Are you feeling the sense of fear around us right now? I sure am. In light of current events, it is becoming abundantly clear to me that we’ve lost sight of something very important - confidence in our ability to heal.
Have you been swayed into believing that what happens to you is entirely outside of your control, and that there’s nothing you can do but stay indoors, avoid the risk…hope for the best?
Let me take a moment to remind you of who you are. How you’ve been made. Because what you have inside you is powerful and brilliant.
In times like these, we need to remember that we are fully equipped for battle.
You have everything you need within you right now to fight. When there are new things to battle, we need to trust our bodies and, rather than hide, we need to equip them with the resources they need.
Have you ever thought about your immune system as an army?
That’s exactly what it is. Your immune system is a powerful, tactical army. It has scouts, defenders, front line warriors, and special cells for every type of challenge you may face.
Every battle your body has fought is hard-wired into your immune system’s memory. It is constantly learning, always watching, ready to defend long before you even know there is a threat.
Although things in this world would make it seem otherwise, you weren’t made with missing pieces. We get scared when we hear about widespread illness, but we shouldn’t live life in fear like that - not when we have such a powerful military living within us.
Widespread sickness is a sign that we’re approaching health in the wrong ways.
I have learned in my practice that the biggest obstacle to healing is lack of understanding. Most people have never been taught how their bodies actually work. We walk around for years in this body of ours but never get an owner’s manual.
If we want to overcome the fear of sickness, we are going to have to learn how our immune system works. We need to learn truth to let go of fear. Here is where we lack the most understanding when it comes to our immune system:
1) Our Immune Warriors Need Practice.
They need to learn how to fight, so they can remember and adapt. It is actually GOOD to get sick from time to time. Do you hear me here? It’s not fun to be sick, and we shouldn’t constantly be sick, but if we never, ever get sick our warriors will not have enough experience. When something new and foreign comes, we don’t want an immune army that’s been sitting on the sidelines.
2) Our Immune Warriors Need Space and Time to Act. We Need to Stop Stopping Them.
We are constantly bombarded with messages that imply sickness is something to be afraid of, and that we need to stop it at all costs. At the first sign of fever we take medication to stop it. When we’re sneezing, coughing, and snotty we stop those symptoms too.
Please hear me on this: symptoms are not the sickness.
The mucus and fever you experience while you are sick are not properties of the virus/bacteria, they are your body acting to get the virus/bacteria OUT. They are signs of health. When we keep stopping these things we are telling our immune system to stop fighting. How long can we go on doing this before our immune system gets the message that we don’t want it to fight anymore?
3) Our Immune Warriors Need Fuel - and LOTS of it.
Just like we wouldn’t send our country’s military out to battle without food and water, our immune military needs resources too. We have a major problem in America with feeding our bodies anything but real food. Our diets are made-up mostly of sugar, chemicals, and bad fats. These “foods” may give us a sense of fullness, but they leave our cells starving. We are missing vital nutrients that our bodies require for functioning well. Our immune system cells are numerous and powerful, and they are almost always working in some way. They can only go on for so long in this starved state before they can no longer fight for us.
How have you been supporting your body?
Are you stopping your defenses? Are you starving your cells? If you haven’t been supporting your body well and you’ve been living in fear, I want to encourage you that your body has not forgotten how to heal. Your immune system is hard-wired into your DNA. Even if it has been missing some key things lately, when you provide your body with what it needs it will pick back up the pieces.
Here is a short video we recorded a few years ago talking about why we may be attracting sickness, and what we can do to change our odds.
”What Mosquitoes and the Military Can Tell Us About Our Immune System”
If you would like help in knowing what to do to better support your immune system warriors, watch for our upcoming blog post or reach out to us with your questions.