Whine Flu?

I don't get the paranoia about swine flu. I understand it is serious. Still, more people will die from a bad reaction to aspirin than swine flu. That fact doesn't lessen the reality of those infected, but I am wondering why the media is contributing to the fear and paranoia? If I could offer one word to the media, STOP SCARING PEOPLE! The media is shouting "boo," and many of us are yelling "help!"

Sometimes I think the media is in cahoots with the pharmaceutical companies and whoever else might profit from promising over the counter miracles that will camouflage the symptoms without curing the illness. I don't know. I'm not a doctor. I admit it I am clueless. I don't know what the solution is from a medical perspective.

What I know from a spiritual perspective is that fear creates fear. Anxiety breads further anxiety. Folks, calm down. Whatever label that we use to identify the Divine and/or the Sacred is the calming assurance we need to minimize whatever our fears. The Divine blessings must be invoked to combat our limited thinking which is undermining our intellect and shrinking our emotional ability to stay calm and centered. Rather than becoming our fear, let's remember to be courageous.

My unsolicited counsel is to speak peace to the storm of fear. Breathe in calmness, breathe out anxiety. Trust the Divine Presence has healed whatever the calamities of the present moment appears to be.