In her book You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay says a bout with the common cold might indicate having:
“Too much going on at once. Mental confusion, disorder. Small hurts. “I get three colds every winter,” type of belief.”
Using affirmations to set a healing intent can be helpful. For colds, she suggests:
“I allow my mind to relax and be at peace. Clarity and harmony are within me and around me.”
Everyone gets sick. Not everyone has the luxury of resting long enough to heal completely. But if we look though our great big To Do List and determine what MUST be done and what COULD be done, we can prioritize getting rest.
Setting aside our self-assigned optional duties also opens space for the mind to settle and the body to heal.
“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor
