“We are all human”, says an article I read in a local Yahoo Groups that is about strategies for the, "Sick Season". It basically has positive moments, but it tends to go toward a feeling that humans are trapped in dealing with germs as if they were muggers lurking around every corner. I propose to share with you my truth that although I can get sick once in a great while, I don’t constantly look at statistic averages which rail on about that as many as ten colds a year are normal for kids and four per year for myself as an adult. I do wash my hands often enough but I don’t fear any sick person who might cough in my face. This article has a point in reminding you that your immune system is... key word... YOURS. It is under your controls and guidance.

I don’t tell my DNA to go ahead and lay down and take those sick days. Your DNA would really love you to tell them that you don't have to give in easily to anyone else's view of Normal Statistics. The DNA in your cells want you to tell them how healthy you are, not how vulnerable you are.

It happens that the morning I am writing this I had gone to bed the last three nights in a row and I had a sore throat each night. Before I laid in bed I did physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual rituals that I will mention. I did not lie down in bed and say, "Oh that inevitable cold that everyone is getting is coming on!!! Poor me, there's nothing to be done". Each morning I woke up without any trace of a step-one symptom. I was back to feeling healthy. I went through the day feeling fine.

Certain times in your life you do have emotional, physical, mental, energetic and spiritual drains coming at you that you must look at and deal with in complementary ways. In those times your immune system needs extra help.

I am having a time of challenged circumstances this week and in fact a longer period that that, but when that sore throat and tiredness comes back each mid afternoon and/or evening as it has for the last three days I don't expect a progression through symptoms that will put me on my back in bed for a week or more. I don't consciously or even subconsciously welcome a well deserved rest from my life where I will enjoy family members waiting on me as mom did when I was a kid. (Fun Vacations are a much better way to take a rest.) I don't welcome in the feeling that others love me more when I am vulnerable. There is nothing wrong with being vulnerable, yet I don't have to be physically, emotionally or mentally ill to enable myself to be vulnerable at times.

By the third night, I had replaced my toothbrush and continued doing some physical remedies like taking Loquat Syrup I get from the Chinese grocery store, taking a Wellness Capsule I get from the health food store and putting old fashioned Vicks Vapo-rub on my throat and putting a scarf over it all night, I also lay in bed and do mental-energetic-spiritual qigong in the form of alchemical formulas that balance my emotions as well as my energetic centers and acupuncture routes.

I do my own morning practices every day and teach my morning class every day but Tues when I catch up with extra sleep. Sometimes during the night when life is a bit topsy turvy, I get up out of bed and do extra practices in another room away from my mate.

I am not saying that my ways of dealing are the only ways an individual should learn to cope. There are many ways; hundreds and thousands of ways to do it, but you must find your own way and practice while you are healthy and not just when you are sick.

Stop spreading the negative mantras such as that you have no recourse to a cold. Unless you really want those days in bed suffering, train yourself to be the empowered energetic self-healer who is connected to the one Healing Source, no matter how you name him/her/it. I like to believe you have to "put out your hands". to "catch a cold" in the same way as catching a ball. Step aside! Don't be guilty, make excuses, or feel sorry. Train your immune system daily.

The following is information edited by me that I received via the Internet. It will help you to understand that negative mantras must be ousted from your habitual way of speaking to yourself. “Mind over matter” is being researched more fully. Deep studies are being done all over the world and not just from this example that I cite below. Start taking seriously a developing understanding that YOU are in Charge of whether you get a germ and run with it in your mind into a fully developed period of sickness. Read and heed this information:

DNA Discoveries From RussiaThe human DNA is a biological Internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. There is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies without cutting out and replacing single genes.

Only 10% of our DNA is being used for building proteins. It is this subset of DNA that is of interest to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. The other 90% are considered "junk DNA."

This latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind's influence on weather patterns and much more.
Our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body but also serves as data storage and communication. The Russian linguists found that the genetic code - especially in the apparent "useless" 90% - follows the same rules as all our human languages.

To this end they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and the basic rules of grammar.

They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. Therefore, human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of our inherent DNA.

The Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues also explored the vibrational behavior of DNA. In brief the bottom line was: "Living chromosomes function just like a holographic computer using endogenous DNA laser radiation." This means that they managed, for example, to modulate certain frequency patterns (sound) onto a laser-like ray which influenced DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself.

Living DNA substance (in living tissue, not in vitro) will always react to language-modulated laser rays and even to radio waves, if the proper frequencies (sound) are being used.
This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations , hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language.

This information edited and translated by Baerbel on 1/17/05 & condensed by R. Cohan, (954) 927-2836 from Internet forward Aug. 3, ’05

Author's Bio: 

Raven Cohan is certified to teach Universal Tao/ Healing Tao courses by her teacher Mantak Chia since 1983. These classes offer hundreds of ways to approach your best healthy self. She is presently writing a book on her take of this system of Chinese Healing techniques See her Web site at taoTLC.com .