The third story, ‘Habits’, of ‘Arming Out, Words Born of Cancer’ published by ‘Ami Books’, a publishing company founded by cancer survivors, has been published.
Hye-wook Jeong has experienced stage 3 breast cancer. After surgery in 2017, she chose her natural healing path through fasting, meditation and detoxification instead of chemotherapy and radiation therapy at a nursing hospital after surgery. She had to change her thinking habits, her lifestyle in a positive way. And she said, “I feel that now is precious, and I live more intensely every day.”
The healthy habits she chose to be cured of cancer are △10-minute meditation △Reading △Awareness △Beauty test (Sorry, Forgiveness, Thank you, I love you) △ Cold and hot bath △ Foot bath △ Wind bath △ Intermittent fasting.
Hyewook Jeong says, “After meeting the immense fear of “cancer”, I followed a small light to this point. I was able to organize my dental life and know-how, and I was able to redefine the direction of my life in the future. Someone said that healing happens when you write, but now I think I know what that means.
Kim Young-ran was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer and had metastasized to the chest, colon, and spleen. After undergoing surgery and chemotherapy two years ago, he is still taking targeted chemotherapy. She lives in a shelter near Deogyusan and dreams of change every day. She wants to live as a storyteller and a spiritual writer who delivers a string of hope to go hand in hand with her juniors with cancer.
The healthy habits she introduces are △Sleep early and wake up early △Walking exercise △Stretching and massage △Half-bath △Emotional talk and gratitude talk. Kim Young-ran said, “There are still higher and more difficult mountains to climb, but I get strength from the encouragement and comfort, voluntary will, support and empathy that the ARMYs give me. Even if she is exhausted and exhausted, she will become a butterfly in the time of Kairos and she will continue to flap her wings of hope,” she says.
Jo Jung-wook underwent surgery for stage 3 rectal cancer in March 2018. After that, after undergoing three surgeries, 12 chemotherapy, and 21 radiation therapy, including stoma restoration surgery, intestinal stenosis and perforation surgery, he introduced himself that he was being healed by practicing body and mind in harmony with nature in a mountainous loess house.
Joe wrote in his book: “I can’t tell you how grateful I am today to greet the day with such a healthy body and mind. In the afternoon, the sky was lingering as if it was about to rain, and the sunlight peeked through the clouds, reminding us once again that there is an invisible, but constantly gushing vitality in the world.”
As a cancer survivor, the habits he kept were △108 times △ laughing out loud △ giving up experimentation △ gardening and vegetarianism △ prolific (long chewing) △ drinking hot tea.
The three authors are said to have decided to become the main character of the book ‘Arming Out – Habits’ with the hope that all cancer patients will be healthy with good habits. He said that he had already developed good habits one by one while suffering cancer, and there was hope and belief that more good habits would be formed if they were shared.
“What good habits are right for me?’ I hope you will take a look around, find a good habit that suits you, and try to flap your wings to change yourself. Even if the flapping of your wings to change yourself may feel difficult at first, if you repeat it a hundred times or a hundred days, you will find yourself flying closer to the good life you have always longed for.”