Cancer Mentality

Paul Brodrick found himself reassessing his life after having a bowel tumor removed five years ago. In this book, Cancer Mentality, he shares what it was like to be diagnosed with cancer, how he dealt with the fear of defective genes, and how he learned to choose his own prognosis for a cancer-free future. Welcome to this edition of Newsgram! We all want to live a long and happy life don’t we?  Of course we do. The problem is we are often driven by outside forces, the day-to-day influences on our life that seem to take precedence over our health — that is until it fails. Our guest today is Paul Broderick. Recently he had a complete change in his perspective on what it means to be healthy and how to live a good, long life. Paul Broderick (Tumor) I was living what I thought was a very healthy lifestyle; Very active, eating well, doing all the right things even thinking positively actually. and then when something hit the fan and I had a diagnosis of a three inch tumor and I needed to be operated upon quite soon after I just had to figure out what the heck was going on.  Paul Broderick is the  inquisitive type and it was his curiosity that inspired the writing of a book called “Cancer Mentality”. He took copious notes during his diagnosis and ordeal and is now sharing what he learned in “Cancer Mentality. The Cure for Cancer is in the Mind – Heal your Attitudes and Beliefs” it’s a title that requires a bit more explanation.  Paul Broderick – What we’re talking about now is placebo-nocebo. placebo basically says it can happen if we believe it and belief doesn’t mean an active belief even a subconscious belief nocebo is telling us that bad is going to happen and that’s what doctors are doing with such a prognosis. We can believe a diagnosis but don’t need to choose or believe the prognosis and that’s the essence of my book is that I discovered how to choose my prognosis and anybody can do that.  The power of positive thinking…you’ve heard that before but there’s a lot more to it than that. The mind is far more powerful and influential than we know. Now we are not saying that you can cure cancer with positivity but giving into it is not going to help either. Just know that anything is possible and you need to believe it.  With that in mind take a hard look at your life — that’s what Paul did. Paul Broderick – I realized by slowing my life down that I had actually been just paying lip service to all these wonderful metaphysical, new-age, spiritual ideas and in fact it’s a lovely notion that we create our own reality but in essence I wasn’t doing that work. I wasn’t meditating. I wasn’t quieting my mind. I wasn’t finding peace in my life. I was striving, working, chasing and as I write in great depth in the book I realize that I was living in fear. Everybody’s touched by cancer, you know, heart-attacks all sorts of dramatic illness. We all know somebody and so I realized that I had to stop, rethink, reinvent myself and actually start doing this work and I found it to be an enormous pleasure. Not hard work at all, it was an enormous pleasure.  Stop, rethink, reinvent and stay positive. If you stop listening now and do just that you’ll probably be on the right track but don’t stop listening yet because there’s more. Paul explains what drove him to this kind of thinking.  Paul Broderick – As I healed, as my body repaired from the surgery. I was obviously off work. I took time out and I really was searching for wholesome answers to this because I asked the medical industry. I asked the surgeon. I asked the oncologist. I asked the dietician and they had nothing for lifestyle change for me. They had