USEFUL TIPS FOR THE IMPENDING 2020 FLU SEASON

 

2020 has been a year like no other for most of us alive today.  Dominated by division, fear, misinformation and hyperbole, it is wise to take a step back,  take a breather and consider what have been found to be useful facts for the up coming flu season.  The likelihood that the fall of 2020 and the winter of 2021 will be a challenging flu season may be an understatement.

COVID-19 is still with us as we approach 2021 and through a shut down, was treated like no other disease in history.  When we ignore what we know about Nature, problems are sure to follow.  Viruses, though individually  unique, all share the same characteristics.  Unlike  a bacterium with nucleus, cell wall, cytoplasm, etc that can survive on its own, viruses are unique strands of DNA/Rna that require a host, are 20 to 50 times smaller than a bacterium, do not live long on surfaces and disappear when herd immunity finally is spread throughout most of the population and the virus is no longer able to find a host to multiply and spread. 

The inevitable flu season will be accompanied by COVID-19 and rather than ignore that or become filled with fear, proper and useful precautions can be taken to strengthen the immune system as well as the prescribed actions and protocols most are adhering to.  Though we know, the COVID-19 is highly contagious, we also know it’s mortal and severe outcome victims fall into a highly narrow category and its morbid victims can have symptoms that range from very mild to quite severe.  The flu though targets just about every body and may be complicated by the effects of this COVID.

So with the double whammy coming along in the very near future, it is wise to accept what might be the inevitable and prepare in the best way possible.

1. Strengthen your immune system using all or a combination of anti virals and immune boosters:   

~Vitamin C, long know to guard against the common cold, a corona virus.

~Vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin” has been shown that those with low levels of this vitamin are more susceptible  to COVID-19. Aside from taking the supplement, you can boost your vitamin D by just exposing your skin to outdoor sunshine for as little as 15 minutes a day.

~Turmeric, a natural anti inflammatory agent

~ Olive leaf, Astragalus, Miatake, Ginsing, a group of proven anti virals you can learn about through visiting a Naturopath or Homeopathic doctor

~Zinc lowers inflammation, can reduce symptoms and shorten duration time for a better outcome from colds and flu and is now used in the treatment of COVID-19.

~Melatonin for stress relief and restful and restorative sleep.

~Garlic, Ginger and  a diet heavily consisting of seasonal fruits and vegetables

2) Of course maintain social distancing and wear a mask when appropriate.  Masks are a mitigating factor rather than an assurance of protection.  Remember how small the virus is. It can only be seen with an electron microscope and the fibers of any mask are could be penetrated by the virus under particular circumstances.  Wear it indoors when in crowded places and outdoors only when close to others for a sustained period. The mysterious genetic component of we as individuals also surely plays a role as to who contracts the virus and who does not when all are in similar circumstances.  When walking outdoors and not around others, take off the mask and breathe the free air.  The lungs need fresh circulating air and taking walks in Nature whenever possible, not only promotes health of the body, but also of the mind and spirit.  It is always important to keep heart and mind open and elevated in any situation.

3) Prepare your mind and grow your awareness of healthy living for body, mind and spirit. Live your life with realistic, but positive outlook not allowing fear from sources not qualified to comment on issues of health and science to penetrate your mind.  Sound advise from qualified doctors, who see patients, can offer the best information on this virus. Be very careful about conflicting information that requires a sober discussion rather than hyperbolic poorly informed rants.

The body is programmed to heal itself.  This is easy to forget when we run too quickly to medications and doctors without first considering personal responsibility for our own health. We must always be co-partners in health with our medical  professionals. 

On a personal note, I am a licensed medical laboratory technician with a specialty in microbiology and still engaged after leaving the profession, earned a science degree, am an ongoing personal development and  certified motivational coach/hypnotherapist for over 25 years,  AND beat an strange muscle virus that ran throughout my body with the help of a Naturopathic doctor and homeopathic and naturopathic remedies.  I always trust in the Divine nature of this glorious and complicated masterpiece we call the human body and it has served me very well.  A life long learner, I trust in the courage and curiosity of investigation rather than in blindly accepting the standards.

Life is an adventure if you choose it to be. Choosing well with courage, we know there are always risks. There is no need to fear when your heart and  mind are open wide to reality and learning.  Your journey will be more exciting and rewarding than you can imagine.

To your health, body, mind, soul and spirit.

       

HEART-WISE

Wisdom in words is easy.  We all use them, post them on our social media sites to remind others and hopefully ourselves. It is action, though that creates change.

Amidst the words of wisdom, we find other words more in abundance of late and it seems growing still.  I keep waiting for them to peak and then go away, but it is not happening. They are the dark words of scapegoating, blame, vitriol, cursing, and profanity. We are more connected now by electronics than by organics, meaning the Heart.

It is the mind that adopts darkness. Don't blame anything else.  The Heart is incapable.  When the mind allows group think and common gossip to overtake it, the Heart closes.  When the Heart is allowed to be closed, it can no longer connect in the way that is natural for all human beings.

The point cannot be argued in any way that cruelty is not learned or advanced by the mind accepting information that instructs the ego to dismantle another soul. Look at any newborn and you have your answer.  We were all born innocent and leaning out for love. (As the great Leonard Cohen put it).

The mind is warped by experiences of darkness it may not be equipped to handle.

We come into the world all with the same Heart and of Heart potential, but not of the same mind or mind potential.

If the world were ruled by the Heart and emotional intelligence were valued in a greater way and taught as a daily exercise by investigation, we would learn more easily as mind would be directed by Heart.

But the world is not that way.  The mind and ego rule over all, though in some rare enclaves, the Heart is taught as superior. This is attempted and practiced in many religions as they teach, tolerance, charity in the true sense, and respect as part of their practice and dogma.  Other institutions have studied whether this practice can evolve society, outside of religious institutions, as a way of practical living.  They are discovering it works.  The Heart-Math institute for one is immersed in this study.

But it is not new. Sages and the enlightened have pointed this way for centuries.

If we look at the simple evidence of the newborn, we can all find our own soul here.

If we look at Natural Law concepts, we find that there is a Divine message in coming from a Heart space of evolution.  Cooperation works. Too soft or too brutal governance and resistance to change does not.  Evolution finds that it is not so much intelligence in the modern way we think of it, that support survival, but adaptation to change.  This tells us that the Heart is a constant, but it is the mind that must keep growing, evolving and changing with new knowledge.

It is also easy to be kind, nice and tolerant with little exertion.  But the quality that moves humanity forward is Courage, a direct point of action guided by Heart. There are many in the former category and very few in the latter.  It is our natural tendency to fit in.  But look just quickly at history, all history; of battles, migration, invention, art and we see only the few that stood out, the Courageous.

It takes courage to think and come to a better conclusion, rather than to go along and get along.
If courage and Heart centered action falters to the place where we forget who and what we are at the soul level and if we come to adore our limited thinking, drowning in the blindness of ego, we will fail and we may perish as a species.  It has happened in the past, but now we have the power for greater extermination, even absolutely so.  It is the mind that can free us from ego by connection to Heart, but it is also the mind that can subjugate us to the ego prison forgetting its Divine invitation.  Neither an Einstein, Jefferson, Darwin, Churchill, Tolstoy, Picasso, Jobs, Curie, Darrow, or a Carnagie would have achieved if they allowed limits. And none of these is Divine only, but with human frailties. It is best to remember that before we are tempted to highlight their faults over their contributions. That has always been an academic ego trap.

We have to think through the Heart to the mind for better solutions.  And we must have faith that the answers are there and wanting to be discovered. Brave people know that, and have given us example. But who we learn from is in our individual choices.

Recent tragedies have demonstrated what a mangled mind is capable of.  There are many examples of the past as well, but we are in the present and maybe can revisit and learn from the past.  If the term now common in our language, "bully" used as a noun and a verb is explored, we might be able to learn just from that exploration of the mind.  (An evil person with an agenda learned over years of programming and conditioning is not the subject here.) But a young mind that may be challenged and lost to the degree of acting out with extreme violence can be explored much more easily and maybe with a better result.  The task of our schools is to educate and hopefully to teach one how to think, rather that what to think.  Incorporating the Heart mind connection is maybe too much to expect in the corporate/government/industry way education is procured today.  But as in any courageous act, it is the individual who has the opportunity to effect change. I cannot help but wonder, as many others have, if there was a kindness offered, an attempted intervention in a genuine way to one who felt lost and marginalized, if there may have been a different outcome.  Authority interferes with this and the ego wants the credit.  But the courage to know and to test kindness with authentic action is the challenge. Again, the challenge belongs to the individual and only the individual can choose Courage.

We live in a country where on paper, (our Constitution) liberty, respect for the individual, limited power of a government over our lives and the guidance of Natural Law (laws of Nature and of Nature's God-> you can substitute Truth or Divine if the word God bothers you<-) is our mandate.
It is unprecedented in human experience and it is exceptional, but it is up to each individual to work to live up to that challenge and expectation.

If we can own who we are and work to understand the Divine thread that guided us to this Knowing, maybe we can put it all together and create a more sustainable and livable society where all are respected and given the rights of the Heart.  It is the Heart~mind connection that is the soul of the human experience and it is in each of us to know in a deeper way and to utilize those inner gifts to maximize our own experience and to share a better way to more humane solutions.

Lets not become a society more in love with the visual container and forget the much greater importance of what is within.


If Courage ever becomes more popular than cool we have more than a fighting chance.


~Heartcoach

COURAGE

                                                         COURAGE

We entered the world from courage and in courage.  It is the most important element of 

our being. Courage brings us to the heightened awareness of Life, that we can do what we 

desire in concert with our Soul.  The French word “coeur”, heart in English, is the derivation 

of the word and concept; courage. Courage is the energy of the heart.  It is the energy that 

explodes passion, meets the challenge and gets things done.  It is the energy of the Ego 

that follows the mysterious Divine Light, moving forward in correction of self, not backward in correction of others.

Reflection has its place and having the courage to see fault in self rather than in 

others is practicing True Courage. It devours that small ego of blame and excuse.

It takes courage to truly Love: love and acceptance of self, love of others when they are in 

darker places.  That is the easy part, it’s in the worlds religions.  But love of those who 

have achieved and are successful and contributing is the real challenge as we can 

compare, feel less, and look for excuses not to love; allow jealousy and the judgement of 

small information to limit our owned and yet to be experienced  contributions.  

The courage to love and accept, not adore others.  Adoration belongs to a higher place.  Loving 

is Knowing and we need Courage to keep our minds sharp and focused as our hearts lead 

the way.

Loving energy leads to Peace in the soul; our subconscious objective.  Courage is key to a 

loving, vibrant life of challenge, what we first felt from our initial infant breath and 

introduction to the marvelous mystery of new life.