Holiday dread

[Guest guest]

Are you like me, in that there are certain aspects of holidays that

you dread?

Holidays are about giving love. For many people, love is the very

thing that it's impossible for them to accept. That's why they look

so forward to the holidays, dreaming that love will come, and are so

difficult to be with during the holidays, where they avoid all forms

of intimacy, substituting instead all forms of addiction.

Do you inwardly cringe around them?

The people who warmly hug you when you first meet, and later are

incapable of discussing the issues you know are meaningful; the fat

aunts who have for years been avowing their intention to lose weight,

sampling one of every dessert at Thanksgiving; the kids, off in their

own world with their presents, or acutely disappointed with their

presents; all these are the visions that pop into my mind when I think

of the holidays, and of what you will go through during them.

In the case of my little family here in Riverview, Frannie and Greg,

we generally have a special, enjoyable, and quite healthy lunch on

holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's, and then they

sometimes go off to Frannie's dad and his various associates, while I

stay home and relax. I have the best of all possible worlds. I pity

the rest of you.

Do I have any suggestions about this? Well of course! Who am I, if

not a fountain of suggestions?

Just imagine what it would be like to spend the holidays sitting down

with the people you love and doing immunics at various times

throughout the day, interspersed with the other, more usual things

people do on holidays. It would make everything else heavenly!

The trick, I think, is to get them started well before the holidays,

and, if you are at a reunion, to take a lot of walks. Get out of the

house with two or three people, who are able to do immunics already,

were before they got there. Sit down in the backyard in a circle and

do immunics. Let people who wish to join you do so, and exclude the

rest. This creates an aspiration to join the " in " crowd.

Get people started:

http://www.wayimmune.org/00open/contents/2_step.htm

And wear immunicsWear to the reunion so that people there are

continuously reminded that they can cure things.

One more thing:

When people get the flu at family reunions, you're going to have a

much easier time succeeding at helping them cure it if you have a

staunch ally in another family member, who has been doing immunics for

awhile. YOU TWO CAN THEN SIT DOWN WITH THE FLU VICTIM. And if the

best ally that you can muster is your nine-year-old daughter, well,

she will probably suffice for certain people, anyway. Try to get as

many of them as possible going before you get into these situations.

Remember: Holidays are a war zone, with disease stalking us at every

turn. Do not be lulled into a false sense of security by the promise

of festivities. Remember The Yom Kippur War!

Keep your wits about you at all times, immuner.

Happy cures to you.

Your buddy-in-arms,

Bayard