What is with shingles and cancer?  Does cancer weaken the immune system so horribly that shingles can attack unabated?  Or does shingles take a foot-hold first, so cancer follows?  Unknown, but Mom suffers from horrible shingles attacks, too, and the same bone marrow cancer as Chuck. 

Stress doesn’t help and appears to be a common indicator because as soon as Chuck becomes stressed about something, nerve pain shows up to take advantage.  Back to meditation.

We’ve collected several CD’s that purport to be the best kind of meditation for those dealing with cancer, including a hypnosis version from the PUNA WAI ORA Cancer Clinic, www.alternative-cancer-care.com, Mind-Body Self Hypnosis Cancer CD.

Ultimately we decided to create our own healing meditation CD so the words could better address Chuck’s values, beliefs and specific healing needs.  He listens to it when he naps and when he goes to bed at night and claims it helps him deal with the bone pain associated with multiple myeloma. 

There is a wonderful CD by Gilles Marin from www.chineitsang.com called The Bone Dreaming Meditation… a very old and powerful meditation used by Taoist monks to keep their bones healthy, Bone Breathing Chi Kung may even help heal fractured and diseased bones when practiced intentionally toward that goal.

It’s also outstanding stress relief.

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Meditation anyone?