Q1) Why does the healing process often involve a temporary heightening of physical and/or emotional symptoms?

The short answer is because what has been suppressed in the past has to come to the surface before it can be cleared. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective), this is how healing works.

In network chiropractic, this clearing process is called retracing. Retracing occurs with all of the energetic healing modalities (homeopathy, flower essences, acupuncture, breath work, reiki, core energetics, etc). It also occurs anytime you retrace past memories on an emotional level.

For example, suppose you go to a movie and see a story about heartbreak that reminds you of a heartbreak from your own past. You may "resonate" with the movie, and it may cause you to cry while you're in the theatre. This experience of tears or sadness is really a retrace of old grief that you still hold within your body/mind memory.

As it comes up and out, it may give you new insight into your own experience from long ago - and from an energetic perspective it's opening the flow of energy to your heart, and ultimately helping to heal your physical heart. Energetic healing modalities, such as homeopathy, work the same way.

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