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September/October 2007 Alternative Health
Cancer as a Gateway

by Norma Gentile

Diseases like cancer don't have a single cause. Usually there are two or three causes that intersect in one area of the physical body.

The first cause is usually a long-term underlying pattern, perhaps a hereditary factor, something the soul agreed to work with in order to overcome the pattern, or learn more about the expression of being human as a result of having to express itself through the pattern. Type 1 diabetes and heart disease, as well as some types of cancer are examples of inherited, underlying patterns.

A secondary cause is often artificial - being exposed to chemicals, a lifetime of unhealthy or imbalanced foods, smoking or breathing in pollution.

The third factor in disease acts as a single match that ignites the underlying issues into a blazing fire. The final factor could appear to be small. It is often blamed as the cause of the disease, but in reality it is merely the ignition switch. Typical third factors causes include weeks or months of stress in family or work, a bad bout of flu or even a car accident. Third factor causes tend to create symptoms that draw attention to a single area of the body or to a particular disease. It isn't that this one last factor is causing the disease all by itself. It is merely the final straw that reveals the deeper underlying patterns that have been taken on by the body and soul over the course of the lifetime.

Subtle Energy Causes of Cancer

At the level of subtle energy, I see cancer has having three main causes: creativity, intimacy and worthiness. When the soul desires greater growth, it will begin to pour more life-force into an area of the aura, physical body or general life. Cancer can be seen as a desire for new expression.

Creativity

Cancer can be seen as creative life-force thwarted, the essence of your creativity turned aside. If one of the underlying patterns you carry, such as heredity or toxic exposure includes cancer, your life force may use that as a basis for its new cell growth. In this case, it is not merely releasing the toxin, but also addressing how you want to be creative and expressive into your life.

Intimacy

Love is never a one-way street. Cancer calls us to honor the flow of love in both directions.

Often I've seen people struggle to keep their regular schedules and not reveal to others that they are undergoing chemo or radiation. Bringing intimacy into balance requires that we release old patterns of being self-sufficient and capable. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it is a sign of feeling safe enough to receive. The journey of cancer requires learning to receive.

Creating intimacy is a type of creativity. It is also the basis for building loving cords of connection between your own body and the physical bodies of others around you. When you do not ask for help, you deny others the possibility of learning and feeling compassion in their own bodies. When you do ask for help, you open the doorway for them to have a deeper experience of both their humanity and spiritual selves.

Worthiness

Dr. Bernie Siegel defined two types of patients with radically different outcomes. There were the easy, compliant patients who showed up for office visits, did their chemo, never took extra time or had extra questions. Then there were the difficult patients. They had questions, brought in new ideas, wanted more information and more time, and did non-medical things like meditation, yoga and tai chi. According to Siegel, these patients were most apt to walk through cancer and out into their new lives.

When we address a stone, it becomes a stepping stone. Anytime we dismiss a stone, it becomes a part of an energetic dam. Anything you notice, you can change.

I share this information from my perspective as an energy and subtle energy healer. Anytime the physical body is involved I feel it is important to include physical treatment. Please do not use the information contained here in place of treatments or consultations with trained medical professionals.

Sound Shaman Norma Gentile stands on the precipice between the worlds of sound and healing. Her ability to become a channel for the words and songs of spirit can be heard in her most recent recording, Healing Chants. Visit www.healingchants.com.