Pure innocence is who we already are. Any suggestion of contagion can be seen as a dense fog obscuring what is real, like a mountain – the fog doesn’t affect or change the mountain in any way, does it? The fog only appears to hide the mountain from view for a time. What dissipates the fog? The warm, penetrating light of the sun.
Virginia Harris, C.S.B. – The Natural Health Defense
Posted: 01 Feb 2013 09:56 AM PST
These past few weeks have been particularly challenging to individual health, according to the news. Reports of contagion of flu and viruses have continued to capture media attention in the US, with many looking for cold sore medicine options and relief from the other symptoms of flu and illness. Even Google reports that the most-searched word for last week was ‘flu.’ What appears to be most ‘contagious’ is the proliferation of the news in the airwaves and the descriptions of symptoms so graphic that individual thought is tempted to be held captive to the fear of it, and sickness the expected consequence. As if it is inevitable. Many might find comfort in arming themselves with a bottle of hand sanitizer to help prevent the spread of flu and viruses into their households.
Well, I have another report to offer that gives evidence of a natural health defense, regardless of what looks to be going on in the atmosphere. Since my last post, A Call to Healers, I have heard from several blog readers about how the spiritual ideas helped them be alert to the fear of contagion and mentally replace that fear with the confidence in divine Love caring for them, purifying their thinking from fear, and maintaining their inherent – and inevitable – health.
This inherent, unassailable health is a natural consequence of our innocence in the face of any physical attack: we are not weak or susceptible or victims of wandering germs or mental contamination. Our healthy innocence comes complete with powerful defense because it is our natural spiritual being – already established and maintained by the divine Spirit.
Pure innocence is who we already are. Any suggestion of contagion can be seen as a dense fog obscuring what is real, like a mountain – the fog doesn’t affect or change the mountain in any way, does it? The fog only appears to hide the mountain from view for a time. What dissipates the fog? The warm, penetrating light of the sun.
One of my readers texted me a few days ago asking for my metaphysical support to settle his own fearful thought. He was flying from east coast to the west coast, and on his layover he texted that his conversations in the past few days had been filled with people getting over the flu, how intense it was, or afraid of getting the flu. In this sickly environment, he was afraid of being a victim of the flu.
Right away I loved how spiritually alert my friend was, because he naturally turned to the spiritual idea that he could prevent further intrusion in his thinking of unhealthy fear (fog!) before it manifested in his body. But on the plane it was hard to stay in the clear…so he texted a ‘Sherpa’ (me!) to help him climb the mountain. Happily, I knew through past experiences that ‘fear never stopped being and its action.’ (Science and Health) I affirmed that his natural state of being, his spiritual consciousness, is completely and inherently untouched and unchanged from fear of disease and is never under attack or susceptible to mental images of contagion. This natural health defense is omniactive and omnipotent because it is the divine law of spiritual being. Living and breathing in this omnipresent law, nothing unlike divine harmony can exist…the air is too pure. And the natural – inevitable – consequence is a healthy body.
A few days later, I received a another text from the west coast. My friend was free of fear, and after a couple of days of symptoms, those soon evaporated. The sunlight of his innocence had eliminated the fog of fear.