Day 97: Are You Having A Healing Crisis?

After being sick for a while, I started to notice a pattern.  Just as I'd start to make progress, I'd decline--often to end up feeling worse than I did in the first place.  At first, I couldn't make sense of it.  "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working," I questioned.  "Maybe I should just give up."

Then, I learned about Healing Crises.  Now, I know, it's part of the process.

Defined simply, a Healing Crisis is your body's natural reaction to toxins as it struggles to return to health. The more toxic your symptoms, the more toxic your reaction.  Which can often leave people feeling like they're 1) On the wrong path or 2) Hopeless.

While most people think of health as a simple formula,

the "true" path to detoxification actually looks more like this:

  
NOTE:  In my case, "the right thing" is following a yeast-free/gluten-free/sugar-free/whole food diet, dry brushing, daily dry saunas, epsom salt soaks, herbs, and massage.

Bottom Line?  If what you're doing's not working, don't give up (at least not yet).  What might look like failure, could actually be success just waiting to happen.

Altered Today: Understanding Hering's Law of Cure and other Homeopathic theories.  Relating healing to success in life.  Like anything, the key is to stick with it.

Comments

[Judy Schwartz-Naber]

That is the truth in a lot of life situations. Just cause you do the "right thing", it may not turn around right away. I know this because I am one of those people who believes that if I do right...everything should be perfect. It isn't always. But I usually do make progress. In spite of the set-backs. I wish you the ability to remember the progress during the tough times. And patience with yourself when you think you aren't doing it "perfect".

[Kathy Tagudin]

Thanks for the reminder, Judy. Yes. It's funny how illness just mirrors life (how you do anything is how you do everything). Learning to dance and play with it--the ups and downs and in betweens--is the biggest challenge for me (and probably most people). In the meantime, it gives me A LOT comfort to actually view the process for what it is--a journey...not a destination.