Always picture your immune system as strong, tough, powerfully aggressive, invincible, indomitable and unconquerable. Make sketches of your killer T cells and macrophages with wolflike fangs and jaws, and of die antibodies with sharp, dart-like points. See them rush at any virus and tear it to shreds.
Or you can symbolize your white cells as fierce white dogs or white tigers or as any fierce and aggressive animal that always wins.
Visualize the cold or flu viruses as small, weak, disorganized and disoriented. Never picture your ailment as strong, powerful, magical, evil, monstrous, gigantic or fear-inspiring. People who have symbolized a cold or flu as a lion or tiger, a giant or a monster, or a powerful spreading tree or rock have proved to be fearful of the ailment and to have a low level of confidence and belief in their immunocompetence.
Next, make a rough sketch of yourself in perfect health, free of all cold and flu symptoms. Sketch yourself as you were at the healthiest, fittest time of your life. Draw yourself loping along a beach, inhaling great quantities of pure air through unblocked nostrils. Feel complete faith in your ability to destroy any invading virus or bacteria.
Create clear, strong, vivid pictures of your white cells and of yourself in perfect health. Not only see yourself running along a beach but feel, hear, smell, taste and touch the scene. Experience each sensation. Smell the salty tang of drying seaweed, hear the scream of gulls and the roar of surf, feel the sea breeze in your face, the sun on your body, and the grains of sand under your bare feet.
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