| The WILL to SURVIVE cancer is the most urgent | | | | love, God is present and active! We must |
| need for just any cancer patient. No one can | | | | surrender our judgement to the Lord, then the |
| survive when his or her will to survive cancer is | | | | Lord will assume full responsibility and be your |
| gone. Hope will bring light, light will bring confidence, | | | | guardian, guide and the motivator. Our worries |
| confidence is faith. Faith will survive the fight! | | | | and tears cannot change what is predetermined. |
| Emerge as Winners! | | | | Be equal-minded to happiness and unhappiness. |
| [1] The will to survive | | | | People are being tested, but it should not be called |
| Do not be disheartened and discouraged! Listen! | | | | so. It is grace, those who suffer have God's |
| Obey! Respect! and Follow your Faith! What ever | | | | grace. Only through suffering will they be |
| the trouble, the pain or suffering, the only goal of | | | | persuaded to turn inward and make the inquiry. |
| our life should be holding on to the Faith! This is | | | | And without turning inward and making inquiry, |
| the essence of our life. | | | | they can never escape misery! Pass the test of |
| Pray for inner strength, the surge of which will | | | | adversity, pass it with doctorate! |
| carry you through the ups and downs of the | | | | [5] The will to reprogram one's thinking |
| mind's rebellion. To uproot the chaos that is | | | | Life brings the message to live it to the fullest, |
| already present. You must find the strength of a | | | | but how many of you are using the power of this |
| rock to face the challenges. Love conquers all. Fill | | | | strength, fully and completely? Rid off poor habits |
| every thought with the might of its warmth, | | | | and restraints, delete uncontrolled desires of the |
| maturity and compassion. This is the only race | | | | mind which are simply excusedly called 'pleasures' |
| where one should emerge a winner, not a whiner! | | | | and 'prizes' Reprogram one's thinking to more |
| This is the most urgent need, the strong will to | | | | meaningful works. Choose to stay with positive |
| survive! Tell yourself that you WILL DEFINITELY | | | | companions and environment. Be positive in |
| recover! | | | | thoughts, in words, in deeds and apply all positive |
| [2] The will to accept and adapt to certain | | | | emotions. |
| changes | | | | [6] The will to 'look beyond' our mortal body |
| The expectations of certain degrees of | | | | Planning ahead, yes planning ahead. With each |
| discomforts, disabilities, sufferings would be there. | | | | sunset, the span of life is being chipped away |
| There is nothing as unbearable, treat sufferings | | | | remorselessly but man does not prepare himself |
| and miseries as footsteps towards deeper | | | | for the eventuality of death and the aftermaths. |
| understanding of True Self. When one is in deep | | | | Our mortal body cannot survive forever. But our |
| suffering, one will be forced to search within and | | | | immortal soul is embedded inside our mortal body. |
| look for resolutions. | | | | Have one ever given a second thought on how to |
| We should have equanimity towards honor and | | | | attain immortality and that we are actually a |
| dishonor, cold and heat, pleasure and pain. Without | | | | spark of Divinity? |
| pain, one cannot understand pleasure, sorrow is | | | | [7] The will to cooperate with doctors and |
| verily the royal road to joy. | | | | physicians |
| Sufferings are the stepping stones that lead man | | | | There are many cases where patients aren't |
| towards virtuous conducts. Deep suffering and | | | | cooperating well with healing doctors. We have |
| pain is also one form of meditation in faith. It | | | | our choice to which physicians we trust. We need |
| always lead to self realization and self awakening. | | | | the doctors to diagnosis our well-being and our |
| Be patient to understand these changes. Fear not. | | | | status of cancer. To survive a cancer, one MUST |
| [3] The will to change for the better | | | | work hand in hand with your doctor. It is a MUST! |
| Certain foods and drinks that are carcinogeous | | | | [8] The will to return to normal living, accepting |
| should be immediately avoided. Unhealthy lifestyles | | | | oneself among friends, loved ones, relatives and |
| should be put to a stop. "Doctors of the future | | | | family |
| will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in | | | | Love will solves all problems and challenges. |
| the care of the human frame and diet, and the | | | | Recovery from a near-death illness is no game to |
| cause and prevention of diseases." Understand | | | | gamble or play with. All of us learn in a difficult |
| what Thomas A. Edison said. Find out the cause | | | | and expensive way in realizing the value of life. All |
| and prevent it from happening at the first place. | | | | of us should show discipline and wisdom in |
| But fear not, as I always confide in many people, | | | | emerging as a winner and once again one is |
| there are also certain miraculous and wonderful | | | | breathing freely and feeling the warmth and |
| food that can cure cancer. Change for the better. | | | | beauty of sunshine. Life written cannot be |
| Stop poisoning our body, go for a detoxification | | | | rewritten. All of us should learn to treasure life. |
| program where one can go on a strict diet on | | | | This article is taken from my personal blog and |
| just certain fruits, vegetables and herbs. It will | | | | actually is written for a new friend who is now |
| heal. Starve the cancerous cells, feed the immune | | | | having ovarian cancer and is now hospitalized. I |
| system. | | | | wish her speedy recovery and would like to share |
| [4] The will to smile at adversity | | | | with more people on how to survive cancer. Fight |
| Do not fear, carry the luggage of will and | | | | we must, survive we will. This is the 3rd article on |
| strength. Strive on, tough man will last, tough time | | | | cancer that I have wrote. |
| won't! Whenever you find truth, beauty, | | | | If there is a will, there is a way, if there are 8 |
| goodness, justice, wisdom, compassion, hope, | | | | WILLS, there are MANY WAYS! |