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at our visualizations helped turn the course of our illness around.</p><p id="ebc7">We survived this thing (at the ages of fifty-three and sixty-one) and I hope that you believe that you can too. The power of the mind is fierce, and, while this virus is charting unknown territories in the human body, hope is one of the most powerful tools that we have. Please stay strong, love each other, and be grateful for every moment of every day.</p><p id="24ba"><a href="undefined">Erika Burkhalter</a> 2020</p><p id="518c">You might be interested in reading our day-by-day account with COVID-19:</p><div id="c550" class="link-block"> <a href="https://psiloveyou.xyz/my-husband-and-i-survived-covid-19-c706527d3309"> <div> <div> <h2>My husband and I survived COVID-19</h2> <div><h3>A first-hand account of our battle with the coronavirus.</h3></div> <div><p>psiloveyou.xyz</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*Glm2r2srVuqKwLe9rPBySg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="faa7" class="link-block"> <a href="https://psiloveyou.xyz/we-can-taste-food-again-our-recovery-from-covid-19-f192dd981902"> <div> <div> <h2>We Can Taste Food Again — Our Recovery from COVID-19</h2> <div><h3>Our recovery from COVID-19</h3></div> <div><p>psiloveyou.xyz</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*z5rN5cc4nkEqh0wWcQn4gg.jpeg)"></div>

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</div> </div> </a> </div><div id="3df1" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/i-had-covid-19-for-a-little-over-two-weeks-and-when-i-woke-up-the-world-had-changed-bc60dd60ac96"> <div> <div> <h2>I had COVID-19 for a Little Over Two Weeks, and When I Woke up the World had Changed</h2> <div><h3>I feel like Rip Van Winkle</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*6ja5G28ExAGHYxuEe_2qVQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="2552" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/a-respite-from-covid-craziness-692ea80687d"> <div> <div> <h2>A Respite from COVID Craziness</h2> <div><h3>An afternoon in the garden with kitties and flowers</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*J5hpoDbzd6krV19qq6UyyA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="fc2d"><i>Erika Burkhalter is a yogi, neurophilosopher, cat-mom, photographer, and lover of travel and nature, spreading her love and amazement for Mother Earth’s glories, one photo, poem or story at a time. (MS Neuropsychology, MA Yoga Studies). Erika is also an editor for <a href="https://medium.com/dharma-talk">Dharma Talk</a>.</i></p><p id="c5e8">Photo, poem and story ©Erika Burkhalter. All rights reserved.</p></article></body>

COVID fever memories

Tangled together under sheets wet with fever sweat, we take comfort in each other’s warmth, your hand on my hip, my back against your chest, our toes curled into each other’s.

Together we visualize this virus — something not really “alive,” yet possessing enough life to wreak havoc on our fragile human bodies — leaving our lungs and sliding down into the fires of our gastric juices, where it can be burned away.

“We need to vibrate at a higher frequency than it,” you say.

And so, we close our eyes, and we “see it.”

Golden light fills our bodies.

We know, somehow, that we have outsmarted that foreign invader, which has set up legions of armies in our chests.

And soon we burn a little less intensely, our breaths a little easier for now.

COVID-19, you did not win this round.

And soon the virus will only be a hazy shared memory of a crazy time, a time when the world went quiet, and you and I were lost for sixteen days in fevered dreams.

My husband and I are recovering from COVID-19. While we were so sick, we did visualize vibrating at a higher rate than the virus. We have always believed in the power of meditation, and we really do believe that there was a moment, when we were trying not to panic because our lungs felt as if they were being squeezed by an iron fist, that our visualizations helped turn the course of our illness around.

We survived this thing (at the ages of fifty-three and sixty-one) and I hope that you believe that you can too. The power of the mind is fierce, and, while this virus is charting unknown territories in the human body, hope is one of the most powerful tools that we have. Please stay strong, love each other, and be grateful for every moment of every day.

You might be interested in reading our day-by-day account with COVID-19:

Erika Burkhalter is a yogi, neurophilosopher, cat-mom, photographer, and lover of travel and nature, spreading her love and amazement for Mother Earth’s glories, one photo, poem or story at a time. (MS Neuropsychology, MA Yoga Studies). Erika is also an editor for Dharma Talk.