The Healing Crisis
Posted by: John
As a Reiki practitioner, one of the first things I learned about was the concept of the “healing crisis.” It was explained to me as a situation where someone receiving Reiki (or any other treatment, for that matter) will often get worse before they get better. Since this is a fairly common occurrence, our Master wanted us to be aware of it so that we would know how to deal with it when it happened with one of our clients.
I had noticed this phenomenon occurring in my own life when I had contracted an illness of some kind and sought treatment for it. It seemed to me the longer the illness lasted, the more likely a healing crisis was to occur. At least that has been my experience with my own illnesses over the years.
So, I had experience with the healing crisis, but had never heard a name put to it until my Reiki I class. I still didn’t know what caused a healing crisis, but I now knew it was a known phenomenon and actually had a name!
I was listening to an Abraham-Hicks CD recently and it occurred to me that a healing crisis is a wonderful illustration of how our vibrational gap affects our physical being. Illness is an indicator that our gap is widening, i.e. our physical being is resisting its natural well being. The more resistance we have, the wider our gap and the more severe the illness.
If you picture your physical being on the left and your Inner Being on the right, the distance between them is your vibrational gap. Your Inner Being is constantly calling you toward it, sort of like a magnet calls metal to it. The difference is that the further away you get from your Inner Being, the stronger the pull is and the worse you feel. That’s how you know your moving in the opposite direction from your Inner Being, but the fact that you don’t feel good!
If you’ve been sick a while, you’ve gotten somewhat used to not feeling good and your gap has probably settled at a certain distance so that you’re accustomed to the pull being exerted by your Inner Being. When healing is offered, whether it be energetic like Reiki or allopathic in the form of drugs, it typically provides some hope to your ailing physical being. This hope causes the calling of your Inner Being toward well being to get stronger.
Unless you are completely aligned with the treatment and less resistant as a result, it’s not likely your physical being will turn immediately and move toward well being. Therefore, the stronger pull against the “normal” resistance you’re used to makes you feel worse. As you maintain your feeling of hope, or knowing that the treatment will be effective, your resistance subsides and you begin to move toward the calling of your Inner Being. In other words, you become less resistant to your natural well being and you “get better.”
Vibrational alignment with your Inner Being and the subsequent absence of resistance to your natural well being is what always causes your illness to be healed. This is why different treatments work for different people. The treatment has to be something the patient can align with, i.e. believe in. The stronger that belief, the more effective the treatment will be. If the patient can reach that alignment immediately upon receipt of the treatment, no healing crisis can occur because there is no fluctuation in their vibrational gap. That’s the exception rather than the rule which is why the healing crisis is fairly common.
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May 22nd, 2008 at 1:26 pm
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May 22nd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
What does it mean, then, when we are doing well and even excelling in times of stress, and then, the moment we get a break, our body collapses? I always felt it was the body telling the self “time to stop!” which seems to be the opposite, sort of, as a healing crisis. Thoughts?
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:18 am
Hi, Beth, I think that’s a different phenomenon. I’ve experienced that on several occasions, sort of like the old T-shirt that read “As soon as the crisis is over, I’m going to have a nervous breakdown. I’ve earned it and I deserve it!” Basically, we expect to have a letdown after a period of intense focus.
We also have certain expectations of our abilities and we can exceed those expectations for a period of time until we suddenly realize we “can’t do that”. In other words, if we were to stop and think, we’d fall back into our familiar patterns of limitation.
You’ve probably read stories about people who did superhuman things in a moment of crisis, like lifting a car off somebody. Ask them to do it later and there’s no way they’d be able to because they “know they can’t.”
The sort of thing you’re describing is similar in that we exceed our self-imposed limitations for a period of time, then when the crisis is over, we realize that we over-reached our perceived abilities and we expect there to be a penalty paid for that.
Namaste,
John