The cold expresses a difficulty in social adaptation, it is very difficult for us to relate, which is why it manifests itself more frequently in times when we must live with people more closely, that is, in those seasons where people are more at home.
These are small family or professional conflicts, brief and violent, repetitive, most of the time expressed in the form of disputes and, in general, linked to the territory, the conflicts of threats over the territory. There is something that I really dislike or I have a tense relationship with someone. “There is threat in the air.” “It smells bad in here.”
The cold is the means by which we release a large dose of sadness that we have been accumulating in us. It can appear after having suffered some disappointment or as a consequence of regret for not having said or done something. Or after an experience in which our feelings have been hurt and we have felt a lack of warmth and support. “I want to be separated from the smell to rediscover contact with myself.”
A cold can also manifest itself when there is an excess of activity on the mental plane and we feel confused, worried, without knowing where to start. We are fed up, tired: “to the nose”, of a situation, of ourselves, of others, etc.
“Something really upsets me, or I’m cold with someone.”
There are also other causes based on popular beliefs that can trigger a cold, for example: believing that after a “cooling” has occurred or by placing ourselves in a “draft” we are going to catch a cold; believing that we can “catch a cold from someone else”; or believe in the “three colds of each winter”, etc. This manifests itself only in those people who believe it. The more widespread a belief is, the greater its influence in society.
Recommendations to recover physical, emotional and spiritual health
The cold is the ideal reason that we unconsciously provoke, to escape from a situation (conflict) that overwhelms us, but that we are not willing to recognize and express.
However, if our nose is blocked, if our eyes water, if we can hardly even speak due to sore throat or dog cough, and even our sneezes become our best weapon: “don’t come near that I have a cold”, allows us to achieve our objective of getting out of the annoying situation, without conflicts and also, with the benevolence and understanding of everyone. Now we can focus a little more on ourselves.
The cold is considered by naturopathic medicine as a detoxification crisis of the organism. Through it, physical toxins (inadequate diet, sedentary life, medicines, etc.) or mental (emotional problems) are eliminated and the body and soul are freed from the substances that intoxicated them and both come out of the crisis strengthened.
The teaching we receive is that we must be prepared to face the conflicts that our relationships pose, accepting that we project those that we reject onto others so that we can see, recognize and integrate them within ourselves.