Levels of Balance and the Healing Crisis

A level of balance could be described as a state of physical, emotional and mental equilibrium. Nothing is unduly troubling a person in the area of concern. They are in their comfort zone. For instance, if you out of balance and have a headache there may be several ways to regain this state of equilibrium.

1. Take chemical pain killers.
2. Leave ice on the area until it is numb.
3. Have hypnotherapy to programme you to relax or not feel the pain.
4. Have acupuncture until you can't feel it.
5. Take a homoepathic remedy that matches the physical symptom exactly.
6. Find a way of relaxing the neck muscles, for example by massaging them.
7. Use some natural method that takes the pain away by giving the body something it is lacking which may be as simple as drinking some water, or getting some fresh air or exercise, getting more sleep.
8. Cleanse the body by for example supporting the liver more with herbs, taking vegetable juices and so on. In short, relevant naturopathic detoxification procedures.
9. Work on a mental-emotional level bringing out past traumas, emotions and beliefs connected to the pain by perhaps Body Electronics Pointholding (likely on the neck or head); taking your constitutional homoeopathic remedy; craniosacral therapy; breathwork therapies; primal therapy; hypnotherapy used to search for causes, and so on.

Many people and even alternative therapists assume that there is one state or level of balance which you can be brought towards. Not so, there are in fact an infinite number of levels of balance. In the diagram the levels of balance are labelled A, B, C, D and E and they will extend above and below this diagram. In the example of a headache, suppose the person has dropped just out of balance and BELOW level C (but above the wavy line labelled "max." stress level). They have got there due to them stressing their body in some way. They are in what is called a DISEASE CRISIS. The person is out of their comfort zone and wants to get back into it. Looking at the list above, methods (1) to (3) send the person firmly and surely down to level B WHICH IS DOWN IN CONSCIOUSNESS. The problem which created the headache still exists within the body-mind, but the person is not concerned with it as they are numb to it. This is called SUPPRESSION. Methods (4) to (8) would likely take the person back up to level C. This is palliative or what is known as BALANCING.

Now here's the part most people will struggle with if they are not used to powerful methods of healing. Suppose the person is just ABOVE balance level C but below the line labelled "Max." stress level. They would have got their headache this time through doing something positive for themselves, like taking more sleep where lacking, more exercise where lacking, certain nutritional supplements, better foods and so on, or perhaps stopping something they are constantly doing that is negative like a drug addiction. They would be in HEALING CRISIS. If again the person is desparate to get back into their comfort zone, methods (1) to (3) will still do it by taking the person back down to level C through SUPPRESSION. This is the ridiculous situation of doing something positive, not accepting the consequences and doing something negative to counteract it and get back to where you started. It would be similar to stopping smoking, getting uncomfortable symptoms and starting smoking again to stop them. Here's the difference to the first case. Now methods (4) to (6) will take the person TO THE NEAREST LEVEL OF BALANCE. They are still BALANCING, but downwards in consciousness and so also in this case are SUPPRESSIVE. Methods (7) and (8) will either do nothing to the headache or in fact make it worse by taking the person further upwards into greater intensity of HEALING CRISIS.

Now to method (9). These ways of working will always take someone upwards in consciousness. If they are just BELOW level C they will head back into balance and feel better. If they are just ABOVE level C (or even at level C) they will head upwards towards "Max." stress and feel worse, until they are pushed past "Max." and are heading towards level D where things start to get easier. At level D of course the person is back in a comfort zone but at a higher level of consciousness. In the case of the headache, they have released the trauma that was locked into the bones and muscles - the suppressed emotion and limiting beliefs that were the ACTUAL CAUSE of the symptom. These methods will RELEASE PREVIOUS SUPPRESSIONS SO THE PERSON FEELS THE DISCOMFORT EXACTLY AS THEY HAVE DONE BEFORE AT SOME PREVIOUS POINT. This brings us to (part of) the LAW OF HEALING CRISIS as written by Dr. John Ray which is a modified version of Hering's Law from homoeopathy :

I have found that certain healing modalities enter into and release the mental-emotional resistances locked into the body, taking people upwards through healing crises and further levels of balance. The therapies I have personally come across that work well in this way are Body Electronics, classical homoeopathy, flower remedies (used constitutionally), craniosacral therapy and cranial osteopathy, rebirthing and other breathwork techniques, naturopathic detoxification, certain forms of psychotherapy (for example primal therapy, process work and many others). There will be many, many other therapies that also work in this way.

Other therapies that balance the body, without release of mental-emotion patterns, however natural, are often not suitable alongside the above therapies. They are constantly keeping someone in a state of balance which the person needs to be pushed (or encouraged!) out of, before any real permanent progress can be made with their healing as a whole being. Examples of therapies that can be used to purely balance the body are acupuncture, osteopathy and chiropractic, kinesiology, or symptom based homoeopathy. There will be many, many other therapies that work by way of BALANCING. Note that these modalities DO NOT NEED TO BE PRACTICED IN THIS BALANCING WAY BUT IT HAPPENS TO BE THE WAY MOST OF THEM ARE PRACTICED BY THE MAJORITY OF PRACTITIONERS. If the practitioner is aware of the laws of healing crisis they could easily be working towards it, using these therapies in a different way to the standard.

Then we come to the SUPPRESSIVE modalities. The most obvious is orthodox medicine, where the philosophy simply cannot encompass HEALING CRISIS. The closest it gets to this concept is with withdrawal symptoms from a drug in which case they do see a person getting healthier. In my experience it is very rare to see someone actually getting healthier from a chronic condition under orthodox medical intervention, though I have seen it. It is usually only when a drug or surgery happens to help a person function better or detoxify better. Certain forms of hypnotherapy where "good beliefs" are placed into the unconscious mind, for example to stop smoking, is one of the natural modalities that is SUPPRESSIVE. There will be many other SUPPRESSIVE modalities. These modalities are completely opposed in action to genuine healing modalities such as Body Electronics, though they still have a place in certain circumstances and with certain people.

Understanding Why Some Foods or Nutritional Supplements Benefit Some People and not Others

The easiest way to understand this is by understanding the energetic aura around food or supplements. I remember Brian Clement of the Hippocrates Institute saying in a lecture that they were measuring auras of foods with kirlean photography. He said that a standard lettuce leaf had an aura of half and inch, whereas a green sunflower sprout had a aura of two feet! What gives a plant or food its aura is its life-force or what could be thought of as its level of hormone and enzyme activity.

Suppose now someone is around the level of balance labelled C in the above diagram. Suppose a standard lettuce has less life-force than someone at that level has themselves, then the lettuce contributes to dragging them down to whatever extent towards level B. Suppose the sunflower sprout has a life-force greater than that at level C, then it contributes to taking them upwards towards level D. However, if that lettuce leaf is between levels B and C, then for someone at level B it is a positive, life-affirming food which takes them upwards. This explanation is still over-simplified since it does not take into account which foods someone in particular is allergic to for example; it has in addition something to do with COMPATIBILITY and resonance to the person's energetic makeup in a similar way to how homoeopathy works.

Similarly with supplements. Synthetic, chemical factory produced supplements such as ascorbic acid, standard B-complex and so on, may help some people to heal, but the life-force within the supplements is negligable. For many they will contribute to dragging them down. Suppose someone is on a journey of healing. They take ascorbic acid and it boosts them enormously, healing them of some symptoms. They doggedly keep taking it because "it's good for me". At some point in their journey upwards though levels of balance the supplement will start to hold them back. This is why it makes sense to me to take only supplements with a good track record of consistently pulling people up, through creating healing crisis. Almost all such supplements are of natural origin. For example vitamin C would be taken as rosehips or acerola cherry (fresh, dried or as supplements) rather than ascoric acid or calcium ascorbate.

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