Understanding
the
Healing Crisis
by Ginger Chalford, Ph.D
Understanding
The Healing Crisis
This
article was written about Body Biotics™ (formerly known
as Nature's Biotics®) but applies to any healing crisis with
soil-based probiotics, such as Prescript-Assist.
The
body has an inherent desire for perfect health. We have the ability
to earn our way back to that state, no matter how "normal"
or bad our health is now. But in the meantime, the body must go
through an elimination process to achieve good health.
The
elimination process is often referred to as the "healing
crisis." Once the healing crisis starts, reactions may be
mild or severe. Expect ups and downs as it takes awhile to get
good health back.
In a healing
crisis, every body system works together to eliminate waste products
and set the stage for regeneration. Old tissues are replaced with new.
A disease occurs when the body cannot make it through its natural healing
crises for one reason or another. The body is "locked" into
a destructive and shut down place, physically, emotionally, mentally,
and spiritually.
Symptoms
of the healing crisis may at first be identical to the disease it is
meant to heal. But there is an important difference: elimination. A
cleansing, purifying process is underway and stored wastes are in a
free-flowing state. The body, mind, and spirit are no longer "locked."
Sometimes pain and symptoms during the healing crisis are more intense
than that of the chronic disease, but it is temporary and necessary.
The healing
crisis will usually bring about past conditions and personal issues.
People often forget the diseases, issues, or injuries they have had
in the past, but are usually reminded during the healing crisis so
that they can heal their unfinished business. This arises in whatever
order the body is capable of handling at that time.
Physical
reactions of the healing crisis could include skin eruptions, nausea,
headache, sleepiness, unusual fatigue, constipation, diarrhea, head
or chest cold, ear infections, boils, or any other way the body uses
to loosen and eliminate toxins. An initial healing crisis usually
lasts around three days but if the energy of the patient is low, it
may last a week or more.
Your body
needs juices, and especially water to help carry off the toxins. This
is a time for rest. Be kind to yourself --- mentally, emotionally, and
of course physically.
One
crisis is not always enough for a complete cure. The person in
a chronic "locked" disease state will often have to
go through cycles of healing crises, with each one improving the
condition some. It has taken time to develop a chronically diseased
state, and time is required to let go of the "locked"
energy, piece by piece. A healing crisis is like peeling the layers
off an onion.
Often
the healing crisis will come after one feels their very best and most
energized, setting the stage for the elimination. The whole body gets
into action. Most people feel an energy boost at the beginning until
the toxins start dumping into the blood stream for elimination. Go
as slowly as your body needs so your elimination is gradual and comfortable.
With
a more serious condition, there may be many small crises to go through
before the system can become healthily balanced. Everything must be
considered and given its proper place in the build-up to a healing
crisis. One should expect it and work with the body, not resentfully
against it.
Supporting
Your Healing During A Healing Crisis
Keep
the colon open during a healing crisis. This is really important!
As they say, "Health begins in the colon." If your tendency
is towards constipation then by all means use an all natural herbal
tea or herbal laxative to help the process. (If you take a hot
herbal tea, do not drink it at the same time you take Body Biotics™
[formerly named Nature's BioticsŪ] or the hot water could destroy
the living probiotics.) What's going on in your colon is that
the Body Biotics™ Soil Based Organisms get in behind all
the crud on your colon walls. As these pieces are lifted off,
they can create a "dam" effect. Do not stop taking Body
Biotics™. Cut back if you need to, even to 1/2 capsule a
day. If you stop during a healing crisis, you lose ground you
gained.
The Soil
Based Organisms live for about 72 hours. After the walls of the entire
colon, approximately 5 feet long, have been cleansed, you may never
again experience constipation! Your body will have repatterned itself.
A doctor told me he has to use a saw to cut out portions of the colon
which have become like cement!
By the
way, avoid colas and chlorinated water during your cleanout and the
healing crisis because they destroy enzymes. It's a good idea to get
off them permanently as well, as carbonated drinks are high in phosphorus
and end up leaching much needed calcium out of your body. Meat takes
a LOT of calcium to digest, and a lot of enzymes (especially if it
isn't organically grown), minerals, and everything else. So you may
want to cut down your meat consumption until your body can digest
food better.
Other substances
which inhibit or destroy enzymes include antibiotics taken for illness,
any food treated with pesticides, any animal given antibiotics, and
alcohol. If you've had radiation or chemo, your enzymes have probably
all been wiped out! Of course, keep up mineral supplementation. This
will support the action of the enzymes.
When your
digestive tract is restored to the strength of a teenager's, then
you can decide what diet you want to have. But by that time, you may
not crave the same destructive foods you did before! And many of your
food and temperature sensitivities may be gone!
Believe
me, a healing crisis is really worth going through!
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