Name: Spontaneous Recovery - The Body's Power to Heal from Cancer and Chronic Disease
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“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”   

Modern medicine has achieved remarkable results. Its ability to save people from ailments which

a mere generation ago would have led to an untimely death, borders on the miraculous.

But when it comes to chronic illness modern medicine has its limits. Sometimes the treatment

is worse than the disease. Sometimes the treatment only provides temporary relief from symptoms.

Sometimes there is no treatment. Fortunately, modern medicine does not possess a monopoly

on our ability to heal as the body possesses innate powers that can heal many chronic health

issues. In this video we explore the body's natural capacity to heal and look the role

self-transformation plays in promoting these healing abilities. 

“. . .health and illness are not random states in a particular body or body part.

They are, in fact, an expression of an entire life lived. . .”  

Our body is constantly at work healing itself. White blood cells clean out wounds and combat

infections, fibroblast cells create new tissue to repair ruptures to our skin and flesh,

new bone cells are created to fuse fractures, and the immune system can identify and neutralize

all sorts of harmful pathogens. But the body can do more than just heal from wounds, infections,

fractures, and viral and bacterial illnesses, it also has the ability to heal itself from

virtually all forms of chronic disease as is evidenced by the phenomenon of spontaneous

A spontaneous recovery occurs when an individual is unexpectedly cured from a disease in a

way that cannot be explained through the paradigm of modern medicine. Absent any intervention

by doctors, without surgery or pharmaceutical drugs, some people heal from cancer, heart

disease, multiple sclerosis, Chron's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and other forms of chronic

illness. For example, with regards to cancer, it is well-established that tumors can shrink

in size, or even disappear absent surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, or as was written

in the medical journal Oncology Letters: 

“. . .malignant tumors as well as metastases, of almost all histological types, can regress

spontaneously although certain histological types regress more frequently than others.”

   Sante Basso Ricci & Ugo Cerchiari, Spontaneous

regression of malignant tumors: Importance of the immune system and other factors

A spontaneous recovery does not necessarily occur suddenly, or without cause, rather as

Caryle Hirshberg and Marc Barasch explain in their book Remarkable Recovery: 

“The original meaning of the word “spontaneous” (derived from the Latin sponte, “of free

will”), has little to do with the suddenness, rapidity, or immediate change without cause

which contemporary usage implies. The word, the dictionary reveals, originally had more

to do with something occurring due to a “native internal proneness,” a tendency to “act

by its own impulse, energy or natural law.” It implies a natural process that arises from

within.”    Caryle Hirshberg & Marc Barasch, Remarkable

While only a small fraction of individuals with a chronic disease will spontaneously

recover, and while most spontaneous recoveries go unreported, there are still many cases

of this phenomenon documented in the medical literature. For example, in Mind Over Medicine

the physician Lissa Rankin points to a case of a man suffering from pancreatic cancer,

one of the most devastating forms of this disease. This man was scheduled for surgery,

but had a heart attack due to a presurgical procedure which forced delay of the surgery

“Within four weeks of his heart attack, while he was recovering from the cardiac event,

the symptoms and laboratory findings of his pancreatic cancer began to resolve. Four months

after the initial diagnosis, a CT scan revealed that his tumor had disappeared completely

– without surgery, chemotherapy, or any other cancer treatment. Four other case studies

in the medical literature report “spontaneous” remissions from inoperable pancreatic cancers.”

An article titled Notes on Spontaneous Regression of Cancer examines twelve cases of spontaneous

remissions and tries to understand what life changes may have led to these recoveries.

One of the most remarkable cases involved a patient with a grade four brain tumour: 

“Dr. Maurice Green, as an intern, observed the treatment of a physician with glioblastoma

multiform [grade 4 brain tumour]. The operation was unsuccessful. The patient, however, had

a regression rather than progression of symptoms... Eventually he left the hospital completely

well, indicating only that he felt differently about life after facing death ….”  

Charles Weinstock, Notes on spontaneous regression of cancer. Journal of the American Society

Examples of spontaneous recoveries are not limited to cancer; they span the spectrum

of chronic diseases, from cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases to neurological disorders,

blood disorders, and skin conditions. There is even the mysterious Lazarus phenomenon

which is the unassisted, or spontaneous recovery, from cardiac arrest after a patient has been

declared dead and all attempts at resuscitation have ended. 

If the body can bring itself back from the brink of death and cure itself from diseases

believed to be terminal, then its capacity for healing is far greater than most of us

realize. Our goal should be to harness this power to help us heal from chronic ailments

or to prevent their onset. For even if we turn to conventional medicine to treat whatever

ails us, when our body is optimized to heal the efficacy of such treatments will improve. 

Research into spontaneous recovery has yet to unveil a universal formula or specific

set of steps to unlock the body's vast healing potentials, as many factors influence this

capacity, and individual needs vary. Those who have studied numerous cases of spontaneous

recovery, however, suggest that there are recurring patterns and shared contributing

factors that offer potential insights into how we can prime our body to heal. 

On the one hand there are the physical factors that contribute to healing, these include

changes to diet, regular exercise, improving the quality of sleep, and the breaking of

addictions to drugs or alcohol. Factors related to the health of the body are crucially important

to our ability to heal. But there is a psychological factor that stands above these in rank of

importance, and this is the willingness to undergo a self-transformation. 

Self-transformation is critical to the process of physical healing for two main reasons.

Firstly, it is often only when we transform our sense of self that we develop the courage,

discipline, and desire to change the physical habits that are thwarting our ability to heal.

Secondly, self-transformation helps correct for the unhealthy patterns of thought, belief,

and emotion, that through the body-mind connection, keep us locked in a state of sickness. Many

of these thought and emotional patterns operate below the threshold of conscious awareness

and are the product of our conditioning, bit it an upbring in an unhealthy environment

or years of conforming to the sickness of modern society. If we free ourselves from

this conditioning through self-transformation, we free ourselves from the damaging physiological

responses that are dictated by our maladaptive thoughts, behaviours, and emotions.  

The literature on spontaneous recovery supports the assertion that self-transformation facilitates

healing, for example in the book Cured Jeffrey Rediger who examined hundred of cases of spontaneous

“People who experienced spontaneous healings disrupted the default mode, got out of that

rut, saw and experienced themselves in an entirely new way. . .”

Or as Caryle Hirshberg and Marc Barasch write in Remarkable Recovery: 

“. . .it has been noted by a number of researchers that extraordinary healing is often preceded

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