Page 40Any one of these three is big enough to turn the tide in your favor; get all three
under control and I can virtually guarantee you will survive (that’s a powerful
claim but there are over 38 years experience behind it).
Incidentally, my survival triangle can also be viewed in terms of stress: dietary
stressors, chemical stress and emotional stress. Remember we have physical and
biological stress, as well as just mental stress. A poisonous chemical puts just as
much pressure on our defences as a virus attack or a bereavement. It’s all bad
for a body fighting a dangerous opponent. We need all the resources on our side,
not just fending off stress that can be avoided.
Put it another way, we often use the military metaphor of fighting the war
against cancer – it’s actually a very poor metaphor, spread by people who don’t
understand natural healing. If you think of the photographs you’ve seen of WW1
battle scenes what will strike you most is that the battlefield itself has come off
worse. The landscape is trashed, blighted beyond all recognition. Just remember
that with cancer our bodies are the battlefield and we don’t want to end up with
them looking like that.
You will learn throughout this book that the way to go appears to be to nurture
the cancer. Be gentle and coax the healing into action, help your body, nourish
the problem and you’ll find you can win. But if you go head-to-head for long
enough, one side will eventually run out of soldiers and will lose. Cancer grows
quite rapidly and it could be YOU that runs out of troops first.
But – to go back to the military metaphor – imagine, if you can, trying to fight
a battle with troops that are not properly fed, are tired, have been poisoned
by a gas attack and are frightened out of their wits—they are not going to be
cool, efficient soldiers that will carry you to victory. Just a rabble that will quickly
collapse under an onslaught.
Let’s look at the three corners of this life-saving triangle in turn.