COPING WITH CANCER

A diagnosis of cancer brings the subject of death suddenly to the foreground. Even after cancer treatment the future can remain uncertain. Regaining your balance is not easy. The person diagnosed with cancer will go through a series of emotions, which can have a big effect on them. Bach Flower Essences help you go through this journey in a calm and balanced way.

HEALING PROCESS OF CANCER:

· Fear

Once cancer has been diagnosed a person can be constantly anxious about what the future may bring. This can be managed during the day, but in the evening when you are on your own this fear can upset you a lot. This can even cause panic and loss of self-control. Bach Flower Essences support by bringing peace, tranquillity and confidence.

· Bitter

Cancer comes unexpected. Sometimes it seems unjust and you wonder why this is happening to you. Resentment and bitterness can take control over you. Bach Flower Essences will replace this bitterness into a process of acceptance.

· Guilt feelings

Sometimes you might feel guilty towards your partner and children. Often when a person has cancer he/she will become a burden for others and lots will change in the normal daily routines of the rest of the family members. Flower essences will make sure you don’t overburden yourself with unnecessary guilt feelings.

· Sorrow

Cancer means saying goodbye to carelessness, work, vitality, a healthy body and unconcernedness. It also stands for saying goodbye to a certain lifestyle i.e. on occasion you can’t eat everything anymore or you can’t do certain sports. Friends that have deserted you now that you have cancer or have to change your lifestyle. All of this can cause a lot of pain and sadness. Bach Flower Essences can diminish this pain and sorrow so that the sorrow can be dealt with much easier.

· Body acceptance

The body can get put through the test because of the cancer and its treatment with some surgical procedures deforming a certain part of the body. This causes a person to feel unattractive and embarrassed about their body. Sometimes it is hard to let another person come near when you dislikes your own body so much. Bach Flower Essences help you accept your new look and accept your body for what it is.

· Irritability

The spirits of a person suffering from cancer can change very drastically. For example from being a social friendly person to becoming a bitter, touchy person. Close friends and family will often be the ones who experience the cancer patients’ displeasures. Lots of things will annoy the person suffering from cancer and this might not always be expressed in the nicest way. Flower essences will provide more balanced spirits and a better tolerance towards the people surrounding them.

· Angry and upset

Cancer sufferers can sometimes lash out and get very angry or upset without any apparent cause. This often occurs more and with more intensity than the person was use to in the past. Because it is inappropriate this anger will be suppressed and without warning surface and be aimed at possibly an innocent bystander. This anger and the fits of anger, that are part of the process of dealing with cancer, can best be controlled through Bach Flower Essences. They will help the person be in control and not suffer so much from these negative feelings.

BACH FLOWER ESSENCES COMBINATION N° 59 “CANCER”

Bach Flower Essences combination n° 59 helps to:
· Deal with the diagnosis of “cancer”.
· Temper anger.
· Be more tolerant and less irritable.
· Make the constant fears of relapse more bearable.
· Deal with sorrow.
· Take away the guilt feelings.
· Accept your new body.
· Not become bitter.