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31: How Thoughts Affect Cancer with Megan Van Zyl, PhD Hon, MA, NTP

Chelsea Blackbird

Hello my friend! Megan Van Zyl is our special guest on today’s episode to talk about the role of beliefs, thoughts, emotions, and feelings in a cancer diagnosis. Tune in to learn how we can work with our core beliefs in order to have an internal transformation, and why health truly is a full ‘Spirit, Mind, and Body’ package.

EPISODE 31: How Thoughts Affect Cancer with Megan Van Zyl, PhD Hon, MA, NTP

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(0:00) Intro

(0:45) How your mind plays a role in your health.

  • Health is a full spirit, mind, body package.

  • God’s word is always reminding us to manage our minds.

  • More than anything you guard, protect your mind, for life flows from it. - Proverbs 4:23

  • When it comes to health and healing our bodies are always listening for instructions from our minds.

  • Our thoughts and feelings influence how we heal and don’t heal.

(2:48) Introducing today’s special guest, Megan Van Zyl

 (4:59) Role of beliefs, thoughts, emotions and feelings in a cancer diagnosis.

  • Processing trauma

  • How biology is connected to the soul realm and the spirit realm

  • Impacting internal transformation

  • Epigenetics: means “upon the gene”

    • Genetic expression

    • Epigenetics says you are not doomed to a certain outcome based on your genes.

    • Some influential factors: Nutrition, chemical exposure, the mind.

    • The myth is that cancer is a genetic disease.

    • Only 5-10% of cancer diagnosis’ have a direct genetic influence.

  • Study: Prostate Cancer

    • The group engaging in epigenetic intervention- 3 months later, they had over 500 genes change, and the prostate cancer genes were shut down.

 (11:15) Negative impact of Fear:

  • Your thoughts and emotions can create and either healthy or toxic atmosphere in the body.

  • Perpetual stress = Chronic cortisol output.

    • Adrenals

    • HPA Axis

  • How fear shifts the biochemistry of your body.

  • Mitochondrial disease

(14:00) Different approaches to Internal Transformation:

  • Positive thinking, talk therapy is surface level, and focuses on the fear without actually solving it.

  • “Putting a band aid over it” vs. Facing it head on

  • How does our soul realm and our spirit realm interact with one another?

  • Subconscious mind:

    • Stores our core beliefs

    • Core belief = a conclusion you come to based on your experience.

    • Pre-programed notions get stored in your thought bank.

    • Default mode

    • You have to actively go in, recognize it, and break that pattern with intention.

(20:44) Working with core beliefs to have an internal transformation.

  • Inside Out the Pixar Movie

  • Real client example #1:

    • Reflecting on why cancer appeared in his body

    • Addressing core issues

    • The spiritual realm is outside time and space

    • Redesigning memories: Shifting the emotions of the memory

      • Forgiveness

      • Giving way to internal transformation

(26:10) Beginning the journey into looking at ourselves:

  • Process of deep thinking changes the brain structure.

    • Default mode network

    • Gaining access to memories

  • Prayer, meditation, journaling, and inviting God to show you what you need to be aware of.

  • Hitting the emotion – going deeper into connecting the subconscious and the conscious mind.

(30:25) Thought Downloads:

  • Thought -> Feeling -> Action

  • Slowing down the process in order to really look at it.

  • Taking everything out of the “mind closet”

(33:15) Real client example #2:

  • Subconscious fear of death

  • Finally connecting with a memory stored in the subconscious mind.

  • Processing trauma later in life

(36:40) Unforgiveness, bitterness, and epigentics:

  • Cancer patients tend to have unforgiveness, bitterness, and someone they need to forgive either themselves or other people in their lives.

  • Bitterness increases cortisol output, suppresses the immune system.

  • Forgiveness is for YOU. It is not for letting someone “off the hook”

  • The person we need to forgive may be ourselves.

(40:08) Earthly realms crossing with heavenly realms:

  • The physical body responds to spiritual divine moments.

  • Healing, spontaneous remission, and internal transformation.

  • Megan’s personal experience with internal transformation:

    • God revealing the truth about his grace.

    • Condemnation breaking off.

    • Breaking thought patterns.

  •  The Biology of Belief by Dr. Bruce Lipton.

    • How the mind affects the cell membranes

(45:24) Keeping a biblical perspective:

  • Science is always catching up to what the bible has already told us.

  • Spiritual truths are the foundation of our health.

  • He will guide us and lead us if we seek that spiritual guidance.

  • Holy spirit drives the mind, and the mind drives what you do in your body. This is where we find health.

(47:23) Quantum Physics:

  • Quantum physics is basically the place where the spirit realm and the physical body and physical experience converge.

    • Atoms make up our cells which make up our bodies.

    • Atoms are vibrating energy.

  • God created the Universe by speaking.

    • The words he spoke created frequencies which created the earth.

    • Frequencies connect our world and our spiritual reality.

  • Your physical body can need tuning just like a piano.

  • Shifting the frequency in your body.

  • Eastern State University for that ideal frequency is between 62-68 hertz.

  • Disease results with inharmonious frequencies. 

(53:55) Final Thoughts:

  • For Cancer Peace University course information click here.

    • October 2nd: 6-week mini course

    • February 2020: Full course

  • Understand the steps that are necessary for internal transformation.

  • Following biblical principles to manage our minds.

(1:00:23) Outro & Disclaimer

Thanks for listening! Have a healthy and blessed week!

XOXO,

Chelsea