Were Cabbage, Exercise and Visualizations her Trick to Beating Cancer?

My friend stayed with me this weekend because she was in town for her yearly scans. She has been cancer free for a couple of decades now, and with the over-the-top stress in her life, you’d be scratching your head to figure out how. She had metastisized melanoma – in all lymph nodes, etc. but surprisingly, it was not a death sentence. Her oncologist has been dragging her charts around the earth for years trying to see if anyone can connect the dots as to why she not only survived, but consistently thrives in spite of such a diagnosis. (I’ll remind you, her cancer was decades ago, before many current treatments were even invented.) Perhaps he is looking for physical science, and the answer lies in METAphysics.

I wanted to interview her to see if we could figure out if she had any thoughts as to why she kicked cancer out of her life and here’s what she said:

#1. I VIGOROUSLY EXERCISED while undergoing chemo. I think this was different because most of the people at that time were just crawling home to be sick or something. I THOUGHT, the more of this chemo I can get, the better it will make me. I DECIDED that the more I exercised, the more the chemo would go to every cell in my body to find and eliminate the cancer. I went straight from chemo treatments to the gym. I walked the treadmill and I PICTURED “pac-men” chemo eating up “the bad guys” just like the video game (you get the idea of the era when she had cancer from the pac-men reference, right?).

#2. I ATE CABBAGE right and left. I also still to this day eat cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower all the time. This comes from my Russian heritage. I steam, then shred, then freeze cauliflower, which I get out and sprinkle on just about everything, like Parmesan cheese. I eat broccoli a lot as well. But I especially use a ton of cabbage in whatever I cook. I chop it up finely and put it in my tuna salad for crunch. I put it in meatballs and meatloaf (which makes it extra moist by the way!) I eat cabbage on salads, in soups and on tacos, you name it.

We do know that the cruciferous veggies are super cancer-fighting foods, so it looks like this decision to “do what her ancestors did” might be a very wise choice from a food energy standpoint.

Now, from an energetic point of view, let’s review this. Many people would say “Do not subject yourself to toxic chemo as it does as much harm as good” and I might actually be one of those people. But I submit to you, perhaps YOUR BELIEFS may be the deciding factor on whether it is harmful or helpful — at least, if you would consider what people like cellular biologist Bruce Lipton and best-selling author Gregg Braden say. They, and many of their contemporaries teach that what you perceive and believe are probably the MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS as to how your body will react. So, given my friend’s thought and beliefs, that chemo could have only eaten away the cancer and not left its usual (other people’s thoughts) repercussions.

Another thought/belief she has is that “One of the luckiest things I ever heard was ‘It has spread everywhere.’ Because if it wasn’t for that discovery being made in the surgery I was in, with what they were going to do to me, I would not have use of my legs to this day.” This thought KEEPS HER GRATEFUL each and every time she thinks of her disease — which could be why she has, for decades now, gotten a clean bill of health each yearly scan.

It would be tough for me to NOT have the belief that all the scans she has had over the years would not be accumulating detrimental radiation….but that is NOT HER BELIEF! so, it seems to not be affecting her.

So, in summation, I am writing this to show there is a power in thoughts and beliefs (the docs still can’t find anything else!) The invisible is as powerful, if not MORE POWERFUL than the seen forces (like arranging your furniture let’s say.) This is the “yin half” of the cure. There is the yang part – the physical change in the environment, and then there is the visualization/belief/daydream/intention part. Her feng shui cure for cancer appeared to be her beliefs that the chemo could and would cure it, and her “maintenance” plan of eating cruciferous veggies.

With all that said, I think about Steve Jobs and his seeming conviction about using alternative treatments, and how it did not work out for him.(Did the doctors implant a stronger belief and he bought it at some level?) I then think about my father, who right before he was wheeled into “typical” bypass surgery, voiced his disbelief in the whole process, only to have a fatal outcome. (His outcome was exactly what he believed it would be.) It is hard to say for sure, but if I had to choose a treatment, I guess I would for sure pay attention to what I truly felt/believed about the treatment, rather than blindly follow a protocol that I didn’t DECIDE WOULD WORK.

In the meantime, I’m grateful for my friendship with my dynamic friend, and I’m grateful that I have a chance to witness the miracle (according to the medical model) of her powerful thoughts and beliefs….all as I chomp on a cabbage-filled salad.