What is a Healing Crisis?

As you progress through detoxification, and clean your body out, moving any harmful materials to the exits, you are liable to experience what is known as a Healing Crisis. This is a phenomenon which is sort of incredible and which is mystical in its own way to try and grasp what it’s all about. But, I will do my best to explain.

Nothing in life of great accomplishment comes easily. If you have an ambitious goal that is out of reach, have no doubt that obtaining it will involve challenges and you will be tested. Thus is the nature of free will and the dichotomy of this life we live. The same is true of reversing poor health and putting yourself into great health and well-being.

Here is the basic concept of the healing crisis: As toxins get released from being lodged inside your body, from your lymphatic system, your intestines, your organs, your fat deposits, and your connective tissue, they get dislodged and then are sent to one of your eliminative systems to be eliminated. During that process, some of these toxins can get re-absorbed back into the bloodstream and the trauma of the original detriment to the body can be re-experienced to some degree, as your body purges itself of that substance.

People have reported and I can personally attest to having old injury areas swell back up or become sensitive temporarily. You may even experience fleetingly the same symptoms of health issues in years past. The body is attempting to clear up blockages as well in the flow of the lymphatic system and the overall energy flow.

These are also emotional experiences. The body’s physical unit is deeply connected to an emotional experience as you are traveling throughout this lifetime. It’s impossible to transform the state of your physical unit dramatically without going through emotional cycles and sort of re-birthing your psyche, so to speak. Sometimes too we have emotional associations in the past where we caused harm to the body, acutely or cumulatively. As that harm is detoxified out of the body, so too can the emotional states get dislodged which were created during that same point in time.

Everybody’s life experience is different. Most people I know have undergone drama and trauma emotionally throughout their lifetime and carry some type of baggage from that. We need to heal from these things too, and my experience and observation of the experiences of others is that the healing crisis can actually be a beautiful way of letting go of negative experiences of the past, and throwing overboard negative emotional baggage and moving on to a fresh, clean slate.

Just keep in mind these emotions can get experienced on the way out, just like physical toxins can and it’s not always pleasant — but it’s normally short-lived, perhaps for hours or maybe a day or a couple of days maximum. Do understand that everybody is different and I can’t predict exactly what will happen with you on your journey to ultimate wellness if you have a healing crisis or multiple crises.

For me, the experiences I have had with healing crises — I’ve probably had seven or eight major ones over the course of seven plus years as of the time of writing being in the business of detoxifying myself — have been very fulfilling and I accepted them with welcome arms. Perhaps this is because of the low point that I had been coming from before getting well. If you know my personal story you will know that before getting healthy when I was sick I was so distraught and had lost the will to live.

After my first healing crisis, which basically appeared to be an intense, multi-day cold, with runny nose, coughing, aching, fever and lethargy, I felt amazing after it was over at how good I felt. I had never felt that way previously after a ‘cold’ (the symptoms of which had always been previously suppressed with synthetic medication and drugs).

As a side note, what most people perceive as cold-like symptoms are one type of process of what I would perceive as a healing crisis. As we have covered previously, the body is permanently in a state of detoxification, constantly. However, the body is very intelligent and it can throw itself into a dramatic state of detoxification, expelling mucus out of the mouth and nose, heating the body with fever to kill harmful organisms and sweat out toxins, coughing out toxins through the lungs, losing appetite so as to urge you not to eat (digestion diverts energy from cleaning and healing) forcing rest and breaks from work stresses through the feeling of lethargy, among other methods.

This is not to say that this process can’t be caused by outside invasion of the body of some kind of harmful organism — it can. This sort of process can also be brought on simply but the body’s own intelligence and not because of some invasive event or immune trigger. Either way, this experience is basically a healing crisis, even without you even recognizing it as such. A healing crisis does not always happen in the form of common cold type symptoms, but it can, and this is perhaps one of the more commonly experienced healing crises.

We grow up and are taught by our parents that the body’s attempts to detoxify and heal are a bad thing, and refer to it as ‘getting sick’. Actually the individual had been making themselves ‘sick’ previous to that episode, gradually over time, until the body finally throws itself into a healing crisis to cleanse and heal.

If you don’t take suppressive medications which reverse what the body is trying to do (for example cough suppressant medicine will actually prevent the lungs from expectorating mucus and toxins), and you embrace the healing crisis for what it is — and you listen to your body signals telling you to rest and telling you to refrain from eating heavy foods — then you should feel much better after a healing crisis, not worse.

If you ignore what your body is doing, take suppressive medications which stop or reverse its efforts, continue to stress yourself out without breaking for rest, and consume junk foods and drinks, then you are liable to feel worse when it’s all over with. This is how many people thank their bodies for trying to fix its problems. And you can see why many people’s health conditions simply spiral downwards and decline into degeneration and ultimately death.

Some people will argue that my point of view is controversial that the body is trying to help us with these healing crises. I think that what I am observing and documenting here are just natural facts and common sense. Once you embrace the logic of the healing crisis, there are also amazing doors which open up. Because once you raise your level of awareness about this dynamic, now you are putting yourself in an harmonious frequency with your body, and acknowledging and thanking it for how it is serving you.

To wrap up, people go through healing crises, essentially all people, even those who do not put themselves through a detoxification process. But if you do pursue the art and science of detoxification for yourself, it’s just as important to keep in mind that you may accelerate these healing crises, or ‘get them out of the way’, so to speak, so you can enjoy good stable health for the rest of your life. You may bring them on quicker and move them up in terms of timetable to have them happen on your own schedule rather than waiting for a crisis to explode at a very inconvenient time.

In fact, now that I’ve had several healing crises throughout my journey of regenerating my health, it’s now quite difficult for me to experience one. I am actually begging for my body to have a crisis of this sort. It seems like I’m pretty well cleaned out and so it’s very rare nowadays. But I know how much better I always feel on the other side, so I always say, ‘Bring it on!’

Don’t be afraid of the intelligence of your body and what it will do to clean itself out and regenerate tissue. Go through your first Healing Crisis, as you detoxify, with an open mind, and see if you do like the results on the other side. If you do, then you will surely welcome any other dramatic transformations your body wants to make for the better.

After all, you maybe have spent years and even decades creating a toxic buildup in your body which may be contributing to a state of poor health. Now, your body is demonstrating to you the power to transform on a dime and within the period of a few days, weeks or months take a dramatic quantum leap to transform into better health, and erase a lifetime of damage in a short period of time — hence, the power of Rapid Regeneration.

This is the amazing power of detoxification, healing and regeneration that is possible if you embrace it.