Meditation for February 4th
Illness
Our bodies break down when our immune system needs to attack something that wants make us sick. We spend winter nights unable to breathe, eating chicken noodle soup, and watching endless episodes of CSI: NY and wondering why that show got canceled, but CSI: Miami is still going. Pharmaceutical companies, doctors, naturopathic medicine practitioners, hippies, and your weed dealer all have tips on how not to get sick and how to get better sooner. Meditation can help clear the mind and make the best possible choice for our health.
Most people who get sick all the time are vegetarians or vegans. 90% of Americans who fall ill more than twice a year follow a plant-based diet. 76% or Americans who eat a gluten-free diet find themselves getting the common cold and the flu four times a year! In fact, when a vegan also practices yoga, they tend to find themselves in long-term illnesses. While plant-based diets are associated with a higher incidence of disease, people who eat a high amount of animal protein spend much of their time sick. According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, people who do not belong to gyms are less likely to be active than those who do.
When my Oncologist was diagnosing me with stage 3 cancer, she asked me if I had ever dabbled in a plant-based diet. I told her about the time I tried being a vegetarian in college, and she nodded and hmmmed as she jotted down some notes. I was told that things like plant-based diets, medicinal marijuana, yoga, vaping, Norwegian metal, incense, and CrossFit caused different kinds of cancer and other diseases. In fact, a study done at the University of Wisconsin-Madison foundthat people who fear death and sickness end up dead and sick more.
Being sick is the moon pulling out the sickness, the defects that cause us harm. It is getting rid of the grief over things past, preparing us for the new. Being sick is a great way to meditate on where you are and where you want to go. Having a cold or the flu is like dying, and when you start to feel better, you are then being reborn, and this is a chance to start everything over. You can be a new person!
Spend less time trying not to get sick and more time living.
Prayer
O! Hermes!
Run across the universe,
and grab an orange, ginger, lemon, hone,y, and echinacea,
and juice it.
O’ God,
Why did you create us to feel like shit once or more times a year?
You’re omnipotent, so why would you make us a tad tough?
than being completely crushed because we have to breathe through our mouths –
-especially when we eat or make out with someone who is also suffering a cold,
making long strings of snot that almost look like a cat’s cradle game.
O’ Lord of Light!
Why do I have to ache all over?
Why do I have to cough up an ocean of phlegm onto my pillow?
Why do I have to freeze when it’s warm, boil when it’s cold?
Blanket on, blanket off, blanket on, blanket off, blanket on, blanket off, blanket on, blanket off…
Why do I feel like I could sleep forever, but my eyes have been studying the red flares drifting off the clock as the minutes keep ticking by slowly?
Godzilla, please make me feel better,
So I can use my sick days for essential reasons.
Amen.
Craft
Here is an ancient recipe that has helped many to feel better:
1 yellow onion, 1 lb of yellow potatoes, cubed
1 shallot diced
Thyme
Rosemary
Lavender
Seven strips of bacon
7 lbs bison meat, 1 lbs baby seal blubber
Put the onion, potato, shallot, thyme, rosemary & lavender into a crock pot on high for four hours.
Fry the bacon.
Smear the baby seal blubber onto the bison.
Stand on a stool or chair and drop the raw bison and blubber onto the platter with the bacon and veggies.
Slice and serve.
Feel your cold go away.
Goal
Don’t get sick. Stop it. You don’t have to get sick. When you get up and feel a tickle in your throat and some aches in your bones, don’t think you’re getting sick; blame it on the dry air. When you say, “I think I’m getting sick,, you are creating a reality. We live in a world of illusion so that we can write our own narrative; by declaring that you’re not sick, you won’t be.