“Natural healing is based on encouraging the body to rebuild body functions and cleanse itself of toxic substances or infections and is not always a matter of immediately feeling better.
When healing chronic illness, feeling better is often fairly low on the body’s list of priorities. When the body is working to rebuild the very foundation from which human energy flows, diverting some of that precious and at this stage, limited, energy to make us feel better may not be a prudent use of the energy.
As the body heals through diet and nutritional balancing, little by little symptoms become more comfortable and fade away over time. But in the earlier stages of the healing process, at times there can be flare-ups of symptoms.
A healing crisis is a period in the healing process when we actually feel worse than before. This can be due to a number of factors.
Often when the healing process is stimulated in the body with dietary changes or nutritional program, the body’s energies are directed inward to the organs and tissues where this work is occurring.
Healing is work for the body and requires energy to do it. This can make us fatigued, just as when we are fighting an infection.
Many of us over-expend our energy and force it to the surface with stimulants such as coffee and sugar. We may feel better when we do this, but these stimulants ultimately exhaust us and lay the ground work for chronic illness.
Natural therapies reverse this process, sending the energies deeper into the body to promote healing. But we will not have as much energy to spend as we may be accustomed to spending.
Resting as much as possible is the cure for this problem and it will pass as the body becomes stronger and has more real energy available.”
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