October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

by Andrea Chervenak

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a great time to focus your attention on prevention!  As with most cancers and disease, evidence indicates that eating right, exercising, and limiting toxic exposure can go a long way in keeping your immune system healthy, and preventing diseases like cancer. 

Although you can find an abundance of information about the right foods to eat, exercising, and reducing toxic exposure, one of aspect of disease prevention that is not often discussed is the power of positive thinking, and making sure that our thoughts are in line with what it is we want to attract! Learn more about the Power of Positive Intention and the mind/body connection, as well as visualization techniques that can help you to release negative though patterns. 

Our thoughts are so very powerful – research indicates that a thought can create an actual physical reaction in the body. So why not use this power to think positive thoughts and add another layer of protection to maintaining healthy breasts, and a healthy body?  Using visualization along with gratitude prayer is a tool I use to keep my breasts healthy.  I have set the intention that I am going to be the first woman in my family to not have breast cancer.  And so each day I give thanks for my healthy breasts while I visualize every cell in my breasts,  and my entire body as healthy and whole.  A friend uses this same technique as she visualizes a healing white light from God that protects her breasts.  I realize some of this sounds a bit “out there” but think about it: it wasn’t that long ago that doctors pooh-poohed the idea that supplements and foods could help prevent and cure disease, and today this is accepted medical practice.  I believe that in the next 10 or so years energy medicine – the power of the mind/body connection – will be the next frontier of healing.

So eat right, exercise, reduce your toxic exposure...and have a positive outlook on life.  Sure life is full of stress and challenge - that's just the way it is.  But focusing on our fears, giving power to negative thinking, doesn't serve us.  One of my favorite Wear Your Intention* t-shirts has this message:  Worry changes nothing...Faith changes everything.  Have faith in your own divine powers - to keep yourself healthy by using the power of positive thinking and positive intention.  Set your intention today...and then honor and love  your body by taking the very best care of it you can!!

*Wear Your Intention is a company I created to support this advertising free website, as well as to spread the word about the power of positive intention - and to inspire and empower others to live a more positive life!  Our shirts are all 100% organic cotton - so they make you feel as good on the inside as you look on the outside! 

 In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness month we are donating $5 from the sale of every Lotus Wisdom t-shirt we sell, as well as $5 from the sale of every Heal With Hope: A Healing Handbook & Journal sold.

If you are looking for more conventional information about Breast Cancer, here are some websites you might find helpful:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/breast-cancer-prevention/WO00091
http://www.breastcancer.org/risk/
http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/
http://www.nbcam.org/ (National Breast Cancer Awareness Month)
http://ww5.komen.org/