As promised we are embarking on a journey through the common factors that were used by a thousand people who found a way out of the imbalance of cancer. Not everyone used all of these but everyone used numerous factors. Seems that we are not going to find a silver bullet here as we so often phantasize about. The garden of our health needs numerous components to thrive and we have to pay attention to a broad field of notions.

I being Felipe have to tackle this in my own Felipe way. I can only speak for myself on this really. Please read the book if you are hot on this topic but know that the book speaks of these notions in a general way and they may have slightly different meanings to the individual.

I am choosing to tackle this project by starting with the factors that I am most at home with or that maybe I rely on the most. So let’s get started. Number one on my list is “Deepening Your Spiritual Connection”. Right away after my diagnosis I knew that I had to do this. I already had a church connection and my Bible class connection but converting to Catholicism placed me in a much richer environment and was a good move.

When I am really in the groove with my spirituality things happen to place me outside my former self and outside the norm. Having my feet on a good foundation gives me the position to shed large quantities of fear for one thing. Fear is rampant in normal life but for a person with a diagnosis it can quickly go out of control with the fear of the unknown and of death. Deepening my spiritual connection was a way to get this under control and even to be able to use the energy that I would have wasted for positive purposes.

Energy that is saved can be “plowed back” into our health instead of having it wasted. This is a must. Having a strong spiritual connection means having a trust that whatever happens I will be upheld. This is a must for me and I can’t see anyway for me to continue without it. So, this is where I choose to start and as we move through my reorganized list of the factors we will get to ones that I am weaker and weaker on. And that far end of the list is where I have to concentrate my energy as there is so much room for improvement.

It is paradoxical really to realize that having Faith and having less fear of death and dying gives one more of a chance to live. I can be much less concerned with that topic and turn my attention elsewhere. Does that make sense?

I thought that this was one of the weakest chapters in the book. Bless the author for the effort but put up against my strongest suit I saw lots of holes in it. But that’s OK for we are springboardimg off what she compiled and it will work nicely.

Next we will tackle “Embracing Social Support”. OK, a good start. Off I go. Strong Connection Loves, Felipe.