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anti-allergen
psychospiritual approaches
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Do this at onset of symptoms (first sneeze or wheeze) for best effect. Stop what you are doing, go and lie down, and try to prevent a reaction before it escalates. Spend extra time in the relaxation phase. Keep telling yourself, "Relax, it's all right. There's no danger, no need to panic." Speak directly to your immune system.
image: Form an image of your allergens and give them an alarming, dangerous color. It doesn't matter if you don't know what you're allergic to, just see it as little red dust mites, or tiny purple burrs floating in the air. See them coming into your mouth and nose with the air you breathe, irritating the mast cells in your mucous membranes. See the mast cells as bigger than the allergens, spherical, with little feelers sticking out. When the mast cells are irritated, the feelers twitch and tickle your nose, making you sneeze. The cells sweat a clear liquid that represents histamine. Keep watching the allergens coming into your body and coating your mucous membranes until your sinus, nasal passages, and throat are full of the allergen color. Now change the color. Pick a contrast that means safety or harmlessness. For example, change the red mites to cool green, or the purples burrs to soft peach. Your mast cells like this color. They stop twitching and sweating. Tell yourself, "My body recognizes the allergens as harmless."
(Fanning, p. 270)
uses: allergies, hayfever, asthma
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