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Why The Collective Healing Crisis?
Because violence can no longer serve as the root of moral authority in our world. If we want to heal, we will choose love.
Illness Does Not Occur Without a Cause
But oftentimes the symptoms of a disease are mistaken for the illness itself.
What we learn from integrative medicine is that symptoms can express an illness but are not themselves the underlying disease. We also find that symptom treatment often does nothing to relieve the root problem.
Often, this kind of superficial strategy does not touch the cause of the illness.
When a healing crisis, also known as a Herxheimer Reaction happens, this is a result of the body’s systems working together to eliminate and detoxify the body from the causal elements of said illness. This can be an altogether unpleasant experience because the symptoms of a healing crisis are often an intense version of the symptoms of the illness itself.
The body has to go through this elimination process to restore itself to a place of better health. Toxins accumulating for a long period suddenly enter the elimination organs all at once, as the healing crisis works to process and eliminate them from the body.
