Faith as the Powerful Medicine for Prostate Cancer
Having good faith means having firm belief systems whether you are religious or not. Having a positive attitude and maintaining a good mind set in terms of stress are qualities needed to prevent complications of the present disease conditions. Having strong belief systems makes one able to fight back against a serious illness affliction.
Conventional Medicine can often treat prostate cancer but mostly unsuccessful due to complications and depression usually worsens the illness. Experts claim that the mind plays a strong role in healing the body – and faith can be a powerful medicine. According to Doctor Herbert Benson the president of the Mind and Body institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, "between 50 and 90 percent of all diseases can be affected by patient belief." And so, the mind plays a big factor for disease conditions.
Over the past two decades, there have been more than 2,000 research studies conducted with regards to the relationship of faith to diseases. A study conducted in the Harvard, Duke, and Yale Universities found out that the people who practice faith have less heart diseases, fewer stroke rates, has low blood pressure levels, lesser depressions, has faster recoveries from the illnesses and may live even longer.
Harold Koenig, MD, founding director of the Center for the Study of Religion, Spirituality and Health at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina reports that at least six studies in the past have found a relationship between involvements in a religious community have longer survival. He further reports that religious beliefs and activities are associated with better mental and physical health in the vast majority of the studies.
Do not worry if you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, being afflicted with prostate cancer is a blessing. Among all cancers in the body, prostate cancer is the slowest growing cancer in the world. There are still many things that one can do in order to overcome it. Some men despite diagnosed with a terminal prostate disease, they continue to become optimistic, strengthen their faith even more and lives a happy life. They easily accept everything and find a way to counter attack the disease. In the real world, everything is easy if we first accept the fact that we have the disease condition and in order to attack it, one must be able to accept the fact first.