MAJOR PROBLEMS LEADING TO STRESS: CANCER
“I had the lump there. But sometimes you get bits of thickening. He said he thought it was OK but thought he had better do a biopsy. Then this report and he says I must have it off. Next week at the latest. So casual about it. Just an incident for him, but for me, my life. More, think of it! Fondling, loving. Oh, God. He’s sweet. Says he will love me just the same. But it can’t be. Says it’s me that he loves, not my body. But my body is me. Such an important part, for me and for him. Cuddling. Misshapen. I cannot think of it.
‘People talk about alternatives. He didn’t. But some people do. So little is known, could I take the risk?
‘The children. To grow up without a mother. So young. So different from what might have been. Deformed in their way. A child growing up without a mother becomes deformed in the spirit. Deformed, just as I shall be. Life, as I knew it, is at an end.”
The devastating problem, the effect of the cancer on herself, is made worse by the associated problems of its effect on her husband and children. Her brain is filled with so many nervous impulses that it ceases to function properly. She cannot think clearly. She does not know what to do.
She urgently needs to reduce her nervous tension. Of course, this can be achieved most effectively through simple meditation. If you should ever have the misfortune to find yourself in some such similar situation, don’t react by saying, ‘How can I meditate when I am distraught like this? You need to be calm to meditate.’ No. Just let it come, slowly, just slowly, and little by little calmness comes to our mind. And as we repeat the process, the effect of it gradually flows on into our life as a whole.
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