Through the Movember movement the month of November is for bringing awareness to men’s mental health and suicide prevention plus prostate and testicular cancer. Since Life Might is all about total health we are proud to host our own event in the form of a challenge. We all know someone who is or has been diagnosed with these particular health issues and if we can prevent them claiming more of our loved ones then we will – through compassionate action awareness.
Mo Challenge
Here are four fun ways to participate:
- As a Mo Bro grow a moustache or as a Mo Sis create a faux ‘stache with facetache online software and then making it your profile image for social media and posting it here with your own story
- Take some kind of physical action or make a dietary change that will reduce the risk of developing cancer
- Educate yourself and/or someone beforehand so you will be ready to assist another by offering advise from knowledge rather than fear
- Learn and/or teach a loved one to meditate using Life Might’s easy techniques.
How meditation helps
Meditation helps to relieve depression, reduce stress and bring an overall sense of well-being and healthy outlook on life. Depression is the body’s way of telling us that we’re holding on to negative energy that needs to be let go. By dealing with the feeling of depression we can overcome the issue.
Stress-related cancers are caused by the altering of hormones in the body that are released when under stress. Additionally, stress causes overeating, smoking and heavy drinking which are habits that contribute to various cancers.
Meditation reduces stress and helps you become more aware of when your body is out of balance. It is your own personal detection tool to tell you when questionable symptoms appear. Also, by being aware you are able to more easily identify the symptoms to describe to your doctor for the correct diagnosis and treatment. Clearly meditation is the best preventative measure as well as coping mechanism when it comes to cancer.
My Story
It was my Dad who succumbed to the dreaded prostate cancer and the real problem lay with the fact that he would not visit the doctor for the yearly examination to detect it early enough to treat.
I use my Movember ‘stache for my Facebook profile photo every November and have been thanked from Friends for reminding them to visit their doc for a annual checkup. One FB friend in particular said it saved his life…wow!
Consequently, it was too late to do little more than aid him through the pain and debilitation that left him wheelchair-bound and relying on the daily visits from the home care nurse to change his underwear. Back then in 2001 cannabis was still illegal, which if readily available would have helped immensely with all of edibles and liniments the industry offers now. That left the only option of morphine injections when the pain got really bad, which was also done on the nurse’s time.
The lesson for men is to stop being squeamish about the dreaded prostate exam and consider the fact that it is still not as uncomfortable as a PAP test.
