Emotional Causes of Cancer
By Dr. Alison Adams
The following excellent and detailed article on the true cause(s) of cancer and
the link to unresolved emotional states has been reproduced in full below.
Negative Emotions in the Body Can Cause Cancer!
The following are typical personality traits found in those with cancer:
1. Being highly conscientious, caring, dutiful, responsible, hard-working, and u
sually of above average intelligence.
2. Exhibits a strong tendency toward carrying other people s burdens and toward ta
king on extra obligations, and often worrying for others.
3. Having a deep-seated need to make others happy. Being a people pleaser with a g
reat need for approval.
4. Often lacking closeness with one or both parents, which sometimes, later in l
ife, results in lack of closeness with spouse or others who would normally be cl
ose.
5. Harbours long-suppressed toxic emotions, such as anger, resentment and/or hos
tility. The cancer-susceptible individual typically internalises such emotions a
nd has great difficulty expressing them.
6. Reacts adversely to stress, and often becomes unable to cope adequately with
such stress. Usually experiences an especially damaging event about 2 years befo
re the onset of detectable cancer. The patient is not able to cope with this tra
umatic event or series of events, which comes as a last straw on top of years of s
uppressed reactions to stress.
7. Has an inability to resolve deep-seated emotional problems and conflicts, usu
ally beginning in childhood, often even being unaware of their presence.
It is very common for those with cancer to have a long-standing tendency to supp
ress toxic emotions , particularly anger. Usually beginning in childhood, this indi
vidual has held in their hostility and other unacceptable emotions. More often t
han not, this feature of the affected personality has its origins in feelings of
rejection by one or both parents. Whether these feelings of rejection are justi
fied or not, the individual perceives this rejection as real, and this results i
n a lack of closeness with the rejecting parent, followed later in life by a lack
of closeness with spouses and others with whom close relationships would normall
y develop.
Those at the higher risk for cancer tend to develop feelings of loneliness as a
result of their having been deprived of affection and acceptance earlier in life
, even if this is only their perception. They have a tremendous need for approva
l and acceptance, and develop a very high sensitivity to the needs of others whi
le suppressing their own emotional needs. They become the caretakers of the world,
showing great compassion and caring for others, and will go out of their way to
look after others. They are very reluctant to accept help from others, fearing
that it may jeopardise their role as the caretaker. Throughout their childhood t
hey have been typically taught not to be selfish , and they take this to heart as a
major lifetime objective.
A distinction needs to be made here between the care-giving and the care-taking pers
onality. There is nothing wrong with care-giving, of course, but the problem ari
ses when the susceptible individual derives their entire worth, value and identi
ty from their role as caretaker . If this very important shift cannot be made, the
patient is stuck in this role, and the susceptibility to cancer greatly increase
s.
As already stated, a consistent feature of those who are susceptible to cancer a
ppears to be that they suffer in silence , and bear their burdens without complaint
. These burdens of their own as well as the burdens of others weigh heavily upon
these people through a lifetime of emotional suppression. The carefree extrover
t, on the other hand, seems to be far less vulnerable to cancer than the caring
introvert described above.
Stress and cancer
How one reacts to stress appears to be a major factor in the larger number of co
ntributing causes of cancer. Most cancer patients have experienced a highly stre
ssful event, usually about 2 years prior to the onset of detectable disease. Thi
s traumatic event is often beyond the patient s control, such as the loss of a lov
ed one, loss of a business, job, home, or some other major disaster. The typical
cancer personality has lost the ability to cope with these extreme events, beca
use his/her coping mechanism lies in his/her ability to control the environment.
When this control is lost, the patient has no other way to cope.
Major stress causes suppression of the immune system, and does so more overwhelm
ingly in the cancer-susceptible individual than in others. Thus personal tragedi
es and excessive levels of stress appear to combine with the underlying personal
ity described above to bring on the immune deficiency which allows cancer to thr
ive.
For the majority of people, coping with stress and highly stressful or traumatic
events or conflicts is dealt with, with relative ease. Although those in this l
arger group feel the devastating effects of stress, stressful events, trauma, an
d conflicts, including grief and loss
stressful events are seen as part of life s
challenges, life s ups and downs, and they are for they most part anticipated and
not completely unexpected. These people are able to move on with their lives qui
ckly afterwards.
Those susceptible to cancer, are highly vulnerable to life s stresses and trauma,
and feel unable to cope when life throws a curve-ball their way. These people ar
e perfectionists and live in fear of conflict, stress, trauma and loss and are d
eeply frightened of negative events happening to them. And when faced with a highl
y stressful or traumatic event they have not anticipated, which inevitably happe
ns during their life, react adversely and are unable to cope.
They experience inescapable shock and remain deeply affected by the experience.
They have difficulty in expressing their inner grief, their inner pain, their in
ner anger or resentment, and genuinely feel there is no way out of the pain they
are feeling inside. And because their mind cannot fathom what has happened, and
remains in a state of disbelief or denial, these inner painful feelings are con
tinually perpetuated, shooting up stress levels, lowering melatonin and adrenali
ne levels, causing a slow breakdown of the emotional reflex centre in the brain,
and creating the beginning of cancer progression in the body.
The biological mechanism
When faced with a major trauma, the cancer personality feels trapped and unable
to escape from the memory of the traumatic experience and the painful feelings o
f the experience. Stress hormone cortisol levels skyrocket and remain at high le
vels, directly suppressing the immune system, whose job it is to destroy cancer
cells that exist in every human being. High stress levels generally mean a perso
n cannot sleep well, and cannot produce enough melatonin during deep sleep. Mela
tonin is responsible for inhibiting cancer cell growth. This means cancer cells
are now free to multiply. Adrenaline (epinephrine) levels also skyrocket initial
ly, but are then drained and depleted over time. This is especially bad news for
the cancer personality.
Adrenaline is responsible for transporting sugar away from cells. And when there
is no adrenaline left, sugar builds up in cells of the body. Viral-bacterial-ye
ast-like-fungus then inhabit normal cells to feed on this excess sugar, breaking
the cell s (oxygen) krebs cycle. This means normal body cells cannot breathe prop
erly because of low oxygen and mutate during the dividing process into cancer ce
lls. Cancer cells thrive in a low oxygen state, as demonstrated by Nobel Prize w
inner Otto Warburg. Cancer cells also thrive on fermented sugar for cell divisio
n, and this is provided by the viral-bacterial-yeast-like-fungus that ferment an
d feed on sugar in the perfect symbiotic relationship. Too much internal stress
causes a depletion of adrenaline, leads to too much sugar in the body s cells, res
ulting in the perfect environment for cancer cells to thrive in the body.
For the cancer personality, the news of being diagnosed with cancer and the fear
and uncertainty of death represents another inescapable shock, creating another
spike in stress hormone cortisol levels, and a further drop in melatonin and ad
renalin levels. There is also a further breakdown of the emotional reflex centre
in the brain that causes cells in the corresponding organ to slowly breakdown a
nd become cancerous.
Recent research into cancer causation
One of the most recent studies on psychosomatic cancer therapy comes from German
y. Over the past ten years, medical doctor and surgeon Ryke-Geerd Hamer has exam
ined 20,000 cancer patients with all types of cancer. Dr. Hamer wondered why can
cer never seems to systematically spread directly from one organ to the surround
ing tissue. For example, he never found cancer of the cervix AND cancer of the u
terus in the same woman. He also noticed that all his cancer patients seemed to
have something in common: there had been some kind of psycho-emotional conflict
prior to the onset of their disease
usually a few years before a conflict that h
ad never been fully resolved.
X-rays taken of the brain by cancer Dr. Hamer showed in all cases a dark shadow so
mewhere in the brain. These dark spots would be in exactly the same place in the
brain for the same types of cancer. There was also a 100% correlation between t
he dark spot in the brain, the location of the cancer in the body and the specif
ic type of unresolved conflict. On the basis of these findings, Dr. Hamer sugges
ts that when we are in a stressful conflict that is not resolved, the emotional
reflex center in the brain which corresponds to the emotion experienced (e.g: an
ger, frustration, grief) will slowly break down. Each of these emotion centres a
re connected to a specific organ. When a centre breaks down, it will start sendi
ng wrong information to the organ it controls, resulting in the formation of def
ormed cells in the tissues: cancer cells. He also suggests that metastasis is no
t the SAME cancer spreading. It is the result of new conflicts that may well be
brought on by the very stress of having cancer or of invasive and painful or nau
seating therapies.
Dr Hamer started including psychotherapy as an important part of the healing pro
cess and found that when the specific conflict was resolved, the cancer immediat
ely stopped growing at a cellular level. The dark spot in the brain started to d
isappear. X-rays of the brain now showed a healing oedema around the damaged emo
tional centre as the brain tissue began to repair the afflicted point. There was
once again normal communication between brain and body. A similar healing oedem
a could also be seen around the now inactive cancer tissue. Eventually, the canc
er would become encapsulated, discharged or dealt with by the natural action of
the body. Diseased tissue would disappear and normal tissue would then again app
ear.
Specific emotions and cancer
According to cancer specialist, Dr Hamer the real cause of cancer and other dise
ases is an unexpected traumatic shock for which we are emotionally unprepared. T
he following list shows some of the relationships between conflict emotions and
target organs for cancer.
Adrenal cortex: Wrong direction, gone astray
Bladder: Ugly conflict, dirty tricks
Bone: Lack of self-worth, feelings of inferiority
Brain: Stubbornness, refusing to change old patterns, mental frustration
Breast tissue (gland): Involving care or disharmony
Breast tissue (duct): Separation conflict
Left breast: Conflict concerning child, home, or mother
Right breast: Conflict with partner or others
Bronchioles: Territorial conflict
Cervix: Severe frustration
Colon: Ugly indigestible conflict
Oesophagus: Cannot have it or swallow it
Gall bladder: Rivalry conflict
Heart: Perpetual conflict
Intestines: Indigestible chunk of anger
Kidneys: Not wanting to live, water or fluid conflict
Larynx: Conflict of fear and fright
Liver: Fear of starvation
Lungs: Fear of dying or suffocation, including fear for someone else
Lymph Glands: Loss of self-worth associated with the location
Melanoma: Feeling dirty, soiled or defiled
Middle Ear: Not being able to get some vital information
Mouth: Cannot chew it or hold it
Pancreas: Anxiety-anger conflict with family members, inheritance
Prostate: Ugly conflict with sexual connections or connotations
Rectum: Fear of being useless
Skin: Loss of integrity
Spleen: Shock of being physically or emotionally wounded
Stomach: Indigestible anger, swallowed too much
Testes and ovaries: Loss conflict
Thyroid: Feeling powerless
Tumour (in location): Nursing old hurts and shocks, building remorse
Uterus: Sexual conflict
Cancer occurs at the cellular level. And there are a number of factors that crea
te stress on the body s cells, causing them to become (1) depleted of adrenaline(2
) high in sugar and (3) low in oxygen, where they are more prone to mutate and b
ecome cancerous. The higher the sugar content of the cell caused by a depletion
of adrenaline, and the lower the oxygen content, the greater the likelihood of n
ormal cells mutating and becoming cancerous.
There are a number of factors that contribute to a normal cell becoming depleted
of adrenaline, high in sugar and low in oxygen. Physiological stresses include
(and are not limited to): poor nutrition, chemicals, toxins, EMF radiation, para
sites, liver/colon/kidney disease, lack of exercise, etc. Psychological stresses
include (and are not limited to): inescapable shock, repressed feelings, depres
sion, isolation, poor sleep, emotional trauma, external conflict, etc.
The five stages of 5 stages of cancer
In the vast majority of those with cancer, there exists both a combination of ps
ychological as well as physiological stresses that have contributed to the body s
cells becoming depleted of adrenaline, high in sugar and low in oxygen, causing
them to mutate and become cancerous.
The five stages of how cancerous tumours are formed within the body are listed b
elow:
Phase 1
Inescapable Shock/Emotional Trauma
This initial phase occurs approximately 2 years prior to the cancer diagnosis. T
his is where the individual experiences an inescapable shock , affecting deep sleep
and the production of melatonin within the body. Melatonin is necessary for inh
ibiting cancer cell growth and is the primary hormone responsible for regulating
the immune system. During this phase a part of the emotional reflex centre in t
he brain slowly breaks down, creating a dark spot on the brain (viewed by X-ray)
. Each part of the emotional reflex centre controls and is connected to an organ
or part of the body, and when the emotion centre begins to break down, so too d
oes the organ or body part it is connected to.
Phase 2
Stress Suppresses The Immune System
During this second phase, the immune system is suppressed by elevated stress hor
mone cortisol levels. The immune system also receives subconscious messages from
the affected emotion centre of the brain to slow down, and to even stop working
altogether. An individual experiencing inescapable shock often feels like they ha
ve died emotionally on some level, and the immune system receives these messages a
s a subliminal signal or command to give up the fight to live also. This causes
somatids to react. Somatids are tiny living organisms (necessary for life) that
live in our blood. Different types of somatids are specific to and inhabit diffe
rent organs of the body. In a healthy organism, where the immune system is funct
ioning properly, these somatids are limited to 3 stages in their life cycle
soma
tid, spore, double spore. When the immune system is impaired or suppressed, soma
tids pleomorphise (or change) into a further 13 stages (16 altogether). These fu
rther 13 stages are pathogenic (harmful) to the body and include viral, bacteria
l, and yeast-like fungal forms.
Phase 3 Stress Causes Cell Glucose Levels to Rise
Over time, elevated stress hormone levels cause adrenaline levels to be depleted
within the body, causing glucose (sugar) levels to rise within normal cells. Th
e main purpose of adrenaline is to remove and convert glucose from cells for ene
rgy for the body, just as it is the main purpose of insulin to transport glucose
(sugar) into cells. When the adrenaline reserves are depleted, glucose (sugar)
levels increase sharply within cells leaving little room for oxygen. This is why
so many cancer patients are weak and lethargic, because they have no adrenaline
left (or very little) to convert the glucose in their cells into energy for the
body and their cells subsequently have very little room left to accept oxygen f
rom passing blood.
Phase 4
Fungus Enter Cells to Feed on Glucose
During this fourth phase, pathogenic microbes (virus-bacteria-fungus) that have
pleomorphised and established themselves in a weakened part of the body, enter n
ormal cells to feed on high glucose levels. This fermentation of glucose causes m
ycotoxins to be released (a highly acidic waste product), which (1) breaks the Kr
ebs Cycle of the cell (a process that uses oxygen as part of cellular respiration
), and (2) breaks the Electron Transport Chain of the cell, meaning the number o
f ATP molecules drops dramatically (ATP molecules provide energy to the cell.) T
his lack of oxygen and cell energy means normal cells mutate during the dividing
process
creating new rogue cancer cells. The body s tissue and cells become highl
y acidic (low pH) due to the waste by-products caused by these viral-bacterial-y
east-like fungus. Over-acidification of the body also occurs due to fermentation
of excess stress hormones in the body, poor diet (low pH value foods), and lack
of exercise. Viruses, bacteria, yeast, mould, fungus, candida and cancer cells
thrive in a low pH acidic environment.
Phase 5 Fungus and Cancer Form Symbiotic Relationship
During this fifth phase viral-bacterial-yeast-like fungus form a symbiotic relat
ionship with newly created cancer/tumour cells. Yeast-like fungus is symbiotic i
n nature and feeds on the high levels of glucose to use for energy for reproduct
ion of new somatids. The yeast-like fungus provides a natural fermentation proce
ss and ferments the glucose within the cancer/tumour cell, providing energy and
a natural growth factor in return. The yeast-like fungus uses the cancer/tumour
cells as a host or house for their rich reserves of glucose, and stimulates thes
e cancer/tumour cells to propagate more houses. The result is a mass of tumour c
ells, or tumour sites. Yeast-like fungus prevent cancer/tumour cells reverting b
ack into normal healthy cells (re-establishing their Krebs Cycle), as they conti
nue to cause mycotoxins to be released (a highly acidic waste product), meaning ca
ncer/tumour cells in a sense are held hostage to the yeast-like fungus that inha
bit them.
Phase 6 Stress Stimulates Tumour Cell Growth/Metastases
During this final phase elevated stress hormone noradrenaline and adrenaline (no
repinephrine and epinephine) levels, stimulate tumour cells to produce three com
pounds: MMP-2 and MMP-9 (both matrix metalloproteinases) and the growth compound
VEGF (Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor). Tumour cells make receptors for thes
e stress hormones on their surface, to stimulate these three compounds. MMP-2 an
d MMP-9 breakdown the scaffolding of tumour cell walls making it easier for them
to travel to other parts of the body, a process known as metastasis. VEGF cause
s blood vessels to grow in new tumour cells, so that they can grow and spread mo
re rapidly. News of cancer at this stage, often becomes a further inescapable sho
ck and the cycle begins again with secondary tumour sites forming in different pa
rts or organs of the body.
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