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Avoid a cold, wrap up warm

Posted on Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:47PM by Faye Orton
ok, so I have now moved and blood pressure is fine and am full of relief to be through the other side. 
It is freezing now, back to scraping the ice off the windscreen in the morning, central heating on full blast.  And finally the researchers are telling us that getting cold and wet actually promotes the catching of a cold.  Even though all of us already knew this, the research has been done so it must be true now.  By putting the 'guinea pigs' (by the way, I mean real humans) in freezing temperatures and then watching how quickly they started snivelling, sneezing and snotting bubbles.  Similar really to what we've all been doing for as long as we can remember!  Mind you, I bet I will still rush out the house in the morning with wet hair, and all the gloves I have ever bought must be hanging out with all the socks as I can never find either!  A cold at this time of the year is as sure as Christmas.  There are great herbal remedies though that everyone who has ever used them rave about, so worth checking out what the nurtitionists have to say too.
Stress, as I believe, causes all manner of illnesses and weakens our immune systems to be susceptable to whatever is going about and doing the rounds, and unless you are a total hermit are you immune.  All the therapies listed on healerdealer are, I believe fantastic for the relief of stress. I have been seeing a counsellor the last couple of weeks re my doing a therapy every week.  I have seen counsellors before, I have friends who are counsellors, I have counselled people and of course I have reseached and studied a great deal about counselling. What always amazes me, which it should'nt really is the difference in every single person and their approach, even if they say they are of the same discipline. This is by no means a critisism, just an observation.  I do not know why it is surprising becase they are all human, as far as I am aware.  I think that you can find a really great counsellor for you at a particular time in your life, and you may find a different one for another issue.  It may be nice to keep the same therapist over time, but we all change.  I have found people who have had the same life problems as I have had and have come through them and studied different aspects of counselling and human dynamics.  Although, I feel that too much delving into the past and dwelling on it can actually be depressing.  It can be helpful to look over it, taking it from a different perspective and with the tools learnt and used within a certain analytic equation to go by.
Ofcourse the field of human beings is as diverse as the universe and there are no set guidelines, although I do believe personally that the helper, therapist, counsellor must believe that they are able to help and offer the individual the freedomto find themselves. I do not believe in critisism or supression or the need to conform to what people believe they should be in most circumstance.  Most people I have ever got close to have had some huge issue or other in their lives.  Even though at the time of hardship and problems in your life you may feel that you are the only one going through this and that everyone else is untouchable and leading so called normal lives.  This is never really the case.  Also it is always helpfulto keep in mind that things do pass, nothing stays the same forever.  You may be lonely now, but that can all change dramatically in a short time. You may be a heavy drinker who cannot see a life without the booze, this can all change too in a matter of weeks.  It is never toolate to do anything about a problem, the past is in the past and all we can do is learn fromit.  And even the things that happened in the past we can try now to see the positive things around this negative occurance, lessons learnt, survivalinstincts and strength you had etc.  It is also really good to always try to remain positive, to see the positive in everything, however small, that we can enjoy the positive feeling and not be consumed by negativity.  Much easier said than done, but just try it and see how you feel.  A lot of our emotions and feelings are dependent on the way we view things and react to them.  To a certain extent we can, through awareness and counselling and seeing a therapist, control the way we are used to reacting to and seeing things.  there are different methods and encouraging ways to do this.  but when it is achieved, anyone, however bad they may feeltheir situation is , can become more content and less stressed and depressed about life and this can and willimprove total health and wellbeing.
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