The Fabric of Health: Pain, Cancer & Personal Relations

By John W. Cardano

The Fabric of Health shares John’s discovery journey from misery to a quality life.

While medical assistance is valuable, personal involvement is essential. We can understand how body, mind, emotions and spirit weave together a full satisfying life.

 

Breath is essential for life. John learn

• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: Nov 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781948262422

John W. Cardano

About John W. Cardano: Pain & Cancer set and kept John on a quest toward health. Our inner resources gift us with strength and nurturance. Mindful participation in our life allows powerful changes. An aware presence, combined with intentional behavior, makes a difference in creating a life we intend. Genetics confirms this.

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The Fabric of Health

JOHN W. CARDANO

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Pain, Cancer & Personal Relations

Copyright © 2006, 2015, 2017 by Beach Rose Society.

Paperback: 978-1-948262-41-5

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*Names of people in Chapter 2 The Siege were changed.

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Dear reader:

The information in this book is not intended as a replacement for medical services, nor is it intended as a substitute for any treatment prescribed by your physician.

Credits:

Cover art:

Bioenergetic-art, by Henry F. Mende

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to so many people who generously opened their hearts and minds to assist me in the evolution and publication of this book. Many of them appeared in my life just when I most needed the particular support or encouragement they could provide.

Nicole Cardano, Ursula Flurer, Peter S. Barry, Howard Eggers, John Carroll, Marilyn Cardano, William Y. Christie, Machelle LaHaye, Richard Guilmette, Jody Decaro Fitzgerald, Christopher Brian Curren, Venita Robertson, Anne Simpkinson, Hob Calhoun, Sandy Clothier, Henry F. Mende, Theresa Cardano, John Fitzpatrick, Suzanne Berger, Betty Haynes, Skip Brach, Judith Brown, Peter Elliot, James E. Payne, Renette Saunders, Toby Martin, Mary Ann Weidner, Betsy Bess, Richard Grossinger, Barbara Kowalska, Don Ferrarone, Reiner Lubge and Hazel Apilado.

My deepest thanks to you all.

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction

2. The Siege

3. Child/Teacher

4. A Call to Awareness

Poem: Transforming

5. A Fabric

6. An Energy Being

7. Breath

8. Emotional Continuum

Poem: Being Present

9. Meditation

Poem: Calm

10. A Pivot

11. The Weaver

Poem: My Path

12. The Time is Now

13. Humor

14. Our Adventure

15. Potential

Nature’s Beauty

Reflects Our Potential

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Preface

A soft embrace warmed me, aah, soul comfort. I felt my tension diminish, as I drew gentle support from within. Then, a full satisfying breath filled, reassured, and strengthened me. My tender self care eased my situation, allowing me to find my composure.

Health is a personal matter. Depending on health issues, all manner of medical services may assist, yet the stricken person is central to finding wellness. Our personal relating with our self can open potentials deep within our being. Strength and nurturance are both present within us, able to lift us out of difficult places. These innate resources, especially in serious health conditions allow attitude, personal awareness, conscious choice and persistence to enable important changes to happen.

Throughout history, health treatments have been theorized and implemented with differing degrees of success. Medical systems and health modalities rely on specialized experts trained in a healing science or art. Results vary. A good outcome has the best chances if the patient participates, follows through on improved ways of living, and honors intuitive insights regarding their life style. Personal involvement is important.

Our DNA is responsible for every person being unique while similar. Genetics plays a part in what health issues may affect our lives. We inherit a specific set of genes that provide each of us with unique potential, as well as proclivities for health issues. Until a couple of years ago, science taught that these genes determine our lives and only lucky individuals escaped their genetically orchestrated misfortunes.

Genetics has proven we don’t have a fixed destiny. Our genes do have a certain level of propensity for us to experience issues of our forebears. However, medical science now understands and states that how we live our life is important.

When we live in a manner that respects how we feel, our bodies produce different chemicals to stimulate our genes and our cells than when we push through our life agenda without regard to our feelings or self knowing. Such as when we consider a change in our schedule to accommodate ways to improve our health. We may intuit to go for a walk, and go for a walk, rather than insisting that there is too much to get done, in this way, we support our wellbeing. Mindful presence has many benefits both immediate and long term.

Genes contain the impulse for us to live our life along an ancestral pattern. Those same genes can easily be changed by a simple choice to live and act in accordance with our awareness of how to be in that moment.

We are a microcosm of life. Masculine, feminine, child, adult, innocence, and malevolence are within our genetic makeup. That we are a microcosm of life gives us a potential to draw upon our innate understanding, and act in a manner that supports aware choice. In an event, if we can be calm, we are able to understand our position and respond accordingly.

The ability to be calm or other emotions affect our lives with considerable force. A continuum of emotional possibilities reside within the fabric of our being. Harmony or disharmony of emotions generate vastly different experiences in our lives. Confusion, anger, impatience - oh, so many disharmonies can disrupt our potential.

Clear, patient, respectful, intentional choice of how to respond to the current moment is a healthful satisfying way to live. This is a simple act that changes our inner environment, and, opens new potentials for our life.

How we behave within our self has powerful effects on our life. Our mindful relationship with how we choose to be during the moments of each second, minute, day, and season of life is powerful in guiding our development.

The University of Utah genetic science learning center states: as an organism grows and develops, carefully orchestrated chemical reactions activate and deactivate parts of the genome (the complete set of genes in a cell or organism) at strategic times and in specific locations. Epigenetics is the study of these chemical reactions and the factors that influence them. The epigenome, a network of chemical compounds surrounding DNA that modify the genome without altering the DNA sequences and have a role in determining which genes are active in a particular cell, dynamically responds to the environment. Stress, diet, behavior, toxins, and other factors regulate gene expression.

Behavioral options are always available. It takes time for health issues to form. It also takes time to grow healthfully. An aware presence, combined with intentional behavior, makes a difference in creating a life we intend instead of a life reacting to whatever happens. Persistent awareness of how I feel: am I patient with me, do I enjoy the choice I am experiencing now or yesterday, builds clarity.

As I continue to observe how I feel about such things, clarity about me and my choices grows. Clarity empowers my intuitions, intentions, and actions. My personal relationship matures.

This understanding of how we can create our lives is not new. What is new is that science now confirms our ability to develop our lives by our behavior through a consciously aware life style. Our lives change our genes. - Sharon Moalem, MD, Phd.

My own journey in this area began as I experienced a deficiency of medically effective treatments for some of my health needs. Neither chronic pain, PTSD, nor troubling post surgery conditions have an effective medical answer. Insights from alternative health modalities opened opportunities for me to explore my personal ability to change these issues.

There is no place to hide or escape chronic health issues, we do have to deal with them. I came to believe that such issues are a call to awareness of the need to address my relationships within myself. Using breath, patience, trusting intuition, intentional activity, and assistance from others, I have changed my health situation for the better.

All of these subtle actions modify my personal environment (both inner & near), and affect my genetic expression. Conscious aware gentle support of my self during a current moment of on going events is powerful formative action.

The evolving recognition in our medical community of the value of an individual’s meaningful participation, when possible, brings new respect and potentials for patients, and, all of us. Each of us can become more aware of how we feel, and communicate more clearly as we determine how to participate with health services.

In June, 2007 I learned that I had bladder cancer, stage 3. The medical advice was to immediately undergo a course of chemo therapy and then surgery to remove the bladder and all potentially compromised tissue and glands.

After talking with oncology, I decided to slow things down. While the issue of cancer spreading to more areas of the body is a powerful driving force to act quickly, it did not move me to do that. Quality of life has been and continues to be a large concern.

My experience from the previous 38 years of daily coping with acute pain from physical wounds, confusion from war, the effects of war’s chemical toxins, and a variety of phantom issues, led me not to begin chemo therapy. Effectiveness of that treatment was 0 to 15% success rate, and came with a high possibility of severe side effects.

In many ways the body is amazingly resilient. I believe that being cautious of damaging organs or removing parts is prudent.

For the next two years, I experimented with alternative diets and treatments. I continued to understand myself at deeper levels. All the while, pressure to give myself over to conventional medical treatment was substantial - family, friends, and doctors’ fears for my early death