You Can Conquer Cancer - A New Way of Living

Zusatztext "An exceptional man with an exceptional story about recovering and healing. This is not only about cancer but about your life and choices." --Dr. Bernie Siegel! author of Love! Medicine and Miracles "A wonderfully practical! inspiring guide both for preventing and healing cancer." --Dr. Joan Borysenko! author of Minding the Body! Mending the Mind "There is hope for people with life-threatening cancer! and this book is where to find it." --George Jelinek! Professor of Emergency Medicine! University of Western Australia Review for Meditation: "Regardless of religious beliefs or life situations! any reader would benefit from the Mindfulness-Based Stillness Meditation (MBSM) techniques clearly outlined here. There are many user-friendly books that teach basic meditation! but this edition is particularly unique in its authors’ life stories and expertise in the mind-body connection. Bedson spent time in India learning from masters at a Tibetan monastery! and Gawler! diagnosed with swiftly fatal osteogenic sarcoma at the age of 24! overcame his painful disease through meditation and lifestyle change and has remained cancer-free since 1978." --Kirkus Review Informationen zum Autor Ian Gawler Klappentext Tarcher's updated edition of an international, perennial bestseller—with more than 250,000 copies sold worldwide. As a young veterinarian and decathlon athlete, Dr. Ian Gawler had his right leg amputated as a result of bone cancer in 1975. The cancer returned later that year. Against almost impossible odds, he recovered and went on to found one of the world's first lifestyle-based cancer self-help and support programs in 1981. Originally published in 1984, You Can Conquer Cancer is a revolutionary book that has sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide and has been translated into fourteen languages. This edition is completely updated and contains whole sections that provide important new information and self-help techniques. Notable for its clarity, this book expands upon what is a truly integrated, holistic approach to cancer—emphasizing nutrition, the power of the mind, meditation, family and social support, and the spiritual dimension of life. INTRODUCTION The Big Picture What Is Possible and How It is a great feeling to have recovered from cancer—to have been through it all and to be living a full, happy life again. I have done it. I have seen others do it and know many more will repeat the process in the future. This book, then, is offered with a sense of excitement and joy—the joy in having done it and the excitement of being able to help others to do it. We all share a common goal. We all want to enjoy good health along with long, happy and meaningful lives. And we can. However, when a diagnosis of cancer comes into a family, all this is severely threatened. There is the real threat of life cut short, along with fear, distress and potential suffering. Good news. We can turn all of this around. I have done it myself and I have seen many, many others do it as well. You can conquer cancer. That is a fact. It is possible. There is a process by which you can combine your own resources with those of the medical and allied health professions so that you can transform the experience of cancer and recover. This book examines the patient’s role in disease and healing. It is intended as a self-help manual that provides the signposts along the path to well-being and long-term health. Currently, of all the people diagnosed with cancer, Western medicine helps around 65 percent to be alive five years later. For someone whose prognosis predicts they are likely to be in that 65 percent, this approach will mobilize your own inner resources, along with those who support you, and give you every chance of becoming a long-term survivor.<...

Product details

• Authors: Ian Gawler
• Publisher: Tarcher, J.P. Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2015
• EAN: 9780399172632
• ISBN: 978-0-399-17263-2
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General