Condensed and edited from an article by Dr. Lawrence Wilson, © June 2017, L.D. Wilson Consultants, Inc.
All information in this article is for educational purposes only. It is not for the diagnosis, treatment, prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.
Warning: Healing reactions are occasionally vigorous and once in a great while, they can be dangerous. Most of the time, they are benign and do not require medical intervention. However, please always use common sense during healing reactions.
WHAT IS RETRACING?
Retracing is a rather unique process that occurs as one balances and strengthens the body in specific ways. It is a deep clearing of diseases, toxins, imbalances and other types of trauma to the body.
Retracing does not occur with standard medical healing methods. It does occur sometimes with nutritional balancing and detoxification.
During retracing, illnesses and other traumas move from a chronic state to an acute state before they are eliminated completely. Chronic means that a health condition does not kill the person, but the person also cannot overcome the condition. It is a stalemate.
As the energy level in the body improves, chronic conditions turn acute because the body now actively fights to overcome a poorly healed infection or something else.
Part of retracing is often a return to a time in the past when the original trauma or illness began. This can be unusual to experience, because one may feel partly like an adult, yet at the same time one may experience feelings like that of a child, for example, if the original illness or trauma took place in childhood.
We all carry unhealed or only partially healed conditions. The need for retracing stems from the fact that as one goes through life, most of the time one does not know how to properly cope and resolve all the insults, diseases, and traumas. As a result, unhealed or partially healed blemishes, traces, scars or diseases tend to remain stuck, sometimes for very long periods of time.
Often, the symptoms of retracing are exactly the same as symptoms that occurred with the original condition or trauma.
Retracing does not occur in a set sequence, such as moving backwards chronologically. Instead, the body decides the order in which illnesses or conditions will retrace.
Retracing does not occur on a particular schedule. It can occur during a nutritional balancing program at any time, and this is also decided by the body. Often, it occurs when one is feeling well because this usually means that one’s energy level is higher, and adaptive energy is needed for retracing.
As a rule, retracing is a very benign process, but it can be scary to experience it. The body will not begin it unless it can complete it safely. However, it often arises suddenly, and it can be vigorous, at times.
Coping properly with stress can be viewed as a wave phenomenon. When one encounters a situation, insult, trauma or toxin, ideally one should move through a series of steps – like a wave motion – in order to fully resolve, regenerate, and restore the body and brain.
These steps are:
1. The up part of the wave = an inflammatory response or sympathetic nervous system response. In this step, the body and/or brain mobilize their forces to fight off and overcome the insult, toxin or situation.
A fight ensues. This is when a child might scream or cry, and it might last half an hour, or as long as it takes to overcome the trauma or insult to the body.
2. The down wave = regeneration or a parasympathetic response. This occurs after the acute up-wave time period. It is a much quieter period of time when the body and brain send nutrients to the area to rebuild, restore and regenerate tissue. If the original trauma was mental or emotional, the person might need a hug, or a nap so that the nervous can rebalance and restore itself to equilibrium where it knows it is loved and all is well.
Ideally, at the end of the down wave phase, one is fully healed and restored, and ready to face the world once again. Retracing is ONLY needed when a person does not fully heal because the phases are interrupted in some way. This is very common.
When it occurs, in order to complete the healing process, one must go back into the situation, or metaphorically “revisit the scene of the crime” and re-process the entire situation correctly. This is what you are doing when you retrace.
RETRACING VS. MEDICAL "CURES"
The retracing process is very different from healing or cures that occur with medical drugs, vitamins, over the counter remedies and most other methods of getting rid of symptoms. In the latter, symptoms may go away, but the whole body system is not restored to its previous wholeness.
With medical “cures”, one may become dependent upon a remedy, or there is a residual toxicity in the body due to the remedy, or the remedy masks the symptom. With retracing, there is no lingering toxicity or dependency upon remedies or therapies.
THE ESSENCE OF NUTRITIONAL BALANCING
At one level, the process of retracing is the essential feature of a properly designed nutritional balancing program. It is what distinguishes nutritional balancing from most other healing methods. Because most healing methods do not cause retracing, the idea and the mechanics of it are not well known.
WHAT ARE HEALING OR PURIFICATION REACTIONS?
Healing reactions are temporary symptoms that occur with deep healing, at times as a result of retracing. Healing reactions are welcome signs of healing. In fact, if they fail to occur, one knows that a healing method may offer symptomatic relief, but usually it is not as deep or complete as those therapies that cause healing reactions.
Most of the time, healing reactions are mild and may not even be noticed. Once in a while, however, they are annoying and unpleasant.
PRINCIPLES TO HELP UNDERSTAND HEALING REACTIONS
1. The body will not undertake a healing reaction unless it can see it through to completion. Dr. Wilson has found this to be true in at least 95% of healing crises, no matter how vigorous or unusual the symptoms.
2. Due to principle #1 above, reassurance and general supportive measures are usually all that is required, even with an intense purification or healing reaction. These measures are discussed below and include plenty of rest, a simple diet, and keeping a positive attitude.
Fearing these reactions, and reacting with horror or severe anxiety, definitely impairs the body’s ability to move through the reaction.
TYPES OF HEALING REACTIONS DURING REBALANCING PROGRAMS
Fairly common reactions during a detox and or rebalancing program:
Fatigue attacks
Anxiety
Colds and Flus
Skin Rashes
Sleep Disturbances
Bowel Disturbances (Constipation, Diarrhea)
Testicular pain in men
Changes in the menstrual period in young women
Ear symptoms
Throat symptoms
Chest wall pain
Liver/gall bladder pain
Solar plexus pain (also called third center pain)
Other aches and pains
Spinal release (discussed below)
Fevers or night sweats
Rarer reactions:
Appendix retracing
Nodules and lumps
Bleeding
Breathing difficulty
Unfortunately, we cannot prevent these symptoms; however, they are almost always benign and due to:
a) Retracing an infection or other condition.
b) Toxin elimination.
Most symptoms during a detox and rebalancing go away on their own in a few days to a week, and do not require any medical intervention. If any symptom persists or is bothersome, always check with your practitioner.
COMMON PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS INCLUDE:
Diarrhea
Constipation
Aches or pains
Muscle cramps
Discharges
Odors
Rashes
Headaches
Fatigue
A cold or flu
Bronchitis, or some other infection.
Old wound sites, scars, or injury sites often flare up, become painful or reddened, and then disappear
OTHER SYMPTOMS ARE:
Sleep disturbances
Testicular pain in men
Changes in the menstrual period in young women
Ear symptoms
Throat symptoms
MORE RARELY, SOME EXPERIENCE:
Appendicitis retracing
Nodules and lumps
Breathing difficulty
Fevers
MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL PURIFICATION SYMPTOMS:
These may include irritability, anxiety, fears, anger, depression, feelings of panic, brain fogginess, or others.
Long-forgotten memories occasionally surface, or one may have unusual dreams as the brain processes traumas or incidents from the past. Unusual dreams are not uncommon.
In fact, symptoms may include almost anything. Most healing reactions are mild and pass quickly.
Use care in discussing healing reactions with physicians and others unfamiliar with them. Healing symptoms can easily be misinterpreted as illness. This is an extremely common problem.
Unless your doctor, friend or family member understands the difference between illnesses and reactions, they will frighten you, perhaps run unnecessary tests, and often give you medication that you may not need, and which is rarely effective.
EFFECTS OF RETRACING ON FAMILY MEMBERS
When a person moves through a healing reaction, it can be hard on other family members. First, it can seem like the person is more ill, which is always disconcerting. Also, the person is partially present, but at times another part of the personality is literally living in the past, reliving, redoing, and/or reframing something from the past.
This can cause the person to be less aware of the present, and sometimes causes one to “act out” in some way because a part of the person’s mind is literally back in the past when the person was five or ten years old, for example, and therefore less mature and less aware. This can be difficult on spouses, for example. Fortunately, it usually does not last too long, but it can be difficult to understand.
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