March, 2007 | Find Me A Cure

Essential Authenticity

Revealing Your True Self
Identity is an elusive concept. We feel we must define ourselves using a relatively small selection of roles and conscious character traits, even if none accurately represents our notion of “self.” The confusion surrounding our true natures is further compounded by the fact that society regularly asks us to suppress so much of our emotional, intellectual, and spiritual vibrancy. Yet we are, in truth, beings of light-pure energy inhabiting physical bodies, striving for enlightenment while living earthly lives. Our true selves exist whether we acknowledge them or not, often buried under fears and learned behavior. When we recognize our power, our luminosity, and our divinity, we cannot help but live authentic lives of appreciation, potential, fulfillment, and grace.

At birth and throughout your childhood, your thoughts and feelings were more than likely expressions of your true self. Though you may have learned quickly that to speak and act in a certain fashion would win others’ approval, you understood innately that you were no ordinary being. There are many ways you can recapture the authenticity you once articulated so freely. Meditation can liberate you from the bonds of those earthly customs that compel you to downplay your uniqueness. Also, communing with nature can remind you of the special role you were meant to play in this lifetime. In order to realize your purpose, you must embrace your true self by letting your light shine forth, no matter the consequences.

Rediscovering who you are apart from your roles and traits takes time and also courage. If, like many, you have denied your authenticity for a long while, you may find it difficult to separate your true identity from the identity you have created to cope with the world around you. Once you do find this authentic self, however, you will be overcome by a wonderful sense of wholeness as you reconcile your spiritual aspect and your physical aspect, as well as your inner- and outer-world personas. As you gradually adjust to this developing unity, your role as a being of light will reveal itself to you, and you will discover that you have a marvelous destiny to fulfill.
Source:Daily Om

Breath test can spot lung cancer early

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A new test can identify lung cancer by detecting unique chemicals in the breath of those suffering from it.

The breath test uses a small array, less than an inch square, of 36 spots of chemically sensitive compounds that are designed to change colour when they come into contact with specific chemicals in the breath of patients with lung cancer.

There is evidence that the breath constituents of lung cancer patients are different from those of healthy people. Metabolic changes in lung cancer cells cause changes in the production and processing of volatile organic compounds, which are then breathed out. But no single volatile compound has been found that can be used to diagnose the disease.

A team from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio used the array of spots to try to establish a pattern of colour changes that characterises lung cancer.

They tested the breath of 122 people with a variety of respiratory diseases, and 21 healthy controls. The group included 49 people with small-cell lung cancer at various stages of development. The research team used the results from 70 per cent of the study participants to develop a predictive model, the accuracy of which was tested on the remaining 30 per cent.

The results showed that the test was able to predict the presence of cancer with â€œmoderateâ€ accuracy. It was right in about three out of four cases.

Other approaches to breath testing had been used, the authors said in the journal Thorax. These included gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, an expensive method requiring a great deal of expertise.

Lung cancer was often detected late, so any simple tests that could detect the disease sooner would be valuable and might lead to better treatments, Dr Peter Mazzone said.

So far, the best results reported come from the use of dogs. A team led by Michael McCulloch, of Pine Street Foundation in California, trained five â€œordinary household dogsâ€ to distinguish by scent the breath of 55 lung cancer and 31 breast cancer patients. In lung cancer patients the diagnostic accuracy was 99 per cent and in breast cancer it was 88 per cent, they reported last year.

Source:www.timesonline.co.uk