The New Medicine
The Body-Mind Connection
by Hanne Bom
"Psycho-somatic therapy (psyche = mind; soma
= body) theorizes that there are psychological and emotional factors involved
in both the onset and healing of cancer and other diseases.
One of the most recent studies on
psychosomatic cancer therapy comes from Germany. Over the past 10 years,
medical doctor and cancer surgeon Ryke Geerd Hamer has examined 20,000 cancer
patients with all types of cancer.
Dr. Hamer wondered why cancer never seems
to systematically spread directly from one organ to the surrounding tissue. For
example, he never found cancer of the cervix AND the uterus 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, a conflict that had never been fully resolved.
After having examined 20,000 cancer
patients with all types of cancer, Dr. Hamer has come up with some
revolutionary information. X-rays taken of the brain by Dr. Hamer showed in all
cases a "dark shadow" somewhere 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 the dark spot in the brain, the location of
the cancer and the specific type of unresolved conflict.
On the basis of these findings, Dr. Hamer
suggests that when we are in a stressful conflict that is not resolved, the
emotional reflex center in the brain which corresponds to the experienced
emotion (e.g., anger, frustration or grief), will slowly break down. Each of
these emotion centers are connected to a specific organ. When a center breaks
down, it will start sending wrong information to the organ it controls,
resulting in the formation of deformed cells in the tissues: cancer cells.
Dr. Hamer started including psychotherapy
as an important part of the healing process and found that when the specific
conflict was resolved, the cancer immediately stopped growing at a cellular
level. The dark spot in the brain started to disappear. X-rays of the brain now
showed a healing edema around the damaged emotional center as the brain tissue
began to repair the afflicted point. There was once again normal communication
between brain and body. A similar healing edema could also be seen around the
now inactive cancer tissue. Eventually, the cancer would become encapsulated,
discharged or dealt with by the natural action of the body. Diseased tissue
would disappear and normal tissue would then again appear.
Recent research in Germany, Austria,
France, USA and Denmark has confirmed Dr. Hamer's findings; that emotional
conflicts create cancer, and solving the conflicts in question stops the cancer
growth.
Dr. Hamer is now co-operating with 100
French doctors who have formed an organization to work with his theory, and
they are finding the same correlation between emotional conflict, brain
function and cellular changes in the corresponding organs. These doctors are
using psychotherapy as a major part of the healing process, and they claim a
remission rate of 97%.
Their understanding is that cancer patients
seem to be people who do not know how to share their thoughts, emotions, fears
and joys with other people. They call this 'psycho-emotional
isolation' These people tend to hide away sadness and grief behind a brave
face, appear 'nice' and avoid open conflict. Some are not even aware
of their emotions, and are therefore not only isolated from other people, but
also from themselves. If we live our life in emotional isolation, our emotional
centers will be under constant stress. If we then add a major conflict which we
are not able to resolve, and which we may not even be quite conscious of, then
emotional centers of our brain are in danger of breaking down.
We all experience 'emotional
isolation', more or less. We live in a society where we want to interact
with other people in a way we have been brought up to regard as considerate.
There are limits to what we feel we can say and do. We often even censure what
we allow ourselves to think and feel. Having to change these lifestyle facts
does not necessarily mean that we need to go out and hit our neighbor or cry
in front of our friends. It is a question of how we can change our emotional
patterns without creating even greater conflicts for ourselves.
From his personal experience--he himself
has had cancer--and from those patients he took care of in many university
clinics, Dr. HAMER established over the years that there is always a definite
syndrome at the source of cancer, and not just a kind of stress. It requires a
strong stimulus, a brutal psychic trauma, which hits the patient as a major
event in his life, an acute dramatic conflict, lived in a complete psychic
isolation. This initial syndrome, which he discovered and carefully verified in
each of the thousands of cases he has examined until now, he called DIRK HAMER
SYNDROME (DHS), from his son's name, Dirk, whose tragic death in 1978
originated his own cancer.The experience of those thousands of
individual cases diagnosed and treated in the last years, allowed him to bring
out constants and formulate a law, always checked precisely, the Iron Law of
Cancer, which has never been contradicted. This law, whose Dirk Hamer Syndrome
is the main piece, the keystone, states as follows:
1. Any cancer starts with a DHS, that is to
say, an extremely brutal shock, a dramatic and acute conflict, experienced in
loneliness and sensed by the patient as the most serious he has ever known.
2. It is the subjective meaning of the
conflict, the way the patient experienced it at the moment of the DHS, its coloring, which determines:
a) the Hamer focus, that is, the specific
area of the brain, which, under the influence of the psychic trauma, suffers a
breakdown and thus induces an ill-proliferation of cells (cancer) in the organ
dependent on this short circuited cerebral area;
b) the location of the cancer in the
organism.
3. There is exact correlation between the
evolution of the conflict and the evolution of the cancer on a double level:
cerebral and organic.
It can take time to make even small changes
in our habits. The important thing is that we can start healing from the moment
we have understanding of our emotional conflicts so we can start acting, even
if this action if merely to start talking to somebody -- a friend, partner or
professional. In this way, we break the loneliness of our isolation, and the
pressure is taken off the emotional centres in our brain.
Cancer patients who choose psychosomatic
therapy-- whether professionally or with a good friend--are different from
most other patients. They are not 'just' being treated by others, but play
an active part in resolving how and why the disease occurred. The word
'patient' becomes redundant, and they enter into active co-treatment
of themselves.
It is not a question of trying to follow
some ideal way of living, based on other people's experiences. Each one of us
must find our OWN solution -- a lifestyle that works for US. We become sick in
OUR OWN way -- and we must heal in our own way."
