Dear Joshua,
I've been having such a great time in all areas of life ... getting ready to take a vacation and doing well.
Then this morning I wake up with one of those very annoying sore throats that say, "here you go ... you're going to get sick now" ... NO!!
I very rarely get sick and I have not had a day like this in years! I stayed in bed and meditated and relaxed and drank water. I did nothing. No computer, No phone, a bit of stupid TV, but lots of sleeping.
I'm confused about why I feel ill when I've been feeling so good! I've been doing the Joshua Diet practices, drinking tons more water, almost no alcohol, less food, lots more exercise. I've spent a good dedicated amount of time studying my New Approach to Life. Seems like I would keep sailing.
I'm not stressing out about the fact that I have much to do before we leave. This is a good thing I'm appreciating. But I really am not appreciating nor grateful for a day of feeling sick.
What's up? What can I do or think or feel to help get through this quickly?
Thank you,
Allyson
Dear Allyson,
The best way to get through anything that appears to be unwanted is not to resist it, but accept it. Do you see any benefit in seeing the cold as wrong? Certainly, it might be an urge to damn the thing you think you do not want, but that urge comes out of fear and has no useful purpose. Why would this cold come now? Is it something happening to you or something happening for you? If it comes to you, it is due to the attraction caused by something in your vibration. If it comes to you, if it appears in your reality, it is always, always for you. Do not resist it, analyze it. How is it for you?
We will let you figure out how this cold is for you as it comes right before you are going on vacation. But there's a bigger story here. If this cold is a bad thing, how would you attract it in the first place? How could anything bad come to you? How could a bad thing appear in your reality? It could not. You are a being of love and you attract love. There is no bad or wrong. Anything that comes to you is for your benefit, for your highest good, and to help you move to the next level. If it seems bad or wrong, that is simply fear coming from a limited perspective.
Unwanted physical conditions are the result of resistance. Every single time. So what are you resisting? Who knows? Maybe it is some resistance to your new approach to life. Maybe it is a sign to take it easy. Learn to be okay with not doing anything. Maybe it is asking you to slow down slowing down. That will be for you to decide. But if you are going to move to the place where you allow the thing you want to come to you, then you must accept that everything is right and this cold must be right too. Do not resist what comes to you. The resistance is simply fear. Process the fear and you will ease the resistance and the cold will no longer be needed.
By slowing down and going within, you will begin to sense a change in your thoughts. You will be able to resonate with the higher intelligence coming from within. By being busy, you distract yourself from the awareness of your thoughts. Your practice of meditation is preparing you for a new level of thought control. By quieting your body and your mind, you will be able to more easily receive the messages that are now being sent to you from the nonphysical realm. See this time of ease and nothing to do as a time to get in touch with inner communication. If you can do that, you will look back on this cold and thank it for coming when it did.
With our love,
We are Joshua
