Antiviral Strategies

Basic body stuff:

1) Get to sleep by 11pm (or even 10pm: the earlier, the better)

2) Maintain proper hydration

3) Consume appropriate food (ZERO SUGAR… weakens the immune system immediately and for hours afterwards, no fruit juice but some fruit is fine, some raw vegetables, minimal vegetable juice, lots of steamed vegetables, high-quality protein).

4) Many infections enter through the digestive tract, so keeping that healthy is important, even when a respiratory infection is the concern. For digestive system support: Chinese herbal formulas: Early Comfort and Peaceful Earth; probiotics (sauerkraut, pickles, kombucha (without sugar), supplements if they work for you), prebiotics (plant fiber, steamed vegetables), no sugar.

5) Some people will benefit from taking up to 15mg of zinc per day… but not everyone (a blood test would be best as iron and copper levels can be affected by zinc intake).

6) Herbs such as gynostemma (make into a tea), reishi mushroom, astragalus.

7) Make sure to get vitamin D every day as it influences our immune system function. Again, blood work is recommended to determine the appropriate intake level, but most people should consume 1000 IU / day between their diet and supplements. (See previous blog entry, "Hello, Sunshine!" for related information.) Also consume some vitamin K2 (hard cheeses, natto) to make sure the calcium is deposited in the desired tissues.

8) Move your body… doesn’t matter what you do: dance, yoga, hike, swim, bike… preferably twice a day.

9) Just received an important nutritional update:  Consumer Labs

Healing

The immune system encompasses many tissues and organs, including the thymus, bone marrow, digestive system, skin, white blood cells. Besides supporting our immune system with lifestyle and nutritional support, it is even more important to evolve our immune system to do a better job of protecting our body. It is helpful to visualize yellow and yellow/green light in the bone marrow, thymus, and digestive system to teach those organs how to function better. 

In addition, to prepare our body to properly handle viruses, bacteria, and other externally-originating health challenges, we must activate our body’s capabilities for evicting foreign energy that is already present and preventing the entry of additional foreign energy. Work with affirmations such as the following and heal any resistance that arises:

"My immune system intends to heal."

"My immune system transforms or eliminates all uncaring energy in my body."

"My immune system keeps all uncaring energy out of my body."

We must also do a much better job of bringing our Light into our body. Intensifying our 3 Dan Tien with our main ray colors is important – just visualize balls of light of the appropriate color in each energy center. If you are unsure of what color to use, try using yellow in the Lower Dan Tien and gold in the Middle and Upper Dan Tien.

The Lower Dan Tien is located 3-4 finger widths below the navel and 3 finger widths internally. The Middle Dan Tien is located in the thymus, which sits on top of the heart. The Upper Dan Tien is located in the hypothalamus, near the center of our head.

Other super important meditations / exercises:

1) Visualize gold light in the 7^th chakra (top of your head; create a golf ball-sized ball of light half in and half out of your head) and in the upper 8^th chakra (create a 6" diameter horizontal ring 1 foot over your head). This is especially important for headaches brought on by viruses.

2) Heal how you match other people’s energy… that’s what creates epidemics / pandemics. To maintain your own energy, activate the 3 Dan Tien as described above. Disengaging from everyone's energy is crucial. (See previous blog post, "Avenues of Engagement.")

3) Breathe color in and out of your lungs with each breath: yellow-green to strengthen the lungs, purple to separate from foreign energy.

4) Power up the 3^rd chakra by visualizing a 3-inch ball of yellow light in the chakra (solar plexus).

5) Visualize a ball of light below your feet. Draw the light up your legs, up your spine, out the top of your head, up another 2-3 feet, then let the light shower down around your body creating an egg-shaped ball with a 3-foot radius.

6) Visualize blue light in your adrenal glands to reduce your stress and to separate from other people’s distress.

Societal Reset 


The current world-wide health challenge (Covid-19) is an opportunity to come together as a whole planet. Instead of individual countries, states, towns, and people simply looking out for themselves, we could coordinate our movement through this event together. Of course everyone has a responsibility to prepare and take care of themselves and their family, if possible, and every country must prepare as well. However, this event is much larger than any one person or country. The personal and economic challenges in particular can be handled in ways that help people focus on the fact that we are all in this together. Everyone is affected and no one is separate from what is going on with everyone else. This is an opportunity to experience and create equality, connection, humanity, and peace.

While this is an opportunity to make real change, healing is what will make it possible. We could rebuild our way of life in a more planet-friendly, human-friendly, all-plant-and-animal-friendly way...

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Hello, Sunshine!

Sunshine is essential for maintaining a healthy body. Research out of Sweden reports that going without sunshine has an impact on our health that is the equivalent of smoking a pack of cigarettes a day… not good!! Besides the potential for a vitamin D deficiency, there is a greater risk for numerous disorders, including autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis, and depression. In addition, UV light may be beneficial for the treatment of skin disorders, such as eczema and psoriasis.

Many wavelengths of the light emitted by the sun are used by our body to make some of the vital molecules that are required for healthy bodily function. This includes vitamin D and nitric oxide. When 7-dehydrocholesterol (a derivative of cholesterol) absorbs UVB light with a wavelength between 270 and 300nm and especially 293nm (though some sources say 290-315nm), provitamin D is produced. The production of nitric oxide, a chemical messenger with many functions, requires UVA light with a wavelength in the 315-400nm range. 

I see a lot of articles about the value of sun exposure, but not all sunshine is created equal. Medical recommendations suggest minimizing midday exposure and performing outdoor activities before 10am and/or after 3pm. However, UVB wavelengths are absorbed by the atmosphere in the early morning and late afternoon. The early morning and late afternoon sun exposure will not help with the intrinsic production of vitamin D but will contribute to UVA exposure

For UVB wavelengths to reach the surface of the Earth, the sun has to reach approximately 48 degrees above the horizon. At a latitude of 45 degrees North, this only occurs from April 1 to September 6. During the rest of the year, very little UVB reaches the planet’s surface at this latitude. Thus the middle of the day is the best time for sun exposure to obtain the desirable UVB wavelengths from April 1 through September 6 at 45 degrees North latitude.

The amount of time to spend in the sun depends on a number of factors: skin pigmentation (lighter skin requires less exposure), time of day, time of year, latitude, altitude, sunscreen usage, air pollution, and clothing worn.

Glass and plastic windows block UVB while allowing UVA to pass through. Since malignant melanoma appears to be more closely associated with UVA exposure than with UVB exposure, it is important to limit the amount of sunlight exposure through windows.

Our body self-regulates its intrinsic vitamin D production so there is a natural maximum concentration that can result from sun exposure. At this level, equilibrium is maintained with the vitamin being degraded as quickly as it is made. Of course, there are consequences of extended exposure to sunshine that are not desirable, such as sunburn and an increased risk of skin cancer. With dietary intake (including supplements), there is no internal regulation thus there is the possibility of overdosing on vitamin D leading to bone metabolism disorders and other associated mental and physical dysfunction.

Sunscreen may be an important consideration when there is the possibility of excessive sun exposure. But one must be very cautious about the actual sunscreen as the sunscreen chemicals are not regulated like foods and food additives. These chemicals are readily absorbed through the skin and can remain in the body for extended periods of time. Some of the chemicals in sunscreens are hormone-disrupting chemicals that can adversely affect our body’s hormonally-regulated metabolism. Zinc- and titanium-based sunscreens are safe to use.

Avenues of Engagement

Our interactions with other people are one of the most important aspects of our life. This is true in both health and disease. In health, we can connect with other people in profound ways and co-create wonderful experiences and manifest beautiful expressions. In dysfunction, we connect with other people through issues, live with other people’s energy and issues in our space, and express our communal dysfunction in undesirable bodily, personal, and interpersonal ways.

What does a healthy interaction with another person look like?

Healthy interactions require that we keep other people’s energy out of our space and keep our own energy flowing through us but not into other people’s space. We meet people on the edge of our energy; no merging occurs at all. Unfortunately, as you might imagine, this level of awareness and personal development are quite rare.

Understanding how we engage with other people and developing a practice to make our engagements more functional and healthy are perhaps the most important topics to address with our healing work. These are significant considerations on a daily basis for everyone.

There are only a few ways to engage with another person’s energy: through an issue (something we want, something we are trying to get away from, some less-than-ideal quality of our energy) or on the edge of our energy.

Fortunately, we can heal our issues to resolve dysfunctional engagements, separate from other people’s energy, and create the opportunity to have genuinely healthy connections.

After each interaction, ask yourself how you engaged with or opened to the other person. Then relax through the feeling of that energy. By healing the avenue of engagement in this way, you will improve the functionality of your engagements and become aware of alternate ways of interacting.

The most difficult aspect of our avenues of engagement relates to qualities of our energy. These may not seem dysfunctional, though if someone else’s energy ends up in our space or our energy is in their space, we know we must heal something. Common qualities include being accepting, nice, or caring, taking responsibility, trusting other people, giving other people value / worth, and accepting other people. While we may think these qualities are desirable, when they create an opening for engaging with another person’s energy, they are not functional or healthy. Once again, simply relaxing through how we engage with another person heals that energy and reveals healthier ways of being.

(For more information, review the chapters titled, “Separations,” “Relationships,” “Energy Traders,” “The Energy of Engagement,” “Dysfunction Junction,” and “Avenues of Engagement” in Book I, “Healing: The Path to Freedom.”)