The Healing Crisis

The Healing Crisis is a phenomenon which is used to describe reactions to treatments (Reiki and otherwise). Generally, considered a good thing by the enlightened Reiki practitioner but often seen as “I must have done something wrong then” by the less experienced.

Why does a healing crisis occur?

In very simple terms, it is the body attempting to heal itself. This may be on a physical or emotional level. When you remove a hibikis from the emotional and physical auras, it creates a space for the physical body to attempt to heal itself. A client may experience several healing crisis’s whilst the body heals. As a general rule of thumb, they get less as the treatments progress.

Stopping for a month or two will not stop it happening in the future. If the body is trying to heal itself, you need to keep going, it will become less as the healing deepens, if you leave it, you will just need to go through it all again. (hehe)

The severity of the detox is only a reflection of the depth of healing required.

Common signs of a Healing Crisis are…

Significantly more pain in the region being treated
An emotional response, tearful, angry, anxious, panic
Physical release, often bowels or vomiting
Bad headache and flu like symptoms, often putting them in bed for a day or longer
Shaking or mild convulsions
Old memories resurface
Nightmares

Don’t panic, it’s normal, in fact practice this following phrase

“Oh yeah, its normal, it just the body clearing itself”

It is a really good thing to mention that these things might happen, it will save you a lot of explaining later on.

We often aim for a fluffy, bunny approach to healing where we expect, that by the end of the session, everything will be OK again. This is so unlikely if you are really trying to sort out the source of a problem. Symptoms can easily be improved with Reiki but further work is needed to locate the source.

When we start a healing treatment, it’s good to consider your sessions over the next few weeks and let your client know that is the plan. If you have a cunning plan, then most things will be improved, if not cleared in 4 sessions. If your clients keep coming back for the same thing, you never got on top of it the last time.