| ="body"> | | | | During one healing crisis 16 years after that incident, |
| A healing crisis may occur when the vital forces | | | | the same toe turned black and blue. I had not done |
| within the body build up enough strength to handle | | | | anything to it and it didn't hurt at all. It was so |
| detoxification. A healing crisis manifests when the | | | | strange. The bruise went away in three days. I |
| body is ready. For example: | | | | recognized it as a healing crisis because I had just |
| 1. You have caught up on your rest. | | | | worked through other dis-eases. I was studying to |
| 2. You have stopped taking drugs/chemicals/alcohol | | | | be a naturopath at the time and had made a list of all |
| and other nutrients that are not working for you. | | | | the physical disturbances and diseases I had |
| 3. You replace old and destructive eating patterns | | | | experienced in my life. I reviewed some of the other |
| with new healthy eating patterns. | | | | symptoms that had come up in the last 60 days and |
| 4. You have cleansed enough from your system to | | | | working backwards from the most recent diseases |
| strengthen the nervous system or blood supply. | | | | backward, the toe incident was in that time frame of |
| Eating fresh raw fruits and vegetables: | | | | healing. |
| 1. Improves oxygen utilization | | | | As healing crisis symptoms come up (if they do), |
| 2. Helps burn up waste products in the system | | | | they will last just a fraction of the time of the original |
| 3. Stabilizes the bloods pH and makes it more alkaline. | | | | disease and not be as severe. Chemicals and drugs |
| This, in turn, gives the body energy to fight off | | | | will come out of the body as well when the body |
| disease, so that it can detoxify and rebuild (in that | | | | builds sufficient energy and strength to liquefy and |
| order). | | | | throw off catarrh (mucous). I've noticed this may |
| Note: Cooked, processed, or pasteurized fruits and | | | | take a couple of years of nutrition and cleansing in |
| vegetables are devoid of enzymes. Heat kills many | | | | the most chronic situation. |
| vitamins. Cooked fruits will make the body more | | | | Detoxification of chemicals happens in a variety of |
| acidic. Disease only survives in acid bodies, so you | | | | ways. For example sulfur escapes through the skin, |
| really need to eat raw foods for optimal health. | | | | mercury through furuncles (boils), ulcers, abscesses, |
| Consuming three servings EACH DAY of raw fruits | | | | opens sores and hemorrhoidal discharges. Toxic gases |
| and vegetables is the minimum for optimal health. | | | | find their way out of the body through body odor, |
| Hering's law of cure: All cure comes from within the | | | | furry tongues and in bad breath. |
| central core of your body first, then moves outward | | | | APPLY WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED: |
| and from the top of your body, down to your feet | | | | Exercise: In a journal or on a piece of paper think |
| and in reverse order in which the first symptoms | | | | back to your childhood. |
| occurred. Working from the head downward, one | | | | 1. Write down everything that ever went wrong |
| must clear old thought patterns, attitudes, and | | | | health-wise. |
| feelings and replace them with new healthier thought | | | | 2. Now organize these in a time line. |
| patterns, attitudes and feelings. | | | | 3. Write them in the order of most recent to least |
| The following symptoms may occur occasionally | | | | recent. |
| during a healing crisis. These are a signs that | | | | 4. Now draw little box by each item in the left hand |
| "housecleaning" is occurring: | | | | margin. |
| Fever, swollen limbs/face, headaches, mobilization of | | | | When you start your healing process, check off the |
| mucous, weakness, weight-loss, diarrhea, nausea, | | | | boxes as you experience the symptoms. This |
| vomiting and other digestive disorders, pains | | | | exercise teaches you to notice what is going on in |
| resurfacing, worsening of existing symptoms, rapid | | | | your body. Sometimes the symptom will be so mild |
| pulse, skin eruptions, and some say they feel like | | | | you may think it is a coincidence. Other symptoms, |
| their world is "collapsing". | | | | like swollen lymph nodes, may last longer. This is a |
| Yuk. Why would you want to feel like that!? And | | | | wonderful experience and positive reinforcement that |
| how do you tell if you are going through a healing | | | | you are making progress in your health. |
| crisis or just another bout of disease? Good | | | | A patient may go through several heeling crises at |
| question....Read on.... | | | | various time intervals indicating reversal of more than |
| The Answer: You can only get better, permanently, | | | | one condition. When your body is ready to heal it will |
| by shifting back into time. Therefore, you may have | | | | release the toxins. There really is no way to |
| to experience some uncomfortable brief symptoms. | | | | determine exactly when or if a healing crisis will occur. |
| You know when you are having a healing crisis | | | | One can never predict which symptoms will present |
| because: | | | | or how severe hey will be. |
| 1. The crisis usually lasts only one to three days. The | | | | Ways to work through a healing crisis: |
| symptoms can be so mild that you may not | | | | 1. Drink lots of water. |
| recognize that it is a healing crisis. | | | | 2. Treat yourself to a massage or hot bath. |
| 2. At the end of the healing crisis you feel much | | | | 3. Apply a piece of felt soaked with castor oil to the |
| better than before the healing crisis occurred. | | | | liver area and cover the area with saran wrap. This is |
| 3. You are eating all the right things and up until the | | | | called a "castor oil pack" and draws the toxins from |
| healing crisis have had a good attitude. | | | | the body. Repeat and change daily for 3-5 days. |
| 4. You know you are making changes in your lifestyle | | | | 4. Fast for a day or two. |
| and are working on physical, emotional, mental and | | | | 5. Get a chiropractic adjustment. |
| spiritual aspects of your life. | | | | 6. Pray and do some attitudinal work. |
| 5. You are mentally prepared to get through the | | | | 7. Find a support team to ask questions about your |
| healing. | | | | healing. |
| 6. You may have just pampered yourself with some | | | | This is a great time to pamper yourself. You deserve |
| kind of bodywork--this sometimes stimulates a | | | | it for all your efforts. |
| healing crisis. This is a good thing. | | | | Dr. Bernard Jensen says: |
| If you are truly sick, the symptoms above feel awful | | | | "We cannot expect sweet thoughts with a sour |
| as time progresses. The symptoms are more than | | | | stomach. And for this reason, all stress in any organ |
| transient and more than mild. In your gut you know | | | | has an effect on every other aspect of our being. |
| you don't feel right. You don't feel that higher plane | | | | Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual processes are |
| of health. See a doctor or your favorite healer for | | | | all interconnected and need to be in balance for |
| advice and drink lots of water. | | | | healing to occur." |
| I remember going through my own healing crisis. | | | | © 2005 by Dr. Denice M. Moffat |
| Once in college I had a pig tip a fence panel on top | | | | This article comes with reprint rights providing no |
| of my foot, breaking my big toe. I could not walk on | | | | changes are made and the resource box below |
| it for more than a week and boy was it black and | | | | accompanies it. |
| blue. | | | | |