My Journey Through Cancer: With Guided Meditations and Reflective Practices
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A memoir of a Buddhist teacher’s recovery from Stage IV cancer, sharing the mindfulness practices that helped him most.
Diagnosed with Stage IV malignant melanomas, Buddhist monk Jem Fredhamn, then known as Brother Phap Ho (True Protector of the Dharma), applied everything he knew about meditation to healing his body and mind. Practicing the mindful breathing he learned as a monk to calm his emotions, he found unexpected paths to health, and cancer became his ultimate spiritual teacher.
During his tense and frightening cancer treatment journey, Fredhamn shares how mindfulness meditation helped him overcome fear and suffering and weaves in the practices that accompanied him while receiving immunotherapy and radiation treatments. He offers various breathing practices that can help calm stress and build greater energy and vitality, integrating Western medicine with gentle Eastern health modalities such as Qi Gong.
Writing this book to help others with their fear and suffering when facing a potentially terminal illness, Fredhamn’s voice is less that of a mindfulness teacher than a friend and companion offering the insight of his own experience. Even in advanced cancer cases, being lovingly aware of one’s suffering through mindful breathing is beneficial for both spirit and body. His story is testimony that healing is possible.
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At the bottom of this page you find recorded session with Jem on this topic, teachings and meditations.
Praise for Healing is Possible:
“Reading this book feels like sitting down for tea with an old friend. Jem Fredhamn (also known as Brother Phap Ho) brings the same raw honesty and profound love to these chapters that he has always brought to his life. This isn’t just a story of healing—it’s a living invitation to practice, offering gentle yet powerful guidance that transforms his personal journey into a roadmap for our own.”—Tim Desmond, author of Buddhist Practices for Healing Trauma and How to Stay Human in a F*cked Up World
“Healing Is Possible is a rare and generous offering, showing us how to meet illness with tenderness, courage, and deep presence. Through his lived experience with cancer, Jem Fredhamn embodies the Buddha’s teaching that we are of the nature to be ill, and shows how this truth, when met with awareness and love, can become a profound teacher rather than a source of despair.”
—Kaira Jewel Lingo, Buddhist teacher and author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons on Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption
Teaching and practice around Sickness & Healing
This recorded session was offered as a Tuesday Practice Session. 41 min, including meditation in the beginning and at the end. Below you also find audio recordings available for download of the two meditations in this session. More online opportunities with Jem to explore the topic Healing is Possible will follow…
Meditation on Sensations 8 min Meditation with Compassionate nectar 11 minTouch: Healing is Possible in Events
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