When a fever isn't actually a fever
Over the past month or so I've been undergoing a process of releasing a lot of things that no longer serve my life's purpose. I thought it had come to a head when I went to my retreat in Adelaide, but boy was I wrong!
On Sunday, I went and received a Kahuna massage. Now, I woke up that Sunday feeling like I had a slight fever, but my body was insisting that I get out of my bed and do some yoga - so I did. During my Kahuna massage, I felt like I was releasing a lot from various areas of my body, and for the majority of the session my hands were tingling like crazy and I felt like I had to constantly flick my fingers to dissipate the intense energy that had decided to amass in my fingertips. After the massage, my fever hit the roof. I walked home almost disoriented, and all I wanted to do was to have a hot shower and jump into bed. This was 5.30pm - I couldn't even eat anything. I was exhausted and really feverish.
Throughout the night I had hot and cold flushes, I began to cough and my temples and the base of my skull were really painful. I had to miss going to college because I just couldn't get myself out of bed so I spent the majority of yesterday in bed on a constant revolving set of hot and cold flushes, blowing my nose, coughing, crazy fever, etc. I was asking myself how could I get so sick given that I was a picture of health leading up to Sunday and the answer came to me pretty quickly - I was going through a healing crisis.
So what is a healing crisis? It's essentially a process which happens when you have gone through a process of release which was a bit too full on for your body to process all at once. The body essentially needs to shut down and recalibrate before it can get better. Similar to having muscle soreness for a few days after a deep tissue massage, your energetic signature has changed and the body needs to adjust itself to the change - detoxing at its max! Unfortunately, the process of adjusting isn't the best for the person it's happening to.... I felt like I was about to blow my top because my temperature kept rising and rising, and I was so fatigued even though I basically slept every 1-2 hours and was in bed by 6pm on Sunday and Monday! Depending on how you are however, hopefully the healing crisis doesn't affect you for too long. It's day 3 for me but the hot and cold flushes have basically gone and the only thing left now is the cough with the occasional bits of phlegm deciding to make itself known. I'm pretty confident by the time tomorrow comes around I'll be back to perfect health.
During a healing crisis (or any sort of cold or fever for that matter), it's really important to listen to your body. I didn't want to eat anything... and if I had to eat something (because I could feel my blood pressure dropping), I'd eat something really light.. like toast and peanut butter. I also felt like I needed to drink sugary drinks and once I had some fruit juices in my system, I felt slightly better. Also, if you're fatigued, then YOU MUST REST. It's really important to do this! People need to stop coming up with the ridiculous excuses like "oh I need to work.. if I don't work then I'm going to be so behind". Dude - your body is telling you that you need rest, so do yourself a favour and rest. Work isn't going to go tits up if you're not around!
The other thing to remember is that the Universe isn't going to give you something that you can't handle. There were some times through this healing crisis where I thought that I couldn't handle it anymore but then I remembered that there was a reason for doing this. Just look forward to the new you at the end of it!
On Sunday, I went and received a Kahuna massage. Now, I woke up that Sunday feeling like I had a slight fever, but my body was insisting that I get out of my bed and do some yoga - so I did. During my Kahuna massage, I felt like I was releasing a lot from various areas of my body, and for the majority of the session my hands were tingling like crazy and I felt like I had to constantly flick my fingers to dissipate the intense energy that had decided to amass in my fingertips. After the massage, my fever hit the roof. I walked home almost disoriented, and all I wanted to do was to have a hot shower and jump into bed. This was 5.30pm - I couldn't even eat anything. I was exhausted and really feverish.
Throughout the night I had hot and cold flushes, I began to cough and my temples and the base of my skull were really painful. I had to miss going to college because I just couldn't get myself out of bed so I spent the majority of yesterday in bed on a constant revolving set of hot and cold flushes, blowing my nose, coughing, crazy fever, etc. I was asking myself how could I get so sick given that I was a picture of health leading up to Sunday and the answer came to me pretty quickly - I was going through a healing crisis.
So what is a healing crisis? It's essentially a process which happens when you have gone through a process of release which was a bit too full on for your body to process all at once. The body essentially needs to shut down and recalibrate before it can get better. Similar to having muscle soreness for a few days after a deep tissue massage, your energetic signature has changed and the body needs to adjust itself to the change - detoxing at its max! Unfortunately, the process of adjusting isn't the best for the person it's happening to.... I felt like I was about to blow my top because my temperature kept rising and rising, and I was so fatigued even though I basically slept every 1-2 hours and was in bed by 6pm on Sunday and Monday! Depending on how you are however, hopefully the healing crisis doesn't affect you for too long. It's day 3 for me but the hot and cold flushes have basically gone and the only thing left now is the cough with the occasional bits of phlegm deciding to make itself known. I'm pretty confident by the time tomorrow comes around I'll be back to perfect health.
During a healing crisis (or any sort of cold or fever for that matter), it's really important to listen to your body. I didn't want to eat anything... and if I had to eat something (because I could feel my blood pressure dropping), I'd eat something really light.. like toast and peanut butter. I also felt like I needed to drink sugary drinks and once I had some fruit juices in my system, I felt slightly better. Also, if you're fatigued, then YOU MUST REST. It's really important to do this! People need to stop coming up with the ridiculous excuses like "oh I need to work.. if I don't work then I'm going to be so behind". Dude - your body is telling you that you need rest, so do yourself a favour and rest. Work isn't going to go tits up if you're not around!
The other thing to remember is that the Universe isn't going to give you something that you can't handle. There were some times through this healing crisis where I thought that I couldn't handle it anymore but then I remembered that there was a reason for doing this. Just look forward to the new you at the end of it!