I Drank My Head Off Last Night and Discovered the Cure for the Common Cold

Everytime I get a cold, something’s wrong.

I most likely spent the previous night lonely and depressed. I probably imagined agitating past events, relived some sad breakups in my head, or depressed myself worrying about some future uncertainty.

Sometimes, it’s because the reality of something sad stared me right in the face. And I let it make me blue.

I don’t get colds as often as I used to. Which is good. I take it that I don’t spend much of my time wallowing in those lonely spaces anymore.

Last night started off differently. I was in good spirits but felt uneasy. Some situations were present that just made me feel….antsy.

Since I can’t make sense of how I was feeling and what do to do about them, I drank it off. I ringed friends and drank the thoughts out of my head. In the haze of all the laughter and the alcohol and the loud music, I felt strangely sadder.

I went to bed at 4AM and I woke up with slime lodged up my nose. I had a cold.

For some reason, I am always very good-looking after a night of heavy (and I do mean HEAVY) drinking. Don’t ask me why, I don’t know either. Just got 4 compliments on my looks today. Really strange.

Whatever those things were that made me sad yesterday, they’re gone now. Should have just slept it off and skipped the heavy boozing because I really feel hazy at work. Or just handled the anxiousness differently. I’ve done a lot of work learning to go from a negative emotion to a more positive one and should have just worked it out. But that’s all done.

A cold is a minor ailment. A small dis-ease. I really like spelling it that way: Dis-ease. It’s a lack of ease. Which implies an opposite of ease present - a difficulty, a large exertion of effort, an inhibition, a perplexity, a restriction. I remember in one of the Huna Trainer podcasts, Pohaku defined dis-ease as stemming from conflicting thoughts that cause one of the above opposites of ease.

Anytime you have a small ailment, always check events in your life. Where did the dis-ease come from?

By practiced effort, you can almost always trace it to an event, a thought or a situation. My dis-eases usually trace down to: anxiety in unfamiliar situations, repressing irrational emotions, and bouts of loneliness.

Like with every ailment, prevention is always the best cure. In my case, it’s always been about learning to relax in unfamiliar situations, not beating myself up over mistakes, allowing my emotions to take over and complete themselves, and slowly moving into a more positive space when I am lonely.

Be well guys!

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