5 Powerful Things to Do for Yourself When You’re Sick
“Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.” ~Buddha Getting sick is rarely, if ever fun for anyone, but we all get sick . You can cheat on your taxes, but you can’t cheat on sickness. When we get sick, we all have a choice of how to work with illness. We can choose to be miserable or we can choose to learn about ourselves and grow from the experience . Since I have had such a hard time with the latter, I’ve investigated 5 ways to practice with illness. 1. Reflect on the benefit of health. Often illness brings into focus what we wish we could be doing when we feel healthy. Once, back when I was a pack-a-day smoker, I got food poisoning, and I remember the smell or thought of cigarettes made me feel so much worse. At that time I vowed not to smoke anymore. I felt the frailty of my body and I didn’t want to live a life that hurt my body. I saw how much I needed my body, how bad it felt to not be able to rely on...