Cold Prevention

You know what it feels like when a cold is coming on... So what can you do? Here are a few suggestions you can apply right away.

1. Increase your intake of Vitamin C.  I like the chewable kind, especially when your throat is acting up. Sucking it slowly soothes the throat.
2. Echinacea enhances immune resistance and works against colds, flu, viral and bacterial infections. I like to drink it in tea form when I feel I need the extra boost.
3. Get plenty of rest! Listen to your body and take it easy.
4. Eat fresh food. Give your body the nutrients it needs to stay healthy.
5. Work on yourself energetically through visualization. Close your eyes and scan your body in your mind's eye.  Feel where you are off balance. Sometimes you feel pressure on the chest, or your throat is sore, or you feel pressure in your sinuses, etc. Visualize the pressure in your chest, for example, as a ball weighing down on your chest.  With every breath and your intent, gently push that ball out and/or away from your body. When you intake air, visualize pure, clean healing energy that replaces the pressure ball that is being pushed out. You will feel the energy change and you will feel better.

Please share any of your favorite preventative methods! There are so many different things one can do.  :)