It is common to experience an emotional healing crisis when using essential oils.
Detoxing in any shape or form usually causes some sort of emotional catharsis or healing crisis. Consider it as the refining fire for your soul and evidence that your body is functioning as it should.
The toxins from the cells of your body release into the blood stream and cause many discomforts.
What does a HEALING CRISIS look like and how do we recognize it?
Remember, a healing crisis happens when a person is currently using essential oils and/or detoxing with natural products or they have experience Reiki or some sort of energetic healing treatment.
Here are some things to look for:
- Feeling more ’emotional’ than usual. These emotions seek attention and resolution. This is different to someone being usually negative and refusing to change their outlook.
- The body functions are different: more visits to the bathroom, aware of thirst and/or more thirsty, fevers, nausea, anger, anxiety and other emotions, tiredness, dry eyes, skin rashes, stuffy, headaches, etc.
Don’t get too worried or overthink when you have a healing crisis. It is showing you that your body, mind and spirit is purging out the old negative things. You are on the right path. Resolution will come soon enough.
How long does it lasts?
An episode of a healing crisis should be no more than three days. Sometimes it can be just a few hours. When you are on the other side of it, you wonder what all that drama was all about. You can help your healing crisis move along faster by choosing to resolve the emotions linked to the essential oils you are using.
If you continue using different oils or doing a detox program like the doTERRA 30-day cleanse, your healing crisis may continue one after another. Don’t worry you are able to handle it because your body and spirit knows your abilities.
It will pass soon enough.
How can you manage and resolve a healing crisis sooner?
You are able to help yourself in many ways. One way to fully own your power is to allow yourself to energetically heal.
Here is an example. If you are using Black Pepper oil, you can say, “I allow myself to heal from being judgmental.” Or you can say, “I am safe and aware of myself now.” Choose to change and say these new positive scripts over and over until you feel it has become who you are now.
When you’ve gone through the healing crisis you will feel like a different person. Before long, your body will want to do more healing and you may be faced with more healing crisis. After you resolve that, you will be good for a while until the next time.
Some very important emotions to release that will greatly assist you to resolving your healing crisis sooner are stubbornness, willfulness, and pride. These emotions will hold on to the toxins longer, extending the pain and suffering. This causes constipation physically, mentally and spiritually. This is not all, when your body can not push toxins out through the regular way, it will push it out through your skin causing you more irritation.
Here are some essential oils to use Wintergreen, Oregano, Arborvitae, Sandalwood, Whisper, and Cardamom.
As part of energy healing, I encourage people to journal thoughts and feelings. Meditation is important and helpful too.
During a healing crisis, drink more water, allow yourself to rest up and sleep more. Rest and relaxation creates healing hormones and chemicals that will help you heal faster. We will produce healthy levels of 1. Oxytocin, 2. Nitric Oxide, 3. Dopamine, and 4. Endorphins.
What happens if one refuses to go through a healing crisis?
There are some people who are so afraid things might get worse than they are, they will try and stop this healing crisis. When people stop their detoxing program, the fat and toxins they’ve released from their cells get reabsorbed into the cells again instead of being flushed out.
People may use pain medications, ointments or creams to numb the signals in the body for comfort but the body is still sending those signals out.
This form of resolution is only symptom management and not a permanent solution.
The problems coming from suppressed negative emotions, stored environmental toxins, and internal invaders (parasites, fungus, bacteria etc) are still present. It will cause you to repeat discomforts until the issues are resolved. In other words, you may experience ‘Groundhogs’ day over and over again until you’ve learned and resolved whatever it is you need to learn and resolve.
It is worth it!
While it seems that a healing crisis is difficult to endure, it will pass. The wonderful thing is that you will be happier, healthier, more self aware and more spiritual.
