{"id":737,"date":"2006-10-31T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/10\/do-you-believe-in-cold-and-flu-season.html"},"modified":"2006-10-31T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T15:32:00","slug":"do-you-believe-in-cold-and-flu-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/10\/do-you-believe-in-cold-and-flu-season.html","title":{"rendered":"Do You ‘Believe’ In Cold and Flu Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I avoid worrying about cold and flu season<\/a> and don’t get flu shots, but scoll down here and watch this film<\/a> about a positive-thinking approach I’ve never tried that looks like fun (yeah, okay Brian, tear me up for this): tapping around your ears front to back with your fingers and repeating to yourself “I’m not going to get a cold or the flu” to train your belief system. <\/p>\n

I know that “Emotional Freedom”<\/a> tapping therapies can be tremendously effective, odd as they seem. Anyone else know more or had actual experience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I avoid worrying about cold and flu season and don’t get flu shots, but scoll down here and watch this film about a positive-thinking approach I’ve never tried that looks like fun (yeah, okay Brian, tear me up for this): tapping around your ears front to back with your fingers and repeating to yourself “I’m…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nDo You 'Believe' In Cold and Flu Season? - Chattering Mind<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/10\/do-you-believe-in-cold-and-flu-season.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Do You 'Believe' In Cold and Flu Season? 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