[ne01]

There is a tendency to fight our way out of every problem. But what we truly need is to accept the problem, take responsibility and look for the root cause.

That is true “fighting”. But most try to destroy the symptoms so they can continue their path and usually continue the root cause.

Of course finding the root cause is not easy and it takes one to study oneself

I highly recommend the following book to everyone (including the “healthy”)

The 12 Stages of Healing: A Network Approach to Wholeness Book by Donald M. Epstein and Nathaniel Altman

[_jahh]

while I'd be the last to say root approach should be discounted (diet, lack of exercise, smokes, and bad sleep contributing more to bad outcomes that just about anything else), I worry that the thinking in this post can be used to judge people who have cancer for their actions when unfortunately the true root cause for many people is actions taken long before they're born because of environmental exposure. So while yes most everyone could benefit from more self study some cancerous situations require vigorous assault on the symptoms, like death.

[dstick]

Agreed, and even then, doesn’t cancer “just happen”? There’s a BRCA2 gene defect in my family (that I’m lucky enough not to have inherited) and that increases the likelyhood of developing breast cancer to 80% for women and prostate cancer to ~20% for men. But to the best of my knowledge, everyone has an innate %, just by virtue of being alive.