12/22/2025
This is what I do when i have a cold or even the flu:
The word flu— illness. A time of weakness, fever, disconnection.
And the word flow (abundance)— everything we strive for: health, prosperity, ease.
How can two opposite meanings share the same root?
Well, they’re not actually opposites. They’re connected.
Both words come from the same root — in Hebrew: *ש.פ.ע* — which means “abundance” or “overflow.”
The real question is:
What kind of overflow are we allowing into our body and consciousness?
The flu isn’t just a virus —
It’s an overflow of unprocessed “stuff.” Emotional, mental, energetic.
It’s unprocessed abundance
It can be too many thoughts, tasks, noise, expectations
And the body, in its wisdom, hits pause. Forces us to lie down.
To breathe.
To sweat out what no longer serves us.
To release the kind of flow that’s not aligned.
And that’s the beauty:
If we surrender to the flu, we might just rediscover true abundance.
It’s a reset moment.
A chance to clean our internal channels.
To realign the flow.
Because true abundance isn’t measured in money, success, or likes.
It’s measured in our capacity to hold, to be present. One of my strongest tools when I’m starting to feel symptoms of cold is to return to my yoga poses! Check this reel and save it for a rainy-runny nose day:)
