MINDFULNESS AND CANCER
NEURALGIC COMPLAINTS
You can get various complaints from the chemotherapy or radiation.
The complaints are caused by damage to the nervous system.
You can be extra sensitive to heat or cold or you feel it less.
You can have severe pain or feel no pain at all.
You can be extra sensitive to touch or feel less.
You can be extra sensitive to pressure or you feel less pressure
HAND FOOT SYNDROME
This can lead to hand foot syndrome.
It is most pronounced from the fingertips to the elbow or toetips to the knee.
The complaints can be: pain, tingling, numbness, hot, cold or itching.
And the strength may also be reduced.
UNEXPLAINED PAINS
Unexplained pains can sometimes occur.
The reason may be that somewhere in the course between the thumb and brain a nerve has been damaged, eg by radiation.
This can spontaneously send stimuli to the brain.
People then experience the pain in the thumb while there is nothing wrong there.
COMPLAINTS DUE TO OPERATION
Nerves can be damaged by an operation, eg in breast cancer, where the lymph nodes have been removed.
Skin nerves are cut through.
Three nerves can be seen here. Each nerve registers the sensation of a piece of skin.
There is an overlap of two nerves. If the median nerve is severed, you will not feel anything in a part of the skin, often the armpit. But in the part of the overlap, the feeling is disturbed. More/less pain/feeling/cold/touch.
PAIN REINFORCED
The cancer or the complications of the treatment cause pain or other complaints.
These can be increased by tense muscles, too fast breathing and heart rate and an overactive nervous system.
Negative emotions, thinking patterns and behavior exacerbate the complaints even more.
ONLINE MINDFULNESS COURSE
On the online course you learn to reduce your complaints step by step. You learn how to relax your body and positively transform your emotions, thinking and behavior.
PAIN REDUCED BY MINDFULNESS
Through mindfulness you learn to relax your body, to positively transform your emotions, thinking patterns and behavior.
By training all these aspects, it is possible to reduce the complaints and hopefully solve them completely.
