Re: Week 2 complete...

Hi April,

I know you weren't looking for a response but I was reading through the SYL manual today and came across something that made me think of you that I'd like to share.  I know you've got the manual so I know you've read this but I thought it might be a little encouraging to you.

From the SYL manual:

How you can tell whether a person is having a healing crisis, or whether they are going to die.

INTERVIEWER: When people start dumping toxins or feel sicker, how do they know if it's a healing crisis, or their disease getting worse?

SCHULZE: There is only one way. You know, if someone is throwing up bile, okay, how do I know if that's healing or disease? Well, what did they do last night?

If they tell me they went to the bar, had four light beers, a couple of shots of Tequila, and ate a pepperoni pizza, that's a disease crisis. But if they tell me they have been fasting for a week, it may look identical, but it's a healing crisis. A simple way to tell if they are getting worse or better is what you have been doing. You know that if you have been taking care of yourself, your body is responding in a positive way. Your body will push and push, and it will eliminate, and you will think it's going too far, but there's one thing you learn in first year immunology: the major function of your body is to survive — not to die, not to fall apart if you cleanse your liver and then terminate itself. It will do everything necessary to live.

INTERVIEWER: But how do you know if the person isn't just getting ready to die— and it's not a cleansing at all?

SCHULZE: Let me tell you a story I've been working with a little girl with a brain tumor. We went through to a point where the parents thought she was going to die. And the parents were panicking and getting worse. The mother was crying, the dad was depressed. And then I went out of town yesterday, and all of a sudden she had some miraculous healing. Old-fashioned doctors used to call it a healing crisis. That isn't a good enough term, the term should be: You think you are going to die.  Remember that guy I told you about who had the bone cancer and we thought he was going to die? His family, his wife, thought he was checking out. And then he turned right around. And then right after he looked his worst, he got better, and then all the bone cancer was gone. Sometimes I think that when the body is in its healing process, you just get worse and worse, and then all of this stuff seems to kick in all at once. I tell patients not to get too attached to these ups and downs.

Not that you're anywhere close to dying, you are managing your diabetes.  I just wanted to make sure and reinforce the fact that even though you don't see any progress your body IS in healing mode, it just hasn't manifested yet.  I especially like what Dr. Schulze said in the sentence I've highlighted in color, sometimes we think we're getting worse but in fact we're healing.

I admire you for not giving up, for continuing on in light of how bad you've been feeling.  I truly appreciate you sharing the good, the bad, and the ugly.  People are conditioned to take a pill to cover up the symptoms so they aren't prepared for the bumps in the road when they decide to use natural healing.  When we decide to heal naturally it's not always a walk in the park but we are truly HEALING not just masking symptoms and it takes as long as it takes, period.  But what a blessing to take on the responsibility for our own healing.

I hope you feel better soon.  Keep on keeping on.  ;)

Blessings,

Willow