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 […]

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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 nothing to help me prevent this and no disrespect to the medical industry. Their trauma treatment is fantastic. I probably wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for them. But, so many great teachers out there are explaining how thoughts and emotions are now proven by science to become interactive with our physiology in a good way and a bad way.   

Yes and that is due to a few different things that are now widely known. Negative thoughts and emotions can weaken our immune system, when you’re stressed your body reacts to that stress…however, when you’re upbeat and positive your body reacts to that too — plus you just make better decisions on an average daily basis. According to Paul his problem was that he was living in a state of chronic negative emotion. 

Paul Broderick – Now we can call that stress and I do write about this in the book. So, if anything more negative than frustration says I am negatively affecting my physiology. These are known as diseases of inflammation and we have reams, lists of conditions people present to the doctors with, then if I’m able to switch that in any moment, instead of being annoyed or frustrated or angry or any negative emotion whether it’s momentary or chronically if i switch that to just a tiny few degrees in another direction I’m allowing by body to repair and its natural how all of our bodies in our cells – each individual cell, it wants to  live and grow and when we get out of our way with our negative self-talk an our negative beliefs and hatred in our dislike of this and that judgement and criticism of all the things then our body can naturally do what it naturally does. We can live much longer than we do. 

So, is the glass half full or half empty? What kind of person are you?  “Caner Mentality” asks a number of other questions like; What role does stress play in overall health? How can you look at wellness differently, to reclaim control of your health? What are the pros and cons of chemotherapy? Why is it so important to have a peaceful mind, to understand beliefs, to practice gratitude and have positive thoughts? He also shares his firm belief that healing depends on the attitude you bring to whatever you’re experiencing…at least that’s what worked for him. 

Paul Broderick – I got out of the way. I realized that I could put into practice many of the things that I already knew. I just looked at more detail on how to do that  and this book came about because I couldn’t see anyone else translating these wonderful teachers and all of this wonderful information about how science is showing that our thoughts become physiology changes. 

I’m one of those people who really hates to take medicine or be a slave to a daily regimen of pills. Every time I break down and go to the doctor I’m reminded that the thing that drove me there was stress related. Maybe I’ve just been lucky in that sense but our body really does have an amazing ability to heal itself under the right circumstances. Modern science is showing more and more how we can and should take charge of our health. 

Paul Broderick – I don’t mean to seem all angelic or whatever about it but it’s such an awesome experience to realize that I don’t need to be combative about the way i see the world and its nothing, our neighbors people in traffic, nothing needs to be argued against, fought against, conflicted. We can just free ourselves from all of it and not end up with cancer.  

Our emotions and beliefs can create our reality and influence our health. Do you believe that or are you still skeptical? You can follow Paul’s progress and learn more about him by visiting his website, PaulBrodrick.com where you can get his book or read an excerpt or send him an e-mail. I’m sure he would love to hear from you. 

Paul Broderick – Look I know that it just touches everybody this material just touches people every time I talk about it so I’m excited to be part of anybody, any individuals change. 

Cancer Mentality. The Cure for Cancer is in the Mind – Heal your Attitudes and Beliefs by Paul Broderick. There are links to his site and other places to get the book in the show’s description. And that will do it for this edition of Newsgram from Webtalkradio.com. 

Listen to the full interview with Paul on the Books on Air podcast. 

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