CANCER: CHANGING HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENTS AND ATMOSPHERE

Food for Life

The typical hospital food is often devitalized, lifeless and lacking in life-giving nutrients. Dieticians in hospitals follow their education, providing for patients a diet that falls into the ‘balanced food chart’ category. Often the food served in hospitals is a combination of overcooked vegetables, red meats filled with antibiotics, jelly, sugar-filled cordials, frozen fish, white processed bread, margarine, full-fat dairy products and sugary desserts. How is a person meant to heal rapidly and efficiently on such a devitalized diet, lacking in healing life-giving nutrients? The lack of quality in hospital food that is given to patients never ceases to amaze me.

I suggest asking friends and family to bring in salads, wholemeal bread, grilled ocean fish, fresh fruits and vegetables, herbal tea bags and your own juicer. If you wish to speed up your recovery, a healthy nutrient packed diet is the major key! Don’t forget the benefit of balanced nutritional supplements to add extra impact to your healing potential.

Healthy Connections

As human beings we are social creatures by nature, as well as solitary beings. We thrive on fulfilling relationships and connections with other beings including humans, plants and animals. If we are isolated and cut off from others, we tend to lose our vitality. Try to consciously open yourself to other people and express how you are really feeling -that is, if you are ready for this. Establish healthy relationships while in the hospital with other patients, staff and friends who visit you. Many nurses are wonderful listeners and caring souls who are willing to listen to your thoughts and feelings.

Don’t block yourself off from the nurturing energy of human compassion and understanding. Often we try not to upset loved ones by expressing negative feelings while in hospital. I recommend the opposite. Your loved ones are most likely in a stronger position than you at the moment – let them carry some of your emotional burden. Recovery is faster if you are given a chance to express your fears and apprehensions. Get them off your chest; this is the initial step to healing. Surround yourself with caring souls who are there to encourage your healing. Remove any people who may hinder your recovery to perfect health.

Many hospitals and aged care homes are now allowing ‘special dogs’ with calm temperaments to enter them. What a wonderful idea, as dogs are unconditionally loving creatures with the ability to bring new life, love and nurturing into people’s lives. They give a person who is ill something to look forward to and a new ray of inspiration to increase one’s fighting spirit. If we have something wonderful to live for, our mind is taken away from the possibility of dying and driven towards the hope and desire of living.

Television Trauma

Television can be a great distraction. It is often placed in hospitals as a form of entertainment. It can be useful in distracting the mind from thinking about your present illness, as the attention is taken away from your physical body, slightly decreasing the pain and physical suffering. However, it also limits you from exploring the deeper purpose and cause of your cancer or other illness, which can be easily accomplished without distractions. Having cancer is an opportunity to resolve inner conflicts, emotional trauma and fears and requires attention to be able to resolve these issues and beat your cancer.

Television decreases the body’s full breathing cycle and places the nervous system in a constant state of fear, excitement, anger and other jittery emotions. These feelings are fine if experienced naturally, but if over-stimulated through television drama and suspense they tend to interfere with normal digestive and immune functions. Television often has a negative influence on recovery time. If you plan to watch television while in hospital, watch programs that make you laugh, add sunshine to your day and make you feel much more positive.

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