BODY, MIND & SOUL Here’s advice to help you physically, mentally and spiritually Cancer affects your physical, emotional and spiritual being. At times, you will probably feel debilitated, emotionally overwrought, and mentally exhausted. But don’t feel bad about that – it happens to pretty much everyone at some point in their lives and you, as a cancer survivor, are entitled to all of those feelings. The most important thing you can do at those points is to know you are not helpless and you have it in your power to change things.