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Less than 3 years since diagnosis
Interview 21  

Interview 21

Age at Interview: 54
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 52
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with colorectal cancer 1999, under went surgery.


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Explains how she learned to meditate and how it helps her.

 



The meditation I think slows me down. It gives me a period in the day where my system is slowing down, it's actually becoming very still and I, I believe that research has shown that you do actually have physiological changes when you meditate that can be measured and it has been shown to be very good for things like stress.

How did you learn to meditate?

We did a little bit of introduction at Bristol and the GP's surgery was actually very helpful and loaned us a tape on learning to meditate and a book to go with it and we just practiced and it felt very strange at first, it felt very alien.

And it was not something that was necessarily comfortable to do and I think when I started doing it I, I felt well nothing much is happening, why am I doing this?

But as you get more and more into it, it becomes noticeable that things are happening and that things are happening in your system and slowing it down and I find that things worry me less now than they would have done before.
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