During the past few months, I have been channelling nonstop to bring forth several new distant attunements. These attunements are designed to propel your life towards higher dimensional realms. In doing this, you will occasionally experience a Healing Crisis. This is why I have created this easy-to-understand blog post to talk more about what a Healing Crisis is. I have also purposely kept the information easy to understand so it can be read by EVERYONE.
What Is A Healing Crisis?
Detoxification rejuvenates the mind and body and positively impacts well-being and clarity. However, sometimes the initial reaction to a detoxification program or a more advanced energy system can be anything but pleasant. The process of healing sometimes includes a healing crisis, also known as the detox reaction, the cleansing reaction, and the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction. During a healing crisis, you can feel even worse than before you started your detox program. The good news is that this reaction is likely a sign that you're getting better by way of a deep and thorough cleansing of the spiritual trinity of mind, body & spirit. Environmental toxins accumulate in tissue throughout the body, especially fat tissue. Additionally, the human body has bacterial colonies. When you cleanse your body, the toxins dislodge and the bacteria die off where they then release endotoxins. When the toxins and waste are dislodged, the body begins to flush them into the bloodstream to be filtered and eliminated. This sudden circulation of toxins can temporarily impact your well-being and symptoms of illness {sweating, fever, discomfort, etc.} may occur.
What Are The Indications Of A Healing Crisis?
The indications that you're experiencing a healing crisis can include headaches, nausea, fever, upset stomach, and cold/flu symptoms to name just a few. During the crisis, a recurrence of symptoms from long-forgotten illnesses may also occur. Symptoms of a healing crisis vary from one person to person but the majority will include:
Fatigue
Diarrhoea
Aches and Soreness
Low-Grade Fever
Anxiety
Mood Swings
Nausea
Skin Irritations
Stuffy Nose
Congestion
Low Blood Pressure
Chakra Pain {especially in the Heart Chakra}
How Long Does A Healing Crisis Last
A healing crisis generally lasts around 7 days but can ease after only 3-4, depending on the individual and the severity of their situation. The more severe the toxicity, the more intense the healing crisis can be. As your body begins to expel toxins, your energy may decrease and you may begin to feel ill. If this occurs, take this as a sign that your body is working to flush out toxins and energetic waste.
What Else Can Cause A Healing Crisis?
Sometimes you don't even need to begin a cleansing protocol to experience a healing crisis. People who have participated in some of my higher vibrational attunements such as Celestial LightBody Activation / Crystal LightCode Ascension Reiki / Diamond LightCode Ascension Reiki / Angel LightCode Healing Reiki and many more have reported experiencing the effects of a Healing Crisis. There are also many other therapies that can also dislodge toxins and encourage a healing crisis (and healing!).
How To Handle A Healing Crisis
For a cleanse or detox-induced healing crisis, it's important to stay hydrated with purified water to encourage your body to flush and expel the toxins. Depending on the detox program, lemon juice in warm water, and herbal teas may help to flush out toxins and provide nutrients and antioxidants. Self-healing, massage, EFT {emotional freedom technique}, sound baths, massage and meditation may be helpful for relieving the indications of a healing crisis, especially anxiety and stress. If you are working with a teacher and are experiencing a healing crisis after an attunement {in person or distant}, your teacher should always offer additional free healing to help you with the clearing of the old energies so the new can enter. If they do not offer you healing, please use self-healing where possible or you can find genuine healers and teachers online who will give you healing {free of charge} to help you with the crisis.
A Healing Crisis After An Energy Treatment
Although it is not common to experience a healing crisis after an energy-healing treatment, it can happen so here are several tips for moving through the process. Have you received a healing treatment only to return home where you spent the following few days feeling emotionally raw, fragile, and crying spontaneously? Have you experienced strange pains in your legs and arms? Felt energetically depleted? There is a thought that energy healing is supposed to make someone feel better so why does a crisis occur after a healing session has been received? Having a healing crisis following an energy healing session is not a common experience, though it does sometimes happen. When it occurs, a healing crisis includes physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual/energetic components. The length of a healing crisis can be a few hours or a few days. Often, the disruption may begin in the physical body; it registers aches and twinges, tension or stiffness, muscle contractions, and even nerve pain. The pain or discomfort can resolve quickly, sometimes travelling down one side of the body, creating tingling sensations as the energetic material exits through the feet' chakras. The nervous system can be highly activated, causing mental overstimulation and a feeling of panic or overwhelming anxiety. The emotional aspects can include wide emotional swings, from grief and despair to expansiveness and bliss and back again. Spiritually, there’s a sense of separating from what was known and understood, and landing in a void or chasm of uncertainty, feeling disconnected from the Source. Sounds like a great time, right? Well, in truth, it’s a pretty powerful passage through layer upon layer of energy held in the energetic systems of the body, mind, and emotions. Ironically, there is often not a lot of emotional context or story. Healing crises are generally not memory-based, with the recall of past trauma or experience informing the process. Without available context, the individual may feel adrift and unable to make sense of the spectrum of symptoms and emotions. Experienced practitioners have navigated healing crises themselves as well as with their clients. It’s not a regular occurrence, but when it happens, the practitioner needs to be notified. With an energy modality, chakra- and aura-based clearing and infusing protocols may be appropriate to ease and regulate energy flow. Some practitioners are able to treat remotely, so the client can rest in the comfort of home while energy is balanced and integrated.
Here are several tips for moving through a healing crisis after an energy-healing treatment:
You collaborated with your practitioner to enable deep and powerful energy work to occur in your fields - the systems for your physical body, emotions, and mind. You stirred up and released this material because you were ready to evolve, shift, and heal. Validate your authority.
The energy you released came from all of your energetic fields or bodies. Your etheric body {the energy system for your physical body} was holding emotional energy in its cells, the fascia, joints, and multiple chakras. Your body let it go, a huge boon for its overall well-being. Your Astral body {the energy system for your emotional body} lightened through your work.
As your energy and body integrate, you’ll likely find new insights and levels of conscious awareness to unpack and embody.
Your mind may be unable to process what has occurred. It may lean toward thinking that something is wrong. The mind is a powerful resource, but it’s not the best at comprehending the energetic and spiritual process.
Dialogue with your body, and let it know that it can release, let go, and integrate without pain syndromes.
Allow your emotions to move through without judging them or digging deep to determine the event or experience that might be behind the feelings. Emotions come from all sorts of times, places, events, and interactions. The healing crisis is releasing residual emotion.
You need not go it alone. Call your practitioner for support. Let your nearest and dearest connections know you may need some extra support, compassion, and care as you move through the process.
If a reasonable period has passed and you still feel as though you’re not fully integrated, make an appointment with your practitioner to balance and regulate your energy so you can ground into who you are now.
Trust yourself. If it feels weird, but you think you’re basically okay, trust that. If you feel like you need to reach out for support, trust that.
Be gentle with yourself. Validate your astonishing ability to heal, evolve, release, and let go. Eat nourishing foods; take baths; sit outside under the stars; meditate; take naps. Self-nurturing and self-care are essential when you’re moving through deep energetic integration.
A healing crisis is a powerful catharsis that resets of your mind, body, emotions, and spirit. It is generally a transit - not a dark night of the soul. In other words, you’ll move through it and find your feet under you once again, conscious of the nuanced and evolved self on the other side.
I will talk more about the Dark Night of the Soul soon through an in-depth blog post.