Shaggy horses boxing.
Hay Fever or Newmarket Nose?
M'reen Hunt (c)
I’ve only ever experienced hay fever once on a spring
visit to Albuquerque,
New Mexico, U.S.A. many years ago.
I came to live in the historic home of horseracing a few
years ago.
Each day I walked many hours taking photographs of flowers and
pretty soon each time I tipped
my head down to take a photo my nose pored
somewhat like an overexcited tap.
There are 3,000 horses in over 50 stables in Newmarket
and The Jockey Club meticulously tends 4,500 areas of land so most people in
Newmarket are very close to these Arabs and thoroughbreds.
Progressively more and more my nose continued to drip
copiously throughout the year,
with increasing tissue use in the home.
I visited Hemel Hempstead, quite some distance away and,
as usual, walked through a shaggy horse field but this time my nose began to
pour. I decided to adapt an Energetic NLP technique as working with energy is
limited only by your imagination, your intention and your permission to allow
your desired results. (This ‘permission’ is the tricky bit and is worked on
when I tutor Inner Mind Reading students – but you could just ask me.)
My solution to hay fever may seem to be a little
illogical as hay fever is an irritation of the lining
of the nose so inhaling
any more of the antigen is not a sensible idea!
But I’ve never let being sensible stop me from doing
{some} crazy things.
While in the shaggy horse field I ventilated my lungs as
much as I possibly could imagining that through my nose I was breathing in
nice, dry healing micro sponges and as I breathed out through my mouth I
imagined soggy, antigen ridden, nasty, sopping wet sponges that floated away to
be healed by the ultra violet light in the air. I exaggerated this breathing
until I couldn’t breathe in that way anymore however I repeated this procedure
a couple of times until I could do it no more.
A few days later I went through the same field again and
had the same experience!
So I employed the dry magic healing sponges once more.
That was some years ago and you may be interested to know
that there is a stable at the back
of my house with LOTS of horses and yet my
nose is just as dry and comfortable as it ever was.
Unfortunately any resolution to a problem sometimes needs
a balance and this is a quote from
The Daily Mail, Tuesday, September 10, 2013.
Why ‘hay fever’ that never clears up may be a sign
of lung cancer. When Karen
Boniface started coughing and wheezing one summer, she immediately recognised
the symptoms. Like millions of Britons, she suffers from seasonal hay fever and
this time felt no different. ‘Usually I cough up phlegm, my nose runs and I
tend to get chesty and wheezy – typical hay fever symptoms,’ says Karen, 53,
from Studland, Dorset. ‘I had these symptoms for a few months, but I thought
nothing of it: it seemed the same as the previous three years I’d had hay
fever.’ Yet unknown to Karen, she was actually displaying early signs of lung
cancer. The article has a note that points out that 90% of people don’t realise
that a persistent cough is a key symptom of lung cancer.
On a brighter note, over the phone, I worked with a
person’s 50 year old persistent cough that had baffled the medical community
for years – a key clue - as the source of the cough was emotional. Five years
later the cough has remained a thing of the past.
P.S. I’ve read that someone’s hay fever was an
anniversary stress response. This means that each year the anniversary of a
stressful period is re-enacted. Just think of bottled up emotions that cannot
be expressed! A quick lifting of the head as you sniff and blink away your
emotions, swollen red eyes that leak tears, a dribbley nose that requires lots
of tissues, a tight throat that you can’t get your words of despair past and
the held breath that tightens and lifts your chest.
Then of course there are more exotic possibilities – but
another time.
People who have trouble breathing, should they choose to
use the magic healing sponges should breath at a rate that is comfortable to
them or they should visualise or imaging the dry healing sponges travelling through
their air ways and doing their magic thing.
which takes advantage of the experience and expertise of
others.
