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Breast Cancer Conqueror 2017 ©

Essential #4:Heal Your Emotional Wounds

“Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.”

– Ken Page

• Healing emotional wounds is the often hardest part of healing

• Trust the process

Suppression Leads to Depression

“If you don’t grow, you grow a tumor.”

- Dr. Lisa Rankin

Don’t Ignore Emotional Healing

Don’t suffer with the Supermom Syndrome

All the energy you spend on your internal conflict is unavailable for your healing.

Bitter or Better?

Cancer is a message of love

“I believe cancer is a message to stop doing the things that bring you pain, and start doing the things that bring you joy - things that are more in line with who you are and what you want your life to become.”

- Dr. Carl Simonton

Change is Necessary

"If you keep doing the things you’ve always done you are

going to get the same results!”

The “Cancer Personality”

Profile created by Dr. Douglas Brodie after 30 years of working with cancer patients

• Dutiful and hard working• Suppressed toxic emotions• Need to make others happy• Carry other people’s burdens• Lack closeness with one or both parents• Unable to cope with stress in a healthy manner

Do you have the Cancer Personality? ~ Dr. Douglas Brodie

Unresolved Traumatic Events

• Unresolved trauma in childhood creates poor coping skills

• You live your life as a wounded child in an adult body

The Placebo Effect – The Power of Your Mind

• 40-50% of people respond favorably to a placebo pill

• Placebos change the bio-chemistry of your body

• Dr. Joe Dispenza – You ARE the Placebo

Mind Over Medicine

Orthopedic Knee Surgeon, Dr. Bruce Mosely in Texas assigned patients into 3 categories:

1.) Scraped out the knee

2.) Washed out the knee capsule

3.) Did nothing

Two years later……

The Power of Your Mind on Your Body

• Harvard Study – practiced simple 5 finger piano exercise for 2 hours for 5 days

• Second group simply imagined doing the exercise

• Region of the brain that controlled finger activity dramatically increased

• They installed new hardware in their brain without lifting a finger

“Mind Does Not Dominate Body, it BECOMES Body”

~ Candace Pert

Emotions are cellular signals

Choose to Think Pleasant and Loving Thoughts

• Stress response shuts down• Parasympathetic take over and

Immune System gets switched back on

Drs. Gloom and Doom – Medical Hexing

• Chronic

• Incurable

• Terminal

The Nocebo Effect

• Nocebo (Latin): “I shall harm.”• Patients in a chemotherapy drug

study given saline• Told this “new drug” could make

them sick• 30% lost their hair

• Stress response shuts down.• Parasympathetic take over and

Immune System gets switched back on• Speeds up healing

Sympathetic Dominance vs.Parasympathetic Dominance

Victim or Victor – Which Will You Be?

Nearly 100% of patients with a victim attitude die on the surgical table.

Your Mind Impacts Your Body

Polygraph measures effect of your thoughts:

• Temperature change• Heart rate• Blood pressure• Breathing rate• Muscle tension• Sweat response from hands

EMBARRASED – Response

• Your DNA responds to positive and negative thoughts

• Love, gratitude, and joy cause DNA to relax• Stress, anger, and fear cause DNA to

tighten and turn off protective genetic codes

• Based on A Canadian Study of women with Breast Cancer

• Group therapy• Mindfulness Therapy - meditation

Stress Reduction and Emotional SupportIncreases Telomere Length on Your DNA

Your Thoughts Hold The Key

Stress is responsible for over 90% of all diseases.

Immune System & Hormones Respond to Your Thoughts

Let go of Resentments and Judgments –

It’s Hurting YOU More Than “Them”

Staying Stuck on Negative Thoughts Can Block Your Healing And Progress.

• Immune System

• DNA and telomere length

• Cellular communication

• Nerve System

• Sleep

• Digestion

Where Do YOU Choose To Live?

Appreciation

Optimism

HopeFaith

TrustPraise

Gratitude

Disappointment

Resentment Frustration

Irritation

BlameDoubt

AngerFear

Subconsious Beliefs Create Your Life

Experience

Your Beliefs Create Your Life Experience

• Examine your beliefs• Keep a journal• Recognize beliefs that have not

served you well• Negative energies can keep your

body stuck

Our Subconscious Mind is Like a Sponge

Fetal development through the age of 4, our brain functions primarily on the Theta frequency which implants thoughts and patterns into our subconscious mind.

Be Kind To Yourself – Nurture That Little Girl

• We have all made mistakes• You did the best you knew how

with the information you had

Inner Struggle ALWAYS Creates Outer Struggle

Learn to recognize the behaviors that keep you stuck.

Why So Much Struggle?

• “Not Enough” Syndrome• Feelings of not deserving a happy or healthy life

Very Loud Inner Critic

Self- Sabotaging Behaviors

You make progress but you blow it

Procrastination

Perfection ParalysisAnalysis Paralysis

Afraid of What Others Will Think

Healing Is All About Your Mindset

• An attitude

• A disposition

• An intention

A Healing Mindset Can Be Developed With Practice

Meditation Upregulates Healing Genes

• Institute for Mind Body medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital• 20 volunteers in 8 weeks of training • Changes in 1,561 genes – 874 upregulated for health and 687 downregulated for stress

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t….you are RIGHT!

Thoughts – conscious mind

Beliefs – subconscious mind

Actions – behavior

Congruence

That’s Why We Are Here –

To Support you to make Breakthroughs

Tools To Heal Emotional Wounds

• “Getting Well Again”- Dr. Carl Simonton

• “You Can Heal Your Life”– Louise Hay

• “You Are the Placebo” – Dr. Joe Dispenza

• EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique• The Tapping Solution.com

EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique

Acupuncture for the Emotions

Heart Rate Variability

www.HeartMath.com

• Monitor your emotional and physical health

• The Inner Balance™ for Android and iPhone trains you to shift and replace emotional stress with emotional balance and coherence.

Laughter is Best Medicine

Laughter and humor are therapeutic allies in healing:

• Decreases stress hormones

• Improves Immune function

• Increases Dopamine – pleasure hormone

• Stimulates endorphins – feel high

• Lowers blood pressure

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”

-Albert Einstein

Visualization

• Activates the creative process of the subconscious mind

• Programs the Reticular Activating System (RAS) to notice available resources that were always there but were previously unnoticed.

• Your brain sees no difference between something that is real or imagined.

Your Brain Sees No Difference Between Something That Is Real Or Imagined

Meditation

• Create a quiet spot in your home

• Light a candle

• Rub essential oils on your neck and forehead or diffuse

• Breathe slowly and relax

Breathe

• Calming• Centering• Cleansing• Promotes healing peptides

Meditation and Visualization

• Visualize a positive outcome for your journey

• See and feel your body as healthy, whole, and complete

• Are you grateful for you body?

Simple Child-Like Joys

What sorts of things did you do as a child to play?

• Coloring• Reading• Puzzles• Playing in sand• Laying in grass

Happy Organs

Affirmations

• Use affirmations and positive self-talk to affirm already having what you want, doing what you want and being the way you want.

• Create a powerful and compelling newimage of already having doing and being what you want.

• Change the behavior.

Plan YOUR Celebration Party

When will it be? What will it look like? What will you wear? Who will be there? What will you serve?

Congratulations!

Happy Pills

• Make a conscious effort to be happy• Happiness can be compared to the

psychological equivalent of Vitamin C

Make Happy Your New Normal

The Nun Study Journals

Those who wrote about happy events and joy in their life

outlived other grumpy nuns by 10 years!

Discover YOUR Greater Purpose

• Honor the Creator with your life• People who feel connected

spiritually tend to live a longer life

Look Forward To Something

• Going to the movies

• Taking a vacation to the mountains

• Night out with the girls

• Massage or spa day

• Gardening or painting

Make Someone Smile – Pay It Forward

• People who commit acts of kindness are happier

• Have lower levels of stress hormones

• There is more joy in giving than receiving

Move Your Body

• Endorphins are produced by the pituitary gland and hypothalamus during exercise

• Produce a euphoric feeling and can block the transmission of pain

• Learning to be better is part of healing• Love your body• Rest, nurture, nourish

Be Grateful

Essential #4 – Heal Your Emotional Wounds

“The body and the mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.”

– Dr. Candace Pert

Happiness is Not at the Finish Line:I’ll Be Happy When…..

The 5 Main Regrets

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself.

2. I wish I didn’t work so hard.

3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

5. I wish I had let myself be happier.

What is the Gift?

It’s not WHAT happens to us but

how we DEAL with what happens to us.

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