And Only Four Involve The Physical Body!
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Summary: This article explores the work of Dr Kelly Turner, who has identified nine key factors that are key to healing cancer. After outlining what these factors are, the author argues that these factors are likely to be required for healing the body from any condition.
Diabetes Resulting From A Lack of Emotional Expression
Whilst burying my nose in books and various other sources on diabetes and/or healing, I came across the PhD thesis of Kelly Turner [1].
This amazing piece of work sought to find an explanation for people who had spontaneously healed from cancer, after they had been given a terminal diagnosis or had stopped medical treatment.
This healer’s ideas sound quite bizarre to the mind of Western medicine, where the body is treated by the doctor and the mind is treated by the psychologist or psychotherapist.
However, the neuroscientist Candace Pert has beautifully demonstrated the intricate links between the physical and emotional system and particularly insulin’s starring role in this process (see my post on Candace Pert’s work here). Diabetes resulting from a lack of emotional expression doesn’t sound so ‘alternative’ anymore. I know that, in my life, I can struggle to express myself. I often withdraw from confrontation or do not speak my whole truth. Having had diabetes for a long time, I have had more than a few times when I have had to ‘suck it up’ to get through medical treatments.
If Lack of Emotional Expression Has Caused (Or Contributed) To My Type 1 Diabetes, How Do I Reverse It?
Kelly Turner’s inspirational work doesn’t stop there. Having conducted numerous interviews with people who spontaneously healed from cancer, Kelly Turner [2] found that they all shared a series of factors that they felt contributed to their healing. She outlines these nine factors in her New York Times bestselling book ‘Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds’ (a book I highly recommend reading!).
Kelly Turner’s 9 main key healing factors, plus two that she states may be potential factors in the introduction to her book, are:
Kelly Turner’s 9 Key Factors For Healing:
- Radically Changing Your Diet
- Using Herbs and Supplements
- Taking Control of Your Health
- Releasing Suppressed Emotions
- Promoting Positive Emotions
- Embracing Social Support
- Deepening Your Spiritual Connection
- Following Your Intuition
- Having A Strong Reason For Living
Kelly Turner’s Possible Additional Two Factors For Healing (Still To Be Researched):
- Exercise
- Energy Healing e.g. Reiki, Qi Gong
Applying The 9 Key Factors to T1D
1. The Healing Factors Did Not Appear To Be Specific To Cancer
Since these factors did not seem specifically tailored to cancer treatment, I wonder if these may be factors that are general to healing the human body, not just cancer.
2. Only four of the factors directly involve the physical body
‘Radically changing your diet‘, ‘Using herbs and supplements‘, ‘Taking Control of Your Health‘, and ‘Exercise‘ concern the physical body. The other seven factors concern mental, emotional or spiritual interventions. This shows to me that healing T1D cannot just involve the body. I must widen my remit to include the mind and spirituality too.
My Route Forward…
Having made the assumption (which also feels intuitively correct) that these 9 key factors are responsible for healing the human body, I am using them as the basis for my healing plan going forward.
There is an obvious revision that I need to make to the factor ‘Having a Strong Reason For Living‘. Unlike people with terminal cancer, I am not at-risk of an imminent death. Therefore, this factor appears a bit irrelevant to my healing. I am going to change this factor to ‘Having A Strong Reason For Healing’.
I hope that using these factors will produce a more hospitable environment in which my new beta cells can grow (or my delta cells can transform back into beta cells!).
However, I am also open to these factors changing or adapting as my work progresses. Perhaps there are differences between healing cancer and healing T1D that I do not yet know. However, these factors seem like a good place to start.
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Natalie is a blogger with Type 1 Diabetes. Natalie's special gifts are questioning the status quo and being a rebel. She is using these gifts to question medical 'knowledge' and find a true cure for Type 1 Diabetes.
