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This month’s theme – What is a spiritual healing crisis?
The term ‘healing crisis’ is well used but perhaps not so well understood. At the physical level, it is often related to early detoxification symptoms, where the necessary and helpful release of embedded toxicity brings with it a sense of malaise. This is unpleasant but temporary and does not represent the symptoms of any underlying condition.
An emotional healing crisis is similar but with a more subtle level of toxicity. You might discover a hidden shadow emotion, perhaps an anger that was never allowed as a child, or a sense of shame that hasn’t been truly met before. When it is brought into awareness with love, the shame can be briefly faced and released.
A spiritual healing crisis is perhaps even less understood. I have always held dearly the work of Richard Flook and his book ‘Why am I sick?’ He talks of a healing crisis being a very necessary stage at the end of the physical healing process, not the beginning, where the body goes back into symptoms just before total recovery.
The duration and timing of this crisis can be accurately predicated based on the depth and duration of the original trauma or disease. It has some sort of beneficial quality. In the animal world it is like a system check, ensuring that the animal is healed enough to re-join the herd without fear of spreading infection or disease.
This is still an exploration of a physical process though, so we need to look at how a spiritual crisis might differ. I believe I have just experienced one of my own, so let me explain more.
If you read my April newsletter you will remember my story of the last year supporting my wife through cancer. The deeply challenging aspects are now hopefully ending, so it was interesting that this week I found myself facing a series of quite challenging but temporary issues.
The details don’t really matter, but I realised that this was actually a microcosm of the macrocosm, a spiritual healing crisis that gave me a small taste of all the feelings and dramas of the previous year. I was challenged to let go of control, of certainty and feel the anxiety that comes with that.
Knowing this helped me flow with these challenges with more grace and acceptance. More than this, it helped me reflect on the whole year through this energetic and emotional summary. I realised that I had met the challenges with resilience and faith, but in doing so there had been a cost. I had recruited this strength from the lighter, more fun loving, parts of myself and had built some walls as a safety measure.
There may even be minor layers of PTSD that I will need to process in the times ahead. These few days of challenge helped me bring this all into sharp focus, a spiritual gift to ensure I don’t move on and leave imbalances unmet.
I’m also open to the possibility that there are Russian dolls at play here. Could the challenges of the last year be a healing crisis for my life as a whole. Beyond that, could the challenges of my life as a whole be a healing crisis for my soul’s entire journey?
Have you experienced something similar? I’ll tell you what I believe are the core components of a spiritual healing crisis:
1. Death and rebirth – It marks the ending of a cycle, a final death heralding a new beginning. This does not need a literal death; for me it was through the symbolism of my car, which was totally dead for a day, not an ounce of life in any cell until it was charged back into life.
2. Re-visited feelings – The events in a healing crisis will be brief and perhaps only a tiny percentage of the original trauma, illness, or challenge, but all the hallmarked elements will be there. For me, the fear of loss, of getting something wrong, being judged, living in emergency mode, were all raised again in a small way by the events of this week.
3. The final challenge – This can feel like a rite of passage, a vision quest, where all the learnings and growth of the previous times are called on one last time to show what has been learned. It is a test to see if the hero/heroine is ready to move on to fresh pastures (or re-join the herd).
4. The stepping back of support – using another well used spiritual phrase, the ‘dark night of the soul,’ this facet reflects the lack of support that is there when we embark on our deepest challenge. In all the great heroic stories, the hero/heroine has to meet the final challenge alone, putting into action all the learnings and skills that helped them get to that point. The challenge is set by Spirit and no amount of intuition or planning will allow us to circumnavigate this stage in the process. There is no point resisting it, unless you want to remain stuck in this phase of your journey.
5. The 1% rule. A healing crisis is a short term event, an acute rather than a chronic experience. Although all the elements of the main challenge or illness are there, they will be just enough for us to show our new power and wisdom.
Do you recognise such a challenge in your life? There could well be many in your past and more to come. If so, I hope you can meet them with your fullest self and receive all the gifts and wisdom they offer.
With love
Andrew