Ep #39: Part 3: Cancer is a Path to Self-Discovery: Self-Heal

Today’s episode is the last part of the 3-part series called Cancer is a Path to Self-Discovery, and today’s segment is about self-healing. The first step in learning to self-heal is learning to receive. Most people who have cancer don’t know how to receive. We struggle to receive love, to accept help, or to let other people contribute to our lives. We are so accustomed to doing everything on our own. This is a deeply rooted limiting belief that needs to be shattered.

What You’ll Learn From this Episode:

+  A simple practice that can supercharge your healing

+  Why it’s crucial to learn how to accept help from others so you can heal

+  How to tune in to the Source of love

+  A short meditation to help you connect with your inner healing wisdom

+  Truth & Dare Quote: The first step in learning to self-heal is learning to receive.

Featured on the Show:

+  Episode TDC #37: Part 1: Cancer is a Path to Self-Discovery: Self-Love

+  Episode TDC #38: Part 2: Cancer is a Path to Self-Discovery: Self-Care 

+  Cancer is a Path to Self-Discovery: Meditation Trio Download (FREE)

+  Book: Bird by Bird – by Anne Lamott

+  CLAIM YOUR NEW NORMAL Un-Challenge: join me for a 7-day un-challenge to ease into your new normal in just 15 minutes – 7 days in a row – and start healing your body and your life.

+   WANT TO CREATE A LIFE YOU DESERVE? Whether your goal is to get healthy, change careers, improve relationships, focus on self-care… You can create whatever you desire. If you need help figuring it out, it's time for private coaching, no more waiting for Monday.

Full Episode Transcript: 

Welcome to Truth & Dare Cancer, the only podcast that teaches you how to supercharge your self-healer, navigate fear, and recalibrate your life by using cancer as a powerful catalyst for change. On this show we get real about all things cancer. And now here’s your host, cancer survivor, mathematician and certified life coach, Ceca Mijatovic. Hello and welcome! You are listening to the episode number 39 of the Truth & Dare Cancer Podcast. If you have not yet done so please subscribe to us on Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast, and like us on Facebook. To access the show notes for this episode go to truthanddarecancer.com/podcast and select episode number 39. I’m your host Ceca Mijatovic and today’s episode is the third in a 3-part series called Cancer is a Path to Self-Discovery. This series is all about how we can use cancer to develop a closer relationship with ourselves. As we’ve talked about before - in the end, you are all you have. Therefore your relationship with yourself is the most important one you’ll ever have. In the first episode of the series, we talked about self-love and I shared three paths into self-love, especially if you tend to be pretty critical of yourself. In the second episode, we delved into the topic of self-care - and I shared a new angle on self-care that goes beyond pedicures and face masks. If you haven’t heard those yet, go ahead and listen. In this third and final installment, we’re going to talk about self-healing. As with the other episodes in this series, I’ll offer some teaching, an exercise for you to try, and a short meditation. Before we start, I wanted to give a listener shout-out. Shei posted on Facebook, “I’m starting chemo on Friday morning. Your podcasts have talked me off the ledge. I appreciate you so much.” And to you, and you know who you are, I appreciate YOU and I’m so glad that the Truth & Dare Cancer podcast is supporting you through your cancer journey. It means so much to me to know that this work is helping you. One other thing before I jump into toady’s topic… I’ll be jamming out all next week, hosting a free, what I call, un-challenge. Cancer is challenging enough, so join me for a 7-day un-challenge to ease into your new normal in just 15 minutes per day for 7 days, and start healing your body and your life. In 7 days I can show you how to claim your new normal. We start the Monday after Thanksgiving, on December 2nd and go through December 8th. You can win some awesome prizes too and the challenge is completely free, so what are you waiting for? Head over and register at: https://www.truthanddarecancer.com/unchallenge Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and I want to talk about how gratitude and the art of receiving ties into self-healing. The first step in learning to heal is learning to receive. Let me repeat that. The first step in learning to heal is learning to receive. Most people who have cancer don’t know how to receive. We struggle to receive love, to accept help, or to let other people contribute to our lives. We are so accustomed to doing everything on our own. This is a deeply rooted limiting belief that needs to be shattered. When we’re used to rejecting help, our beings and our bodies may reject things we need - like benefiting from treatment. We may automatically reject offers of help - to drive us to a doctor’s appointment, to provide a meal - when we really need them. And on some level, we are rejecting ourselves. Practicing gratitude can open us up to receiving so many gifts. When we receive graciously and with gratitude, we allow other people to be givers - and that makes them feel good, too. Another aspect of practicing gratitude is tuning in to Love. I like to think of it this way: there is an infinite Source of love and healing. And this Source of love and healing is like radio waves. Radio waves are around us all the time, but you have to tune in to the right frequency if you want to listen to a certain kind of music. Love and healing are around us all the time, and we have to tune in to receive and feel them. When we step in and align to the Source, love and healing can flow through us. Here’s another way to think of it, from the author Anne Lamott. In her book Bird by Bird, she talks about the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream is an ocean current so powerful that it influences the climate of the east coast of North America and the west coast of Europe. Anne shares a quote: “The Gulf Stream will flow through a straw, provided the straw is aligned to the Gulf Stream, and not at cross purposes with it.” When we tune in to the Source of love, healing, and abundance, that Source energy can flow through us. When we practice being grateful for things we already have, we are validating Universal energy. When we say, I’m so grateful to spend time with my family, we’re telling the Universe, Yes, Universe, I want more of this. Thank you. Here’s your exercise for today: practice being grateful, in the present tense, for things that haven’t happened yet. This does something interesting to the brain. When we’re grateful for things that haven’t happened yet, our brain believes it HAS happened. Our brain tries to catch up and make it happen, because it’s functioning as if it were already so. So when you say, I’m so grateful to be healthy again, while you’re still experiencing cancer, your brain co-conspires to make that happen. So it may send signals to you to go to bed early; it may stop you craving sugar and have you eat healthier; all so you can “catch up” and create the reality your brain already believes is happening. So today, identify three things you want to happen in the future. And practice being grateful for them now, in the present tense, as if they are already so. Notice how your behavior and attitude shift over the coming days and weeks. Now we’ll do a short meditation together to close out this episode. And if you head to https://www.truthanddarecancer.com/podcast and select episode number 39, you can get a free download of all three meditations from this series as a single audio file. Take a comfortable seat, and breathe in deeply through your nose and out through your mouth. Engage your senses. What do you hear? What do you smell? What do you feel? Notice what parts of your body are comfortable and what parts are uncomfortable. If you can be 5 or 10% more comfortable, adjust yourself to be more comfortable now. Next, we set our intention. Our intention for this meditation is to create a pocket of silence in which we can tune in to Source energy. We tune in to love, healing, and most of all, gratitude. Now, we repeat the following affirmations to ourselves: I am grateful for healing from cancer. I am grateful for loving myself. I am grateful for caring for myself. I am grateful for healing myself. I trust that this cancer journey will reveal more of myself to me. I let go of everything that needs to go, and I am fully open to receive the healing. I am open to love. I am open to the Source. I am open to abundance. Love is All, and All is One. And to recap: self-healing requires gratitude and a willingness to receive. Practice receiving help this week! Instead of saying, “oh no, I’m fine,” when someone offers to help, say, “Thank you. I would so appreciate that!” Also, practice being grateful for things that haven’t happened yet. This concludes the third part of our series, Cancer is a path to self-discovery. Remember to pop over to the show notes for this episode to download the meditations and register for the Claim Your New Normal Un-challenge! Give yourself self-love, self-care, and self-healing until we speak again! If you received something valuable from this episode and know someone else that would benefit from it as well, please share it with them. And in the meantime, I dare you to find the truth in your cancer! Thanks for tuning in. If you want to stop identifying with your cancer, you can download a free “You Are Not Your Cancer” guide at www.truthanddarecancer.com/podcastfreeguide.

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