•Passive emotion like this disturbs women and induces cancer
Alternative
healers believe that illness is associated with imbalances in the
psycho-emotional-spiritual state. This means that negative conditions in
the human energy field (HEF) are believed to cause illnesses. OYEYEMI
GBENGA-MUSTAPHA writes on how cancer, especially of the breast, is
formed and how to rid it in women.
Are
you always unhappy, irritable, and angry or display other negative
emotions? Beware you may be heading towards the formation of cancer.
A
practitioner, Dr Godwin Ihesie, who was under the tutelage of the late
Elizabeth Kafaru has linked cancer development to negative emotions
such as anger.
According
to him, the greatest cause of systemic pollution and blood poisoning is
without doubt, recurrent negative thoughts, suppressed negative
emotions, anger, worries, anxiety, fear, grief, hate, envy and jealousy,
unforgiving spirit, lack of love, among other harmful emotions.
“It
is marriage disappointment or disappointment in love matters, which
often leads to serious emotional breakdown and disturbances in the
harmony between the soul and the body, especially in women.
“And
almost 90 per cent of women who develop breast cancers are often
victims of sundry emotional disturbances, in the accord between the soul
and the body,” he stated.
According
to him, other experts have always looked at the other things that
pollute the bloodstream today- eating foods contaminated with artificial
flavours, colourings, pesticides, fungicides, insecticides, inhalation
of tobacco smoke, smoking, excessive consumption of alcohol and certain
drugs, the use of strong bathing soaps, cosmetics, among others, but
have not really examined the link between negative emotions and cancer.
He
said: “The science of phycho-neuro-immunology (i.e. the study of the
connections between the brain, the nervous system, and our physical
bodies) has shown that our thoughts, feelings and emotions affect our
body and we are, actually, what we think we are. This is so because our
thoughts, feelings and emotions are translated into electrical impulses
that trigger biochemical changes that affect our bodies in like manners.
“It
has been proven that stress and chronic stress negatively affects every
aspect of our health, especially the immune system because they cause
what is regarded as psycho-physical imbalances. For example, when one
holds on to evil or negative thoughts, or emotions or violent fits of
anger, deep inner hatred, jealousy, and not willing to forgive, the body
is triggered to produce high voltage chemicals such as adrenaline,
non-adrenaline, cortisone, etc. These are the chemicals, which in real
dangerous situations, prepare the body for what is known as
Fight-or-flight reactions.”
Dr
Ihesie, who now runs his own health shop and clinic based in Iju area
of Lagos State, said: “However when these chemicals are not consumed or
burnt off they put the body in a state of chronic stress or inner
disharmony, and chronic stress can, according to health researchers,
weaken the detoxification activities of the liver; which neutralises and
flushes out toxins (heavy metals, environmental pollutants.) from the
body.
“It
is believed that recurrent negative emotion and bad thoughts (chronic
stress) often behaves like the free radicals that can initiate and
promote the binding of cancer-causing agents to DNA molecules in the
breast tissues and other organs. The recurrent negative emotion destroys
the part of the immune system that destroys cancerous cells as soon as
they appear in the body.
“Such
also cause glandular disturbances that can result in growths in the
breast or in the womb. Unresolved and unexpressed anger, fear and
resentments are known to destabilise the body’s physiological and
biochemical processes, producing toxic chemical substances that can give
rise to the disturbances in the information flow between the
hypothalamus, the pituitary glands and the reproductive organs and this
communication gap results in hormonal imbalance.”
But
for those doubting Thomases, Dr Ihesie explained that many degenerative
diseases of our time have been found to be caused by a long standing
condition of deep inner disturbances and disharmony in thoughts and
emotions.
He
said: “Strong negative emotions are known to weaken the liver, disturb
the glandular system; and above all, destroy the part of the immune
system that inactivates or engulfs cancerous cells as soon as they
appear in the body or breasts.
“The
degree of malignancy is a function of the degree of retained anger,
resentment and the inability to forgive and forget. Furthermore, studies
have shown that: anger weakens the protective functions of the liver
and gall bladder - leading to their diseases; causes serious damage to
the heart and the brain, depression and general shock, stroke;
suppresses the body’s innate ability to resist diseases, such as ulcer,
arthritis, gout; and also induces premature aging and shortens the life
span of an individual.
“Jealousy
and fear weaken the kidneys and their detoxification functions. Fear
paralyzes the spirit and breaks the psychic defences. A deep inner and
excessive grief weakens the body generally, especially the liver; and
grossly lowers the body’s abilities to resist the establishment of
cancerous centres. In fact, the list of disease manifesting physically
due to deep inner disharmony is endless.”
And
the way out of developing negative emotions that can thermostat cancer,
especially breast cancer in women? Dr Ihesie suggested: “The life of
the physical body (flesh) is said to be in the blood. A pure bloodstream
with the right composition is the most favourable soil for a healthy
breast. To maintain a pure blood, holistic health providers usually
advice the women, to adopt a wholesome and health enhancing lifestyle
and habits; such as eating enough organically grown foods, and to strive
to maintain purity of their femininity and thoughts, to avoid all kinds
of masculine activities, to listen to good and soul uplifting music, to
have pure love and deep inner appreciation for the little things of
nature and beauty, reading good books, that are soul lifting. Above all,
they should keep spiritual vigilance and alertness and pray for God’s
guidance in times of confusion, doubts and distress.”
He
lamented that unfortunately, in our era, health studies and researches
give preference only to the physical body and usually the ways the
patients thinks his/her emotions and behaviour are grossly neglected.
The ancient health care givers believed that the only effective, true,
curative, and preventive therapy stem from the ways we live and what we
think.
Quoting
an English physician, Dr. Edward Bach (1886-1936), Dr Ihesie, the
notable practitioner of experience that has spanned four decades said:”
disease is in essence the result of a conflict between soul and mind and
will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort. No
effort directed to the body alone can do more than superficially repair
damage and in this, there is no cure since the cause is still operative
and may at any moment again demonstrate its presence in another form.
“And
just as Dr. Richard Gerber, the author of Vibrational Medicine - the
Handbook of Subtle Energy Therapies wrote, and I quote, ‘A system of
medicine which denies or ignores its existence (spirit) will be
incomplete because it leaves out the most fundamental quality of human
existence, the spiritual dimension.”
“So,
the first step towards effective prevention of breast cancer is really
to be truly being a noble woman – being faithful, and at all cost to
preserve her biological and spiritual superiority, and never to imitate
men in any way or form. The delicate female body may interpret strenuous
exercises or extreme fluctuating body weight as chronic stress.
Therefore, unwomanly exercises as seen in some competitive athletes and
weight reduction methods through crash dieting should be avoided.
However, moderate exercises are encouraged,” he stated.