I found this quote in “Self-awareness and E.S.R. an extended study into the measurement of skin resistance as a guide to self-awareness and well being” it moved me to remember experiences and what to share the information.
” …they had been very impressed by the sensory deprivation experiments carried out at Princeton University around 1960, when it was found that sufferers from colds, sore throats and even poison ivy rash, all recovered completely — and without medication of any kind — after two or three days of sensory deprivation.
Dr. Woolley-Hart and C. Maxwell Cade believed that this therapeutic effect was due to the shift from sympathetic to parasympathetic activity which resulted from the reduction in sensory input.”
My experience persuades me of the necessity of flowing with the events. When someone shows symptoms of illness, the body calls for rejuvenation, to rejuvenate requires shutting down some systems and re-routing the energy. The shutdown increases body temperature, makes us aware of the state of the body through sending our brain pain information. We feel tired and feverish, we know we are ill. Go with it. Let go, get hotter, rest to the extreme without stimuli, no books, radio, or television, remove light, go into a healing hibernation. Pile on the blankets and sweat, drink water, trust your unconscious to choose vitamins, up your alkalinity and engage accelerated healing.
Be grateful.