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::Breast Cancer Awareness – Healing in Pink

::How to Help Your Loved One Through Breast Cancer (click here to download article in pfd)

by Cathy Chapman, Ph.D., LCSW

I was attending a workshop out of state when I received a phone call. Standing in the hall I heard the words, “Suzanne has been diagnosed with breast cancer.” I literally almost collapsed. My knees buckled and I had to catch myself or I would have been on the floor. Hearing that a dear friend had breast cancer was such a shock I didn’t know what to do but wander around the halls for a while.

Any of us, when we hear a friend or family member has been diagnosed with cancer, are in a state of shock. If we are in shock, can you begin to imagine the state of shock the one diagnosed feels?

The immediate question for me and I suppose, for anyone, was, “What can I do?

Below you will find suggestions for help and support. I would like to preface them with a few short paragraphs.

We human beings are wondrously made. We consist of body, mind and spirit. Each aspect of ourselves affects every other aspect of ourselves, and radiates out to affect those around us.. When someone becomes ill physically or emotionally, that person needs to find ways to bring themselves back into balance. A diagnosis of cancer immediately affects the mind and spirit. Fear surges from the pit of the stomach and engulfs the person. The ability to think, hear and process information seems to disappear. The thought “I can die,” which we all know is true, stares our loved one in the face. “She can die” stares us in our faces. The specter of death perches on everyone’s shoulder.

An integral aspect of our wondrously made selves is the body-mind connection. I prefer to say the body-mind-spirit connection because I work from a spiritual foundation as well as the mind-body connection. When a crisis occurs in the physical aspect of ourselves, we need to bring the mental and spiritual parts into balance. That balance will assist in bringing the physical back into balance.

When a loved one is diagnosed, the first reaction is a sense of helplessness. You may want to scream, yell and fight the universe, or God, for your friend. You feel powerless. You don’t think there is anything you can do to assist her healing. The truth is, you can. What you do can be just as crucial to her healing as whatever treatments, allopathic or complementary, she utilizes.

Research in the field of mind-body psychology, or psychoneuroimmunology, is progressing at a rapid rate. Very simply, we know that giving support to the mind, the emotions the spirit has a direct, not indirect, effect upon the immune system. Healing from cancer requires the immune system to be in top notch shape. If it had been, cancer would not have shown up. You can assist in supporting her immune system. Your support and love works in a synergistic manner with what her doctors do.

Following are some very simple things you can do to assist in your loved ones healing.

Take care of your own emotions first

You know the saying, “First, put the mask on yourself and then place it on your child.”

What I mean by this is, talk to someone else about your feelings about the diagnosis before you talk to your loved one. Your loved needs support and hope, not fear. She is already battling fear. She doesn’t need yours. If you have no one to talk to, write it down. Write down all your fears, everything you want to say in your panic. Write it down. Get your feelings out...NOW.

Then call your friend.

Form a Healing Circle

Tell your friend that you would like to form her personal Circle in Pink Prayer Circle. Gather together friends, loved ones and anyone else (co-workers, etc) who want to be a part of the circle. You will bless and pray for your friend. A format for a healing circle is found at www.healingsilks.com

Part of this circle can be scheduling time each of you can bring food, pick up the kids, and even provide rides to appointments.

Write notes, Send cards

When my friend was going through treatment, I wanted her to know I was thinking of her. I wanted to do something. At least once a week, and often more, I sent her a card or note. She later told me how important they were to her. She could read them repeatedly or just see them gathered together and feel the love and support.

When faced with recovery, there are times your loved one will not want to talk or visit with anyone. You will not always know when that time is. Set aside time to send cards and notes. She can read them when she has time and energy.

And, yes, email is a way to communicate. Some will be able to connect with the support they see in a stack of envelopes, others will feel more connected, when looking at messages via email at their computer or text messages on their cell phone.

Pray while seeing her whole

We are learning so much about prayer through the scientific method of research. There is some evidence that praying for someone while imaging her whole, well, and complete is more effective than thinking of him or her as ill.

Why? Isn’t prayer, prayer?

With the studies of quantum physics and what we are learning about consciousness, vibration, frequency and energy, we are able to understand part of what happens in prayer.

Our thoughts and feelings produce energy. Each of us has had an experience where we just know someone is angry or sad, or a place is peaceful or chaotic, just by being there. This happens because the feelings produce an energy that emanates from the individual. When a place is filled with peaceful people, that peace fills the room. When you are sad, angry, happy or peaceful, you send out that energy.

Know that I’m not telling you that the way you pray is “wrong.” Please pray in the way that fills you with the greatest comfort and love.

If you don’t know how to pray, here are some suggestions:

In whatever way you use to pray, form an image of her whole, healthy, joyful.
Ask God, or whatever name you use for your Higher Power, to fill (name) with all the love she needed today but did not receive. “See” love pouring into her and filling her.
Form an image of you with your loved one. See you holding your palms out facing her. From your heart, see a beam of energy, your love, flowing from you to her.
Hold her picture in your hand and, from your heart send of beam of energy to her, filling her.

Don’t ask “what,” offer something specific

Asking, “What can I do for you?” is too general. She or her family may not have something specific they can think of at that moment. They may not want to impose. Offer something specific.

If she has children, offer to shuttle the kids to and from somewhere.
Offer to take her to the doctor or another appointment.
Offer to stay with her at home if her husband or partner needs to get away...or even just take a shower without worrying if she is going to be alright.
Find out what food sits well with her now and bring it. Ask her when would be the best time to drop it off.
Offer to do the laundry, clean the house, or walk the dog.

Visiting guidelines

Visiting can be a tremendous support. There will be times that she needs to know through physical presence that someone cares. There will be other times when she just doesn’t have the energy or emotional stamina to have visitors other than select family members and close friends. You will know if you are one of these select people because you have been an on-going part of her life.

Some guidelines for visiting:

Call first.
Good friends have more latitude than acquaintances. Even good friends need to be aware when the greatest support is to not come or to leave.
Keep it short unless you are invited to stay longer.
Bring humor to your visit. She may not have any interest in discussing what is happening with her treatment. She may want to be distracted.
If she broaches the topic of her fears, listen.
When you are upset or despondent, don’t visit and don’t call.
Don’t be offended if she doesn’t seem interested in your visit.
Don’t talk about your or anyone else’s illnesses or disasters.
If there is any hint that she is tired, leave graciously.

Remember that your friend and her family will be on a roller coaster of emotions. The closer you are with her, the more your emotions will join her on the roller coaster. You want to give her support and hope. You do not want to feed her fear. Take care of yourself.

Your gentle and loving support can assist her in knowing she is cared for and loved. Those feelings will cause a biochemical reaction in her body, which strengthens her immune system. A stronger immune system will assist her recovery. You can do something to help.

Cathy Chapman, Ph.D., LCSW has a degree in Mind-Body Psychology and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She has been working with prayer and the mind-body connection for 30+ years.

Cathy is a member of The Healing Silks Company and works with Diana Wesley to create articles to support the use of the Healing Silks.

::7 Powerful Methods for a Practically Impenetrable Immune System (click here to download article in pfd)

by Cathy Chapman, Ph.d., LMSW, C.Ht, CBP

You Have the Power!

Are you aware of how powerful your own immune system is? If yours is not working well you may be saying, “Powerful? Yeah, RIGHT! Then how come I’m feeling so rotten?”

Unless you were born without an immune system, yours, at one time, worked wondrously. If you were cut, your body sent white blood cells for healing. The cells knew how to knit together when torn. Your body identified foreign invaders and swarmed white blood cells to fight the infection.

What you may not be aware of is how very simple lifestyle changes can ramp up your immune system into a powerhouse.

This report contains 7 powerful tips to strengthen your immune system.

Take advantage of all seven tips and you could “kick-start” the most compromised immune system.

To better understand how these effective yet simple methods work; let me first give you a straightforward explanation of how the immune system functions. I’m not using technical terms and am speaking from an action perspective.

First, know that I am not a medical doctor. I am a practitioner of mind/body psychology. I’ve studied how the mental, emotional and spiritual life affects the body.

Here we go!

The Innate Wisdom of the Body

Your body has intelligence and wisdom. Within it is a medical library of knowledge about how it is to work. Your body knows when and how to release hormones and chemicals which fight infection, keep your heart beating and your lungs breathing. Your body knows how to make babies, digest food and work when you sleep. Your body knows how to do things that doctors are trying to learn!

For millennia bodies have reacted in a specific manner to keep humanity on this wonderful earth. Your body keeps you alive as long as it has what it needs to sustain it. Before written history, your body learned to increase all physical resources to keep it and humanity alive. If a saber tooth tiger jumped in front of you, your body sent life saving power to critical parts of you so that you could run away or fight for your life.

When a car cuts in front of you threatening your life, your body immediately shuts down all non-necessary functions. Your body marshals its resources to do one thing: keep you alive.

The body is wise, but it still works as if you need the long-lasting power to run from a saber tooth tiger rather than the short burst of energy to avoid a car.

The Body Reacts!

If you have to run like the wind to stay alive, you don’t need to digest food, have sex or fight off disease. Staying alive NOW is critical.

You do need adrenalin, increased thyroid and pancreas function as well as more cholesterol to give you extra fuel. You need more oxygen to move your arms and legs quickly! That’s why your heart beats faster and your respiration increases when you are scared. You need more glucose to provide fuel to run or fight for your life. Endorphins increase to kill pain if wounded. In addition, all five senses are more acute so you can see, hear, smell and sense the enemy more easily.

Your body is exquisitely made so that you can physically run as far and fast as possibly to escape that wild animal. Your body responds to danger so you can do one of two things: fight or flee. We call this response “fight or flight.”

Today, most of what threatens you cannot be evaded by physically running away. In fact, running away, literally or figuratively, sets your body up for pain, suffering and dis-ease.

You know that word “stress?” Here is what it does to your physical body.

Stress is Perception!

You’ve heard the word “stress” but do you know what it really is?

Stress is the physical result (rise in blood pressure, heart rate, etc.) of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs.

Imagine the following:

The sky is beautiful. The air is clear. The birds are singing. You are in the car going to the hospital.

How do you feel?

Were your first feelings pleasant or neutral? What happened when you discovered you were going to the hospital? Did your feelings change? Are you happy or sad? Worried or excited?

Any tension, anxiety or worry you felt when you imagined that brief scene was the physical reaction to stress brought on by your thoughts, feelings and beliefs.

I was at the hospital in early October on just such a day. I met my great-niece for the very first time. What a cutie!

Your body responded to your beliefs, fears and expectations of the word “hospital.” Did you notice any changes when I told you I was there to see a new-born baby?

What Was to Save Us is Killing Us!

Our body was designed to move us from harm’s way. The physical reactions to stress are only needed IF we are under physical attack. However, the body reacts when people worry about what has or will happen. The body is hyper-alert elevating heart and breathing rates, as well as adrenalin and sugar. You go into fear, and your body enters the fight or flight response.

A continual state of being hyper-alert depletes hormones, lowers the sex drive, shuts down digestion and weakens the immune system. The long term result is illness.

How much illness? A few years ago it was estimated that more than 70% of all doctors’ appointments were stress related. That is a lot of illness!

The number of stress-related diseases is astounding. A few illnesses researchers are attributing, at least in part, to stress are:

High blood pressure, asthma, obesity, high cholesterol, colds, flu, auto-immune disorders (arthritis, fibromyalgia), heart disease, ulcers, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, allergies, cancer, indigestion, back trouble, migraines...to name a few, and not to mention accidents.

The Way You Respond Can Hurt You!

How you respond determines not only whether your body enters fight or flight mode, thus weakening your immune system, but how long you stay there. The longer you are in fight or flight mode, the more worn out your immune system becomes due to fatigue.

Four personality states have the greatest negative effect upon the body. These are: depressed, anxious, hostile and angry.

We all experience one or more of these states at various times. The key is, how long are you in a state other than joy? How extreme is your mood from joy?

Anger, depression, hostility and anger are so prevalent there is a drug for each one of them. The meds are not working! If they worked there would be a decrease, not increase, in emotional and physical disease.

On top of that, the meds make many people sicker! As a psychotherapist I’ve had teens and adults feel better when they get off their antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs. Some felt increased depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts on the medications.

Don’t take the above statement as a reason for quitting your medication cold turkey. If you are bi-polar, schizophrenic or have other debilitating disorders, stay on your medication. You are among those for whom drugs are a lifesaver. Don’t ever consider going off your meds without consulting your doctor! The results could be catastrophic.

Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, but Your Words May even Kill You!!

Remember the children’s saying ending “words can never hurt me?” The truth is words are creative. They can bring joy or despair. Words have a powerful effect upon anyone who says or hears them.

Each time you think something negative you instantly change the chemical makeup of your body and weaken your immune system.

Happy thought...happy feeling...happy immune system.

Angry thought...immune system weakened. Joyful thought...immune system stronger. Jealousy...immune system weaker. Thankful...immune system stronger. Get the picture?

Sounds depressing! (Whoops), weakened immune system.

Now for the good news! (Hope... strengthens immune system.) There are strategies you can use to change your internal messages.

Skeptical? Just keep reading.

Method 1

Quit Stinkin’ Thinkin’!

The most crucial method to strengthen your immune system is watching what you think. New thoughts could change everything.

Feelings are the result of our thoughts and beliefs. If we quit thinking negative thoughts, then we won’t have immune-suppressing feelings.

When you continually rehash a negative message, “You are so stupid.,” feelings of unworthiness, anger, despair surface. These feelings cause a chemical reaction in your body which depresses your immune system. Someone sneezes on you and, pow! you get a cold.

Quit the “stinkin’ thinkin’.”

How do you do it? Simple, have thoughts that are life-enhancing to replace those that are life-depleting. Is it easy? No, but it is simple.

You need to “catch” yourself being involved with the thoughts you don’t want and bring yourself to think the other thoughts. Substitute pleasant and positive thoughts for the negative thoughts. Have an internal “file” of pleasant thoughts.

Method 2

If You Don’t Have Something Good to Think, Find Something!

In Method 2 you begin your day thinking in a life enhancing manner. One way would be a positive thought or affirmation.

Make a commitment to develop the habit of thinking only positive thoughts. First, decide upon the thought to hold throughout the day. It could be a prayer or the thought of a spring day...your child’s first step...the smile of someone you love...the fun you are going to have on your vacation...the last time you made love.

It is much easier to begin with the life-enhancing thought than having to break through an immune-suppressing thought. Each time you discover you’re doing “stinkin’ thinkin’,” gently bring your mind to the thought you want to hold.

Here is a little trick to assist in this method. Don’t try not to think of something. Instead, think of something else. If I ask you not to think of polar bears driving red convertibles, what do you think of? Polar bears in convertibles! Now, instead, think of a zebra balancing on a flag pole. The polar bears are gone and there is the zebra

A thought from a wise man named Wally Minto: “When you think a thought, you just send out the copy. The original stays within you.” You don't want toxic thoughts stirring around in you. Change them to benevolent ones and reap the benefits.

Some folks look at the glass half-full and some look at it half-empty. The half-full folks are healthier and lots of fun to be with. (And the half-empty folks probably just groaned at that over-used analogy.)

Method 3

If You Don’t Have Something Good to Think, Don’t Think At All!

Descartes said: “I think therefore I am.” Eckard Tolle in The Power of Now believes thinking is a bad habit. What and how we think determines the type of “am” we are. Thumper’s mom said, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” All great minds don’t have to agree, but all of us can agree that thinking ugly, fearful, hateful, negative thoughts (or even worse, verbalizing them) must have a bad effect on us at some level.

Some people complain their mind is racing. They can’t slow down their thoughts. This type of thinking can get us into trouble. Anxiety, anger, fear, sadness can become constant companions.

When we think obsessively, we can’t manage our thoughts.

In the first part of his book, Tolle gives a simple exercise. He asks the reader to observe their thoughts. Try it now. Simply wait for your next thought and note it. (Mine was, “I wonder what my thought will be?” There was, however, a few seconds of silence before that thought.)

By observing your thoughts, your mind begins to calm. Once you can observe your thoughts, you can keep the ones that are life enhancing and throw out the others. You will access a power you didn’t know you had. Calmness results. Your immune system strengthens.

Method 4

Live from Your Heart!

HeartMath (www.heartmath.com) is an organization which researches the power of the heart and develops personal growth products based upon their research.

Researchers found focusing on the heart immediately decreased heart rate and calmed the brain waves. The chemicals signifying strong immune function elevated. Try it now. Simply bring your attention to your heart. Breathe.

Throughout the day simply focus on your heart. Set a mental reminder to bring your attention to your heart. Breathe in and out of your heart. You will find it relaxing, calming.

You will find that you can think more clearly, your intuition will open and you will feel more serene.

The key is to form a habit of living from your heart. By training yourself now, you will be in your heart more easily during times of stress.

Focusing on your heart is very simple. Once you have formed the habit of staying in your heart, choosing your thoughts is easier.

Method 5

Your Emotions are Affected by the Food You Put in Your Body

Do you know food has a huge effect upon how you think, and feel?

Joan Ifland (www.sugarsandflours.com), in her book Sugars and Flours: How They Make Us Crazy, Sick and Fat and What to Do about It, gives an excellent research-oriented discussion on how the chemistry of food affects our own body chemistry.

A friend of mine had suicidal thoughts for 15 years. They stopped when she quit eating refined foods, especially refined flours and sugars. I have heard more people say the same thing. In addition, they were able to handle the difficulties of life more easily, they quit snapping at people and life flowed. Anxiety decreased, anger abated and depression lessened.

When life gets easier, then thoughts and emotions elevate and immune function improves. In addition, when you eat in a healthy manner, your body has the nutrients it needs. The body runs easier and at a higher level. Your body’s immune system is strengthened.

Method 6

What You See and Hear Affects Your Thoughts and Feelings

You’ve heard the phrase “garbage in, garbage out.” So far, everything discussed fits under that phrase.

For myself, the more I watch the lawyer, police and other violent dramas, the worse I feel. When I don’t watch or listen to violent or demeaning media, I feel better.

If you watch or see something that depresses you, then your immune system will also be depressed. When you watch, see or do something uplifting, your immune system will be strengthened.

Our daily lives produce enough stress that we don’t need any “help” from the media to feel stressed.

Try this. Watch shows that make you laugh or are uplifting. Stay away from the news. Better yet, turn off the television. Do this just for a week. Then notice how you feel. Is your mood any better? Are you more positive? Are you doing more things with those you love?

By the way, this applies to the radio, movies and the WEB, also!

Method 7

The Greatest Method of All

This is a true story of a man dying from AIDS. He knew he probably would not wake up the next morning. While waiting for death, he decided to tie up loose ends.

He wrote letters to everyone he could think of that had hurt him. In each one of these letters he expressed his feelings and totally forgave each person. No strings attached. He simply let all his anger and resentment go. He had nothing to lose and didn’t want to carry it with him to the next world.

Much to his surprise he woke up the next morning...hungry for the first time in months. He ate. He woke up the next day and was still hungry. He got well. He went to work. He tested negative for HIV.

Forgiveness is difficult when the pain of the event is present. Sometimes you can just let go, but sometimes, as hard as you try, you can’t let go.

Some people “forgive” too soon to try to get over the pain. Instead of healing they bury the pain deep within where it festers. The pain can spew out causing greater damage to relationships or eat up your body resulting in physical distress.

Holding onto our angers and resentments can kill us. Letting them go can heal us.

You don’t forgive because the other person deserves to be forgiven. You forgive because you deserve to be free of the pain. Forgiveness will change your life. Try it.

Pick Just One

All seven methods will help you achieve a superior immune system. Your body will stop being in over-drive. The stress hormones will decrease. Peace will come.

The amazing “side effect” of each method is that you will grow emotionally and spiritually. You will begin to heal on all levels.

Chose just one method and make a commitment to yourself to do that one method well for one week.

Do the following:

Write what you will do. “I commit to staying in and breathing through my heart. I will monitor myself each hour. If I am not in my heart I will re-focus.” Sign it.
Read your commitment out loud morning, noon and evening. When you do this, place your hand on your heart. Imagine breathing in and out of your heart. Read your commitment from your heart. Reading just from your head, just your mental state, will do little to assist you.
At the end of each day note your success and any changes in yourself.

Spend a week or more with each of the first six methods. You will soon notice positive changes within yourself. Soon you will be able to move to forgiveness and experience deep peace and harmony.

Your immune system will thank you! Those around you will thank you! You will thank you!

“Spirit is the Life,

Mind is the Builder,

the Physical is the Result.”

Edgar Cayce

My blessings to you on your Odyssey to Wholeness!

Cathy Chapman, Ph.D., LMSW, C.Ht, CBP works from a spiritual and energetic foundation. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker with a doctorate in Mind Body Psychology.

::Activating your Inner Warrior with your Healing Silk (click here to download article in pfd)

News that shocks our system, be it a diagnosis or the loss of a loved one or a job, or any one of many other blows, can shatter us to the core of our being.

We then need to prepare ourselves for our inner battle. The shock of loss can shatter us for a moment or for months. We wonder whether we can make it. The answer is, “Yes!” This, too, we can move through, no matter where it takes us. It is in those times, we are in need of nurturing to remind ourselves we are loved and cared for, that we can do what is necessary to move on in life.

We begin to gather the shards of ourselves from the various places of our psyche. We get in touch with the Inner Warrior that has helped us through the hills and valleys of life. We all need people standing with us in strength and support, urging us on, even pushing us to remember the strength that makes us who we are. When they are gone, or perhaps even if they never arrived, we have to find the strength within ourselves. This strength is inherent and eternal, even when it seems to vanish into darkness and pain.

The vibration of the Healing Silks assists in gathering together the pieces of us that are scattered hither and yon within our being. Gently and with determination the pieces are gathered and integrated back within ourselves.

The Inner Warrior activation reminds us of the tremendous strength within us. Accessing the Inner Warrior reminds us that this, too, will take us into the deepness of ourselves and allow us to discover, or rediscover, the strength and beauty of our very soul. With the activation of our Inner Warrior we know to the depths of ourselves that we are strong and gentle, open and determined, learning and knowledgeable, interdependent and independent.

During those times you need something to remind you of the strength within you, wrap your Healing Silk around your neck, your head or run it through your belt loop. Touch it, run it through your fingers. The vibrations of the Healing Silk with it’s sacred geometry and healing fractal imagery, will bring your energy together to assist you to stand in your strength within the eye of the storm.

Send a Healing Silk to someone who will benefit from the energy of strength, the energy of the Inner Warrior. Fill your scarf with your love, your strength, and then send it to her. Every time you think of her, imagine you are filling the scarf and her with the strength, determination and love of the Inner Warrior. The energy of your intentions will permeate the fibers, and help her to activate her own forces each time she touches it.

Diana Wesley designs the Healing Silks with the vibration of Healing. Each time she creates a new design, it is after undergoing cleansing and meditation. She consciously places herself in Love, and designs all the Healing Silks with the intention of bringing only good to those who possess them. The sacred geometry and fractals combine with the crystalline structure of the silk fibers and Diana’s pure intentions to create a healing vibration that has given many and will give you amazing results. Enjoy the beauty and the sensations of your Healing Silks product. It comes to you with and from Love.

::Balancing the Healing Process for Women fighting Breast Cancer (click here to download article in pfd)

Two worlds of thinking must come together in order to maximize the likelihood of a successful recovery from breast cancer. There are healing modalities passed down from ancient times, tested and relied upon for generations; in recent decades the rapid progress of medical technology has brought us techniques and results that would have been considered miraculous only a hundred years ago.

The Healing Silks Company has released the “Healing in Pink” line just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness month, and they offer an opportunity to learn how to merge the world of ancient wisdom with modern technology, creating the ultimate healing experience.

The three key elements of mind, body and spirit are inseparable. When your treatment plan only encompasses one or two of these areas, leaving out the rest, the treatment plan is significantly less effective.

The problem with many cancer treatment plans is the lack of attention and sensitivity given to a woman’s mental, emotional and spiritual needs during a time when it is most critical for these areas to be in balance.

Imagine you or your loved one listening to the doctors’ gut-wrenching delivery of the paralyzing results of the cancer discovery. Feelings of fear, panic, shock, regret and numbness rush through your body. As the doctor explains your options and describes the recommended physical process for you to endure over the next several months, one of several unanswered questions is: “Where I will find the strength to undergo such a process?"

Every human being on the planet has an innate inner strength, which allows us to triumph over just about any challenge we face. Where do we find this inner strength and how do we connect to this energy? Most of us feel that we fall short when we attempt to answer such questions as these.

Connecting to your inner strength, finding that courage, peace, purpose and excitement for life is a vital component in expanding the likelihood of getting through the recovery process of breast cancer. Once you have lived life from this place of connection with your inner strength, the rest of your life can be lived filled with a new sense of passion you have always had inside you but may not have realized.

Women all over the world facing this emotional, mental and physical trauma desire to feel empowered during this time in their lives. Through the various support products and techniques that the Healing Silks Company offers to people suffering from any trauma, a new line has emerged just in time for October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The new line of products, “Healing in Pink” focuses in on the specific needs of woman facing breast cancer, offering the necessary mental, emotional, spiritual and physical healing and empowerment.

Co-founder of Healing Silks Diana Wesley states, “Our Healing Silks are inner world tools to enhance your innate healing potential.”

Wesley, designer of the silk scarves, says further: “These scarves are beautiful, which helps to lift any woman’s spirit, and are designed with leading-edge scientific processes which help relieve stress, enabling the body to better marshal its innate healing ability.”

“Healing in Pink” consists of 100% silk scarves, prayer shawls, and powerful affirmation bookmarks re-enforced with encouraging words. Wesley, designer of the silk scarves, says further: “These scarves are beautiful, which helps to lift any woman’s spirit, and are designed with leading-edge scientific processes which help relieve stress, enabling the body to better marshal its innate healing ability.”

The“Healing in Pink” line offers two fractal image designs; one, Pink Embrace, specifically designed to give comfort and another, Inner Warrior, to promote inner strength and courage. It is strongly recommended that the silks be held during prayer circles, so that the combined love of the group may enter the fibers themselves.

Held during treatment, worn throughout the day, during prayer or meditation, the Healing Silks serve as a reminder to the owners of the love and support of their healing partners, as well as gently prompting them to continue to tap into their inner resources, where healing begins

The Healing Silk scarves are designed using the mathematical principles of fractals and what is known as sacred geometry. Fractals as tools to relieve stress are being studied in several universities. Studies in the field of Body Mind Psychology demonstrate that as stress decreases the immune system strengthens.

Healing Silks also has an ultra-soft scarf and hat liner for those undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment. These liners are as soft as cashmere, anti-microbial and made of natural bamboo fiber. They “breathe” with coolness in the summer and warmth in winter. These newly designed liners are replacements to those, which have to date, been scratchy and generally uncomfortable.

Two hospitals in the Portland Area have agreed to distribute “Healing in Pink”, as gifts to women facing breast cancer through the company’s “Click it Forward” web-based donation system on their website.

For additional information on the Healing in Pink Line and their “Click it Forward” program, visit the website, www.healingsilks.com

Healing Silks donates 5% of the purchases from its “Healing in Pink” Line to support early detection of breast cancer.

::A Simple Technique to Bring About Balance of the Mind/Body Connection (click here to download article in pfd)

By Diana Wesley

BASIC EXERCISE

Learning to communicate with the body/mind can begin with this very simple and subtle Energy Balancing Technique ~ which I call ~

Getting into the Rhythm of your Rhythms -

Place your tongue against the roof of your mouth, just behind your front teeth.
Grasp the index finger on your left hand, with your right hand fingers wrapped around it.
Gently hold the finger until you feel a pulse, often this is only a few moments however, I have known this to take as long as 20 minutes when one is using this for the first time.
Next do the same thing with the middle finger, the ring finger, the little finger and finally the thumb.
Now change hands and repeat the process on right hand.
Remember to deeply breathe in through the nose and exhale through the mouth connecting with your life force.

This is useful anytime the body or emotions are under stress, when traveling by airplane, or in traffic, or as general everyday balance. Remember the more you do this the more you establish connection with your mind and balance the body.

ENHANCED EXERCISE

For use after chemo treatment and recovery from surgery, the above process can be further enhanced with the use of the Healing Silks and by adding the following statements, as you hold each finger.

Say to your sister or brother body, “I love you, sister body.”
“I apologize dear sweet, sister body.”
“I ask for forgiveness for all you have had to go through.”
“With my deepest gratitude, I thank you for all you have done and continue to do for me.”
“I love and appreciate you, dear, sweet ‘sister body.’

These statements, said in prayerful meditation bring about access to Divine Love, Divine Healing and Divine Gratitude.

Finally, over and over, while holding the Healing Silk close to your Thymus (center of your breastplate), store the energy of all those feelings of Divine Love in the Healing Silk.

The next time you wrap yourself in your Healing Silk, you will wrap in the possibilities of Divine Love, Healing, and Gratitude. You can re-connect with the love energy of this process anytime, pouring that love into every cell in your body.

So meditate with your Healing Silk, curl up with it as you read a good book, put it on your shoulders when you need a little Divine Love to flow through your body.

If your scarf should become a little “hazy” just set it down, pray and ask it to clear. Be kind and patient with your Self and your road to healing will be swift. Be in great gratitude for the healing power of your vessel.

Enjoy.