The Healing Process
Have you ever had the experience of making healthy changes to your lifestyle? You may have chosen to start eating healthier foods or quit smoking, maybe start taking vitamin supplements or have started therapeutic body work. It’s wonderful, you get that initial burst of well-being, you’re gung ho and you feel great about your new course of action – only to experience a cold, flu or various aches and pains a few days later. Leaving you to wonder why you bothered in the first place. You made these changes to feel better and now you feel worse. Well, don’t abandon your health wise choices just yet what you may be experiencing is called ‘The Healing Process’.
The healing process is the body’s return to it’s natural balance or homeostasis. Your body is working overtime to detoxify and eliminate your excesses. Remember, in the past you either ate it, drank it or smoked it and now your body is trying to get the junk out of the trunk – so to speak. You may realize changes during the process that could include:
q General Fatigue
q Mental Irritability
q Restless Dreams
q Fever or Chills
q Increased Thirst
q Frequent Urination
q Aches or Pains ie headaches or low back pain
q Increased Perspiration/Body Odours
The body is infinitely intelligent and knowing that the healing process in a natural event will keep you from becoming alarmed or discouraged. Resorting to medicating the symptoms will impede the healing process. To support your body through the healing process and alleviate some of the symptoms drink additional water, eat plenty of raw fruit and steamed vegetables, get plenty of fresh air and proper sleep. Our bodies are programmed to heal and re-establishing health is an automatic response