| There has been much interest recently in the | | | | If for example, the shock of having a breast |
| developments around new medication for breast | | | | amputated (a disfigurement conflict) was not dealt |
| cancer. Perhaps though there is a simpler, cheaper | | | | with it can lead to skin cancer on the surgical scars. A |
| and more effective way to prevent re occurrence. | | | | deep self-devaluation conflict (I am less than I was |
| Dr R. G. Hamer from Germany claims that through his | | | | before) can cause bone cancer or affect the lymph |
| 20 years of research with over 31,000 patients he | | | | nodes. The shock from discovering the cancer has |
| has discovered patterns of emotional shock that can | | | | spread can lead to a death fright conflict resulting in |
| accurately predict the type, and location of, a cancer | | | | lung cancer. |
| someone is likely to develop. | | | | Dr. Hamer firmly believes that if the conflict is |
| He discovered after years of study that a right | | | | resolved, the cancerous or necrotic process is |
| handed woman can develop left breast cancer if she | | | | reversed to repair the damage and return the |
| has an unresolved mother-child conflict or a | | | | individual to health. This would also support the belief, |
| daughter-mother conflict or is likely to develop right | | | | observations and experiences of those such as |
| breast cancer if she has unresolved partner conflicts. | | | | Louise Hay, (who claims to have healed herself from |
| (Partners can include her husband, a friend, a brother | | | | cancer and assisted many others in doing the same), |
| or sister, her father, or even her business partner. | | | | Bernie S Siegel MD (author of 'Love, Medicine & |
| The opposite breast will be affected in a left handed | | | | Miracles'), and Leon Jay (an Auckland based Emotional |
| woman. | | | | Release Therapist). |
| How does metastasis fit into all of this? Well in Dr | | | | Leon, who sees this pattern in many of his clients, |
| Hamer's view there is no such thing. While it is true | | | | says that 'while we are unable to say for sure that |
| that women often go on to develop further cancers | | | | emotional release of past traumas will prevent cancer |
| such as in the bone, lung or brain, it is his belief that | | | | from returning, I believe it to be one of the most |
| these come from subsequent shocks, not directly | | | | important components to any cancer treatment. Each |
| from the original cancer. There is in fact little or no | | | | client is very different, yet the similarities in nature |
| evidence that cancer cells break off and spread as | | | | between the emotional trauma and the cancer type |
| commonly assumed. | | | | cannot be ignored'. |