By Helen Shih, PhD

Flow-of-Light Natural Health

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COVID requires us to keep ourselves very healthy and build up immunity to ward off the virus and other bugs. Below are some of the important steps in holistic health:

- Taking adequate rest and maintain high quality sleep; If you have tight work schedule, take very short naps during break can be helpful;
- Practice stress reduction and pick effective methods that work for you; stress can cause a great harm to immunity;
- Eat healthy, especially fresh fruits and vegetables; Avoid all junk food and soft drink;
- Take plenty of liquid on daily basis, such as water with fresh lemon;
- Take needed supplements, supportive nutrition or trusted herbs, including Vitamin C and D, etc; Chewable Vitamin C can be helpful to boost immunity by the throat area; Check out herbs and supplements that may be helpful for your conditions;
- Proper exercises, spend some time in sunlight, in nature and outdoor environment; Exercise such as Yoga and other methods which involve stretching and deep breathing can be helpful;
- Maintain a positive outlook and optimism; emotional and mental well-being is an important element enhancing immunity;

COVID symptoms normally start off just like a regular flu. Please pay attention if you notice fatigue, itchy throat, muscle pain, headache, disturbed digestive system or sensory functions, or just in general, any discomfort. Continue to monitor your body conditions including those listed above, especially if you have other underlying health conditions.

If you start to experience COVID-like symptoms such as cough, fever, and others, use CDC's Self Checker to see the likelihood you are having a COVID infection, arrange for a test, and talk to your doctors.

At the same time, practice what you normally do to alleviate flu, such as those items listed above, follow your doctor's suggestions, use trusted supplements or add nutrition to help you build immunity and help you recover.

Q: What should I do if I may have been exposed to the virus or infected?

First of all, within 14 days of your exposure, please practice self quarantine, minimize your interaction with others. Practice hygiene including wearing a mask, wash hands frequently, clean and disinfect high-touch surfaces, etc. The most likely time window for COVID-19 infection is about 5-7 days if you indeed get infected. Symptoms may start to show up during or after this time window.

Secondly, continue to monitor your body condition closely, and establish a baseline before you notice any symptoms.

More importantly, practice what listed above to keep yourself health and build up your immunity.

Younger and healthy adults without existing health conditions tend to do better and have milder symptoms after exposure to COVID. People who have pre-existing conditions especially cardiopulmonary diseases, metabolic disorders, cancer, immunity disorders, etc, need to pay close attention to their body conditions, and minimize their risk of exposure to the virus.

References:

[1] WHO: Home care for patients with suspected novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection presenting with mild symptoms and management of contacts.

[2] Caring for Yourself at Home (CDC information).

[3] CDC's guideline on COVID testing: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/index.html

This section continues from "Understand Health" as part of Dr. Helen Shih's summary of "Roadmap to Health".

2. Understand the Disease Process

Like the clear blue sky starts to gather dark clouds, diseases start from earlier subtle disorders. It is truly a disorder or disturbance of the natural harmonious state or your energy field, and can happen at cellular level or organ levels from microscopic disturbances. Such disturbances often start from a physical insult or emotional trauma, or even as mutation of genetic information. Today's science has shown us that diseases can happen at such a microscopic level including virus invasion, bacteria infection, chemical toxicity or other foreign insult which are not being warded off or cannot be repaired on time.

Medical field may attribute diseases to genetic disorders, immunity disorders, and many different names of the diseases and causes, which can be traced back to such energetic invasion or microscopic insult that are not being attended or healed. Eventually such disorders aggravate and manifest as physical symptoms and illness in the physical body or in the emotional-mental fields. All these disorders affect the vitality, integrity, and harmonious state of our energy body, which eventually will show up as physical or mental alarm. Yes, diseases are essentially alert and alarms that are asking us for change and correction.

Modern life in busy cities can cause a very high stress and insult to our body, mind, and soul. Not only we are surrounded by tempting junk food, endless media or social media bombardments, but also toxic environment, hectic and isolated life style, and aggression of the mind driven by greed and indulgence. Many people may experience chronicle fatigue, lack of energy, auto-immune disorders, physical pain, neurological disorders, cancer, depression, anxiety, and many other types of subtle or chronicle conditions, some of them can be hard to diagnose and find a cure.

Such disorders may manifest as difficulties in other aspects of life as well, such as emotional health, relationships, financial management, use of drug and resort to violence, etc, because disorders have rippling effects not limited only to the physical body but can propagate to other aspects of physical living.

3. Identify Disorders and Causes

Because of the subtleties of energy disorders, initially they can be difficult to be felt physically or measured by medical instruments. Yet signs of energetic disturbance can be picked up by careful examining of the body and its energy field (using Bio-Energy Scan, for example). Meanwhile, many factors are involved in causing such disorders: physical (diet, genes, living habit, etc), emotional-mental, environmental including social environment, and spiritual layers. Identify and removal causes of disorders are the first step of how you can start towards your healing. Often such disorders can be felt inwardly by ourselves. That's the amazing thing about our own awareness. When we learn to tune within ourselves and sharpen our own awareness of whether we are in the state of health or have come out of balance, we can bring the needed correction on a timely fashion.

4. Create Healthy Shift

Energetic shift and conscious healing can help remove the causes and conditions of diseases, improve immunity, and boost energy of the body. This process is completely scientific guided by Bio-Energy Scan and involves various well-established healing practices/exercises, such as the ancient Qi Gong form used in Chinese medicine.

Apart from modern medicine which has made continuous progress towards understanding of the diseases and development of more effective treatments, many energy healing techniques are also burst into existence today, including emotional release, mental de-cluttering, detoxification of the energy field, proper exercises, and spiritual re-alignment. The effect of energetic shift is to harmonize and rebalance the energy field and consciously bring the correction needed.

The final goal of healing is to realign your Body-Mind-Spirit and restore your Natural Harmonious State of Health, so you will achieve the vitality and integrity needed for physical living. You can read more about what such a state of health is about from this website.

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