Healing Crisis

🔥 Healing Crisis: A Positive Sign of Deep Restoration

In the context of Naturopathic Medicine and true healing, as opposed to symptom suppression, a “crisis”—specifically a healing crisis is a vital sign of a body regaining its equilibrium. While the term often carries a negative connotation in general English, there is significant historical, physiological, and clinical validation for it being a positive indicator of deep healing.

1. The Law of Cure (Hering’s Law)

One of the primary validations comes from Constantine Hering, an 1800s pioneer in the understanding of holistic principles in a world that gained great power and wealth by isolating parts of the body for “treatment” even if the treatment was so toxic that it killed the patient. “Hering’s Law of Cure” posits that healing occurs:

– From the inside out.

– From the head down.

– In the reverse order in which symptoms appeared.

We must add one caveat not understood by Hering: the access to symptoms, when speaking of “reverse order,” is ameliorated by the level of vitality of the individual. No matter where a particular set of symptoms falls on the timeline, if one does not have the vitality to access those symptoms, they will be held in hiding until a greater vitality than the depth of the symptoms is reached. Thus, the “reverse order” rule is not a hard and fast one. — dr. michael ryce

Under an actual, in-depth healing framework, a “crisis” is the physiological manifestation of the body finally addressing a deep-seated issue. As the body detoxifies or moves a chronic (hidden – “I feel great, Doc!) condition into an acute state to resolve it, symptoms will temporarily rise to the level where they show themselves. Awareness of symptoms will intensify as they surface, hence the descriptor, “crises!” But crises in the wondrous sense of the body entering an empowered state of willingness and Breath movement, “clearing the path” for the old, denied, toxic energies that, having opened for release, in the process of letting go of that load, strengthens long-term health. Awareness and cooperation with this blessed state enhances, accelerates, and makes it easier.

2. The Herxheimer Validation: The Chemistry of Cleansing

While Hering’s Law provides the structural roadmap for healing, the Jarisch-Herxheimer Reaction (often called “Herxing”) provides the biochemical proof. Historically observed by dermatologists Adolf Jarisch and Karl Herxheimer, this phenomenon occurs when large quantities of toxins—often from the die-off of pathogenic microorganisms—are released into the system faster than the body can eliminate them.

In a deep healing framework, a Herxheimer event is the “chemical crisis” that mirrors the “vital crisis.” It is a complementary validation for several reasons:

– The Die-Off Evidence: As vitality increases, the body begins to neutralize “pathogenic tenants” that have long held residence in the tissues. The temporary intensification of symptoms is the literal presence of these neutralized substances, released from deep in tissue, moving through the blood and lymph.

– The Adaptive Peak: Just as a house becomes dustier the moment you begin to sweep, the blood and eliminative organs become momentarily “crowded” with the debris of the old state. This is not a sign of new disease, but evidence that real healing is in process.

– Immune Re-Education: The Herxheimer reaction, and The Healing Crisis both act as a concentrated training period for the immune system. As hidden toxins surface, the body’s internal forces recognize and finally expel what no longer serves the temple of the body. This is not a “Doctor Feelgood” process and, sadly, is often covered up with toxic treatments that put “comfort” ahead of healing.

3. Biological Transmutation and Homeostasis

In biology, “crisis” is often a requirement for a system to move to a higher level of organization.

– Homeostasis vs. Homeorhesis: A body in a chronic state has found a “false” stability. To reach a true state of health, that false stability must be disrupted.

– The Vital Force: The “healing crisis” is the transition period where the body’s vital force (or Vis Medicatrix Naturae) is actively reorganizing and, in the process, throwing up and out what does not belong.

– The Validation: While the individual feels worse as a fever may be called upon to burn off old energies and perhaps invading organisms; chills, fatigue, ancient physical, mental and emotional symptoms, old toxic substances, negative thoughts, and depression are retraced and released. Confusion, as held conflicting energies are surfaced to be processed, is often the companion of this deep reorganization. As this experience unfolds, it is important to keep moving toward deeper states of alignment while keeping responsibility in mind, and Breath, Love and willingness active!

All of this confirms that healing is in process and is further validated by the fact that the individual often expresses they “feel better than they have in years,” after the symptomatic state passes. This is clinical proof that the treatment is vitalizing the individual and effectively neutralizing pathogenic influences.

4. Etymological Validation

The word “crisis” comes from the Greek krisis, meaning “decision” or “turning point.” In ancient Hippocratic medicine, the crisis was the moment in a disease when the body would either succumb or begin its triumph. A good metaphor is the spring cleaning of a house. Before the cleaning begins, things may be a little messy, but overall, not too bad. But as the deep cleaning begins, everything turns into a mess temporarily as the corners and spaces behind the furniture are swept and their hidden dust is removed. Therefore, the crisis is the literal moment of “deciding” for health.

💞 Here are three files on Healing Crises… https://whyagain.org/images/Media/mp3vidppt/HealingCrisis_April222020_add.mp3

https://whyagain.org/images/Media/mp3vidppt/HealingCrisis_part3.mp3

https://whyagain.org/images/Media/mp3vidppt/ThoughtsBecomePhysical.mp3

And 💞 Here is an example of what generational resolution looks like… A powerful piece of ancestral inquiry and healing that was done by a participant in a “Codependence To Interdependence” Workshop…

https://whyagain.org//wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Magda_AncestrialLetter.mp3

Smiles, michael and Jeanie 💞🌞

Also, check https://whyagain.org/easing-through-a-healing-crisis/