The Road To Better Health may begin with a Healing Crisis.

What?  You mean I may feel even worse before I feel better?  Yes, many times that is the healthy progression of healing.

As you move toward better health, (PATHS Modules are a great way to do this) and better nutrition, healing begins to occur. As part of the healing process the body will begin to discard toxic residues, which have built up in your body over the years. The healing process usually does not occur without repercussions.

During the initial phase of healing, as your body begins to clean house, (detoxify) and your vital energy begins to repair and rebuild internal organs, you may experience headache, uneasiness, flu like symptoms and fatigue. It is important that you adequately rest during this time. These symptoms will pass as your body begins to normalize to a new level of health.

As you continue to improve, you may begin a process called retracing. You may feel worse before you feel better. For example, if you used to get skin rashes, the rashes may reappear or get worse for a period of time as your body eliminates toxins through the skin. You may also experience an initial increase in urination, or you may feel more nervous. In actuality, you are not getting worse, you are actually getting better. Eventually you will reach a plateau of better health.

The above is a good overview of the traditional view of the "Healing Crisis" in terms of the physical body.

HOWEVER, the principle is very similar for emotional healing/habit repatterning. The process of breaking out of a "Locked Pattern of Behavior" can produce a type of "Emotional healing crisis" which follows the same process as above, including "retracing".

This is the natural course the body and mind take in dealing with change.

Kevin Pirolo