Spiritual intuitive types like me – we don’t just “get sick.” Nope. We have a “clearing” and we “process” deep unresolved stuff really really fast, and it LOOKS like the flu.
Disclaimer: Whether you believe this line of thought or not, I put it to you- it’s a super empowering and positive way to experience “being sick.” But if you’re willing to check this perspective out, read on. If you are simply too inflamed by the idea that an illness might have deeper reasons, a purpose, and a productive result, stop reading now. The rest is just going to irritate you. Secondary Disclaimer (yes, I am a former lawyer, thanks for asking): I don’t know if His Holiness the Dalai Lama would agree with me about the Spiritual Flu. But I love this pic, and I am certain he would giggle about parts of this article. Ok back to business…
I’m getting over the flu right now. My head is still stuffy, and my cough sounds like a monster. I’ve got enough energy to write this, but not much else. I haven’t eaten anything solid in 3 days. And I feel SO GRATEFUL for this process.
I’ve been supporting and teaching women who are experiencing an intuitive awakening for going on 15 years now. And the Spiritual Flu is something that happens to just about all of us at some point. It seems to be an effective (though not comfortable) way to release old fears and patterns, and to allow the body to upgrade to a higher intuitive frequency. I’ve seen it last just 6 hours in someone who is well rested and resourced. And if you went in exhausted, it can last weeks. (Just another reason to take care of YOU first!)
Signs that you have the Spiritual Flu
You’re freaking intuitive, and at some point before it comes on, you get that feeling like… I’m going to get sick, and it’s all right.
It comes when you need time to integrate a big realization you just had, where you courageously chose to give up an old restrictive belief.
It nails you especially when you refuse to stop and take it easy when you first get tired.
It travels through different parts of your body to clear out that old thought pattern from every cell.
During the flu, you have memories pop up, chaotic thoughts related to the pattern you’re releasing.
You have strong emotions move through, causing you to burst into tears at times, even when you’re not THAT achy.
You likely have visions or feelings of helpers/angels/spirit guides holding ritual space for you while you release.
Somehow, purging (aka barfing) becomes a prayerful experience of surrender and gratitude.
Your body gets super sensitive and you KNOW what to eat, drink, imbibe… intuitively… to take care of yourself.
Help shows up miraculously to support you through the illness.
As you begin to feel more well, your mind is super clear (you can see what’s important)…
And your heart is super open (you feel sensitive and available).
Spontaneous prayer happens, especially as you are feeling better, feeling the clarity, feeling gratitude.
When it’s over, you feel like a new person, and your intuitive gift has an “Upgrade” that is obvious to you. You’re not afraid of the old stuff anymore.
Stuff that helps if you have the Spiritual Flu:
Create sacred space to be “sick” in. Imagine the sweat lodge. This is your purification lodge. Light a candle. INvite your guides in to protect and hold you while you do the work that’s in the hIghest good with this thing.
Treat your spirit guides like nurses – order them around! Let them take care of you!
Drink good water with pink salt and lemon, or emergenC or some electrolyte thing of some kind. Energy work takes even more of this than the “regular” flu.
Rest (duh). If you need to take an Advil PM in the evening, don’t worry about it – Don’t deny yourself a good night’s sleep, you hippie purist! 😉
Chilled Watermelon. Ah. Thanks mom!
Don’t eat if you don’t want to eat. Trust your appetite. Most healthy folks would do GREAT to fast on water for up to 30 days! I know it sounds nutty in our all-you-can-eat culture, but if you give your digestive system a break, that’s 70% of your vital force that is usually put towards digestion that can now go towards clearing this gunk out
No open mouthed kissing. (Sometimes I just need to be reminded.) 😉
Snuggle your pet. Let them help. And then later, be sure to clear them so they don’t carry your suffering around.
If you feel like puking, open up and GO for it. Even if there’s “nothing” in there, the energy from your solar plexus region and your whole torso gets purged when you follow the instinct to vomit. I like to nod “yes” when I’m letting it rip, even though it feels scary to vomit. I want my body to have full permission to let it go! And this is often the turning point of the illness!
Epsom Salt bath – I like it a couple times a day, even! Put one pound of epsom salt and one pound (yes that much) of Baking Soda in a hot bath. Get in there are breathe deep and pray. This is your sweat lodge!
After the bath, get under covers and keep hot/warm to let it burn inside – as long as this feels right to you!
Use muscle testing on yourself to find out what your body needs, if it’s not clear to you already.
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I have most of the symptoms of this flu, and a strong cough that doesn’t go away. I have been working hard in my spiritual awekening for a couple of months, and I know this is normal. But one of my cats if sick too, sheet is been vomiting a lot for a couple of days, I took her to the vet, she is on med, but something tells me that she is absorbing all this energy, what can I do to help her?
Thanks a lot.
Yes lady! This is great. It is nice to be confirmed. Thank you ????
Hi Mellissa, So grateful for this InFormation. I have Flu Symptoms at the Moment, and I know It’s a Clearing of Fearbase Energies. Lots of Self-Care & Understanding. I’ve lost my appetite, and just having hot drinks. Plenty of Vitamin C.
Much Love.
Hi Melissa – Thank you for sharing your perspectives on spiritual illness. I have been experiencing this time and time again in the last few years, have a teacher who has taught me the purpose, and yet never had the before-during-after information to quell my ego impulses to “do” something to battle it. How you described embracing it makes so much sense. Your share just made the world a little bigger. ????
-Jeff
Few people comment this post (even though it’s great) because we’re all very sick with the Spiritual Flu! ????????????
I’m going through this now & it’s funny as I took an Advil too. Everything I’ve read explains what’s happening…. Thanks… I’m reading this for a reason.????????
Dear Melissa,
Thank you for sharing. I was so sure it is not cold or allergy, but something more. Pats one week I have in thought taking a bath, you convinced me to do it tonight.
I have a question: How can I clear out my pets(cats) from my energy, they have been supporting me a lot. Can you share any ideas here?
Thank you.
I’ve had this fever for nearly 6 days now. Last night I had to go to hospital as I was so weak. That put me on a saline drip. I felt slightly better when I came out. I believe to recover you need the right hot fluids like lemon and ginger and selective foods. (Nothing to rich or greasy) if you guys have any tips leave a comment.
I don’t want sick often. But since last week had two separate bouts of flu and stomach bug which is very odd for me. I sway with energy and go into trance-like states when heavily under flu but hate when it lingers on and no healing works. Thanks for giving your perspective on it.
Grateful to have come across this information. Going through this now. Head throbbing, stuffy nose and bouts of pain and joy and dreams I cant much make sense of. I do feel this is a deep purging, with all the shifts in the cosmos Ive been feeling this break-through and upgrade like you said, I thought I may just be over analyzing but reading through it just resonates and makes so much sense.
Im about to launch myself and yes I have been working on self care and much soulwork and all this releasing, plus my moondays coming up just feels – right. I mean, terrible, but right. I am honoring this process and looking forward coming out of this anew. Namaste.
Thank you! <3
Hi! Thank you for this. How would I go about clearing my pets after a bout of the flu?
Clearing, at its most basic, is just intending it to happen. Our choice is so powerful. So you might imagine the dense energy around your pet, and simply imagine dragging it out and tossing into the earth like compost. Trust that it works. Our choice is that powerful. We affect energy all the time! 🙂
Any tips on how to get through spiritual flu? I’m sick now for the third time in 7 weeks ????
Surrender is the word that comes to mind Kelly. ????
Peace and blessings
Thank you for confirming everything I’ve been feeling. I feel my vibration raising, I can’t eat certain foods anymore and I’m now going through a huge release of old energy. Resentments, fears, anger. I went to the bathroom to purge yesterday, and starting praying to my angels, to help me through the fear (that was something I had never done before) Its beautiful to be in tune with the communication of my physical body.
Hi Mellissa, Thank you for sharing your experiences with us and re-affirming a perspective that I have had for a number of years now. What’s different for me now I that I have been sick with the same flu symptoms 3 times since January 2018( just 8 months ago). And 2 times since June 2018, just 2. months ago. Never before have had that frequency of “illness”. I am, however, making many new choices and experiencing valuable new perspectives of higher vibration than ever before in my life. By finding your site and words of encouragement, I refuel myself to move forward with positive outlook! Thank you!
I am in the process of focusing on releasing a deep complex or trauma. Now I have again a cold virus which according to The healing power of illness by Thorward Dethlefsen is a symbolic representation of an inner conflict. This makes sence as a repression is an emotional comflict that my young mind couldn’t deal with and so repressed it.
I know see that life is bigger and fuller then flesh… I believe, when you hear the truth it just sicks on your soul.
I am glad to know that others out here are experiencing the same thing…
It seems that loved ones get sick all around me when I succumb to sinful thoughts or impulses. It’s like the people that I’m connected to are affected by my decisions. I know its not a coincidence but I can’t explain it. Just want to know how to break spiritual ties so others around wont be hurt by me.
Thank you for this. I am currently suffering from the worse dose of flu I have ever had but I believe it’s a gift and a good start to 2019!.. I went into this year with great intentions for yoga everyday and other positive stuff. All of a sudden on Jan 1st 2019 a was struck down with this, but that’s ok I obviously have some clearing to do before I embark on this year’s journey. It has made me talk to the angels and my guides more and meditate so it can only be a good thing. I feel very positive about this whole process even though I am in agony aching all over. Happy New Year may it be a special one.
My whole household got this awful awful cough but I am the only one who has the fever and is vomiting and has been laid up. Going on day 4 with no solid foods. My cat hasn’t left my side (the other one come in and out). Just took an epsom hot bath and was freezing in it, vomited directly after. 11 11 and dreams and waking with angst. Sweating like someone poured water over me, crying etc. remembering to breathe, my 3 year “mom slow deep breathe in and out” has worked wonders when I find myself restricting.
Thank you for this post.
I’m so glad I found this article! Simple story, had stitches in for minor surgery, stitches broke out, given huge Pencillin. 24 hours later I developed severe headaches and fever. After thorough blood tests etc…no cause except allergy to penicillin. They were stopped 3 days ago, still sick. I feel I need to meditate, dowse to find out the root cause, nothings helping much. Greatly appreciate some advice – thank s so much! x
I’ve had chest congestion, a barking & wheezing cough for 11 days now. I’ve never experienced so many sleepless and coughing nights. I too have been on a quest of releasing the past and there’s a lot of gunk in there I know from my past. I’ve done several meditations that were hours long on releasing whatever is holding me back from every cell. They were very powerful meditations & at times I could feel something on my body like a light scarf being pulled over my chest and face and I thought to myself this is the release. It wasn’t. Now I’m experiencing a full on gutting of everything that I no longer need to be released from my body. I do know it’s a good thing. I’m just having a really hard time with how yucky I feel and how long I’ve been physically releasing.
Thank you for writing this article. I’m currently in bed very sick but I knew this was related to some of the emotional pain that I’m experiencing with a family member. I do feel it clearing and will embrace this period to surrender and rest. Thank you!
This read was very comforting and on point.
Thanks!
I’m not sure what this is but i can’t seem to find anyone else whose experienced this. I guess this might be what it is or it could be something called Ghost sickness. I’m unsure…
So anyway, I woke up from having a strange dream, seeing myself in my bedroom then transitioning to a white room. I saw myself stuffing alive Roaches in my mouth and eating it then choking on it and coughing it back up.
I woke up with this clogged feeling in my throat and i felt an airy movement in form of a finger moving around in my mouth and into the throat. I started to try and cough it up, but it wouldn’t go away. An hour passed and the feeling disappeared but then i had the worst sore dry throat immediately came on, and i started to cough up phlegm.
The day went on and it worsened in the evening. I felt like my head was going to explode, i had pulsatile tinnitus in the right ear and pressure bubbles in the left (The feeling you get when you’re in an airplane, except your ears aren’t popping and the pressure bubbles happening in the head is like those air bubbles you blow underwater except feeling in the left side of your head.)
I started to have sinus pain, a dull and achy headache. My eyes started to hurt, and then this strange sharp pain appeared along my spine (Literally out of the blue.) So i decided to heat up a heatbag and get some rest. Once i got back to my bed, i felt so dizzy.
I laid back down and i felt like i was sinking into the bed. I had a sharp pain appeared in my left shoulder and i felt chest tightness and my heart beating abnormally fast. Shortness of breath occured. The pressure in my head once i laid on the pillow felt like a liquidy sensation when gravity pulls it down and you could feel the inside move down with the sinking feeling.
All of the sudden i had weakness appeared in my arms and i was struggling to pull over my douna and roll over onto my side. It took me a few minutes to just roll over onto the left. My chest tightness, pain in the shoulder and shortness of breath disappeared after and then i passed out.
Waking to my throat mysteriously rid of pain but still slightly dry. Excessive saliva production, dull sinus pain due to a light sensitivity, still phlegm in throat, dried/itchy up nose, itchy/watery eyes, itchy face, bloating and everything normal except for the feeling of a spirit or whatever it is laying behind me and another one touching my lower part of the body.
I’ve only experienced the spirit whatever touching my throat, insides of mouth, 2 times. The first i just got a sore throat and that was all.
At times i feel that having a strong clairsentience ability sucks. Not only do i feel the everyday prodding and touching of multiple spirits, when i say ‘multiple’ i mean like a plaguey gang of spirits/entities/cosmic beings that constantly follows you, touches you whilst your sleeping or resting, (*insert clairvoyance and clairaudience and the constant confusion of whether there’s a spirit or whatever talking/showing themselves to you in your mind or its just yourself talking back at you or imagination.*)
I’m rather a healthy young person otherwise i do suffer with an unfortunate rare disease that (cerebri pseudotumor) I’m controlling with medication.
Hi I decided to remove my ego to support my spiritual journey- so far I have been sick for two days possibly 3 – am hoping and praying that I am getting better cause I sure don’t feel it lol
Hey Melissa,
Thank you for your clear words, which are very true in my own experience. I have a question for you about this subject and I’m curious about your answer.
Last march I got pregnant from my first child. During this pregnancy I experience a much heightened spiritual connection with whomever or whatever, but it’s defenitely here. Can it be that every time I need to throw up, I am releasing old, negative patterns/energy? Before I need to run to the loo I always feel heavy, weird, sometimes anxious, like these emotions are not mine. And and after vomiting I feel much lighter and brighter. What do you think?
I Googled this subject for a while, but never found any information. Therefore I’ curious about your opinion.
Warm regards,
Hannah
I’m finding that I get this “flu” after praying for someone or think I’ve caught someone else’s energy. At first, the next morning I wake up feeling their symptoms. Once I’ve somewhat calmed myself from them, I become exhausted and have the flu like symptoms. Hot/cold but mainly clammy, tired, headache and nausea. In bed now trying to rest up but it took me out of an entire day at work yesterday.
I’m not sure that this isn’t wishy washy “love and light” Spirituality or there is actually something to this. I guess that would require documentation. ie. a daily journal and a correspondence to when you get sick. And before I get attacked here, I was a psychic for over 30 years, and have had so many experiences I could probably write more than one book about them. (no tarot or crutches needed. 80%-90% over all accuracy) If sickness can and does correspond to spiritual aliments then it can be proved. Anyways, I’ve got the flu, feel like crap, and am a seeker like you. 🙂
Everything is very open with a very clear explanation of the challenges. It was really informative. Your site is extremely helpful. Thank you for sharing!