Yoga for Cancer

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I wanted to share this with everyone. I did yoga while I had cancer until I became too sick to move. In addition to physical and emotional well being, yoga is very oxygenating. And oxygen does kill cancer cells. So oxygenate, or just get some very relaxing physical fitness!

 

I don't have the direct link, but if anyone would like to read more on this, do a search for Yoga Journal Daily and you'll find it.

 

Blessings, Renee

 

 

Healing Yoga: Yoga for Cancer

While it's not a cure for cancer, yoga enhances physical and emotional wellness — and brings a peace many patients had thought they'd lost forever. Healing requires a slowing down, a relaxation of tension — both the tightness and holding of the body, and the mind's incessant worrying and thinking ahead to dreadful possibilities. But this seems an almost impossible task. While acute stress has the effect of stimulating the cells that protect our system (if attacked by a lion, we would experience a very high level of tension and attendant physical changes that would promote our chances for survival), chronic stress — the kind of daily worry and pressure that a cancer patient typically experiences — markedly depresses the function of the natural "killer cells" that protect, thus leaving us even more vulnerable to our disease. The growth of tumors and other cancer indicators have all been shown to be exacerbated by stress. Most of us are so used to being tense that we are not even conscious of our tightness. If cancer is detected in your body, the news itself raises your anxiety level tremendously. Then, in quick succession, you prepare to undergo surgery and are given a debilitating course of chemotherapy and/or radiation. What could be more frightening? How are we to relax in the midst of the most stressful thing that has ever happened to us? How can we bypass the anxiety and despair that cause us to tighten up and turn away from life, and learn to recognize and pursue more positive possibilities?

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