A healing crisis is a process that occurs naturally after a period of living right! In these times people have moved away from eating healthy whole foods in deference to processed, denatured and engineered foods. (In fact they can't really be called foods at all, they are actually food products). Their bodies aren't getting the materials needed to keep organs and systems strong so that they can function optimally, eliminating waste or catarrh while repairing and building new tissue to replace the old. Only when the whole body is strong can it involve all the organs in a rally to cleanse, eliminate waste and create an environment for regeneration. The body is made strong by taking in whole foods, full of nutrients from healthy unadulterated soil, by exercise, stress management and by maintaining mental and spiritual health as well.

There are symptoms during a healing crisis that may be confused with illness but the difference is that these symptoms are short in duration and move from one part of the body to another, from inside out and from top to bottom. There is usually a lack of appetite and may be a fever. Illness is a very different scenario where one or more of the organs are not working well, causing toxic build up of waste material that can't get out. There is fear during illness, a feeling of being out of control as opposed to the prevailing feeling during a healing crisis that underneath all the symptomology everything is working just the way it should and everything is really OK.

The reversal process is another part of the healing crisis. It is necessary to revisit each step the body has been through that brought it to its current state of disease. People learn from an early age that symptoms are bad and should be stopped or suppressed. They take all kinds of drugs to stop their bodies from eliminating catarrh and waste. This is very confusing to the body! Mucus production is the body's perfect mechanism for taking out the garbage! If that process is suppressed, the immune system is compromised and the next time it doesn't work quite so well. The body has it's own memory and it remembers all the injuries and all the times it was suppressed. In the reversal process these memories are brought to light in reverse order from which they happened and people re-experience illnesses and traumas in a phenomenon known as retracing. The difference this time is that the symptoms come and go quickly and there is an underlying sense that the whole process is not threatening, that it is natural and health promoting. The healthy changes people feel after a healing crisis remains as long as a health supportive lifestyle is embraced, as long as one continues to honor the remarkable and extraordinary intelligence of the body. Give the body what it needs to constantly create strong new tissue and the reward will be wonderful health and vitality.