Cancer Rocks

Kindness Heals

“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.” __The Dalai Lama

How do you define kindness? Some say it is a sate of charitable behavior to other people. The Talmud claims “deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments," and in Buddhism, one of the ten perfections is Mettā, translated as “loving kindness.” It is a recognized value in many religions and cultures.

Healing Music Magic

When you listen to music you that you really like, your body really begins to talk to you. Your toes might start to tap on the floor or you start snapping your fingers to the beat, or maybe humming or singing along. Now, how do you feel?  Are you relaxed, calm, and in a good mood? Experience healing music now.

A Tribute to Randy Pausch

Although the news was inevitable, the passing of Carnegie Mellon Professor Dr. Randy Pausch was devastating news to me and especially the pancreatic cancer community of which I am a member. Even as he was dying, he gave hope to me and others struggling with this dreadful disease. Randy Pausch has left a profound legacy to the world.

Randy’s “Last Lecture” reinforces what all of us know and perhaps do not live. Our lives are perfect as they are if we have a positive attitude and follow our hearts and our values. “Enabling the dreams of others” was one of Randy’s principles. He wanted people to feel happy working with one another and to help each other be successful. He believed in bringing fun and joy into everyday living. Most of all he realized what was important in life and shared that with everyone in his family, students, and colleagues.

His legacy focused on seeing beauty and good in the world and interpreting many more things as positive. He said “let people finish their sentences.”  Listen more than you speak and let go of excessive judgment; principles that increase the joy in living.

You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood.
You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. It's your choice how you live your life.
You make choices about life instead of reacting to it. 

Research demonstrates that something negative usually occurs in your life that motivates you to change your behavior or attitude. Do you have to have a life threatening event occur before you learn what is really important in life and how to balance living in a “busy world” with joy, fulfillment, peace, and fun? 

Randy; you and your legacy will live through us. Your spirit will live forever!

6 Great Tips Too Help You Successfully Manage Stress

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

6 Great Tips Too Help You Successfully Manage Stress

How do you say “Goodbye to Stress?” You don’t say “Goodbye” to stress; stress happens; it’s called LIFE!  What you do is learn to manage life’s challenges more effectively.  A Mayo Clinic Study determined the most common time for heart attacks to occur is Monday morning, the first day of the business week.  If you feel overwhelmed, under appreciated, unfulfilled, and can’t even think about taking a day off or even day dream for a minute, you need to kick your stress habits and change your results. It’s time for you to make Monday morning feel like Friday afternoon!

There are many ways to manage stress. Here are just a few habits you might like to trade in for your old stress producing habits.  These new habits can help you NOW! They have the potential to reduce tension, calm your mind, increase your sense of fulfillment, elevate your mood, and increase your “Happiness Quotient!”

Return of the Over Extended Native!

It’s been some time since I have posted on my blog.

Why is that you might ask? The answer is rather simple; over extended.

Yup, committing to too many tasks or simply stated saying “yes” too many times.

The bottom line is I want to share the lessons I have learned about creating a life of joy during my cancer journey.

Having cancer, any kind of cancer, can really turn tricks on your attitude, your purpose for living, your ability to laugh, or even find joy in the simplest things; like eating breakfast or watching the rain. Is it possible to be one of those people who said “cancer was the best thing that happened to me?”

Promoting Wholeness, Health, Wellness, Healing, and Hope

Discover the benefits of “Shelimut,” a multi-disciplinary approach to Health, Healing, and Wholeness as it functions in the faith community,

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 10:30 am EDT on Talk Shoe hosted by Roz Trieber

Roz's Interviews/Conversations

• Rabbi Jay Goldstein, Rabbi Joshua Neely, Sarah Shapiro LSW, and Beth Philipson, RN (a call you can down load.) • Edward Leigh (a call you can down load.) • Heidi Most (a call you can down load.) • Dave Grotto (a call you can down load.) • Izzy Gesell (a call you can down load.) • The Gamy Rachel written interview (3-15-08) • Brad Tollefson (a call you can down load.) • Please visit our Interviews with Experts page.

Living With Cancer; Not Dying From Cancer

As I continue along my cancer journey, I learn not to concentrate or even contemplate about curing my disease. Research funds are being cut right and left.  Cancer is touching millions of people per year. Some cancers go away with treatment and somehow find a way to return. There is no time to wait; I only have these moments to live. I need to decide what I want to pay attention to in these moments.

I’ve decided to live with cancer and not die from it. Deciding not to die from cancer, I learned how to heal. What does healing mean to me and what could it mean to you?

Healing means to become whole. It is time to transcend my fears and relate differently to my illness. My goal is to achieve an attitudinal and emotional transformation. I do this by accepting my situation and choosing a relationship that enhances my healing. Most importantly I understand that body, mind, heart, and spirit are inseparably interwoven and unified thus achieving wholeness.  If healing is to be complete, all the dimensions of who I am must be addressed.

Mind Think Success Interview with Roz Trieber

From the "MindThinkSuccess.com" website:

Roz, a health educator and creator of HUMORFUSION,
has over 30 years’ experience teaching people
how to manage stress and laugh at life. She works with organizations
to reduce workplace negativity and stress,
increase productivity, and facilitate academic success incorporating
humor and improvisation strategies.

Everything you need to know about HUMORFUSION, can be summed
up with two words–Roz Trieber…[Read Full Interview Here]

Create A Great Day...4.5 Tips How To Have A Great Day

1. Wake up and HUG yourself and those you love. Touching with the intention of love and understanding creates positive energy, Positve energy is often referred to as enhancing the healing process (Orloff, 2000).

2. Remember You are unique. Focus on the valuable contributions you make to the world. Acknowledge your strengths. Love yourself sick or well. Your body will love you back,

3. Have an attitude of gratitude. Appreciate everyone and their gifts. An attitude of Kindness and Love help us discover that happiness comes from within.

4. Smile often; it is a universal welcome mat that spreads feelings of joy inside and out.

4.5. Laugh out loud for at least 1-2 minutes daily. Your spirits will be uplifted. You gain emotional distance from your problems and gain a new perspective on life.

Please share what you do to have a great day.

Why A Blog Called Cancer Rocks?

Tricks and Tips to Heal Body, Mind, & Spirit With Wit and Wisdom

If you want to learn how to heal body, mind, and spirit read and respond to my blog posts Tricks and Tips to Heal with Wit and Wisdom.

If you want to know how to develop a Healing Attitude, read and respond to my blog posts Tricks and Tips to Heal with Wit and Wisdom.

If you want to learn about Resources regarding research and new developments, connect to the links that will appear in blog in future blog posts.

Cancer Rocks you all right. You’re moving and grooving like you’ve never moved before! Your mind, your body, and your heart react as if they have been given a death sentence. Change Your Thoughts!

Change The Quality of Your Life!

4.5 Tips To Heal With Laughter!

1. SMILE NO MATTER WHAT! A smile is magical. Muscles relax, the immune system perks up and your mood begins to change. When others encounter your smile, they usually respond with encouragement and enthusiasm. Even when you don’t feel like smiling, fake it until you make it! Your body will think you are happy! Try it right now. Oh go ahead. Nobody’s watching! Can you feel that surge of energy and confidence inside?

2. LAUGH AT YOURSELF: This is not about losing respect or demeaning yourself. It is truly an act of loving kindness. When you ask the question “Am I laughing at myself”, it helps us recognize the difference between perfection and perfectionism. Perfection is what we are, and that includes all the inconsistencies and shortcomings. When you have a love affair with every cell in your body, you are getting to know that happiness comes from within. You may not be perfect; but you are perfection because of, not in spite of, your contradictions. Laughing at ourselves is a way of taking ourselves lightly while taking our jobs seriously.

3.FUN COMES FROM THE WORK THAT YOU DO: Gaining pleasure from your abilities and accomplishments provide feelings of happiness and delight. It doesn’t matter what kind of work you do. If you are enjoying the work you do, helping others, serving others, extending your compassion, your attitude, mood, and physical demeanor demonstrate your enthusiasm. Your enthusiasm is as contagious as great big smile or belly laugh. Keep your sanity by collecting humorous triumphs of the human spirit. You could try that now too!

4. SHARE FUNNY STORIES AND JOKES: Nothing demonstrates tacit approval as strongly as laughing with others. Share stories and jokes on a daily basis. Try this on for size: Ask your children, significant other or co-workers to tell you funny stories or jokes. Write down those that you want to remember. You might even create a “Food or Work joke of the week” box in front of the cafeteria or kitchen. Invite family or friends to put in their favorite joke that relates to food or eating or any other topic. Post the winner on a wall each week and offer a prize (antacid tablets or pizza for two).

4.5 YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE FUNNY: MAKE THE PROCESS FUN AND HAVE FUN: Don’t postpone fun. Do it now or you miss it. Fun is everywhere and the time is anytime. Chances are if you are not having fun now; you are not going to have fun when you get wherever you are going. Think about turning any situation into a private game. Think of the games you played as a child. What made the game fun for you? Play it again now; modify it, change the rules…laugh until the tears run down your legs! Read your church bulletins, read the funniest bumper stickers on cars as you pass them by and watch your pets rock and roll. Life is a barrel of laughs…rolling down the aisles!