I do NOT pronounce the word “disease” the way most of the world does, as in “duh-zeeze.”  I pronounce it “diss-ease,” as in “lack of physical/mental ease,” or “disrespect for the physical/mental ease” of one’s person.  The former, “duh-zeeze,” makes an illness sound like something mysterious, puzzling, uneasy to think about or to get a handle on.  The latter immediately gets one to thinking of HOW one might be sabotaging one’s own physical or mental health, and can lead to significantly therapeutic solutions.

The author of “The Cancer Conqueror,” (a man who survived lung cancer after being given only a few weeks to live by his doctors), stopped saying he had cancer, and began saying he was “cancering.”  He then examined all the ways he might have been “cancering” and proceeded to change those behaviors and beliefs.  “I have cancer” was static and death-dealing.  “I have been cancering” was dynamic and life-giving.

    ~ A quote from Elliot Yudenfriend who cured himself of lymphoma diagnosed in 1989, considered incurable by mainstream medicine