When the body can no longer adequately deal with health threats, the immune system enters a dramatic and reactive phase of alert, typically accompanied by emotional distress, such as anxiety or panic. Conventional medicine calls this disease; I call it 'toxicity crisis.'

Disease does not signal there is something wrong with the body itself. Rather, it shows that the body is trying to defend itself against something that doesn't belong by utilizing an arsenal of highly sophisticated defense weaponry to ward off the adverse effects resulting from such health threats.

Cell Mutation is Survival

When toxins make their way into the cells of the body and their surrounding tissue, some are cut off from oxygen or nutrient supply, resulting in an acidic internal environment. To survive the acidity, the cell's nucleus must mutate – that is, reprogram its genes to behave in a cancerous manner.

The cell sacrifices its normal balanced state to protect the body against sudden demise through septic poisoning or wasting. However, cancer cells have learned to live without oxygen (anaerobic). To obtain energy for cell survival, they utilize metabolic waste products that are stuck in the acidified, congested area; this, in turn, brings temporary relief for the body.

Cancer is one of the body's final survival attempts to minimize the life-threatening toxicity that is suffocating an area of cell tissue. When the connective tissue surrounding the cells of the body becomes saturated with highly acidified, undigested foods, such as animal protein, acidosis results. In such case, the cancer serves as an emergency immune system to help the body survive a little longer than it would otherwise. Eventually, however, this strategy fails, unless the concentration of toxicity is drastically reduced.

You Create Your Own Experiences

There is always a choice in how you interpret a given situation. The choice carries the power to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. One person uses this power to heal his body from an illness, while another person uses the same power to belittle himself and violate his body even further. Healing takes place spontaneously once self-attack and self-denial come to an end. Cleansing the body is an act of love and self-acceptance and is interpreted by the body as a green light to heal and rejuvenate itself.

Learning to trust that your health is in your hands unerringly leads you to emotional, physical and spiritual freedom.

Excerpted from Your Health is in Your Hands – Living Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual Freedom by Andreas Moritz at http://www.ener-chi.com/yourhealth.htm