An environment for healing features each person’s optimal vitality and potential, and in the process, creates strategies that stimulate and support the inherent healing capacities. What does this mean for you? Cancer patients can cultivate an environment for healing within themselves and through how they connect with other people. Healing environments can also be created at home, work, and in different physical settings. Health centers are increasingly incorporating elements of healing environments into patient care.
The healing—and the specifics of the optimal healing environment in which it occurs both internally and externally—is as individual as the individual. Your ideal healing environment may include the following components. Learning about these dynamics may help you identify ways to create a healing environment, and other integrative cancer care for the whole person information that resonates with you.
Kindness, presence, touch, aromatherapy, sounds, and sights may give a cancer patient and their loved one comfort as they move through cancer. Since everyone reacts uniquely to cancer and life experiences, variability exists between what works for one person versus another. Healing environments can stimulate and support calm, love, joy, healthy emotions, transformation of the thinking mind to a feeling body, movement of physical tension to a more relaxed state, evolution regarding repetitive reminders of past experiences, improvements of the ego, centering and grounding, and much more. Explore other strategies to create an inner healing environment in How to Calm Yourself.
What nurtures you? What brings you calm? What environment supports your health and healing internally and externally? Consider these critical questions and take steps toward cultivating the healing environment that meets what you need. This information may help you reflect on and identify additional ways to create your optimal healing environment. Also, recognize that aspects of your healing environment will evolve.
Keep in mind a healing environment is involved with other aspects of integrative whole person dynamics. Find more to support your optimal health and healing here, from a Cancer Coach, and other resources. Explore, evolve, and energize your healing environment.
