The shock of knowing that your doctor has diagnosed your disease as cancer can be a chilling experience. Not only are you afraid, but your family members and friends are also afraid and concerned as well. They need the best for you and receiving the news of cancer is devastating. Cancer is no respecter of persons. It strikes the rich and poor equally. In our modern society almost everybody has some family member or relative who has died from this disease.
Of course, you might try to put on the happy face and pretend that everything will work out well. Crying about your condition out of depression and desperation isn’t the best course of action. Most therapists wouldn’t recommend venting your feelings through crying for hours.
What they’d suggest: You require to see your life as a journey. Any journey includes twists and turns. Everyone’s life involves pain and suffering to some extent, and your key to being positive is to accept this reality.
Acceptance is the key to facing any disease including cancer.
Acceptance is the key to self-mastery.
Acceptance provides for reflection and insight into your journey through life. You see with a greater perspective that your life hasn’t been all bad and neither has it been all good. Acceptance allows you to step back from the drama of life and see what is truly important.
Now acceptance isn’t a magic wand to take away the pain of knowing that you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, but it’s a way to continue living your life with dignity and hope.
