Hello, and welcome to the section entitled cancer family and emotions. Sometimes when someone is diagnosed with cancer and begins their treatment, it can be like walking through an emotional minefield issues that you didn't even know you had can start to come up with vigor. In fact, issues that you didn't even know your family have, can start to come up with vigor also. And so, if having cancer isn't enough, throwing emotional tension on top of that can add a whole new layer of complexity into the situation and dealing with cancer. Now, on some level, when emotions come up strongly during cancer treatment, more often than not, the issues are going to revolve around family on some level. In fact, cancer treatment can bring up the best and the very worst in a family.

So if you're in a very close and real healthy family situation, you can see Sterling virtues emerge that you never knew existed. On the other hand, if your family has unresolved emotions, and there's maybe a little dysfunction in your family, some of those issues can come up quite strongly when someone gets cancer. And some of those emotions may include jealousy, or unresolved emotions from a past divorce, abandonment, insecurity, resentment, or even issues around money. And so if you're experiencing those things as you're going through cancer treatment, you know, Don't take it to heart too deeply because every family has to deal with some of these things on some level or another. So if you're experiencing these things, you know, you're kind of right on track. Now, as we begin to talk about emotions, it's important to to understand the nature of emotion.

So emotions are born to be experienced. And so they come up, if we experience them fully, they essentially dissipate into the ether. However, all of us have a natural tendency to instinctively avoid unpleasant emotion. And we learned to do this when we're very, very young. And so as emotions come up, we'll tend to avoid them and not want to experience them, especially if the traumatic event that happened early in our family life. And what will happen is that those emotions will stay inside of us, they'll stay inside of our subconscious, like living little creatures that want to get out.

And so they'll start to create situations or scenarios where they can be experienced. And so say you have some anger inside of you, maybe you're going to start to see situations where you can be angry to let that anger out. And so if we continue to avoid those emotions, what happens is we'll start to see repeating patterns over and over again, with the same pain. And the best place to experience those and see those dynamics workout is in the context of your own immediate family because that's where they're going to come up, more likely than anyplace else. And when cancer comes up, it kind of explodes the whole thing into the family. So buried emotions can come up quite strongly during cancer treatment.

And so, but it's important to recognize that this suppressed emotion or these emotions living inside of you get trapped in you when you're very, very young. And so you're not aware. And you're vulnerable. And so everybody has those. And as you carry them through your life, and if you're lucky enough to begin to become aware of them, you can actually understand that having those repeating patterns are really not your fault. It's something that happened to you when you were quite young.

And it's just kind of the way it is. And so now as you have cancer treatment, maybe it's a good time to be aware of that. Also, you can see, emotions come out throughout the course of an entire family. So you can see generational patterns of the same pain coming up within the same family. So hey, I had this certain problem. My mom had it her mom had it just kind of goes back and back and so when you can see anything suppressed emotion that comes up, especially during cancer treatment that's historical or generational in nature, you can really understand that, hey, having these emotions from when I was a kid is not my fault.

But now it's generational. It's really, really not my fault. So we all have them. And it's really unusual that they come up during cancer treatment so strong. And so dealing with your family emotions and healing emotional patterns during cancer treatment is a really great time to do it. So not only is cancer coming up in your life, but there may be emotional issues that need to be healed to and so that's when it's a good time to do meditation work or see a therapist or whatever.

So, so cancer is often more times than not more than just about the cancer itself. So what we're going to do to address that on my level and the work that I do is that we're going to go into a deep meditation We're going to go into a deeply relaxed state. And what we're going to do is we're going to go back in time, using the imagination, to the very first time that you experienced a traumatic event in your family. What we're going to do in the meditation is released that event, hopefully, you'll feel it leave your body and be released from the patterns that were created long ago. And then we're going to reframe the experience and allow you to go through it again, using your imagination in a deeply relaxed state, and have that initial event, turn out the way that you wanted it to.

And so this can be a very profound reframing experience. For a lot of people, I've done this a lot, and it can have some really great and significant results. So let's go to the meditation and let some things go from the past. So I'll see you there