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The mind-body connection is undeniable. Can healing your heart and your emotional wounds reduce your risk of breast cancer?

The average human heart beats 72 times per minute, transporting blood to deliver oxygen and nutrients through miles of arteries and veins. Western Medicine is acutely aware of the importance of this "physical pump" and its role in sustaining life. But is there a connection between the heart and breast cancer?

To truly understand the importance of the heart, you must go beyond the perception that the heart is merely a muscle. It is also a source of powerful electromagnetic fields that influence the body and the brain. In fact, some scientists are discovering that the heart rules the brain, not the other way around.

How the Heart Affects the Brain and Body

The Institute of Heart Math (IHM) is a globally-recognized center for heart research both on the physical and energetic/emotional levels. Their decades of research have concluded that the HEART is actually the center of all human decision-making abilities and mental/emotional perceptions. They also found that this powerful organ emits electromagnetic frequencies that are much stronger than brain wave frequencies and that it actually sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to it.

Here are some other little-known facts about the heart that researchers at IHM and others have discovered over the years:

1.) The heart can sense and process information apart from the brain;

2.) The heart can learn and remember;

3.) The heart is a hormone gland that secretes substances such as Oxytocin (the "bonding and love" hormone); and

4.) The heart is a key component of the emotional system which plays a big role in regulating stress throughout the body.

This last discovery is especially important if you are committed to Balancing Your Energy and Healing Your Emotional Wounds in order to prevent breast cancer. It is an increasingly common notion that most illness is due to stress. If you have a stressed mind and heart, you will have a stressed body that is more vulnerable to toxic overload, DNA damage and the replication of unhealthy cells that create breast cancer.

What is Your Cancer Profile?

According to Dr. Douglas Brodie MD, who has treated thousands of cancer patients, there is an emotional pattern that he calls the "Cancer Personality Profile." The traits of the "Cancer Personality" include:

1. Being highly conscientious, caring, dutiful, responsible, hard-working, and usually of above-average intelligence;

2. Exhibiting a strong tendency toward carrying other people's burdens and taking on extra obligations;

3. Having a deep-seated need to make others happy, i.e. being a "people pleaser";

4. Displaying a lack in closeness with one or both parents (which sometimes results in lack of closeness with a spouse and other intimates later in life);

5. Harboring long-suppressed emotional toxicity, i.e. holding on to feelings of anger, resentment and/or hostility;

6. An inability to resolve deep-seated emotional problems and conflicts, usually beginning in childhood, often being unaware that they even exist; and

7. Becoming unable to cope adequately with stress in general. Interestingly, Dr. Brodie says that the cancer patient who fits this profile usually experiences an emotionally-damaging or traumatic event approximately two years before the onset of detectable cancer.


Comment: When the Body Says No: How Emotions Can Cause or Prevent Deadly Disease

The point now is that the emotional centers of the brain, which regulate our behaviors and our responses and our reactions, are physiologically connected with - and we know exactly how they're connected - with the immune system, the nervous system and the hormonal apparatus
. In fact, it's no longer possible, scientifically, to speak of these as separate systems, as if immunity was separate from emotions, as if the nervous system was separate from the hormonal apparatus. There's one system, and they're wired together by the nervous system itself and joined together by chemical messengers that they all secrete, and so that whatever happens emotionally has an impact immunologically, and vice versa.


Heal Your Heart with EFT and Yoga

If you can relate to one or more of the above profile traits, then it is time to take a good look at how your emotions are effecting your overall "heart health." But how does one truly heal the heart when deep-seated wounds are at play? Working with the body's energy system is one powerful way.

A very simple technique called EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is a method of clearing fears and the stress. According to Dr. David Feinstein,
"by tapping energy points on the surface of the skin while focusing the mind on specific psychological problems or goals, the brain's electrochemistry can be shifted to quickly help overcome fears, guilt, shame, anger and anxiety."
Yoga is another way to heal your heart by working with your body's overall energetic system. Yoga literally means to "unite" or "yoke." When you do yoga, you are uniting the elements of yourself by focusing on your breath and body as well as any emotions that may arise. A new study described in a recent article on this site proves that yoga has profound benefits to those who are suffering from cardiovascular disease.

If an energetic practice like yoga can help those who suffer from a disease that directly effects the heart, then why not breast cancer? Whatever method you chose to "heal your heart," when you do, the results will undoubtedly be less stress in your life and a stronger immune system. What's more, focusing on a happy heart may also even lead to the prevention and healing of major diseases like breast cancer.

About the Author

Dr. Veronique Desaulniers, better known as "Dr. V", has maintained successful practices in the Wellness Industry since 1979.

After personally overcoming Breast Cancer without the use of chemo, radiation or surgery, her passion is to empower women around the globe to prevent and heal Breast Cancer....naturally.