 . ど〃ど 0 she んア . 品ど ルど〃加どん 4 み 4 〃イ r 〃どイん 0 ど . 方ど尾ル 4 4 〃 0 みど 4 / なお〃 4 ー ツ 5 ん第イ〃どん〃ぉコ厖〃 / / , 砿ど訪どル , 〃んなルど尾 4 アど ... どみどど From POint Of Vie 、 as a kahuna healer, love IS a high-frequency, health-inducing form energy. Therefore, giving love—or high-frequency energy—to a sick person is believed to help that person clear out any energetic blockages and help restore balance to his or her bodily systems. Scientifically, there is a large body of evidence to supportthe idea that receiving emotional love 伝 0n1 Others iS beneficial tO the physical body. First, om a more general standpoint, studies have repeatedly ShO 、 that people with more SOCial connections live significantly longer than people with fewer social connections,3 and they also have 10 、 Mer cancer rates. 4What's SO amazing about this health-giving force Of SOCial connectlon is that it has been shown tO be more beneficial than exercise, diet, or refraining from drinking and smok- ing. 5 ln Other words, close-knit communities that regularly eat and relax together live longer than average, even if they eat fatty foods, drink a1C0h01 , smoke, or don't exercrse much. (Obviously, if メ ou are trying to be the healthiest you can be, メ ou will work on increasing your social support network while also eating healthfully, reducing alCOhOl and tObacco consumption, and exercising. ) If you are dealing with a cancer diagnosis, the good news is that

Releasing Suppressed Emotions 13 / as stress, fear, trauma, regret, anger, or sadness, but 、 may alSO hold on [ 0 positive emotrons, such as happiness. Most people would assume that holding on to happiness is a good thing; however, when happiness is tied tO your past, it quickly turns intO nostalgia, 、 vhich keeps us focused on a memory of past happiness, as opposed to the possibility of actual happiness in the present. ln addition tO being POS1tive or negative, suppressed emotions may be consclous or unconscrous, meamng you may not be able tO remember them fully or at all. That'S because traumat1C memones, such as accidents or incidents Of physical or sexual abuse, are Often blocked 伝 om one s conscious memory. You will find suggestions for hOW tO release such unconsclous, buried the "Action Steps' sectlon at the end Of this chapter, but for no 、 v, it is impor- tant tO note that any emotion you are hOlding on tO 0n1 your past iS a suppressed emotion that may, over time, lead tO an unhealthy blockage in your body-mind-spiritsystem. iS a Radical Remission , hO focused on releas- ing emotions OI Ⅱ her past in order tO help heal her cancer. She 、 vas diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer and agreed tO have surgery, but when her doctor insisted on following up with chemotherapy and radiation ln order [ 0 treat her metastases, she hesitated. Her intuition told her that her already-weak body would not be able to handle such intense treatments, and more important, her training ln energy medicine led her tO believe that suppressed emotions from her recent divorce might be keeping her immune system れ work- ing as well as it could: / ノッ”。 give ど 4 んイ眦どを厖なア房 ル , 砌どど房ケ砌を , なハど c イ訪な〃砌砿 化明切印ワ , んなイど化翔 / . 砿ど 4 〃

2 R A 田 C A L R E M 引〇 N I 、 working at a cancer research instltutlon, and thiS was the firsttime I had ever heard of one. The more I dug into this topic, the more frustrated I became. lt turned out that no one 、 seriously investlgating these cases, nor 、 vere they making any attempt tO track them.What's worse, most of the Radical Remissron survrvors I began talking to said that their doctors, while happy for them, often had no interest in hear- ing about what they had done [ 0 get better. The final straw for me, though, was when a fe 、 Of the radical survlvors tOld me that their doctors had actually asked them not to tell any ofthe other patients in the waltlng room about their amazing recoveries. The reason? So as not to raise "false hope. ' While it is certainly understandable that these dOCtors 、 not want tO mislead their patients intO thinking another person's healing methods might work for them, it iS quite another thing [ 0 silence completely these true stories Of healing. A few 、 later, a counseling client Of mine broke down in tears 、 Mhile receiving her chemotherapy,. She 、 vas thirty-one years old, with young toddler twins, and had recently been diagnosed with aggressive stage 3 (out of a possible 4 ) breast cancer. Through her sobs, she pleaded with me: "What can I do to get better?Just tell me whatto do. l'll do 4 / I don't want my children grow- ing up without a mother. " I watched her sitting there, exhausted and bald-headed, with her only hope of recovery dripping slowly into her veins. And then I thought of those thousand-plus cases of incredible, radical recovery, 、 MhiCh no one was investigating. Taking a deep breath, I looked into her eyes and said, "I don't know. But l'm going [ 0 try to find out for you. That was the moment I decided to continue on for my Ph. D. and dedicate my life to finding, analyzing, and—yes—talking 4 cases of RadicaI Remission. After all, if we are trying [ 0 win the

R A D ー C A L R E M 引 0 N tion tables: if you don't use them, you lose them. Along this line, researchers believe that our sense Of smell has diminished over the past Ⅵ , centuries because 、 no longer need it tO survwe, as safe fOOd iS now SO abundant ln grocery stores and restaurants. However, by not keeping our sense of smell well honed, we have lost the ability tO detect 〃ど曜 tOXIns ln envrronment, such as cancer- causing chemicals in our fOOd, air, and 、 htater. And then there iS lntultlon, that famous sixth sense or lnstlnct that seems to come 伝 om a deeper place. Many people would argue that we have lOSt this as 、 vell. For example, there are records Ofour ances- tors following the intuitive guidance they received 伝 01 れ dreams, and thousand-year-old yog1C texts describing meditation exercises that can help increase our lntultive abilities. Although I 、 yas not expect- ing it, "following your intuition" has ended up being one ofthe nine most CO ー蝨 1 れ on factors Of Radical RemiSS10n among the people I re- search. I remember, on my fiftieth or SO lntervlew Of these survrvors, thinking, 砿ど 4 / However, now that I have done further research on intultion, I am no longer surprised but thrilled tO have been reintroduced [ 0 this "lOSt" sense Ofours, 、 MhiCh has the ability tO help steer us away from danger and onto the path of recovery. ln this chapter, 、 will first explore three aspects Of intuition as described by the Radical Remission survivors I study, followed by the story of a woman whose intuition played a key role in the heal- ing of her pancreatic cancer. Finally, you will find a list of simple action steps that メ ou can start taking right no 、 tO help you redis- cover your lnnate, SiXth sense Of intultion. 1 THE BODY KNOWS WHAT 灯 NEEDS TO HEAL The Radical Remission survivors I study believe the body has an innate, intuitive kno 、 vledge about what it needs in order tO heal,

292 A C K N 〇 W L E D G M E N T S arms when this bOOk launches—your timing was perfect, 、 love you so much already, and thank you for your patience during those long hours of editing. And to my soul mate, Aaron Teich. This book, and the ten years working, dreaming, studying, agonizing, trip planning, writ- ing, editing, laughing' and crying that went into it, happened only because of you. 0 〃ケ because of you. There are simply no words t0 describe hOW much メ ou and our mean tO 1 れ e and tO my life. I would be lost without you. And finally, a huge thank-you to you, my readers. I wrote this bOOk tO try tO help cancer patients and their loved ones ln some small way. I hope I succeeded.