Breast Health Revolution

Can your emotions really affect breast health?

April 10th, 2011

Can your emotions really affect breast health? This is probably one of the most highly debated topics – even more than the environmental impact on breast health.

Yet I would be remiss in not letting my readers know about some very interesting work done by a German doctor, Dr. Hamer. Back in 1978, Dr. Hamer’s son was unexpectedly shot and killed and shortly thereafter, Dr. Hamer developed testicular cancer.

His subsequent research led him to the conclusion that in the case of every one of his cancer patients’ histories, they all had experienced an unexpected shock of some kind. Dr. Hamer further believed that everything that happened within the body was controlled by the brain so he analyzed his patients’ brain scans.

Amazingly enough, he found a clear correlation between what he called “conflict shocks”, and how they manifest disease in certain organs. He concluded that everything is connected to the brain. This was brand new work in this field that Dr. Hamer pioneered as a result of his own tragedy. He went on to help thousands of people with cancer identify and resolve their conflicts and subsequently “cure” them of cancer.

Interestingly Dr. Hamer has had his medical license revoked and he has been imprisoned twice for his unconventional understanding of the origin of cancer. However, when his medical records were analyzed after MORE THAN five years, of 6,500 patients with mostly ‘terminal’ cancer, 6,000 were still alive. Obviously Dr. Hamer had something right in his findings. He called it German New Medicine.

So what did he find out about breast cancer?

Obviously there is an abundance of information on this subject. You can do more research on this subject at http://www.germannewmedicine.ca/documents/sp-breastcancer.html I am quoting directly from this page for the next few paragraphs as this is important information.

“In general, the conflicts linked to a breast gland carcinoma always relate to an argument conflict or worry conflict, while for milk duct ulcerations it is always a separation conflict.

A right-handed woman associates her left breast with her child, her mother, and her nest (dwelling, house). Her right breast not only relates to her partner (spouse or friend), but also to partners such as her father, brother, sister, mother-in-law, boss, neighbors, etc. She can also consider small children or animals as her ‘children’.

If a right-handed woman develops breast gland cancer in the left breast, then she has either a worry conflict related to her child, her mother, or her nest, or she has an argument conflict with her child, her mother, or in association with her nest. With milk duct ulceration, on the other hand, she is conflict active with a separation from her child, her mother, or her nest.

With a left-handed woman it is the reverse: the right breast relates to her child, her mother, or the nest, and the left breast relates to her partner or other partners, as described above. Therefore, if she has a breast gland cancer in the right breast, she has a worry conflict concerning her child, her mother, or her nest. With milk duct ulceration in the right breast she is active with a separation conflict related to her child, her mother, or her nest.”

Since writing Breast health Exposed, I have had the opportunity to do healing sessions with women with breast health issues. Inevitably there has been what Dr. Hamer would call a conflict as described above.

Many women simply accept conflicts such as a child leaving home, a divorce or the death of a parent as part of life and it is. However, is it possible that the body, in its infinite wisdom, cares for that natural grieving process in a way that medicine has misdiagnosed as wrong or unnatural? That is interesting food for thought.

There is an abundance of information about Dr. Hamer’s work on the internet if you are interested. Next month I will be speaking more about this fascinating subject. In the meantime, perhaps the best advice any doctor can give us is “be happy”.

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Lessons learned from a dozen eggs

January 27th, 2011

While living in Ecuador almost 20 years ago, I still remember the question of a woman named Amanda Chavez. I can see her face clearly as if it was just yesterday and I can still hear the confusion in her voice. Amanda had a good little business selling eggs. Many of her customers were foreigners living in the city of Riobamba. But one day while purchasing my dozen eggs, handed to me most gingerly in a plastic bag, Amanda asked me a simple question that changed my life.

She said, “Jan, why do all you foreigners buy a dozen eggs? Why 12?” I looked at her in silence for a moment and then said, “We buy a dozen eggs because that’s how we buy them at home.” “But why 12?” she asked again as if I hadn’t answered her question. And for the life of me I couldn’t answer her. Honestly, a dozen eggs made no sense. And it really made no sense as we continued to buy 12 eggs at a time in a country that would have sold me 3 eggs, 7 eggs or 14 eggs in that precarious plastic bag.

Amanda’s question haunted me for a long time. It was innocent enough – a simple question from a woman selling eggs to foreigners with a habit to buy a dozen eggs. But I realized in that moment that I did lots of things because that’s how I was trained, taught, raised and told to believe. We all do.

There are very few places I have seen false beliefs more evident than in the arena of breast health. We have been told to have an annual mammogram after the age of 50 and when we hear the diagnosis of breast cancer, we are expected to have surgery, chemo, radiation and take drugs. It’s as standard as buying a dozen eggs at a time for people in North America.

However, just because we have always done something does not make it any way true. Otherwise many barbaric practices and beliefs from the past would still be around today, but they have been discounted as another truth was revealed.

As long as women today accept “the standard”, there won’t be any strong impetus to change the routine. It doesn’t matter that it doesn’t work; it’s not effective and is actually counter-productive. People are slow to change when money is involved and there are billions of dollars involved in the breast cancer industry.

Yet, experts say that mammograms cause breast cancer. Specialists will tell you that you are more likely to die from chemotherapy than from breast cancer. Statistics prove that radiation doesn’t improve results and can cause further health damage. Every single drug has a side-effect which can be deadlier than the disease. So why are we accepting what doesn’t work? Is it just a bad habit that has become an integral part of our culture?

It’s time for us to stop believing that just because it’s the current treatment or it’s what the doctor recommended or worse yet, what the medical system pays for, is not a good enough reason to blindly accept a protocol or treatment.

There are far more effective screening tools to mammography that are safe and will let a woman know of issues up to a decade before a mammogram. Why are we not demanding that these tests are paid for, regulated and advertised? The number of amazing treatments for cancer boggle my mind. I hear about at least one every week. Why are we settling for treatment that is archaic and will surely be looked upon in horror very shortly? And why are we buying into the fear of cancer rather than understanding that we can heal ourselves and there are many doctors, practitioners, clinics and formulas having amazing success using non-standard treatments?

I get a thrill living in countries where I can buy 4 eggs or 10 eggs at a time. It reminds me that I have the power to choose solutions that make sense rather than doing what the masses are doing. And once enough of the masses stop following a protocol around their breasts that is not working, then we will see change. Will you be one of those trend-setters? I hope so!

Susan G. Komen Foundation Elbows Out Charities Over Use Of The Word ‘Cure’

January 10th, 2011

This article in The Huffington Post was recently brought to my attention. It is something every woman who donates to the Susan G. Komen Foundation needs to be aware of. If the organization didn’t have enough black marks against them in 2010 with their Pink Buckets for the Cure campaign, this one sent me over the edge. Read what correspondent Laura Bassett has to say about their latest shenanigans.

“In addition to raising millions of dollars a year for breast cancer research, fundraising giant Susan G. Komen for the Cure has a lesser-known mission that eats up donor funds: patrolling the waters for other charities and events around the country that use any variation of “for the cure” in their names.

So far, Komen has identified and filed legal trademark oppositions against more than a hundred of these Mom and Pop charities, including Kites for a Cure, Par for The Cure, Surfing for a Cure and Cupcakes for a Cure–and many of the organizations are too small and underfunded to hold their ground.

“It happened to my family,” said Roxanne Donovan, whose sister runs Kites for a Cure, a family kite-flying event that raises money for lung cancer research. “They came after us ferociously with a big law firm. They said they own ‘cure’ in a name Read the rest of this entry »