Article Summary:
Immunity is the body’s defense system against harmful microorganisms. It has both physical and energetic components, influenced by emotions, thoughts, and self-love. Emotional issues can disrupt the immune system, making it vital to support immunity through positive emotions and self-care. Techniques like self-forgiveness, and healthy feeling meditation can enhance immunity by promoting emotional and physical well-being. By understanding the connection between emotions and immunity, you can boost your body’s natural defenses and improve overall health.
Emotional Impact on Immunity: What You Need to Know
by Vir McCoy.
What is immunity? Webster’s dictionary defines it as the capability of multicellular organisms to resist harmful microorganisms, and also the capacity to recognize and tolerate whatever belongs to the self, and to recognize and reject what is foreign (non-self).
On the physical level, then, the immune system is like a protective army. Sometimes the army attacks the self. This is autoimmunity. Sometimes our army becomes weak or important aspects don’t function correctly. Sometimes that’s because the immune system is hampered by, among other things, genetics, emotions, or exposure to toxins like certain molds, chemicals, radiation, food allergens, pathogens such as bacteria and viruses, heavy metals, and so on.
Emotional Issues Disrupt the Immune System
On the energetic level, the ability to reject what is foreign and recognize what is self can be disrupted by emotional issues. For example, what if we don’t love or trust the self? What does that say to the immune system?
When you’re faced with long Covid, the first questions to ask are: What factors might be hampering my immunity? How do I find out what I need to heal? To remove those dampeners of immunity? To make sure my immune system is functioning optimally?
Even if your immune system is working just fine, supporting that immunity is key for recovery. In fact, this is relevant regardless of the disease or circumstances you’re up against.
Energetic Immunity
The immune system has an energetic component, and it may be greatly influenced by our emotions, thoughts, self-love, stress, trauma, ancestral trauma, karma, and so on. We might say that energetic immunity in its ideal state is love, or being in alignment with love and the self. This self-love allows a protection of boundaries, a “standing firm against those that would seek to harm thee.”
Our immune armies are stronger when we love them, when we support them, when we want to protect the castle. I call this love and fire, or self-love and boundaries.
Consider that self-love may go a long way in building immunity. This does not mean that you won’t ever get sick; it just means that you will fare better and recover more quickly because your immune system is working more efficiently.
Consider that self-love may involve forgiveness and gratitude. Consider that emotional blocks may hamper the flow of energy and the health of the gut, where most of the immune system resides.
Self-Love
What does self-love mean to you? How do you feel about yourself? Don’t like or trust yourself? Don’t like a part of your body? If you have an unconscious loop going that says, “I don’t love myself,” what does that say to your immune system? Why should your powerful army go out and protect you if you yourself don’t care about you? And what does it mean to have autoimmunity? Could that imply self-sabotage? Consider that the simple act of self-love and self-care strengthens your immune army.
Consider that self-love might mean simply giving yourself the space to be who you are. Perhaps taking yourself to a place of acceptance. Doing the things you love to do. Being around the things you know you love. No obligations involved. Ask yourself how you could be more in alignment with what you love. Consider that being out of alignment with what you love can hinder your immune system.
Consider that the cure is already in your body, that your body knows what it needs to heal, that your immune system is an incredibly intelligent, adaptive, sensitive, powerful community. How can you support the immune system in doing its task? How can you get the immune system, your powerful internal army, in tip-top shape?
Forgiveness
What would it feel like to forgive yourself, or begin to forgive yourself, for the misgivings and mistakes of the past? Can you forgive yourself for getting Covid? Consider that self-forgiveness is at the heart of health.
I remember lying in bed, sick with Covid, feeling so helpless. I was so upset with myself for being careless and not taking the coronavirus more seriously. I was upset at whoever it was that gave it to me, and even more upset and guilty that I had given it to a housemate.
I worked on forgiving the person who had given it to me as well as seeking forgiveness from the person I had given it to. But I was still pissed. Then I had a thought: I had forgotten to forgive myself.
Over the years I have come to understand that self-forgiveness is really at the heart of healing. As I began to forgive myself, and consider the lessons I had learned, I noticed a sensation of letting go.
I could feel how forgiving myself strengthened not just my mind-set but my actual immune function. I began to feel better, emotionally and physically. And that makes sense; if I am having negative thoughts and feelings about myself, how can my immune system not feel the same? Can my immune system function at 100 percent if I don’t love myself? Likely not.
Forgiveness is at the heart of healing. Forgiveness is the key to awakening the heart. Releasing old grief and anger is paramount for healing. Forgiving ourselves and those who have harmed us as well as asking forgiveness from those we have injured or hurt in some way can help us return to a natural state of love. Try to make this effort a daily practice. We are choosing our power to heal through forgiveness. To love, accept, cherish, and nurture ourselves, just as we are, is, I believe, a reclamation of our power.
Negative Thoughtforms
I believe the energetics of disease feeds on fear and negative thoughtforms. What is a negative thoughtform? It is anything that is not essentially based on love. For example, a partner breaks up with you, and you form the thought, “I am not worthy, something is wrong with me.” Then guilt and fear creep into your psyche. As we’ve seen time and again, negative feelings and negative self-image have negative effects on our biological function. And disease feeds on this process.
I believe that some negative thoughtforms are crystallizations of trauma and unfelt feelings. Consider how your thoughts might relate to old wounds. As you acknowledge old unfelt feelings, your thoughts and beliefs may naturally change, and vice versa.
Attitudes and Beliefs
Just as important as physically supporting the body is emotionally supporting the body. The moment you choose to heal and decide to get well no matter what, you are on your way. It’s essential to believe that you can kick long Covid.
Being positive can be hard when you’re going through such a challenging disease. Try imagining that the world is counting on you, and you will be amazed by what you can do. Take on the mind-set of a long-distance runner: you are running a marathon, not a sprint. Stay focused on the goal and pace yourself.
Practice your daily affirmations and whatever else you need to do to stay on the path. Be open to all the possibilities your intuition might reveal. Call on the magic—it’s out there! We live in a universe of infinite possibilities and probabilities. Healing is not just one of those possibilities but a probability.
Your body wants to heal, and it’s your remembering and choosing that can help it do its job. Make it a daily statement: “I choose to heal.” Visualize yourself totally healthy.
We all have a tendency to focus on what’s wrong. What part of your body works just fine? Why not focus on what is healthy and spread that around? When we believe we are sick, it can take longer to heal. By changing our beliefs, we can change our bodies, and even the pain.
Healthy Feeling Meditation
Lie down or sit and make yourself comfortable. Close your eyes. Begin to take some deep breaths. Roll your head gently in circles. Take some deep, slow, wavelike breaths, bringing the air deep into your belly. Full inhalation, full exhalation. Relax and let go with each exhalation.
Continue to breathe slowly and deeply. Now soften your jaw. Soften your eyes. Soften the optic nerve that runs all the way from your eyes back into your brain. Soften your ears and the little ear bones.
Soften the back of your head (the occiput). Soften the juncture where your spine meets your brain. Breathe, relax, let go.
Soften deep in your brain. Imagine that your head is melting downward, like melted butter, sinking and flowing into your belly, as if the very seat of “you” existed in your gut. What does that feel like? Soft and relaxed. See all the thoughts and worries dropping into the earth. Breathe.
Now find a place in your body that is healthy and not in pain—your white blood cells, perhaps, or the little toe on your right foot, or your nose, or deep in the center of your heart. Or remember an activity that you love to do when you are feeling healthy—surfing, skiing, making passionate love, climbing a mountain, or laughing. What does that health—in your body or in your experience—feel like? Capture that feeling of good health. Bring it into your heart. Focus on it. Rest and breathe into that place. Allow your thoughts to be pulled down into your heart. See how they may change.
Now take that feeling of good health and begin to spread it around your body. Spread it far and wide; spread that health to all parts and points in your body and energy field. Let it wash and melt over the pain and thoughts that have plagued you. Begin to say slowly, I am strong, I am whole, I am healthy, I am powerful. Remember what health feels like. Feel it and begin to believe it. Let the feeling permeate your whole being.
Open your eyes when you are ready.
Monitor your beliefs about yourself and your health, and watch out for negative thinking. Whose voice is talking? Is it a voice of fear or love? You get to choose. Remember that your body believes every idea you think, so choosing positive thoughts can help you heal.
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Adapted with permission from the publisher,
\Healing Arts Press, an imprint of Inner Traditions Intl.
Article Source:
BOOK: Healing Therapies for Long Covid
Healing Therapies for Long Covid: An Integrative and Intuitive Guide to Recovering from Post-Acute Covid
by Vir McCoy.
Early in the pandemic, Vir McCoy contracted Covid-19, which developed into post-acute sequelae of Covid (PASC), commonly known as long Covid or long-haul Covid. As a medical intuitive and scientist he began collecting both intuitive information and extensive scientific and medical research about the nature of long-haul Covid. Integrating his intuitive impressions with other protocols and support group success stories, he developed this comprehensive healing guide for successful recovery options from long Covid.
The author discusses the primary symptoms and predispositions of long Covid and outlines the basic steps for dealing with each of them, including brain fog, tinnitus, loss of smell and hair, debilitating headaches, hormonal dysregulation, immune malfunction, limbic system dysfunction, gut issues, mental instability, sleeplessness, and intolerance to certain foods. Backed up by more than 350 scientific references, he presents medicines and methods for healing long Covid.
For more info and/or to order this book, click here. Also available as a Kindle edition.
About the Author
Vir McCoy is a teacher, healer, author, lecturer, musician, and ecologist who works both as a bodywork healer and as a field biologist and botanist focusing on endangered species.
Vir has the brain of a scientist and the soul of an artist, which has made for good company. He has a vast knowledge of herbs, supplements, homeopathics, and antibiotics.
After suffering from Lyme disease (2001-2009) he was able to make a full recovery, and then again with Long Haul Covid by becoming a medical intuitive, and has written two published books on the subjects.
Visit the author's website at: VirMcCoyHealth.com/
Article Recap: Boosting immunity naturally involves a holistic approach that encompasses both physical and emotional well-being. By understanding the impact of emotions on immunity and practicing techniques such as self-love, forgiveness, and positive thinking, you can enhance your body’s natural defenses. Embrace these practices to strengthen your immune system, improve your health, and live a more balanced and resilient life.
