The Body’s Natural Process of Healing Itself

All forms of holistic health care follow the innate principles of the built-in way the body heals itself. The goal of all who are involved in natural healing is to assist the body in this natural process.

Our bodies are always engaged in an ongoing effort to create and maintain homeostasis. This effort is centered in the processes of the Parasympathetic nervous system. The operating principle is “self-regulation” whereby the body organizes its functions to restore balance from imbalance. Just as a tightrope walker is always moving and correcting in order to maintain their balance on the wire, so the body is always in a dynamic process of restoring its own balance which we call health.

If the body encounters a challenge that it is unable to completely resolve, it will temporarily “adapt” by reorganizing itself in a new way that will allow it to continue functioning even though there is still an unresolved issue. This kind of reorganization is called an adaptive reaction or response.  It is an interrupted cycle of self-regulation that is acceptable to the body in the short term because it maintains function until the problem gets resolved.

However, issues may remain unresolved because the body has  “lost sight of them” through a reversal of cellular polarity, or because of prioritization of energy and resource utilization the body may be unable to address them. Over time, the adaptive reaction can interfere with healthy self-regulation and evolve into other new challenges to health and well-being. Those in the natural health field search out these unresolved adaptations and assist the body in completing the goal of moving the adaptation to reintegration and healing.

Our bodies have an inherent drive to complete the healing process and may try over and over again to bring the area to balance. Evidence of these attempts are seen as “symptoms,” and interventions to suppress symptoms can interrupt or block the completion of the adaptive reaction. Although some symptoms may be noxious enough to warrant temporary control, focusing only on controlling symptoms may work in opposition to the body’s efforts to reintegrate.

In natural healing therapies, symptoms serve as guideposts relative to where the body is focused in its attempts to heal, therefore, are not seen as something to be immediately eliminated.  Working with the body, the practitioner assists the body in self-regulation and reintegration so that proper long-term function can be restored. When function is restored, the symptoms leave by themselves. In natural healing, the intention is not on stopping symptoms, but rather on restoring functions.

SCENAR uses symptoms as a guide to begin. The electrical properties of the skin itself indicate where there is imbalance, and through the therapeutic processes of the device, the body is assisted in its efforts to move the adaptive reaction through to completion thereby restoring balance and health to the area.

4 Comments

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  By pharmacist, November 17, 2010 @ 5:31 am

  Keep posting stuff like this i really like it

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  By Ron Tedwater, November 17, 2010 @ 8:38 pm

  Great work keep it coming

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  By Shalon Vesey, November 17, 2010 @ 8:47 pm

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  By Vania Cominsky, February 25, 2012 @ 12:19 pm

  Great work once again. Thumbs up:)

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