THE LOVE CURE

for CANCER and other DISEASES

by Walter Last
Love may be the missing factor in the treatment of many diseases. With cancer, for
instance, psychological therapy has been shown to have a far greater success rate than
any other properly evaluated therapy. Fear has a major negative impact on cancer
patients. There is also a close relationship between fears often present subconsciously
and breathing problems as well as heart disease. Love is the opposite of fear.
Emotional and psychological factors may well be the main reason why various therapies
work with some patients but not with others. Releasing past emotional hurts and
resentments is definitely good and helpful with any kind of healing, but it may not be
enough if positive feelings remain missing. Therefore, the ideal is a holistic combination
of appropriate therapies on other levels with additional comprehensive emotional
therapy.
After many years of working and experimenting with a wide range of therapies, I have
come to the conclusion that some of the most important factors in restoring health and
wellbeing are the twins of love and joy. For our emotional body, regular doses of these
as well as other positive feelings, are as essential as vitamins are for the physical body,
otherwise we develop emotional deficiency symptoms which can eventually disable
physical functions. Most of us can remember a time when we were madly in love. Love,
then, was not just a mental concept, but also an actual bodily sensation and it made us
feel invincible. I believe that we really can become invincible in regard to disease by
learning to feel this way again and this time on a regular basis as a way of life.
Learning to Love Again
Obviously it is not possible to fall in love with someone on a regular basis, but it is
possible learning to experience the feeling of love as a conscious exercise. Love has
traditionally been associated with the heart. Of course, it is not really the heart muscle
itself that makes us feel love but rather an energy vortex or chakra in our aura that is
centred at the middle of the breastbone. In order to feel love and increase our capacity
to love we need to stimulate this heart centre by focusing our attention on it. Because of
the specific location of the heart centre, diseases in the chest area should respond most
readily to this therapy. This applies especially to breast cancer, which has a strong
emotional and relationship component.
For most of us, learning to feel love as a way of life does not come easy and requires a
commitment to an exercise program. It will be especially difficult for most males, while
many women may take to it quite naturally. In the following you will find some useful
exercises. Experiment and continue to practise those that you find best to generate a
feeling sensation in your body.
Feeling is an energy, and energy follows thought or consciousness. This means the
most basic requirement for activating our heart centre is to keep our attention focused
on it. Later, when it is easy for us to feel, we can just keep a small part of our attention
there while going about our daily business. You may find that it is very difficult to feel
anything when you are tired or otherwise low in energy.
Therefore, select a period of the day for these feeling exercises when you are
reasonably energetic or possibly energise yourself beforehand with some light physical
exercises combined with vigorous breathing in fresh air. Shaking all limbs and the whole
body, as well as aerobic dancing to lively music are especially suitable to energise
oneself. Another possibility is a slow walk in fresh air with eyes to the ground, as monks
may have done in a monastery garden.
Breathing into the Heart
Becoming conscious of our breath is one of the easiest ways to generate a feeling
sensation inside our body and to keep our attention focused. Sit, lie or walk quietly and
mentally follow your breath as it gently moves in and out. Breathe through the nose.
Become aware that the outflowing breath is somewhat warmer than the incoming
breath. After a while begin to pause for a second or two between inhalation and
exhalation. Feel a light pressure in the middle of your chest during this pause. When
you can distinctly feel it, focus again on feeling the warmth of the outgoing breath.
Now combine this warmth with the light pressure felt in the middle of the chest. This is
the location of the heart centre. Keep your attention focused on it and gradually try to
intensify the feeling of warmth and spread it all over the chest, but especially towards
the location of any health problem, such as a breast tumour. When you feel the warmth,
you can disregard the pressure. This warmth inside your chest is very pleasant and
makes you feel cosy, cared for and protected. Intensify any of these feelings if and
when you get them. Try to create them deliberately by using your imagination and
recalling other situations when you felt this way, possibly when relaxing in a warm bath
while listening to soft music. You may find that you can perceive feeling sensations
more easily and with greater intensity if you exhale very slowly and gently.
When you can do this exercise successfully, you can also use it to keep your attention
on the heart centre during your daily activities. You may quickly learn to keep part of
your attention focused inside you chest while performing routine tasks, although you are
likely to forget it during more demanding mental activities. That does not matter. If you
ask your subconscious mind to remind you to do the exercise whenever conveniently
possible, it will eventually oblige and may tell you a hundred times a day to focus again.
If you are somewhat tired it may even be easier to generate a feeling sensation during
activities rather than by lying down and closing your eyes, which may cause you to drift
off to sleep.
If it helps you to focus, you may also imagine your incoming breath being rose coloured
or bright green and you may see this colour intensify in the chest area with each
successive breath. Another possibility is to put one hand on the chest to feel a light
pressure or to press lightly with one or several fingers at the middle of the breastbone.
You may also experiment with a different breath imagination. Imagine your breath
moving through the middle of the breastbone. Again, feel the slight pressure and then
the developing warmth. For some, this exercise produces stronger sensations. When
you are somewhat tired it will be better to do these exercises with your eyes open and
possibly even while slowly moving or walking.
Feeling Love
After successfully practising the breathing exercise for some time, start experimenting
with the following suggestions to see which one suits you best. Eventually you may use
all of them at one time or another depending on arising opportunities.
It will be easier to feel a love sensation if one already is in a loving relationship, or as a
mother with a baby or as an animal lover with some puppies to care for. In this case you
may just look lovingly at the chosen object while doing the breathing exercise and you
may find it quite easy to convert the warmth in your chest into a feeling sensation of
love. If you are not so lucky, you may recall in your memory a time or incident when you
actually felt love. Vividly imagine this time and then intensify a sensation of love when it
arises. Then forget the actual incident and only hold fast to that feeling inside your
chest.
A further possibility is to look lovingly at something grand or beautiful. This may be a
tree, a flower, a picture, clouds, the sky or a person. Soak in the beauty and really
appreciate it. Then send that feeling of appreciation back to the adored object. All the
time keep focusing your attention on the breath in the chest centre and intensify any
arising positive feeling. You may do the same by listening to some soul-stirring music.
Eventually you can start feeling and sending a silent appreciation of love to anyone you
come in contact with and over a distance also to someone with whom you have a
disagreement or a past problem. When you tend to plants, watering, transplanting or
sowing, project onto them your feeling of love or appreciation. You can really do that
anytime at any activity. Your main problem will be to remind yourself again and again to
do it.
If you have difficulty generating a feeling sensation of love then try to feel compassion.
This is also centred in the heart area. Look at or imagine pictures of suffering
individuals. When you can feel and radiate compassion, try to change this to a feeling of
love or a combination of love and compassion.
A highly recommended exercise is as follows. Whenever you meet someone or think of
someone smile and silently say: "God bless you" while feeling a wave of love or
compassion radiating from your heart centre. Another exercise is to think of someone
and extend your arms with palms forward in the so-called Madonna gesture. Again,
smile and feel the love or compassion in your heart. During the day try to remember this
feeling of love in your heart and centre on it.
Feeling Joy
Joy is the twin of love in helping us to live a healthy and fulfilled life. As with love, it is
not easy to feel joyful as a real body sensation, especially if we do not have anything
special to be joyful about. As with love and compassion, joy may be felt in the heart
centre as a sensation of exuberance. However, a quieter form of joy close to bliss can
be felt at the forehead centre. This is related to the pituitary gland behind the middle of
the forehead. Concentrating on it during deep meditation can generate a feeling of bliss.
It can also be felt as a quiet kind of blissful joy when focusing on the pituitary gland or
forehead centre during a breathing exercise. For working with this and the other centres
mentioned in the following see The Chakra System in the article on Bio-energies.
As the breath does not flow into the brain, you imagine that the inhaled air is combined
with a life-force energy, also called prana or chi, which you can separate from the air
molecules and lead to any place in your body where you want to concentrate it. You do
this with your will; just imagine it being so, the prana flowing upwards from the nose into
the pituitary gland behind the forehead. If you can visualise colours, you may see the
forehead centre being filled with an indigo-coloured prana.
As with the breathing into the heart, first try to feel a light pressure partly due to the
focus of your attention and partly to the accumulating prana. Again try to feel warmth or
tingling during the slow and gentle exhalation. To focus on the correct point it helps
greatly if you close your eyes and turn them inward and upward as if looking into the
brain at a 45-degree angle. When you can easily do this, you may even be able to just
imagine looking upwards and inwards and feel a light pressure in the pituitary area while
you have your eyes open and are engaged in other activities.
When you are able to feel the pressure or warmth, start smiling inwardly and direct this
smile to the pituitary gland. As you keep smiling, you may gradually feel a sensation of
joy and happiness spreading from your head into your body. If you have already learned
to feel a love sensation in your heart centre, combine this love feeling with the joy
spreading from your head into a unified feeling of elation. The natural awakening of the
forehead centre is stimulated by using the 'mind's eye' as in creative visualisation and
imaginative and intuitive thinking.
Feeling Connected and Peaceful
We can learn to overcome the stresses of daily life and live instead in a condition of
profound inner peace by frequently focusing our attention at the top of our head. This
will be invaluable with all stress-related diseases and conditions and also helps to
energise the body in a pleasant way.
Relax, close your eyes and imagine a stream of white light entering the top of your
head. Try to feel as well as see it. However, feeling it is more important than only seeing
it. Again, it may help at first to focus on feeling a light pressure and warmth at the top of
the head, possibly aided by leading the breath prana to this point. As with previous
feeling exercises exhale very slowly and gently. Imagine feeling more and more
peaceful, a deep peace beginning to fill and surround your body and mind. In addition,
watch for a feeling of being connected to All That Is, to the Universe, to God, however
you want to call it. If you can feel or imagine feeling something like this, try to intensify
the feeling.
When you are able to feel the peace or connectedness during the exercise, you may
start focusing part of your attention on the top of your head and feel at peace during
your daily activities. Try also to keep part of your attention on the top of your head while
you try to feel the joy behind the forehead and the love at the heart centre. Alternatively,
focus in sequence on the top of the head, the forehead and the heart. Eventually, you
may even try to focus on all three simultaneously and feel peaceful, quietly joyful and
loving at the same time.
For another recommended exercise have a look at the picture of the 'Magic Presence' in
the Spirituality file. You may regard this as your Personal God Presence, also called I
Am Presence, Oversoul or Monad. By frequently focusing on this Presence, your
connection to it gradually becomes stronger which then leads to rapid spiritual
development. You cultivate this connection by generating a feeling of love or joy in your
heart and then sending it through the top of your head to your imaginary God presence.
Immediately you feel an even stronger energy of love, peace and protection entering
your crown centre from above and beginning to fill your head and your body. Do this as
often as you can.
The Throat Centre
The throat chakra is the centre for our creative expression. It also regulates the
functions of the thyroid and parathyroid glands. As with the other centres, you can
activate or balance it with breathing exercises that let you feel warmth and other
expressions of energy in the throat. However, The proper development of this centre, as
with all the other centres, depends on properly using it in daily life. This involves mainly
creative use of sounds such as speaking the truth and giving kind or helpful advice. The
opposite activities, such as gossipping, uninvited criticism and also not speaking out
due to resentment, greatly harm this centre.
Singing is very beneficial for this centre, also the chanting of mantras and especially the
OM or AUM sound. Such chanting or intonation is best done in a way that you can feel
the sound vibrations in parts of your head such as the lips, cheeks or ears or between
your upper and lower teeth.
The Solar Plexus
The abdominal area is a storage and dumping ground for resentments and other
unreleased and unprocessed emotions. Negative feelings, such as anger or fear
commonly arise from here as a reaction to past events. This may make us feel insecure
and vulnerable, a feeling that the outside world is hostile or dangerous and we have to
fight for what we want or to protect ourselves. Together with stress and other factors,
this can lead to diseases of the digestive system and also makes healing of such
diseases more difficult. This is especially a problem with cancer of these organs.
The solar plexus is a nerve centre behind the stomach and the seat of another
important feeling centre. Focusing on the solar plexus centre helps to make us feel
more radiant and powerful and, with this, safe and protected, we also 'have the guts' to
do what we need to do. To activate this centre breathe into it until you feel at first the
pressure and then the warmth spreading all through your abdomen. Intensify the
sensation of pleasant, relaxing warmth that makes you feel safe and protected.
Accumulating Breath Energy
To breathe into the abdomen or any other area where you cannot feel the breath
directly, imagine that the inhaled breath consists of two parts, the physical air molecules
as well as a breath energy or prana. During inhalation the lungs automatically separate
the breath energy from the air molecules. You only exhale the 'empty' air while the
prana flows to where you lead it with your conscious attention.
To energise the abdomen, you imagine and try to feel the energy moving directly into
the abdomen during inhalation. During exhalation you imagine that you press the
energy down so that it becomes compressed at the bottom of the abdomen or any other
organ that you want to energise. With each successive breath more compressed energy
accumulates until the target area feels sufficiently energised. You may feel this as
warmth, tingling, pressure or any other sensation.
If you can visualise colours, you may try to see the energy in a colour selected
according to the rules of colour therapy. To feel more energetic, for instance, you may
imagine a golden yellow and for pain relief or sedation blue. Alternatively, you may
visualise the colour that is typically associated with the main energy vortex of area in
question. For the top of the head this is violet or purple, for the forehead indigo, the
throat centre blue, the heart green, the solar plexus golden yellow, the sacral centre
orange and the base of the spine red.
Sexual Energy
The sacral energy centre is located between the navel and the pubic bone. It is weak or
distorted with all diseases of the lower abdomen or of the pelvic organs, mainly involved
with reproductive functions and elimination. You will be able to heal diseases of these
organs much better when activating and balancing this centre by sending it energy and
love. As for the solar plexus, you may do this by directly breathing into the lower
abdomen.
The typical feeling sensation of the sexual energy may be described as melting
orgasmic streamings in the lower abdomen. After you have activated the sacral centre
with the accumulating breath energy, you may be able to generate these orgasmic
streamings by gently and rhythmically squeezing your buttocks or better, contracting the
perineum. Try also to walk slowly with a relaxed, contemplative mind. With all of these
methods, focus your attention on any arising sensations in the sacral area and intensify
whatever you feel. Lead any sensations in the sexual organs into the lower abdomen.
The energy colour related to this area is orange.
If you have a sexual partner you may be able to generate these feelings by being
sexually connected for a long time but with only minimal activity, mainly of a caressing
nature. It is fine to remain connected with a soft penis. If the orgasmic feelings become
stronger, try to lead them upwards, spreading through the upper abdomen into the heart
area where you may feel them as love, which you may then beam back onto your
partner. For further information on sexual problems and sexual therapy see Sexuality as
well as Spiritual Sex.
The Base Centre
The centre at the base of the spine reflects our will to live, to be incarnated in the
present body. It also relates us to the earth energies, makes us feel grounded. Work on
this centre is required if we are losing the will to live. In addition to improving the mental,
emotional or biological conditions that led to this situation, we can bring this centre back
to health with activities that bring us in closer contact with the earth energies. Gardening
is well suited for this, walking barefoot, lying naked on the moist grass or dancing
barefoot on the grass or the beach, witnessing and admiring great natural events, such
as thunderstorms, waterfalls or sunsets.
Spiritual growth
In addition to healing a specific problem, activating and balancing our chakra system is
highly beneficial as part of our spiritual growth. If we do not have a major problem in an
area related to a particular chakra, then we can assume that the lower chakras will work
normally and do not need much attention. If we have a strong will to live and normal
sexual and digestive functions, then the three related chakras will also be adequate.
The same applies to the throat chakra. If we usually speak our mind in a reasonably
kind and helpful way, then this centre will be fairly developed as well.
Therefore, most of our attention should go to the three remaining higher centres, the
heart, forehead and crown chakra. Of these it is advisable to start working first on the
heart chakra. Once we can feel the love in our heart and frequently activate this feeling
and radiate it out or to other parts of our body, we have made the most important step in
healing ourselves and are well advanced on the spiritual path.
Conclusion
If you have a disease or health problem in a specific organ or area of the body, you can
now supply it with all the energy and emotional support that it needs for healing, in
addition to the nutritional and other support that you may provide. On a regular basis fill
yourself with love and then mentally send it with an inner smile to the organ in need of
healing. In addition breathe more energy into it or lead it there from the storage area
behind the navel. Feel it getting warm or tingling or just feeling good. At the same time
see it filled with a brilliant white healing light. Intensify the vision and the feeling and
hold it for a long time. Know that you are being healed.
In addition to feeling joy, love and all the other good feelings again and energise
yourself with healing life-force, at some stage on your road to health and wellness it will
become necessary to clean out and release old negative feelings. These may still linger
as resentments, fear or guilt in your memory or cause muscle contractions and energy
blockages as well as crystallisations in body tissues related to specific feeling
memories.
If you do not want to pay a professional to help and guide you with this, it will be best to
join or form a small healing group where you can learn and practise various emotional
release techniques. Becoming loving and positive again before jumping into a pool of
freshly released negativity helps to protect you from wallowing for a long time in misery.
It also makes the important task of forgiving yourself and everyone else for perceived
past trespasses so much easier and more effective.