Mandalas of Emotions as Add-on Therapy for Self-Healing and Resolution of Internal Conflicts in Cancer Treatment

Gabriela Salim Spagnol; Li Hui Ling; Li Li Min

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Gabriela Salim Spagnol

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Page Range:: 39–49

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004386563_005

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Patients with cancer often face emotional conflicts, which impact on the quality of life. A technique named Mandala of Emotions (ME), developed by one of us (lhl) and with roots in Traditional Chinese Medicine, has been used to promote self-understanding and coping with emotions, with promising results. We report an experience with add-on Mandala of Emotions therapy in a 44-year-old woman diagnosed with breast neuroendocrine carcinoma. This is a single case study using description and report from the patient during her treatment for breast cancer. This experience encompasses a follow-up of two years. Mandala of Emotions applies five coloured (green, red, yellow, white and black) stones the size of a walnut, which are placed around the patient or on the patient’s body while laid down in supine. The session lasts around 15 minutes. The female patient initiated ME as a way to come to terms with her emotions and internal conflicts. She felt that ME has helped her understand her feelings and find a way to cope with them, particularly soon after chemotherapy when she experienced an overflow of emotions combined with physical frailty and mental vulnerability. During her treatment, she developed a drop in platelet level as a side effect of chemotherapy, which led to hospital admission and transfusion. Concomitantly, she started to feel panic and her physician felt that medication for panic attack was not an option due to the circumstances. She self-discharged from the hospital because of panic attack. At home, Dr. Ling applied ME to countermeasure the feeling of fear. The panic attack subsided in a week, and a couple of days later she regained her physical strength. In parallel, her platelet levels increased too. This single case illustrates the use of ME as add-on therapy for self-healing and resolution of internal conflicts.

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The Patient-Doctor Dynamics

Examining Current Trends in the Global Healthcare Sector

丛编： At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 卷： 114

ISBN:: 9789004386563

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 24 Nov 2018

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