The Gift of Cancer

How on Earth can cancer be a gift?

I often read articles about alternative cures and remedies. I recently read an article about baking soda as a cure for cancer. While there was a bit of interesting information in the article it turned out that the article was mostly about bashing the Western medical/pharmaceutical industry in a rather hostile way. Many articles that talk about alternative cures are like that. That article was chock full of judgment, condemnation, and anger. I happen to agree with most of it but I did not care for how it was expressed. It sounds like something I would have written years ago before I learned the pitfalls of getting pissed off. When you express in anger you are putting a lot of negative energy out there and negative energy — just like positive energy — will come back to you. That energy also feeds what it is directed at. So while the writer expressed intense anger at the medical establishment, he was also feeding it.

While I acknowledge that Western medicine is royally screwed up I try not to judge it as good or bad. It obviously has a purpose, both in healing and in our evolution. It is what we make of it. If you break your leg and go to the hospital to get it fixed and you have a very hateful attitude towards doctors and Western medicine then that is not going to help your healing much. Your resistance will block the healing. If…