I am sick and it sucks. I had treatments booked, now canceled. A lot of times we want to ignore the cold or fight it like its WWIII. Doing both won’t help you or anyone else. Yes, there are many techniques out there on Google, to help you fight it such as drugs, herbs or nothing. My preference is the herbs. Someone suggested I try oil of oregano. I use to take it often in the past but had forgotten how potent it can be. I took a few drops under my tongue and felt a warmness spread all over my throat and mouth for a few minutes. I have never used tiger balm until last night, and wow, it makes your skin cold for awhile… but in a way that is calming. But besides taking the herbs I have realized that I need to pause. To be OK watching silly movies and drinking lots of fluids, and doing nothing. I think colds are reminders to stop.
When you are in a small business dependent on yourself, as well as if you are in a job that requires you to focus on others, you forget about you. But I have come to realize I can’t. I need to be well to work, and that also means I need to have courage to cancel clients.
I was sick for 3 weeks, most of last February. I did nothing for a lot of it, or at least tried not to work too hard. After three weeks of coughing I went to the doctor, who said, your lungs sound bad, here… he handed me a prescription for antibiotics. I held on to it but I also knew I was going to be taking a shiatsu workshop that weekend so I wanted to see what would happen.
The Friday I felt like I was mud surfing with out the proper gear. My body was heavy and weak. I forgot to mention that I had insomnia those three weeks as well. During the class we did some qigong exercises as well as we were taught how to find organ refer points on our hand, similar to reflexology but with a shin so twist. And those organ points move depending on how healthy they are. If the organ is OK it will stay in the location our teacher showed us on the hand. If the organ was not well, or off in some way it will move down the hand to the wrist. Once you find where the point is you press it for a few minutes at different tension, so soft and hard. I asked my teacher if he could tell me which points I needed to work on: liver, lungs,spleen, kidneys, and triple heater ( which I often consider the immune system in Chinese medicine). That day we worked on each other giving short shiatsu sessions. And I slept a little that night. When I woke up I worked on the points on my hands.
The next day we learned more techniques to further our understanding of how to help bodies heal. I asked my teacher again what was wrong, and this time: lungs, kidneys and spleen, were still having issues. He did say they looked a little better for they didn’t go down to my wrist. It was a relaxing class. That night I slept through out the whole night.
The last day I felt grounded,relaxed and curious to learn more. We had a visitor come in to be worked on. The teacher had two assistants ask the woman questions similar asked at an acupuncture visit. They also then studied her tongue and pulse. It took them 20 minutes to discuss with the visitor her issues. After they were done the teacher went to check on her and it took him 10 minutes to find all that he needed to do. He did not check her tongue or ask her questions or read her pulse. He did it the shin so way. The shin so way is using sounds and hand positions that are related to meridian, organ and actual body parts. There is one sound called NEH will allows him to know where there is a structural issue. The other interesting thing is that he does not need to say the sounds out loud, but think them and they will still respond. This goes to show you that it is important to have a clear head when working on people.
In the end his results were similar to the assistants but better. He then proceeded to tell the assistants to do the treatment that we had learned the day before using ion pumping cords that will help circulate negative ions in her body to where they need to go. She had the cords on for 15 minute.One of the assistants then gave her some shiatsu pressure point massage on her back to finish the treatment. After the session I asked the teacher if he could see if any of my organs were off still. He looked at my hand and said, what was wrong with you again? He genuinely could not remember. And I felt great.
That week I slept straight through each night again. I felt wonderful. I also recieved a lot of new clients that following month. March was my best month for work for a long time. I also kept busy with personal engagements, with out saying no to invites I would go. I forgot that I need to rest too.
So today I am sick. I will do shiatsu on myself. I will take herbs. But I will also be OK with being sick. I am not trying to fight the cold, just allow myself to feel better during it.