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Healing Process

WHAT IS A HEALING PROCESS ?

Healing process or also known as ‘healing reaction’ or ‘healing crisis’ or simply ‘reaction’; occurs as a result of the body engaging in the process of eliminating the toxins that it has accumulated over the years. The healing process is recognised in all systems of natural healing. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is known as the law of cure. This can appear to a certain number of people when taking Transfer Factor.

In these times people have moved away from living and eating healthy whole foods in deference to processed, denatured and engineered foods. In fact they can't really be called foods at all, they are actually food products. Their bodies aren't getting the materials needed to keep organs and systems strong so that they can function optimally by eliminating waste or catarrh (mucus) while repairing and building new tissue to replace the old. Do you know that mucus production is one of the body's perfect mechanisms for taking out the garbage! If that process is suppressed, the body’s immune system is compromised and the next time it will not work quite so well.

There are symptoms during a healing process that may be confused with illness but the difference is that these symptoms are short in duration and move from one part of the body to another, from inside out and from top to bottom. Illness is a very different scenario where one or more of the organs are not working well, causing toxic build up of waste material that cannot get out. There is fear during illness, a feeling of being out of control as opposed to the present feeling during a healing crisis that underneath all the symptomology everything is working just the way it should and everything is really OK.

These healing symptoms occur because the body is ridding itself of the substances that have been making it toxic — not only the materials that have accumulated in the colon, but also the antibodies and other substances that have built up in the individual cells, interfering with their normal functioning. As these substances are ejected out of the tissues, they are dumped into the system, making the body temporarily more toxic until they can be excreted. This is partly what produces the symptoms of the “healing process”. This effect is accentuated by the body’s process of tearing apart defective tissue, repairing damaged cells, destroying parasites or infective agents, and otherwise producing debris from the re-construction.

Now as the toxins are being freed from their storage places within your body; they are affecting the body in full force. Resulting in some people reporting of aches and pain in various parts of the body i.e. rashes, boils, itchiness, swelling, phlegm and even intense pain in your body joints. Others might experience digestive system disturbance such as gas, constipation and diarrhea. While another most common healing symptom is your body feeling heaty or a temporary reduction in energy or fatigue. Many may find themselves sleeping longer, perhaps as much as 12 hours a night.

If this is what you’re experiencing don’t worry. Continue taking Transfer Factor with these options:

a) Continue with the present dosage
b) Increase the dosage to quicken the healing process
c) Reduce the dosage to 1 cap per day or alternate days.

and drink plenty of fluids i.e. water or fruit-vegetable juice. Of course, if the problem continues for weeks and gets worse each day, it is advisable to stop taking the product first and seek advice. Generally, the intensity of such discomforts decreases with each day. When the process of elimination has been sufficiently accomplished, you will gain strength and your condition will improve after some days.

WHY DO OLD SYMPTOMS COME BACK?

Sometimes you will experience immediate improvement upon taking Transfer Factor but after a few months some old or new symptoms might appear. This is because the body has more than one health problem. When the body has taken care of one health problem you will experience well being for a time being. When it comes across a second health problem and starts the recovery process and old or new symptoms might appear. And this might go on for a while as your body with the help of Transfer Factor naturally detoxify and heal itself.

Why should people have to go back through these old symptoms in the course of getting better? Often in the course of the natural healing process old symptoms temporarily reappear. The body has its own memory and it remembers all the injuries and all the times it was suppressed. In the reversal process these memories are brought to light in reverse order from which they happened and people re-experience illnesses and traumas in a phenomenon known as retracing. The difference this time is that the symptoms come and go quickly and there is an underlying sense that the whole process is not threatening, and that it is natural and health promoting. It is also believe that the specific symptoms that a person experiences at any given time depend on the balance among the various natural biochemical substances in the body. Only when the whole body is strong can it involve all the organs in a rally to cleanse, eliminate waste and create an environment for regeneration.

Now picture your body’s natural healing process as going up a flight of staircase. At the top of the stairs, the energy is balanced, and all the nutrients are present in their proper ratios, and the body is functioning properly. Now, when someone’s health begins to deteriorate, he moves down the stairs, and at each step along the way he experiences a specific kind of symptom - perhaps less energy at one step, headaches a little further down, an ulcer still further, and so on. As the body begins to heal itself once again, the person begins to move back up the stairs, and re-experience the symptoms associated with these various levels of health.

Another scenario is that the outside symptom does not improve at all. The body could be having more than one health problem and Transfer Factor will help the body the address the more urgent health problem which might not be at the surface at all. So we advice that you be patient and let Transfer Factor and your body do its job in due time.

DO YOU KNOW DRUGS THAT BLOCK PAIN MAY ALSO BLOCK NATURAL HEALING?

Experiencing such natural healing reactions can be very distressing for many people; because we are taught from an early age that symptoms are bad and should be stopped or suppressed. They take all kinds of drugs to stop their bodies from eliminating waste. This is very confusing to the body!

Although it is tempting to take painkillers, antihistamines, or other drugs when uncomfortable symptoms occur in the course of healing, it is very important to follow the prescribed program correctly and to do nothing to interfere with the healing process. If in the past an individual went through a period of pain, taking painkillers or other drugs at this point the symptoms actually prolongs the discomfort.

For example aspirin and antihistamines work by blocking the prostaglandins (a chemical substance found throughout the body which regulate many bodily functions and metabolic processes). Generally the prostaglandins work in opposing pairs. One, for example, may produce inflammation and swelling in response a specific stimulus, while another undoes these reactions. When you take aspirin or antihistamine to stop an uncomfortable reaction, you may not experience the pain or inflammation but you also do no get the healing process that undoes the reason for the pain and inflammation. Instead you have achieved a deadlock rather that a cure. The pain and inflamed organ will return to its sub-acute, chronic condition and wait for another opportunity to heal by itself.

EATING & LIVING & THINKING HEALTHY

As you can see, there is no simple path to completely avoid health-related suffering. We can only choose in which way we want to suffer. We can either deliberately and cheerfully endure the unpleasantness of repeated healing crises with the promise of better health to follow, or we can expect to suffer involuntarily and in an uncontrolled way from chronic-degenerative diseases as we get older. The choice is ours.

We can select a suitable time for a healing crisis by starting a strict cleanse diet on raw food, especially fresh vegetable juices or fruit or vegetable salads. A fruit cleanse is more suitable for those insensitive individuals and vegetables are much better with an over-acid and sensitive body. You may actually learn much about yourself, your body, your health problems and your emotional reactions by patiently observing the healing process instead of rushing in to do something about it. What you should do, however, is live healthily in general, cleansing the body, helping the suppressed energy to come out and dissipate and to be optimistic about it all.

Thinking positively and being thankful about everything will help your body to produce good body chemical/hormones (endorphins) which will certainly help your body with the recovery. Avoid stressful situation at all cost. Watch happy and funny movies, surround yourself with happy and positive people. “Laughter is the best medicine” is not only a mere quote but bears tremendous truth as it has been scientifically shown that laughter increases your NK cell activity that kills off cancer and infected cells. So laugh your way to health!

4Life Transfer Factor is one of the most powerful natural supplements to help your body detoxify and provide antioxidant activity at cellular level, strengthen and increase your immune intelligence and help you body on the road to recovery. For more information please read the booklet ‘The Secret to staying young and healthy and live to a 120 year old’.