Psychosomatic Causes of Cancerous Tumors

Medicine has not yet found a cure for cancer nor identified the cause of the disease. The illness affects people of any age, gender, and social status. Psychologists believe that the disease is related to behavior, mentality, worldview, and lifestyle of a person. Currently, there is no doubt that the basis lies in the psychosomatics of cancer.

Somatic Causes Contributing to the Development of Cancer

The ancient Roman philosopher and physician Claudius Galen linked the development of cancer to a person’s temperament. He found that people with a melancholic temperament are prone to cancer on a nervous basis. However, a single psychological profile of patients has not yet been identified. It is established that a strong, short-term emotional shock or prolonged stress becomes the trigger mechanism.

Common Causes of Cancer:

• Poor nutrition: fast food, fatty foods, pickles and smoked foods, semi-finished products, sweets. Abuse of alcohol and animal protein.
• Ultraviolet radiation: sunbathing, tanning salons, harmful production.
• Smoking. Leads to lung cancer, palate, larynx, and other respiratory organs.

An improper and dangerous lifestyle is closely linked to a person’s pessimistic mood. Usually, those indifferent to health and appearance are people who have “buried” themselves inside. The body promptly reacts to this with abnormal cell division, attacking itself.

Three groups of negative psychological factors, or three risk groups for oncological diseases, can be identified. Let’s examine them in more detail.

People with Depression

People prone to depression and having a learned helplessness syndrome. What is this? A person’s conviction in their inferiority, bad luck, inability to achieve success. Usually, the syndrome develops against the backdrop of a prolonged difficult life situation, which the person struggled with but consistently lost. Systematic failures make them resign and stop even trying to achieve a better life. Simply put, the person is so tired of fighting circumstances that they give up. This passivity extends to everything, even what they could obviously handle.

People with learned helplessness syndrome focus on the negative; they do not notice opportunities. If they see a possible way out of an unpleasant situation, they decide to leave everything as it is because of fear and past negative experiences. Depression and learned helplessness are accompanied by apathy, dissatisfaction, disappointment, resentment and anger at fate, despondency, a sense of helplessness. Due to emotional and psychophysiological fatigue, general immunity weakens. The person becomes vulnerable to diseases. All this turns into a basis for self-destruction.

Interesting! The connection between depression, learned helplessness, and oncology was experimentally proven in 1980 – 1982.

Emotionless People

The second risk group includes people accustomed to suppressing negative emotions and prohibiting positive experiences. Patients who allow themselves to be angry at the disease live longer, and the dynamics of treatment in their case are better. The ability to express negativity symbolizes the ability to fight. Silently swallowing unpleasant events indicates that the person has given up. They are indifferent to themselves and their life.

Interesting! Special attention deserves people with alexithymia. They do not understand their own or others’ emotions, cannot identify and express them in words. But this does not mean that they do not feel anything.

People without Family Support, Loss of a Significant Person

Having support gives confidence in the future. A person knows they can rely on someone in a difficult situation. If a person lives alone, the level of anxiety and stress is constantly high. Some individuals tend to imagine potential difficulties, fearing that if this happens, they won’t cope.

People with moral support from loved ones differ in positive thinking and optimism. They are more confident. Loneliness leads to introspection, constant replaying of unpleasant memories, negative thinking, a sense of worthlessness. A person without support is more likely to acquire harmful habits. And this is also one of the prerequisites for cancer.

Interesting! Men need moral support more than women, especially during illness.

Cancer Cause in Children

In children, cancer, from the point of view of esotericism and psychosomatics, indicates problems between parents. Causes of tumors: malicious intentions, evil thoughts, stresses, transmitted from parents. Another reason is the child’s dependence on the mother, the mother’s insincerity. Overall, the cause is the same as in adults: a deficit of positive emotions, an excess of negativity and disappointments in life. But in this case, the child is not to blame, but their parents.

Psychosomatics of Various Oncological Diseases

From the perspective of psychosomatics, patients with oncology have characteristics of psyche and personality such as:

• Workaholism;
• Perfectionism;
• Tendency to suppress emotions;
• Conflict-prone nature;
• Stubbornness;
• Inability to ask for help;
• Excessive self-confidence leading to failures, fatigue;
• Hyper-responsibility;
• Mistrustfulness;
• Tendency to dependencies or fixation on one person, job;
• Psychological rigidity;
• Weak adaptability;
• Painful detachment from the usual;
• Despondency, feeling of hopelessness;
• Habit of experiencing pain internally;
• Desire to isolate from society;
• Heightened sense of justice (some people suffer for themselves and others, getting angry at completely unrelated people).

The likelihood of developing cancer or exacerbating the course of the disease increases after the loss of a loved one. Such clients struggle with grief, but the situation is exacerbated by their introversion. As the psyche stops fighting life’s difficulties, so does the body in its fight against cancer.

Important! If a person concludes that they have achieved nothing in life, or decides that their efforts will be mocked and their feelings betrayed, they choose one of the ways of suicide – oncology. Cancer as a disease is the result of deep disappointment in oneself, life, and surroundings.

Cancer According to Louise Hay

Louise Hay is a living example of self-healing from cancer, mental struggle against the disease. She healed herself from uterine cancer and then dedicated her life to psychosomatics and helping others. She sees the cause of oncology in open psychological wounds and old grievances. Some grief or secret torments a person internally. The condition is exacerbated by feelings of hatred.

Louise Hay provides an explanation for each of the common types of cancer:

• Lung cancer signifies an inability to refuse, tendency to live for others. Engaging in unloved work, fulfilling others’ duties.
• Cancer of the female reproductive organs indicates relationship problems with men or old resentment towards a significant man, possibly a father.
• Psychosomatics of breast cancer: breast cancer results from loneliness and misunderstanding, excessive care for others.
• Stomach cancer (psychosomatics) – refusal of others’ help, inability to accept and digest a situation.
• Brain cancer – stubbornness, rigidity, selfishness.
• Liver cancer – worries about lack of money, status, wealth.
• Blood cancer – anger and resentment towards loved ones.
• Skin cancer – childhood grudge, feeling of vulnerability.
• Thyroid cancer – sensitivity and dependence on others’ opinions.
• Pancreatic cancer – conflict with relatives.
• Prostate cancer – relationship problems with women, betrayal, resentment, wounded male pride.
• Bladder cancer – desire for revenge.
• Rectal cancer – contempt for work, bitterness, disappointment.
• Tongue cancer – guilt, feeling that one’s own tongue ruined their life.

Healing affirmation: “I lovingly forgive and forget all the past. From now on, I fill my own world with joy. I love and approve of myself.”

Cancer According to V. Zhikarentsev

Zhikarentsev attributes psychological causes of cancer to prolonged resentment and indignation, old soul wounds. Also contributing are tendencies to introspection, fueling hatred and internal sorrow.

Healing affirmation: “I lovingly forgive and release everything related to the past. I choose a path for myself where I fill my world with joy and love. I love and approve of myself.”

Cancer According to Liz Bourbeau

The cause of cancer is rooted in childhood. To blame are old psychological traumas and negative emotions that a person carries throughout life. Possible childhood traumas:

• Trauma of being rejected and abandoned;
• Humiliations and punishments;
• Violence;
• Betrayal.

Often, there are several psychotraumas present simultaneously. Either way, the result is the same: a contradictory combination of hatred for one or both parents and love for them. Because of this, a person suppresses negative feelings (anger, resentment, hatred) to live in peace and harmony with parents. Some are angry not at their parents but at God, fate.

Negative emotions accumulate and intensify at the slightest reminder of psychotrauma. Eventually, the cup overflows, and the internal explosion of negativity turns into cancer. Any conflict can trigger the disease, appearing either immediately or after weeks or months.

What to do: it’s important to accept the past experience, acknowledge the difficult childhood, and allow oneself to be a happy person in the present. Allow yourself to be angry at your parents, hate them. This is the first step towards forgiveness. Forgive yourself for the hatred and desire for revenge. Anger is a normal human emotion. Talk about your feelings.

V. Sinelnikov

Valery Sinelnikov identifies such causes of cancer:

• Old grievances;
• Anger;
• Bitterness;
• Hatred and desire for revenge;
• Pride and arrogance;
• Guilt;
• Judgment and contempt;
• Need for punishment.

All this eats away at a person from the inside. For healing, it’s necessary to heal the soul wound, change one’s attitude to life, love oneself, and find one’s place in this world. In this case, there is both an internal and an external conflict, but the latter stems from the former. The person is not at peace with themselves, therefore they cannot build relationships with the world. But because of this, the individual becomes even more convinced of their worthlessness. It’s time to break the vicious cycle.

Plan for healing:

1. Accept responsibility for your life, illness, recovery.
2. Want to live. For this, determine why you should live.
3. Get rid of everything foreign and negative in your thinking. From now on, you live only for your own benefit, constantly purifying your mind and working on yourself.

You might need to change your job, circle of friends, and interests. Realize that the old lifestyle led you to illness. Keep awareness and move forward with it.

How to Defeat Cancer

It is essential to rediscover faith in oneself, the world, and the future. Feelings of hopelessness and despair are the main “worms” of cancer. It’s time to get rid of depression, feelings of helplessness, and resentment. It’s time to bring back the joy of life.

How to Cure

To heal from cancer, one must forgive grievances and get rid of guilt. Psychotherapy can help in this. The sessions should be focused on:

• Acknowledging negative emotions and oneself as the source of these emotions.
• Recognizing negative thinking as a cause of stress and cancer.
• Changing attitudes towards old memories and past experiences. Gestalt therapy, psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy can help.
• Forgiving oneself, life, other people. Affirmations, prayers, the method of an unsent letter, and other psychological techniques can help (selected individually with a psychotherapist).
• Learning techniques for self-regulation and self-control of emotions, behavior, and mental reactions.
• Finding a favorite activity, hobby, job.
• Self-discovery and creating a life plan for oneself.
• Changing the attitude towards life, defining its meaning and purpose.

Important! Cancer is a psychosomatic disease. The fight against it should be comprehensive: chemotherapy, psychotherapy, self-healing, lifestyle correction, and support from loved ones. Only the combination of all these elements can lead to stable remission.

The Importance of Psychotherapy in Cancer Treatment

Psychological support is vitally important for cancer patients. It’s necessary not only to heal wounds but also to support the client on the path to recovery and afterwards. The lack of moral support is one of the predisposing factors for cancer.

The problem is that communication with healthy people and doctors can have the opposite effect – irritating the client. Therefore, group psychotherapy sessions are recommended. Patients should support each other. Who else will understand them as well? Communication in the group helps accept the illness and teaches to assess the condition adequately.

The patient’s family should also participate in the treatment. For this, family psychotherapy sessions are conducted. Family members must learn to understand and support the patient. And he must learn to trust and sincerely express his feelings.

Prevention

For cancer prevention and maintaining remission, it is important to fill life with bright colors. Laughter, positivity, and kindness are the best means of strengthening overall immunity and boosting the body’s defense mechanisms. Think about what you want, can, and should do to be happy.