God gave you life to have a life. You took a body to have a life. My idea is to give you a positive pep talk so you will realize the importance of maintaining a positive attitude while dealing with cancer. It is very important not to let yourself get stressed out. On the internet, you can find many articles describing the negative effects of stress on the body. There are many people, doctors and others, who will tell you things to try to cheer you up. Sometimes their articles remind me of people without children, who have no responsibility for the health of their own children, saying that children should not be vaccinated. People who do not have cancer, do not understand what it can be like, emotionally and mentally, to realize that you have a disease that can kill you. Cancer can make you feel helpless, but I want to tell you, as someone who has cancer, stage four prostate cancer, metastasized to my bones, that there is something you can do about it.This book is not a rant against the medical profession and the current state of medical profiteering from cancer. It is a rant about personal responsibility and using the current state of medical knowledge and diet and everything else you can to survive cancer. It is my observation that people who want to survive will see their doctor when they notice something wrong and will do what they can to change their diet and add nutritional supplements to get their bodies back on a survival path. People who ignore symptoms and just assume they will go away, end up having all their current body problems go away, along with their bodies.First, realize that you are a non-mortal, spiritual being, who has a body. You are not your body. This is important, to introduce some separation between you and your body. Not too much, mind you. I want to help you keep your body going. Now consider the reasons you might want a body. In my own case, when I had a Near Death Experience, the message from God was that I had taken a body to have a life. How about you? What reason did you have for taking a body? Did you accomplish all you set out to do? Have you shown those you love that you love them? Perhaps you have more to do.Second, realize that while your body has a life of its own, it needs you to direct it. Bodies evolved being directed by spirits. You have a job to do.Third, realize that there are actual physical things we can do to fight the conditions that caused our cancer. I will go over them more extensively later in this book, but the most important are: cut out sugars from your diet - sugar feeds cancer and fructose stimulates cancer cells to divide; reduce your intake of mammal flesh - it contains a sugar, Neu5Gc, not found in humans and so our immune system attacks it, causing inflammation; breathe deeply, as often as possible - oxygen deprivation from inflammation is one of the main causes of cancer. Breathing deeply and slowly is also very calming.
About the Author: Thomas J. Mason is a retired Information Technology Manager who lives in the High Desert north of Los Angeles with his wife of forty-three years and their dog, Tara. He discovered, after falling in love with the beautiful redhead who was to become his wife, that in addition to her incredibly cute redheaded twins, she had six other children. But by then it was too late. He was hooked. She continues to be the best thing that ever happened to him. These days, he puts his great-grandchildren to sleep by singing Irish and Scottish traditional songs while accompanying himself on his Irish flat drum, called a bodhran. Tom started life as a farm boy; became an army brat when his father rejoined the post-WWII Army; attended Sunday School and church growing up; enjoyed the Cub Scout pack at his church, but did not feel comfortable joining the Scouts outside his church; was active in sports in high school; played The Ghost of Christmas Past in the school production of A Christmas Carol and played The Genie in an amateur production of Aladdin; excelled academically and was active in school politics, culminating in his election as School President. The small-town success of his life fell apart when he went to "the big city" to go to university. There was too much spiritual confusion and chaos. And girls, left-wing politics, girls, drugs, and... he dropped out of school. His analysis was that there was something fundamentally wrong with the basic philosophy of our culture that would allow us to kill each other en masse and destroy the planet on which we lived. The Near Death Experience he describes in his book "You Too Can Survive Cancer" put his head on straight.