the power of thoughts

Okay so I'm going to show you my true inner hippy and talk about the power of thoughts and our innate ability to heal ourselves :)  On Wednesday evening, I started feeling a cold coming on and by Thursday morning I couldn't breathe through my nose anymore.  I got up in the morning and went to yoga thinking that it would help clear some toxins out of my body.  I had a really great class and was able to breathe freely. 

I then went to work, sat through a couple meetings and then started feeling really awful again.  My sinuses were all blocked again which was making me lightheaded.  I left for the day and came home to take a nap but I couldn't sleep because I couldn't breathe.  I got up and did some meditation and then took a bath with some eucalyptus dead sea salts.  I focused my thoughts on breathing and healing...I know, I know, it may sound a little kooky but honestly when I was finished I felt entirely different.  I was able to breathe again and took a nice long nap.

Thursday evening my husband & I were supposed to go to a friend's house to watch the Husky basketball game, but I didn't feel like I should be around other people spreading my germs so we stayed home.  It was really interesting, every time I would sit down my congestion would return, but when I stood up and moved around I could breathe more easily.  So I spent most of the game pacing around the livingroom while my husband sat on the couch.

I also broke out my neti pot and used that in the morning & night - if you don't have a neti pot, you should seriously get one.  My husband used to take Claritin every day for his allergies and after I got him a neti pot, he has completely quit using Claritin - it's amazing!

Anyway - today I went to the Restorative yoga class and the instructor, Jennifer, talked about how we get sick because we don't move our bodies the way they were intended to move.  We spend so much of our time sitting at a desk at work, sitting on our couch at home, etc. that we are imparing our lymph system from doing its job.  Even though I hadn't told her I was sick, I felt like she was speaking directly to me.  It went right with what I had experienced of feeling sick when I was sitting and feeling better when I was moving.

All through class I focused my breathing on healing like I did yesterday - each time I inhaled I said to myself "breathe" and each time I exhaled I said "heal."  When I got home I felt a hundred times better - I really feel like I healed myself after just a day of being sick.  Call me a hippy if you want, but if it works it works!