Dear Friends,
The Cancer as a Turning Point, From Surviving to Thriving™ conference last week-end was awesome! One participant wrote:
I came here with my wife expecting some sort of sales pitch and instead I sit here in awe of the grace and humanity and the pure giving of this gift to us who are so in need. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
There were many profound lessons and highlights at the conference in San Mateo for me. Before I tell you about one of them, I want to share with you an exciting video I recently watched on the internet.
If you have any doubt that nutrition is a vital part of your healing, I encourage you to watch a 20 minute talk by William Li, a mainstream scientist, talking on the subject, Can we eat to starve cancer?
Jeanne Wallace, one of our conference speakers, has been talking about anti-angiogenesis for years in her talks on the role of nutrition in controlling cancer. It’s so exciting to see that the world is starting to catch up with her cutting-edge information.
If you want to learn more about how to eat to starve cancer, come to the Cancer-Fighting Kitchen workshop on November 5th in Napa with Jeanne Wallace and Rebecca Katz. If you can’t be there, you can watch the DVDs from their workshop we held in March. I can’t emphasize enough how important this information is to your health. People often ask me what I have done to continue to thrive after three primary cancers, and evidence-based nutrition has been a biggie.
I want to share just one of the highlights/lessons for me from the conference. Dean Shrock, PhD, talked about research showing that people who do what truly brings them joy are more likely to live longer and healthier lives. When I heard that, I made a mental note to pay closer attention to what brings me joy.
About an hour after that talk, I found myself dancing on stage with about 50 other people and feeling truly joyful. I could feel the music in my body, enhancing my feeling of aliveness. And I loved the eye contact and connections I experienced with the other people dancing on stage. I became aware that music, dancing, and connecting with others bring me joy.
If a doctor prescribed a pill that research showed would help me live a longer and healthier life, I’d take it. Why is it so difficult to add more music, dancing, and connection to my life? I so often think I have to finish my work before I can do something just for fun. There is no evidence that finishing one’s work contributes anything to one’s quality or quantity of life. I’m going to pretend that I have a prescription to increase the music, dance, and connections with others in my daily life.
I would love to hear what some of your lessons or highlights were. What happened that became a “take home” lesson for you?
In the spirit of healing,
Jan Adrian, MSW
Founder and Executive Director
Jan, You say “There is no evidence that finishing one’s work contributes anything to one’s quality or quantity of life.”
Being exhaustingly absorbed with “doing” way too long, I’ve been looking for this sentence for eons. THANK YOU!
Here’s to whatever leads us to that quantum vibrational field of love!
xox
Dee
Jan i too was moved by the freedom and joy that washed over me as i danced with people on stage. The participants gave me, the presenter, more love than i think i have felt in a long time.
I feel so free and totally alive when I dance. Now that I have a weaker right leg, every dance now has special meaning. I have turned off talk radio while driving and now ONLY listen to great music as I drive….and I dance from the waist up at stop lights! Thank you for giving me the chance to dance with 800 people at the conference.
Every speaker and performer was absolutely wonderful. My wife and I were so filled up with the overwhelming love of the conference–we didn’t even mind the traffic on the return home. Since then, we’ve signed up for Integral Tai Chi at our local Cancer Community (Wellness Center) to help balance ourselves. Although my cancer is stage 4, I have every confidence that I’ll live a very productive and thriving life before this journey is through–thanks to the support so lovingly shared with all. Once again, thank you so much for such a wonderful conference.
There seems to be a great deal of attention directed at food and cancer. I certainly don’t pretend to have all the answers to the causes of cancer. I do know that there is, currently, no known nutritional prevention or cure for cancer.
I also know that the largest percentage of food produced and sold in the United States (and much imported here) is contaminated with pesticides, herbicides, chemical ingredients, ionizing radiation, bioengineered agents and contains nano particles. Most of these are not even labeled for consumer’s knowledge. And these have all been linked to serious health issues, including cancer.
Instead of asking if we can starve cancer, maybe we should be looking at decades of existing evidence strongly linking man-made toxins to many cancers, and then avoiding these by “cleaning-up” the environment & the food we produce from it. It’s part of what’s called, “The Precautionary Principle.”
It’s a horror to me to know that I cannot open any can of tuna w/o exposing myself to harmful amounts of mercury, a known human toxin. There are 100,000 commercial chemicals sold in the USA. Most still remain untested for human safety.
Marleen,
I agree with you about needing to promote “The Precautionary Principle.” We definitely should be looking at the evidence linking man-made toxins to many cancers, and then avoiding these by “cleaning-up” the environment.
I don’t think this has to be “instead of” doing what we can do personally to improve our health with nutrition. Cancer requires a certain kind of terrain to grow. There is much evidence that we can affect the terrain of the body by what we eat, and we can create a terrain that doesn’t promote the growth of cancer. Jeanne Wallace will be presenting much of this evidence in her presentation at “The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen” workshop in Napa on November 5th. All of her information is evidence-based.
Thank you for the work you are doing to clean-up the environment. It’s very important work and I support it.
With appreciation,
Jan
I love receiving your newsletters – so glad to hear the most recent event was a success! Thank you for the video link to William Li’s talk. Very informative.
Lisa