Entwined with Nature

I'm suffering from a horrible cold. (don't get too close to your computer or my germs may spread! LOL). Seriously. I haven't felt this bad in a very long while. Wolf came up on his class break (he's a professor at my work) for coffee and conversation. We had an interesting discussion (as is often the case). I mentioned, laughingly, that one of our students is a Reiki Master and I could use a healing right now with this cold that is kicking me in the arse. Wolf said he gave up on healing as healers are too often sick themselves. He didn't want to be sick all the time.

You know, this may be true. Healers often use "sympathetic magick" and cure or heal people by drawing the sick energies into themselves. Perhaps even though the healer can neutralize or dispose of this 'rotten energy' for lack of a better term, maybe it wears the healer's own immunity down after a while.

What could be do to change this? Use less sympathetic magick? (why mess with what works?)

How do you all stay healthy?

Also, something to note, it was someone strong in wolf power how shared this me.