Check Out Anytime You Like - Tonight we tackled the Bronco Nagurski of the Allopathic Alphabet: CANCER. So if you have a 'Grossburger' in your cells I can relate. On the show, I continued my own personal experience of it that I had begun on SUN with my essay: Cancer Villain and got into the missing pieces of the puzzle that the somatic paradigm addesses. It was cathartic for me to take this reflective trip back through the maze I had to wade through back when it was still a little 'uppity' to question your doctor. We uncovered some hidden truths for you.
Wordsoma - Continuing our 'list-less' format here (help anyone?), here are some of the terms we tossed out there during the show that may have stopped your train of thought as you listened in. The first was this notion of stigmas - which CANCER has managed to maintain, despite over 40 years of a self-declared war on it by the conventional health care community. The culture determines was conditions are socially acceptable or unacceptable and our bodies eavesdrop on that conversation. In the 50's, the scandalous event like a teen pregnancy was enough to get you banished from your community. Addiction, even to socially sanctioned drugs like alcohol, has not seen as a disease at one time, it was a social outrage. Being pro or anti-war has been in and out of favor, depending on the decade we zoom in on. But CANCER is a different case. Since the 60's we've targeted everything, including the sun itself, as potential sources of cancer. We can't BBQ, get a tan or indulge in almost any vice without hearing about it's cancerous risk. Yet we're also given the allopathic shield of prevention - which if we follow that paper trail, it resulted in establishing a set of 'early interventions' to screen us all for the initial stages of - ya guessed it - CANCER. But as we've seen with women and PAP smears - the number of false positives sometimes outweigh the benefits of the procedure. This gets into the somatic aspect of all this. When cells are traumatized, they lose their shape and express dysplasia - the allopathic shorthand for funny-shaped cells. In the cases of the PAP smears, dysplasia can be due a yeast infection, but that never stopped the radical hysterectomies and radiation therapy that were being performed. But if we actually look at the life cycle of cells, we are provided with a nice map. Cells growth, repair and get replaced. Each tissue has a 'kinetic', an action-plan to accomplish this and sustain their integrity or wholeness.
On the show I mentioned the popular book "Ageless Body, Timeless Mind" by old Depak Chopra, which btw, he's updated and re-issued the book and coated it in the current popular woo pancea, quantum biology, in 2007. When we get out of that rhythm, the cells don't die and replaced so we get what amounts to 'zombie cells', necrotic tissue that leads dysplasia, dysfunction, degeneration and ultimately...trumpets -unregulated cell growth, which is 100% totally frickin' natural and necessary!
When replacement fails, repair and growth battle it out. If we learn to support the self-regulatory nature of cell regeneration, this overproliferation is now se-cured. Ugh. We also discussed how recent work by people like Peter D'Adamo in epigentics (adaptation biology) and Bruce Lipton in PNI (which deals with the primacy of the environment) and yet we still fear and dread the INEVITABLE experience of cancer. What we advocate in The Somatic Method (TSM) is not prevention, but prehabilitation, which we achieve by tonifying the integrity of the motor system through SIMPLES. There are no ways to bullproof yourself from CANCER. So stop looking. If we face the fears we have about dying by focusing on how well we want to live, when CANCER visits us, we know it's about a loss of rhythm, not a curse from some dead ancestor trying to swat us off the planet. Surf life sapiens!
Time Techniques - I'll go into the desert for one of my old friends on this CANCER trail. Somewhere in the 80's I crossed path with a sape named Carlos Casteneda, who's sort of the somatic Jimi Hendrix to me. He described a breathwork process to help us unravel the attachments we accummulate with our past (including all that fear conditioning) that mutes our existence...
Recapitulation is a term coined by Carlos Casteneda in his book, The Eagle's Gift, published in 1982. In The Eagle's Gift, Florinda, one of don Juan's apprentices, teaches Castaneda about the process and purpose of recapitulation. She explained that recapitulation consisted of "recollecting one's life down to the most insignificant detail" and that when a woman's recapitulation was complete she "no longer abided by the limitations of her person."[1] She further explained that in the process of recapitulation one recounts all the feelings they invested in whatever memory they were reviewing.
Florinda told Castaneda that recapitulation often began with a list of items to be recalled. One then proceeded to work through the list one item at a time staying with the item until all of the emotions around the event had been felt. The recapitulation was done with the breath. While recalling the event, one inhaled slowly, moved their head from the right shoulder to the left. The next breath moved from left to right and was an exhalation. The purpose of the breath was to restore energy. When breathing from right to left one would "pick up the filaments they left behind" and when breathing from left to right they would "eject filaments left in them by other luminous bodies involved in the event being recollected." [wiki]
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