After going through the information about cancers in general and lymphoma in particular, available on the Internet, I have come to conclusion that most of the cancers are completely curable if one can handle the side effects of therapy. I think patients should collect full information about the cancer, prescribed drugs, action of the drugs and their side effects and knowledge about management of side effects so that one fully understands what exactly is happening. I have noted that many people are scared even to pronounce the word cancer. New drugs are being introduced as a result of painstaking researches, experience and knowledge of doctors is improving fast and therefore a patient should also change the old perceptions and get ready to manage the side effects. I have been trying following supplementary therapies to my benefits.
Pranayam: I practice “Pranayam’ at least for one hour every day. Pranayam is breathing exercise that improves efficiency of our respiratory system which results in to supplying more oxygen and nitrogen to the blood that acts as nutrients to the cells. The easiest method of this exercise is to inhale through one nostril (closing the other) slowly, as deep as possible and then exhaling through the other slowly. Deeply inhale through left – fully exhale through right – deeply inhale through right and fully exhale through left makes one cycle. You may sit in comfortable position; I prefer to walk slowly in the room with fresh air to avoid boredom of sitting in one place for long time. I also split this in to two sessions of 30 minutes each in the morning and evening. Depending on the availability of time I extend these sessions to one hour also at times.
During one of such sessions, a thought flashed my mind that since the breathing exercise provides more cellular nutrition, whether I am making my cancerous cells also strong? When I pondered over this possibility for some time I thought that yes, let it be so, there are few cancerous cells that are outnumbered by good cells and therefore making both types of cells strong will be analogues to a fight between strong fellows, which is more damaging than fight between week fellows and here I need more and permanent damage to my cancerous cells. I feel very energetic and fresh throughout the day.
Mind control or programming the brain: I had undergone a basic course on Silva Mind Control few years back and since then I started to appreciate power of brain that can be positively used. Here I get an opportunity to use the technique on my body so that I can evaluate the results myself and that could be a useful experience for me as well.
After taking bath I lie down on my bed, cover the eyes with a black cloth to prevent disturbing light, take 2-3 deep breaths and count 100 to 0 which helps me relax my body. I scan my entire body to check whether all muscles are relaxed and I am comfortable. I imagine myself lying in a very pleasant environment mostly in a green cool place surrounded by hills. I visualise that my body is cooperating with the therapy and drugs are doing their desired job. I also visualise that old cells are fast replaced with new and fresh ones thus I am becoming more energetic and healthy. I do this session for about 30 minutes and feel very good, perhaps this may be one of the reasons that I did not have much of problems by side effects of chemo therapy.
Music therapy: Immediately after the mind control exercise, I listen to music that includes western classical and Hindustani. With whole body relaxed, I try to listen intensely and note every beat. I try to imagine a picture suitable to the form of music for example, while listening to some of the symphonies of Mozart a scene of ballet automatically appears or while listening to Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasiya, I remember a great mehephil which went on till 4 am in the Nagpur University hall in Nagpur that I attended about 30 years ago. I prefer flute to other instruments because that gives me a feeling of peace. This therapy goes on for about one hour.
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