When I was a child, we were always told to go inside once it starts raining, or we'll get sick. There's this idea that if we are to be exposed in the rain for a short period of time, and then dry off, we'll get sick. So we should just shower in the rain completely and then dry off like having taken a bath.
I never questioned this idea. But now, I wonder if there's some explantion for this.
"Why do we get sick?"
Is it because we have defied our ancestor's saying not to play in the rain? Or is it because of the insinuation of that saying? Or is it because of retrograde?
Retrograde - I find that word funny.
I have always suffered with sinusitis. Or so I thought. I medicated with anithisthamines and I became a pill popper to the point where when I feel like a sneeze is coming, I pop right one out. The anithisthamines didn't make me fall asleep faster, but it made my body feel like I was up all night partying, having a terrible hangover the next day.
It was the allergies that was the cause of my sinusitis, or was is the other way around? I found out that I am allergic to pollens, dust, and molds. I hated it! I couldn't work with water eyes, itchy throat, and flaming nostrils. I just couldn't. I wasn't event sick. It was just my body's defense mechanism to the microorganisms present in the air. It was toxic to me, only to me. Not my husband, no. He breathes these microorganisms when he plants, or mixes compost. He's immune! To think that I was the one who was breastfed, and he was the one who was bottle-fed when were babies! Lol. Maybe he was exposed to them at a young age, where he acquired immunity. I, on the otherhand, was overly protected from them.
I made myself aware of my body's response to certain things, like the dry air when its cold season, it makes my throat dry. It feels as though I was going to have a sore throat, or tonsilitis. And then looking back prior to the the days before I felt the dryness of my throat, I was exposed under the sun with too much heat, and then sipping on some cold iced coffee on the poarch of my mom's house. That's the trigger. Intense cold on my throat, while under intense heat. My throat couldn't handle the temperature change.
Our body is connected to the weather. Our body heat dances with the weather outside. Not inside our house with the AC on and stuff, but with mother nature... it is in-sync.
Our body is warm, it is basically alive. You know someone sat on that metal chair because when you sat on it, it was hot. Lol.
Does the presence of heat meant the absense of cold?
But when someone has a fever, if we observe, the skin is hotter than normal. And we know that because when we touch the skin of someone who has fever, we automatically, I mean, INSTINCTIVELY KNOW that person is sick.
When we have a fever, we feel cold but others feel our skin hot. Why is that so? So maybe because we were exposed to abrupt changes in the weather. We go from being in too cold and then too hot, or vice versa. Our body is not coping with sudden change of temperature. It should be gradual. It should be in-sync with the weather.
We often get sick when the AC in the mall or in the office is too cold like winter, and then it's summer outside. Summer is summer for a reason, winter is a winter for a reason, and that reason also relies on our body.
The abrupt change in temperature, is the cause of out immune system going override of how to let our body cope up with the temperature.
We see a season where all people get sick, and it's because it's the time where the weather transitions. When it's the coldest, it's nearer the summer time.
It's like yin and yang. Our body needs to balance the hot and cold inside, for us to be healthy.
The enviroment also has a role. It cannot cope up with the abrupt change of the weather, that's why we see so much natural disasters.
So if we still don't believe that climate change can't affect our health, personally, observe yourself when you get sick and the weather. It's telling us something.
No, it's not the retrograde.
It's something deeper than that. It's the deeper and obvious truth.
"The earth speaks to those who can hear with their hearts."
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