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“Awareness is empowering.” Rita Wilson

Good self-care requires that we build our intuitive ability to become more aware. Developing a keen sense of awareness makes us more vibrant and alive. At the beginning of your cancer journey, it may be helpful to take an inventory of your life before cancer and life now with the C word in your life.

Awareness From A Self-Care Perspective It is common for most of us go through life on remote control or default, not paying attention to the small things in our lives. We often dismiss information as not important because we are moving at such rapid daily paces that we don’t notice that the headache has been hanging around for over a month or that we are feeling more tired than usual. However, from a self-care perspective, Awareness is the key to beginning to direct our lives toward a meaningful daily life. So, prior to cancer how hectic, busy, and chaotic was your life?

What was your day in and day out activity?

How did you spend your time?

How did you spend your free time?

What do you regret about that now?

What do you wish you would have done differently?

Doing this inventory is the beginning of bringing to your attention that life was controlling you and you were not directing your life. Notice that I am using the word direct and directing.

How To Do The Best You Can One lesson that you learned from having cancer, even if you have not put words to it, is that control is an illusion. We really have no control over anything, and everything we think we have control over is an illusion. As I said, In a Moment’s Notice, life changes in micro-seconds and the life we knew no longer exists. This lesson is one of the most important lessons that we can take away from our cancer diagnosis.

There are no guarantees and we have no control over the outcome. We have to do the best we can and let go of the outcome.

This is where AWARENESS becomes so important.

It is important to pay attention to the small things in our day to day life.

It is important to pay attention to what we are experiencing emotionally and use that information to tweak the direction our life is taking.

Develop Skills That Help Us Pay Attention Building awareness means we need to develop skills that help us pay attention. One awareness exercise is as simple as sitting in your chair, gently closing your eyes, and when you open them name ten items within your vision. You are teaching yourself to be visually aware of your surroundings, noticing colors, sounds, and movement in your environment. This makes you more alert. The more alert you are the more you can concentrate on becoming aware. If we train ourselves to notice things around us, then we learn that we can observe more of the subtle signals in our life. Synchronicity and signals bring us messages that help us pay attention. Paying attention allows us to be more vibrant in our daily life because we see, hear, feel, and take better care of ourselves when we are aware. Better awareness means better self-care.

Train Yourself To Notice, With These Three Questions.

Who did I smile at today and who smiled at me?

What part of my day made me feel positive?

What made me sad today?

Suggested Cancer Self-Care Healing BookS

Writing Your Way to Healing and Wholeness

In A Moment’s Notice: A Psychologist’s Journey with Breast Cancer

ABC Workbook for Cancer Patients.

Breast Cancer: A-Z Mindful Practices: Self Care Tools For Treatment & Recovery

Dr. Robin B. Dilley, author of In A Moment’s Notice: A Psychologist’s Journey with Breast Cancer is a licensed psychologist in the State of Arizona. Her eclectic practice allows her to cross diagnostic barriers and meet clients in their need assisting them to respond to life in healthy and empowering ways rather than react to life’s circumstances.

How To Build Awareness: A Cancer Patient Self-Care Tool “Awareness is empowering.” Rita Wilson Good self-care requires that we build our intuitive ability to become more aware.

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breastcanceryoga · 5 years

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Baked Vegan Coconut Burger Recipe For A Cancer-Free Lifestyle

Having a creative menu is the key to a cancer-free lifestyle diet. This recipe came from WellnessBin.com and can be adapted to meet your needs. What I like most about this recipe is how to make dehydrated, unsweetened, shredded coconut into a burger. Always use organic ingredients when possible.

Ingredients:

3 cups of shredded coconut meat

1/2 cup of silken tofu

1 medium-sized white onion…

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breastcanceryoga · 5 years

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Why Cancer Patients Use Yoga To Cope With Diagnosis & Treatment

Yoga Counteracts Anxiety And Stress During Cancer Treatment

It is well documented that yoga decreases stress hormones, like cortisol and increases GABA (gamma-Aminonbutyric acid) levels. GABA is an important calming chemical produced by the brain that counteracts anxiety and stress. GABA is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter chemical in the brain. GABA is responsible for balancing mood levels.

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breastcanceryoga · 5 years

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Herbal Spring Detox Recipes For Cancer Prevention And Treatment

By Patricia Kyritsi Howell, RH (AHG) & Author of Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians.

Spring detoxification herbs known as spring tonics are used now to cleanse the body during cancer. Many of the best spring tonics just happen to also be the first wild greens, or weeds, that pop up everywhere. You may have already noticed violet, dandelion, chickweed, yellow dock, nettles and…

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breastcanceryoga · 5 years

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Simple Yoga Backbend For Breast Cancer Physical Therapy

This simple and therapeutic yoga pose offers many benefits to breast cancer patients in treatment and recovery. The main benefits of this pose are that it elevates the chest, deepens the breath, promotes lymphatic drainage of breasts and widens the pectoral muscles.

Benefits

Balances autonomic nervous system

Allows the shoulder blades to feel supported comfortably

Spreads the clavicle, relieves…

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breastcanceryoga · 5 years

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Immune Boosting Cancer Patient Soup Recipe

This incredible vegan soup recipe includes green tea, lemon, shiitake mushrooms, coconut oil, turmeric, garlic and ginger. WOW! All those good, cancer fighting, phytonutrients in one delicious soup. Remember, when making this soup or any dish always use organic ingredients when possible.

Ingredients

1 Tbl Coconut Oil

1 Onion chopped

2 Stalks Celery chopped

3 Carrots sliced into 1/4″ rounds

2 Pars…

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breastcanceryoga · 5 years

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Cancer Exercise Specialist Helping Clients Achieve Their Full Potential

Deborah Hugh’s is one of 55 speakers from The Breast Cancer Rehabilitaion & Wellness Summit, her interest in fitness and nutrition led her to her first personal training job over 20 years ago. She became Nautilus Certified and continued her education by attending Suffolk Community College to earn her A.S. in Fitness Specialist. Debbie holds an ACE Certification in Personal Training, is a…

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breastcanceryoga · 5 years

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Breast Cancer Authority Blog has an extensive collection of cancer diet recipes. Are recipes focus on protein rich, plant-based, sugar-free and organic ingredients. The amount of protein suggested in a Google search is that a cancer patients should consume 45 – 60 grams of complete protein each day. However, my Mothers nutritionist suggested we feed her 70 grams of protein. Pea protein can be found in plant-based protein supplements and this wonderful pea soup recipe.

Ingredients:

3 Cups Dried Split Peas

7 Cups of Salt Free Vegetable Broth

1 Bay Leaf

1 Teaspoon Dried Mustard

4 Medium Garlic Cloves Diced

3 Stalks of Celery Sliced

2 Medium Carrots Sliced

1 Potato Diced

1-4 Tablespoons Apple Cider Vinegar

Toppings:

Sesame oil

Diced Tomatoes

Fresh Chopped Parsley

Directions:

Place first 5 ingredients in a large pot.

Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer, partially covered for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent split peas from sticking to bottom of pot.

Add onions, garlic, celery, carrots and potato. (You can saute these first with 4 tablespoons of Nutritional Yeast or add them in directly if you want a fat-free soup).

Partially cover and allow to simmer for about 40 minutes, stirring occasionally.(You may need to add extra water).

Season to taste with pepper and vinegar.

Serve with a drizzle of sesame oil, diced tomato and minced parsley.

About Dawn Bradford Lange: Co-founder of Breast Cancer Yoga. Dawn is making a difference with Breast Cancer Yoga therapeutic products designed to support you emotionally and physically during breast cancer . We want to give you the attention and personal service you need so please email us at [email protected] if you have questions.

Protein-Rich, Salt-Free Pea Soup Recipe For A Cancer Diet Breast Cancer Authority Blog has an extensive collection of cancer diet recipes. Are recipes focus on protein rich, plant-based, sugar-free and organic ingredients.

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breastcanceryoga · 5 years

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Cancer, Gratitude Practice & Yoga: Easy Ways To Significantly Improve Your Life

Understanding gratitude more, as well as why is a good idea. Start a gratitude practice. After all, research shows that even a single gratitude meditation session can start improving your life immediately.

Developing gratitude is a practice and a skill which yoga supports. One way to engage in a gentle practice of gratitude is through the use of mudra. Mudras are hand positions and often called ‘yoga for the hands’. They are gestures which ‘seal’ our intentions or desires by focusing breath and energy into our mudras.

Lotus Mudra is one way to contemplate our gratitude. By joining our hands at…

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breastcanceryoga · 5 years

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Breast Cancer Authority Blog brings you exciting news. A new cancer patient self help book, the ABC Workbook for Cancer Patients: Healing One Letter at a Time, was just released on Amazon.com. You can get your copy today. This book is written by a breast cancer survivor times two to help cancer patients have something positive to think about during treatment or while they are in the waiting game. As cancer patients know, there are long periods of weeks, to wait for results of testing, appointments to see other specialist, and time after radiation and chemotherapy for the three-month PET scan to see if the treatment has been helpful. Waiting to hear is one of the hardest parts of treatment. Speaking of waiting to hear, brings me to another important piece of this cancer journey. Do you feel heard?

Let’s admit it, cancer treatment is big business. But I do believe that most if not all oncologist, radiologists, and medical cancer professionals go into this career for the same reason I became a psychologist, to help people. In the helping people industry,there is a lot of overwhelm, busy schedules and an overload of work to be done, from reading lab results, to consulting with team members and ordering more tests to actually seeing the patient. It is overwhelming and if you are the 3 o’clock patient that is seeing your doctor (who has yet to grab a bite to eat and has been running on caffeine all-day) you may very well be in that slot that is invisible. Meaning that, by that time in the day,the doctor is on auto-pilot and your story is blending with the 18 others he/she has already heard throughout the day. Thus, when you ask yourimportantquestion, “Will this treatment cause my hair to fall out?” You may very wellhear;most chemotherapy patients lose their hair. I suggest you buy a wig,if that is bothersome to you.” Well, that really wasn’t the answer you were looking for. You were hoping for something more empathic like, “Yes, being concerned about losing your hair is a really important question and I imagine the answer is not one that is going to help you feel comfortable. Yes, you probably will lose your hair by at least the third treatment. There are several options that you have for this unpleasant side-effect of treatment.”

Now, this is where it gets a bit tricky depending on how large of a treatment center you are attending. Many clinics today have a cancer care co-ordinater. That person is assigned to you to walk along beside of you and answer important questions like, “Will my hair fall out?” Other facilities are understaffed and over-worked (I think they are all over-worked regardless of how many staff they have) and regardless of how hard the staff try, it is difficult for them to attend to your many questions. Thus, that is why is it is so important that you develop an attitude that you are the captain of your treatment team. You do the research on line, find support groups, and find key players as your cancer resource team. From there you get what you need because you pursue the information. In my book the T letter of the alphabet is TALK. Ask for What You Need. That short helpful chapter acts as a reminder and a permission giver for you to use your words to ask for what you need. You may not always get an affirmative answer, but I promise you will never get an answer if you don’t ask.

I have three cancer related books on the market, In A Moment’s Notice: A Psychologist’s Journey with Breast Cancer, which is a story about what it was like to get the diagnosis and go through treatment in 1999. Then last year, I published Breast Cancer A-Z Mindful Practices. It is a great assistant to someone recently diagnosed and in treatment for breast cancer, similar tomy newest book, ABC Workbook for Cancer Patients. Each book keeps getting better and each one has something to offer to the reader. I encourage you to check out each book on Amazon.com today.

Suggested Cancer Self-Help Healing Book:

Writing Your Way to Healing and Wholeness

In A Moment’s Notice: A Psychologist’s Journey with Breast Cancer

ABC Workbook for Cancer Patients

Breast Cancer: A-Z Mindful Practices: Self Care Tools For Treatment & Recovery

Dr. Robin B. Dilley, author of In A Moment’s Notice: A Psychologist’s Journey with Breast Cancer is a licensed psychologist in the State of Arizona. Her eclectic practice allows her to cross diagnostic barriers and meet clients in their need assisting them to respond to life in healthy and empowering ways rather than react to life’s circumstances.

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breastcanceryoga · 5 years

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Three Minute Exercise That Boosts Breast Cancer Healing Process

In our Western Culture, we often use our bodies as if they are machines, neglected machines at that. Our bodies deserve our focus and attention and it can be as simple as stopping our endless activity and taking three minutes to check in. The three-minute check is a simple mindful body scan to acknowledge what your body wants and does not want.

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breastcanceryoga · 6 years

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Naturally Sweetened Infused Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

Below is a recipe for making oatmeal raisin cookies using cannabis/CBD infused agave nectar and coconut sugar. This recipe also includes infused butter that provides a well-balanced and extended release of the cannabis infusions. We have included a video that clearly illustrates how to infuse the naturals sugars and butter using cannabis/CBD tinctures. Remember, always use organic ingredients…

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breastcanceryoga · 6 years

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Journey to Hope: Leaving the Fear of Breast Cancer Behind

Journey to Hope: Leaving the Fear of Breast Cancer Behind now available on Kindle! Click HERE to download.

Women fear breast cancer more than any other disease. This is true even though a woman in the United States is ten times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than she is breast cancer. Much of the reason for this fear is that women are told there’s nothing that can be done to prevent…

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breastcanceryoga · 6 years

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Maximized Sugar-Free Protein Packed Brownie Recipe

Add These chocolate protein brownies are super easy to make – loaded with protein from the almond butter, plus antioxidants from the chocolate bar and no sugar! This is a perfect cancer patient snack. Remember use organic ingredients when possible. This is a recipe that can be infused with THC/CBD, just substitute a portion of the almond butter with cannabutter.

Ingredients:

1 jar Almond Butter

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breastcanceryoga · 6 years

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breastcanceryoga · 6 years

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Labyrinth Walking can be a healing tool for cancer patients. In many ways the labyrinth represents the journey to healing. Healing is not only physical but also occurs on the emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. A physical healing is often described as a cure. While a cure might not be possible, healing is always an option. To be healed means to be made whole, and wholeness is fundamentally a psychological and spiritual process of finding meaning. The labyrinth can be used as a tool of healing to help people find meaning in their situation. You can find more healing tools in the book ABC Workbook for Cancer Patients.

A portable canvas labyrinth can be used and cancer patients are encouraged to walk it as a symbolic journey to recovery and healing. It is suggested that you think about your life from diagnosis through treatment up until the present moment and to relate your journey to the labyrinth walk.