Where Does disease Start?

From the office of Dr Magne, author of Cancer Free For Life.

The hardest thing to accept when you are faced with disease is that your disability springs directly from your behaviors – what has brought you to this place of discomfort and disease are the choices you have made up until this point. Those choices of every moment created your present reality. However, some of these choices you are now free to change: such choices as smoking and alcohol consumption, drug abuse, poor diet and hygiene, sexual promiscuity, lack of physical fitness, reckless driving.

Your disease is your teacher: your thoughts and beliefs, your home or work environment, your exposure to potential toxins and allergens, the food and drink you take in, the stressful life events that occur, your social interactions or lack of them, the patterns of your physical activity, all these contribute to your health or its breakdown. Instead of identifying the disease by looking only at its symptoms, you need to start understanding your idiosyncratic symptoms, those complaints and physical findings that would reveal information about you and your life independent of the disease diagnosis.

A disease is nothing more than a pattern of signs, symptoms, behaviors and tissue pathology occurring in individuals. When you look at the disease, what you see is an illusion created by the activity of something substantial that you don’t see. A disease is a metaphor, the way the body is trying to communicate with you. There is something that has occurred that the body is not able t deal with, either physical, emotional, or involving your psyche. When you body breaks down, it is an alert that something is out of balance. Your body will start by alerting you with the gentlest of signs, maybe a slight headache, a vague fatigue, a new ache. If you don’t respond and ignore the warning sign, the symptom becomes more acute. If you take it to the ultimate, you then face a terminal disease that will make you reconsider your entire life.

The worst part of the sickness is the suffering it entails and that suffering results from fear of loss: loss of life, identity, independence, valued relationships, hopes for the future. To learn more about how disease is created, read Cancer Free For Life.

When you are in pain, you tend to experience more pain when you fear that your pain control will be inadequate. The component of self-esteem which is most relevant in relation to your illness is your perceived self-efficacy: the belief in your ability to cope successfully with your specific problems. You can learn to improve your ability for self-care and enhance your self-efficacy.

To maintain or regain your own health, understand and actively support these principles:

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