What Makes a Cancer Survivor

There are millions of cancer survivors in the world today.  If you look on the internet you can find survivor stories for every different type of cancer and for every different method of treatment. People have survived by having conventional therapies of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy and people have survived through alternative therapies.  Some people have survived without taking any therapy at all.  And people have died in all of those situations as well.

So what is it that determines if you will be a survivor?  Is there a recipe?

Can we find out how another survived the same cancer we have and then do the same treatment and expect to have the same result?   Sadly it seems that the answer is no.  For every cancer survivor who used treatment x there will be others who died, with the same cancer and the same treatment.  Every therapy that reports success also reports failures.

Some survivors believe that they are survivors due to the grace of God, and I am sure that they are right.  But how far do we take this?   If God is responsible for the cure was God responsible for the disease.  Just what things does God decide on, where is the boundary between our authority and divine authority?  Do I decide what I am going to have for breakfast or is that also the domain of God? It does seem that we do have an ability to choose some things in our lives and our choices lead to different consequences.  I think that our challenge is to expand our area of responsibility to include our health.  

Saying that God will decide if we are to be survivors or not, feels to me like an abdication of authority that can lead to bargaining with, supplicating and blaming God when we don’t like the decisions we believe he/she made.

My view is that God has already given us the power to decide, to choose, in all matters concerning our earthly existence, from the choice of breakfast to whether we survive cancer or not.

But that leads us back to the question of just how do we choose to become survivors? What method should we follow for our cure? 

When we consider that people have been cured by every method of healing imaginable

(e.g. the water cure www.watercure2.org)  and that some have been cured just by being too obstinate to die, then it appears that healing might be more related to a personal quality than to a specific method.

I believe that the quality that determines who becomes a survivors is intention.  People become survivors if they have a strong and aligned intention to live to the fullest. Regardless of what method they use to manifest a cure, it’s the intention that drives them to succeed.

How strong is your intention to be a survivor?  Do you want to live with all your heart and soul?  Does your intention sustain you through the times of fear and pain? 

Probably your first reaction is to say, “of course I want to live, doesn’t everybody?” when actually, some people don’t. In Love, Medicine and Miracles

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