COPING SPIRITUALLY

Coping spiritually with cancer through positive meditation is an important area mostly ignored by the medical community. Not only is the outcome of treatment dependent on your mental and emotional state, but the quality of life during treatment is totally affected by it. On the day the doctor told me I would be dead in 6 months without radiation and chemotherapy, I realized it was not in the doctor's hands, but in God's hands. I had faith that the Lord would decide if it was time for me to join Him in heaven, or be healed.

So just where did my spiritually positive attitude come from?

Let me give you a little background of my personal faith. I have studied only the Bible, outside of any religious system, since I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour at the age of 13. I believe the Bible to be the mind of Christ/God, and it's teaching pertains to all aspects of life. Learning about Jesus Christ through the Bible (opens new window) is the focus of my daily spiritual meditation and the foundation of coping spiritually for me.

I believe that when this body dies, that my soul and spirit go to heaven to be with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, for eternity. So physical death begins my eternity with God. I am here on this earth to serve the Lord because He loves me and died on the cross to pay for my sins. Therefore, dying is not a fearful thing to me. Enduring great pain is the scary part, and radiation and chemotherapy cause great pain. That is what I wanted to avoid, and why I chose to try alternative treatment first. Coping spiritually was an important part of that treatment.

Just knowing where you go after you die takes all the pressure off; and I know where I'm going after I die with full assurance of faith. Coping spitiyually is so much easier when you are positive that you are in God's hands.

I made a calm and positive decision to seek less evasive treatment first through the Bio Integrative Health Center (opens new window) in Reno, Nevada. I could always go back to the radiation and/or chemo at a later time. So far that has not been necessary, thank the Lord. Knowing that God could use Dr. Cora to guide me in making life changes to strengthen my immune system, I yielded myself to natural cancer treatment.

My coping spiritually skills became sharper each day through reading my Bible, prayer, and time spent in spiritual meditation. Faith is having an unwavering belief that God's will, will be done. I gave myself over to allowing God to make the determination of my illness.

If He wanted me to live and serve Him, then I would.

If He wanted me in glory with Him, then I was ready to go.

It took away the terror of choosing a treatment program, and allowed me to be filled with all God's love and care. What a blessing that was to me. I coped by simply doing what Dr. Cora told me to do, and leaving the rest to the Lord. Spiritually positive meditation became my coping mechanism and has remained a daily part of my life since.