SoaringDragon: immune system

Some folks are afraid of side-effects. The CDC reports that 90+% of the side-effects are rashes or swellings at the injection site. So let’s all take a deep breath together. I get a rash if I wear wool. My husband was stung by a yellow-jacket while gardening last weekend and had a rash and a swelling. The rashes and swelling with shots of all kinds go down in 24 hours, as his bee sting did. Not exactly a major medical emergency.

My sister swears that the one time she got a flu shot, she came down with flu, so therefore the flu shot must have given her flu. Lots of people think this. Reality: dead viruses can’t hurt you, and the viruses being injected into you are DEAD. Sis is falling into the “if two things happen together, one thing must have caused another” fallacy. Two things happening is a correlation; they happen together. But correlation is not causality. I sneezed just as I switched on my TV and the tube blew out, so I was convinced that sneezing caused the blow out. [I was very young. Have compassion.] That’s ridiculous, yes, but so is dead viruses making you sick.

Truth is, there is a danger involved in flu shots, but it’s not the danger Sis is worrying about. The real danger is that injecting dead viruses into my body gets my body focused on fighting this collection of three dead invaders [the most likely influenza variants to crop up this season] AT THE EXACT SAME TIME that there is a high probability that other viruses and bacteria – the whole soup of bugs that are circulating during the winter “flu season” – are also attacking you. If the timing is just right, your immune system is focusing on building protection against a future invasion by the three deadly flus and another bug just happens to invade when your protection squad is not paying attention. It can waltz in without being detected until it’s too late! Now if you are used to thinking logically, you will ask: what is the mathematical probability that the timing will be exactly right to allow that second bug to invade just when your immune system is focusing on preparing its defense against the deadlier potential threat? Not very high. But you roll the dice every year over the span of a long life, and the probability that it will happen eventually gets high. And unlikely events DO happen. Sis won the virus jackpot on her very first outing. But she’s still making a foolish choice.

So, how about some basic info on how your immune system works? Sounds good to me!

Your “immune system” is a collection of systems and processes that are all focused on 1) detecting, and then 2) fighting off, invasions of your body. Your mouth, nose, eyes, lungs, digestive system and urinary/vaginal/anal openings are the most likely entry points, so you have the most defenders there. Your “detection” defense consists of sentinel B and T cells who are constantly patrolling these high-risk areas, as well as all through the rest of your body, in case some miscreant gets past the border sentinels. One type of T sentinel, the NK cells, also check your own cells for problems, eliminating most cancers before they are larger than a few cells. [When they get confused and decide that your own body organ is an invader, you get auto-immune diseases.] Detection is the weakest part of the system. Far too many invaders manage to fake out or elude the sentinel B and T’s and establish a beachhead. If you are a military history fan, you know that the first 24 hours of D-Day were critical. Once the Allies had a beachhead and could land tanks and artillery, the war’s outcome was not in doubt. In the same way, you want your sentinel cells to be numerous enough and smart enough to smash all the invaders before they start to settle in and proliferate. [My programs use hypnotherapy, reiki and other tools to help your sentinels to keep their numbers up AND to be smart about taking out cancer and leaving healthy tissue alone. Call or email for a FREE Getting Unstuck session.]

When a sentinel cell detects an invader, it alerts the major ground forces, the attack cells. B sentinels alert their own B attack cells, who inform the T sentinel and attack cells. At this point, a major reproductive move starts, as your major ground forces attempt to assemble an army large enough to take the invaders out. BUT – this takes too much time, usually! If the bug makes a beachhead, you are going to get sick. If your attack cells can reproduce fast enough, it will be a quick, light illness. [If they nip it before it even gets started, you won’t even know you were invaded. Maybe you’re tired for 24 hours but don’t know why. Now you know why.] If your attack cells don’t get alerted soon enough or they are vastly outnumbered by the invaders, you’ll be down for the count. Four days or four weeks sicker than a hound-dog in July.

Swelling at the site of the injection just means that your sentinel cells noticed that your body has been invaded by the dead flu viruses, it alerted the B and T attack cells, who are starting to mount a defense. This is a good thing! Swelling, redness, fever and pain are the “cardinal signs” that your attack cells are fighting off an invasion, and many doctors are now suggesting that adults allow a moderate fever to remain. [Virus replication is inhibited at higher temperatures. If you fight your immune system and bring a low-moderate fever down, you are helping the invader and foiling your body’s defense strategy.]

The sentinels tell the attack cells exactly what to look for. The attack cells kill all the invading dead viruses AND manufacture memory cells who remember the exact configuration of the proteins that define those invading viruses. This is why vaccination protected George Washington’s army from being decimated by smallpox, and it protects you and your children from death as well. Those memory sentinels ID the invaders immediately and marshal a very strong defense from the attack cells. With a vaccine, you have a massive army on your side in hours instead of the usual days. Your attack cells have an excellent chance of wiping out the invasion before you even know it’s under way. That 24 hours of tired and you dodged the measles, meningitis or pertussis bullet.

It also explains why your baby and child needs as much protection as possible, as soon as possible, because their sentinel cells are not very clever yet. Those sentinel cells can easily detect and the attack cells can do their thing, and create lifetime immunity [or long-term, as the case may be] memory cells for several diseases at once. Sure they can.

You wouldn’t want to be vaccinating your kid against pertussis when they are actively fighting off a measles invasion, but if everyone vaccinates, then there IS no measles virus floating around. And keeping our herd immunity high is a matter of life and death – literally – for the adults and children with compromised immune systems who lack sufficient sentinels and attack cells and whose B and T’s can’t even handle the invasion of dead viruses and bacteria very well. To protect them, we all have to make sure that we eradicate the childhood killer diseases, by not allowing them any hosts to take over. I am old enough to know the terror my parents had to endure, because the killing and crippling diseases had no cure and, most importantly, no prevention.

I deeply, passionately, don’t want us to return to those dreadful days. I just returned from a vacation in Alaska and was reminded that the first Iditarod was literally a race against death. Diphtheria had hit Nome and if treatment wasn’t received in 10 days, the whole town would be infected and most would die. Death had Nome in its sights. The serum did arrive in time, everyone was treated and the death rate was low. But other towns that did not have the Alaska railroad and dedicated teams of dogs just died.

Can you imagine that? Because of modern vaccination, we are not a nation of sobbing parents, burying child after child, utterly helpless to prevent death. Children aren’t growing up without their parents, who also died in droves of what is now preventable through vaccination.

Flu does kill, but not as many as diphtheria, pertussis or measles. But I want to give my immune system every advantage, so I am building memory cells as I write this, and they will circulate at a high level for 3 months, protecting me for the start of the season. I hope that you will give your hard-working sentinels the leg up that they need as well.

And what else can you do to help boost the number of sentinels circulating in your major entry points?

Ø Sleep. The more you sleep, the more B and T cells you have. Forget taking a supplement. Sleep.

Ø Reduce stress. Take breath breaks. Learn and practice Reiki and/or tapping (EFT). Meditate. Get out of your car and take transit, so you can snooze, do stress reduction and read calming philosophical literature or watch cute kitten videos. I know someone who reads her Bible every day on the bus. Someone else reiki’s and snoozes for his 2-hours-each-way commute. Exercise every day. You can do it.

Stress lowers your number of B and T sentinels, so you lose that precious time to zap the invaders before they get a beachhead. It lowers the numbers of your B and T attack cells so you have less of an army to throw at the invaders when you finally detect them. Take one of my serious stress zapping classes.

And for heaven’s sake, don’t be a selfish schmuck and come to work sick and spread your damn germs to everyone else! Stay in bed, give your attack team a chance to win the war quickly. Why do you think you have all those fancy e-gadgets anyway? If you aren’t allowed to work from home, take 7 hours of intense stress reduction and see how quickly you get better, and how much smarter you are when you DO go back. My immune system has a lot to deal with during flu season. I don’t need you adding millions of viral particles into our shared air with every sneeze, no matter how well covered.

So: get a flu shot. Start reducing stress to as low as possible. You’ll be reducing your chances of illness as well!

And call or email victoria.leo.reiki@gmail.com for a FREE Getting Unstuck session to get you started... www.soaringdragon.biz

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Classes for May - Transform Your Life

The Spiritual Path to Loving Exercise and Veggies [Yes, you will!]

4/30 10 AM; 5/21 2 PM

So many Americans hate exercise and won't do it. Not MY clients! They have learned the spiritual path to genuinely (no gimmicks) loving to feel their bodies move, and loving how they feel with veggies. We never have trouble making time for the things we love to do, and the things we love to eat. No willpower needed for me to spend an hour creating things with crochet, or photographing distant planets and galaxies. I love it!

You love things, too. And you don't have to use any willpower to get yourself to do these things, do you?

In this one hour class, I will start you on the road to LOVING your body, moving, and loving the taste of really good, healthy food. The spiritual path is unrelated to any religion or faith. Your spirit core is where your deepest desires live. Not the substitutes that you crave, because your life is too stressful and too filled with have-to, and not enough true joy. Not that. Your spirit core will lead you to the vision of yourself, and the decisions about your life that will transform your life - and your surface desires that now are driving your life in unhealthy directions.

You can love exercise as I've learned to love it - because it is a time of loving myself and my family, preparing to do my very best as a healer, and having fun. In a typical week, I joyfully splash and play in water, deep-end in wonderfully creative dreams of crochet and acrylic artwork, and touch the deepest core of my soul. It's a wonderful life!

No matter how many hats you are currently juggling and how many years it's been since you had anything other than popcorn and TV for yourself, if you take this class, you will be setting forth on the Hero's Journey to Health.

After the class, you'll have the option of discounts on the entire transformation program. www.soaringdragon.biz

https://www.learnitlive.com/class/8844/The-Spiritual-Path-to-LOVING-Exercise-Veggies-Yes-you-will#

Meet Your Biological Ancestors

5/3 6PM; 6/3 10 AM

Within Homo sapiens itself, you have over 10,000 generations of ancestors! Your people domesticated plants and animals, migrated across continents and created gorgeous works of art. Moving back farther in time, there are thousands more - the people who first tamed fire, developed language and created home bases to nurture babies and elders.

Getting in energetic connection to all these generations, connects you to their characters, their struggles, their triumphs and their tragedies. Connecting empathetically to these DNA contributors to who YOU are, allows you to question your own deeply-held beliefs about your life, deepen your empathy for yourself and others, increase your pride in your own courage and virtues.

Clients have reported everything from better sleep to losing unwanted weight after completing the day-long class that includes both biological and past life ancestors. The clients who beta-tested this shorter version reported significant shifts in their inner landscape. You will too! Join us live for interaction and join us via recording if you can't.

Pre-requisites

A sincere desire to understand yourself, and a willingness to be transformed, in mind, body, spirit and soul.

https://www.learnitlive.com/class/8591/Meet-Your-Biological-Ancestors#

The 5 Magic Components of Your Successful Self-Care Program (Starting with Self-Love)5/10 6PM; 5/21 3:30PM

How many times have you tried and failed to launch a permanent self-care program? The fault is not in you or in your stars. All you need is the RIGHT tools and the RIGHT incentives. You are guaranteed success!

This class will introduce you to the 5 must-have components of your successful self-care program, and help you in putting your personalized plan together - something flexible enough to get you through "bad days" and powerful enough to generate serious change in your health and wellbeing. You CAN transform your life, no matter how many barriers you see on the road to self-care.

You owe it your yourself - and your family and your business/career - to invest an hour in learning these 5 components, so transformative, they feel truly magical! www.soaringdragon.biz

https://www.learnitlive.com/class/8843/5-Magic-Components-of-Your-Successful-Self-Care-Program-Starting-with-Self-Love

Harness Your Goddess Energy To Stop Self-Sabotage

5/11 5:30PM; 5/12 6PM

Have you been trying to stop your self-sabotage and generate more confidence for your life, your business or your family? Not working, huh? STOP beating yourself up! You are using the wrong tools, that's all.

In this workshop, you will connect with your inner goddess energy (not associated with any religion or faith!), and watch the real barriers to your successful completion of your goals start to crumble before your eyes. Take effective action against the barriers that are holding you back.

Enrollment is limited for the highest-quality experience.

https://www.learnitlive.com/class/8839/Harness-Your-Goddess-Energy-to-Stop-Self-Sabotage

The Secret Ingredient of All Successful Transformations

5/16 6PM

We all have barriers that we would like to blast away. Why is it that some of us succeed and most don't? What do those "lucky" winners have that YOU don't? It's simple! No matter whether it is a new career or a healthier, slimmer body, a new love life or freedom from addictions and habits, a better handle on adult ADHD or a new freedom from the effects of past trauma, all successful transformations rely on one special ingredient - that coaching can't give you and therapy doesn't want to. Come explore the Secret Ingredient and discover how to use it to blast through the barriers keeping you from your heart's desire in 2016!

https://www.learnitlive.com/class/7551/The-Secret-Ingredient-of-All-Successful-Transformation

Claim Your Power, Claim Happiness

5/19 6PM

It looks like you have multiple goals, but you don't really. All of them - money, family, business- are about happiness that comes from getting What You Want. So first we will explore how to remove external barriers to happiness.

Then we put power back into your hands. All these years, you thought that power to be happy was "out there." It's not.

Sure, it makes sense to remove as much of the external barriers to happiness as possible (see Magic Ingredient and other classes that spend an hour on just that). But what do you do about the situations that just stubbornly refuse to change? Do you have to be unhappy because your mate doesn't materialize and wealth doesn't manifest?

No simplistic "don't worry; be happy" jive here! This is the real road to taking back the power that you always had, Dorothy. You don't even need ruby slippers to wield THIS power. This is the infinite power within you.

All you need to tap all that power is courage to confront what you have been doing to sabotage yourself, to prevent yourself from taking this power. Do you have the courage?

On the other side of the river is a power no one can take away from you!

https://www.learnitlive.com/class/8840/Claim-Your-Power-Claim-Happiness

Retrain Your Immune System: Smarter Cells, Healthier Life

5/16 12 noon; 5/21 10 AM

Your immune system is a complex of different cells and messenger molecules that try to identify both external invaders and internal malfunctions (proto-cancer), coordinating with each other for your best health. The stem cells that trained in your babyhood start to malfunction over time, leading to both an upsurge in invaders getting through and also mistakes leading to auto-immune diseases.

The bad news: medications and herbals can only boost or suppress the whole system. To get an auto-immune disease to calm down, you suppress the whole immune response and you get sick more often. What do you do??

You CAN teach your immune cells to be more discerning! Through the power of advanced hypnotherapy and specific imagery, you can calm a cytokine storm without coming down with the flu. You can boost your NK cells in their cancer-killing work without stimulating other T and B cells to the point where they start looking for enemies that don't exist (and make you ill).

Come get a sample of the process before you sign up for a complete program. You CAN have more power over your immune response!

You will have an opportunity for discounts on the complete Retrain Your Immune System (www.soaringdragon.biz) as well as an 18-hour MP3 on How Your Body Really Works, explaining all these immune system components and interactions in detail.

https://www.learnitlive.com/class/8842/Retrain-Your-Immune-System-Smarter-Cells-Healthier-Life

The Spiritual Path to Permanent Weight Control: Blasting Through the Barriers

5/19 6:15 PM

Have you been struggling with your weight? Does it seem impossible to get results that last? Are you TIRED of counting calories and constantly telling yourself NO? Do you feel like a failure? [You're not. Your strategies are ineffective, that's all.]

Trying to change your life with only willpower and "inspiration" is a losing strategy. It will work for a while, but it can't transform your life. The complete Spiritual Path program WILL! The key to success is using the right tools, in the right way, consistently and with intentionality. Once you have your first experience of blasting through the barriers that are keeping you from success, you will never look back - never return to the old, ineffective strategies.

Spiritual means a connection to the transcendent, which has an infinite number of forms. Religious means adherence to practices, rituals and dogmas. This class harnesses spirituality to unlock the door to PERMANENT weight control.

If you have been able to achieve permanent weight control, great; keep doing what you're doing. If you haven't, it's time to admit that what you're doing isn't working for you, long-term, and commit to a new program that really works.

Join a group of dedicated seekers who are tired of the old shame and blame game and are ready to combine effective action with joy. You can do it! This is the road to success.

https://www.learnitlive.com/class/8440/The-Spiritual-Path-to-Permanent-Weight-Control-Blasting-Through-the-Barriers#