What is the iLove Program for Cancer?
The program begins with an invitation to facilitate the shifting of the context in which you may be understanding a medical diagnosis called cancer.
An example is given as:
Pretend you are looking specifically at a sofa. You may see it is covered with fabric with a pattern on it, and the fabric may extend all the way to the floor. There is an arm rest at each end of the sofa and it has a high back, and three cushions on which to relax. The sofa represents the context in which all the parts that make up the sofa are the content, within that context. The sum of all it’s parts, so to speak.
Now, pretend you see a small room containing the sofa. The room has several framed pictures hanging on the four walls. Two of the walls have windows and another wall, a door. On the hardwood floor, there is a table with two framed pictures and a candy dish upon the top. At each end of the table is a chair. There is large rug in front of the sofa and upon it, a coffee table with several magazines. In the corner, a television set. By focusing on the room, it now becomes the context in which everything in the room is now the content.
If we open the door we see that the room is part of a house. When we look around inside the house we see that there are several other rooms with different objects on their floors and also on the different walls of different colors and textures. The house now becomes the context in which the first room and its contents are now the content in the house.
We can expand the context to be the lot on which the house sets. This makes the house part of the content of the lot which is now the context. We can then enlarge the context to include the block of additional homes and their respective lots and streets which also includes each house and their contents.
We can keep expanding the context to be the town in which all of the blocks of houses and streets are the content, and then the geographical border called the county in which the town resides. The point is, as we expand the context, we shift what was context to that of being part of the content of the new context. We can continue doing this and work our way up to the state, the country, the continent, the earth, the solar system, the galaxy, and the entire universe being the context and all of its respective contents. We can even imagine a context in which the universe exists, and give it a name.
Each time we expand the context we change the relationship of all the content by adding to the relationships, more relationships. Our focus is moved from one context to the next larger context resulting in reducing our previous context to that of content, or put another way, we change the meaning of all the content, by doing so. We are adding more information each time. In reality, that changes reality. We change our reality by shifting context. We change the context by changing what we are focusing on.