You cannot "catch" anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness. As you listen, you are giving all your thought and focus to illness, and when you give all of your thought to something, you are asking for it. p. 132 Beato, Greg (April 2007), "The Secret of The Secret", Reason, ISSN 0048-6906