The Block Center: Life Affirming Mind-Spirit Techniques Program
Understandably, approximately half of all cancer patients experience emotional distress, anxiety and/or depression. Many will abandon chemotherapy prematurely because of psychological and physical distress, hopelessness and feelings of helplessness.
The techniques used by the Block Center help you, the patient, counteract these negative effects. The Block Center’s mind-spirit program helps train you to harness the power of your own mind as an important player in the healing and health process.
This life affirming program focuses on four key components:
Calm: You develop a sense of relaxed alertness using meditative techniques matched to your style, rhythm and values. Interactive guided imagery and other stress care strategies are used to help conquer feelings of anxiety and helplessness. This process can also help you think and plan with greater ease and clarity.
Clarify: To gain control over your treatment process, you learn to define the type and level of information you need, medical and personal priorities, and to purposely “unlearn” self-defeating responses to distressing information.
Cope: You learn strategies for managing treatments with greater ease, minimizing side effects, and building a practical real-world support system for your cancer care.
Connect: Block Center therapists work with you to help you enhance your core personal relationships, which, in turn, increase your sense of spiritual ease and well-being.
Mind. Spirit. Two strongly linked components in your personal inventory of tools for recapturing health and wellness.
