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Archive for April, 2008

Well, I’ve been sick with a chest cold for over a month and I’m …well …sick and tired of it!

My little boy is 8 years old and just over a month ago he brought home a lovely little sickness from school. Since we’re always having fun together it wasn’t long before I became sick too. Children however bounce back much quicker than us aging parents …so he was back to normal in a few days …and I was almost back to normal almost a week and a half later.

Then I assumed it was over. How wrong I was!

Once again, due to the fact we’re always together I soon passed the illness back to him. Within a few more days he was on his way to recovery and I was once again on my way back to bed. After being sick for over a week once more I’m finally beginning to feel better – woo-hoo!

So the question comes back to my skills as an NLP coach and healer – why can’t I heal myself? Well I’ve been mulling that over for a while now and have finally come up with a well rationalized answer.

I know the only reason I’ve been sick is because of some stress I’m experiencing in my life; with negative thoughts constantly on my mind it lowers my emotional state and slows down my system, which includes my immune system. I can usually stay quite healthy most of the time but when you’re down (physically, mentally or emotionally unhealthy) you become more prone to illness. Then, once you’re ill it requires being healthy again before you can get back to life …in our world though we sometimes get back at it too soon and we’re still physically less than healthy making us a prime for getting sick again.

I knew it was a combination of mood and illness …but like everyone else in the world I had a less than stellar moment when choosing to procrastinate taking care of the stress with some NLP skills. “I know what to do – so I can do it anytime – it’s fine”, all the usual thoughts of denial. Then, once sick …well, who wants to do NLP techniques on themselves when you feel awful? Sleep always seems a better choice at that time. (at least it did to me)

And so – back to bed I go!!!