Do you have any idea how much power and influence your thinking has?  Your mind, your emotions, your beliefs dictate what goes on in your body.

You’ve probably heard the phrase “mind over matter” that is mentioned when a person gets results that most people would not expect.  That person has a vision and positive feelings about seeing it through until it becomes reality.  That person does not allow fear of an unwanted result to enter into his/her mind. 

 You have the same ability and it works with health issues.

Do you know what one of the biggest stressors to the immune system is?  It’s FEAR.  It’s not the actual disease or disaster, which rarely happens, but it is the FEAR of the disease or disaster that wears down a healthy body.

All I have to do is look at my “love” and “fear” strawberries to remind me how destructive fear is.

If people around me are sick or the news is spreading warnings about some horrible affliction that is spreading, I feel a wave of fear go through my body and my thoughts bring up images of getting sick also.

Immediately, I say “No” to those thoughts.  I banish them from my mind, turn the news off, go and do some energy work to remove the source of the fearful thoughts.  Then I do things like eat chicken soup and remind myself that studies have shown that it actually does help.  I take some extra vitamin C and imagine it going in and boosting my immune system.  I hear the words of Dr Bruce Lipton as he explains how our bodies have all the stem cells we need to heal ourselves of anything.  He says we don’t need the pharmaceutical companies harvesting them and then selling them back to us.  So I create an intention and an image of my stem cells rushing to the aid of any vulnerability I might have and strengthening it so I remain healthy and strong.

I do everything I can to support a strong healthy belief that I am healthy and strong, which includes feeding my body things that I believe will support it.

I remind myself of times like the one where I became very ill on a day where I was scheduled later that evening to perform at a little club.  I was the solo act, singing and playing guitar, and I could barely speak let alone sing, due to severe coughing, sneezing etc.  It was a small very unimportant gig and I could have easily cancelled but it was very important to me.  It had built momentum and was now a huge party for some of my family and friends and some had never been out to see me perform before.

I simply got mad.  I refused to be sick, even as I got sicker as the day went on.  I told myself over and over again “I AM GOING tonight and I will have a wonderful time and sing as well as I ever have.  I will NOT be sick.  People asked me what I was going to do.  I answered with complete conviction.  “I am going to play tonight and I will NOT be sick.”  I used ceative visualization and I believed it with every ounce of my being.  I was indignant that this cold/flu could think it could mess me up!  I went on with my plans never giving a thought to the fact that I was sick and wouldn’t be able to sing.  The images in my creative visualization are all I allowed my mind to see.

When I walked out the door and headed to the club, my head cleared, I felt fine, played my heart out and had a great time.  After I packed up and headed back home, all of the symptoms returned and I was just as sick as I had been earlier in the day.  But I had gotten exactly what I had asked for and visualized-to be well that evening so I could play and sing.  I realized later how much thought I had given to the fact that I didn’t care if I got sick again later, I just HAD to be well to play that evening.  Things were happening consciously and subconsciously because of my thoughts and beliefs. 

With hindsight, I can see a flaw in my plan to be well to sing.  It could have been just as easy to banish the cold for good.

Do you really want to allow fear of the Swine Flu or anything else to control your thoughts and add the very stress that can cause the vulnerability?  You have the power to choose and do something about it.

My decision is to create a vision of health to see in my mind’s eye, to support my physical body with good nutrition, water, sleep and exercise and energy work to reduce my stress and change the beliefs that cause me to be fearful.