When your down

Ok got hit with the "bug" from hell. Talk about taking out somebody!!! As i am laying dying from this flu - i am wondering what I can do to continue training while i feel like not training. Here is where I think many schools fail--that is, what to do to train the mind. Bed ridden I find that if I can go through my workout in my mind, visualizing each technique or set or form it helps to keep those neorons firing in my brain as well as helps to hardwire them into my body. I visualize attackers coming in at me from all sides with all types of techniques and weapons--I work through each scenario as if it were happening that very moment--seeing myself defeating and disabling my attackers. I try as best as possible feeling like crap, to feel and be healthy, active, and un-beatable. Sure it sounds silly, but training the mind is as important as the techniques--seeing and feeling yourself as the winner and best is critical to any martial arts or self defense regimen. "As a man thinks, so is he........" After these mental excercises, I will usually read some martial artts literature or technique or view a vid of some training and then again visualize my knowing, understanding, and using the technique properly against a variety of situations and encounters. As I recover from the flu I am anxious to now work the techniques I have been visualizing into my physical training routine. As always we trian for real.