11/13/2025
Healing Soul~Mind~Body at Bowenwork Marin
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🌿 Your Body Is Not Getting Worse, It’s Getting Wiser
One of the most common concerns clients have after a Spinal Flow session is:
“Why am I feeling different — or even uncomfortable — after my treatment?”
It’s a natural question — and the answer lies in understanding how your body’s innate intelligence operates.
During every session, I often remind clients:
“Your body is going to undergo changes within this 30-minute session, and I have no idea exactly how that will look for you. Your system will determine that — based on the best possible outcome for your functionality and survival.”
When you leave here, I don’t know your current stress levels, how you’re sleeping, what your diet looks like, or what emotional circumstances are unfolding. All of this contributes to what I call “the noise in the body.”
Your nervous system is constantly reading that noise — adjusting, repairing, and doing its best to restore balance. But healing is rarely linear.
🌀 Hering’s Law of Cure and “Retracing”
This process is beautifully described by Hering’s Law of Cure, which teaches that:
“When we use the drugless healing arts, all illness is reversed and we go through a period in which we pick up again our old troubles. Thus, gradually, we reverse from the chronic stage of disease toward good health by entering a healing crisis when an acute stage has been reached.”
Since imbalance takes time to develop, releasing it takes time too.
As the body begins to heal — whether through Spinal Flow, improved diet, or any natural modality — it often brings old symptoms or sensations to the surface.
A powerful illustration of this was shared with patients at the Gerson Cancer Clinic in 1982, describing what they called Retracing with diet:
“As a person continues on an improved diet and supplement program and gradually raises his or her food quality, interesting symptoms begin to appear. The body begins a process called retracing.
The cellular intelligence reasons something like this: ‘Oh, look at all these fine materials coming in. How wonderful — now we have a chance to get rid of this old garbage and build a beautiful new house. Let’s get started immediately.’
First the body begins to clean house — everywhere. This is when you are likely to have a healing reaction, sometimes called a healing crisis or cleansing reaction. During this period, the body ‘removes the ashes from the furnace preparatory to getting a better fire.’
This first stage persists for a while and then the body begins to form and replace what was discarded; this is the second stage.
The third stage is a build-up period — lean muscle mass and internal organ regeneration.
At this point, much or more of the interfering wastes have already been discarded — the tissues that have been formed since the diet was raised in quality are more durable and do not break down easily. Also, new tissues are now being formed faster. This is due to the improved assimilation of nutrients that occurs when wastes have been removed and the necessary nutrients are available.”
They went on to explain that as the body becomes more alive and functional, temporary symptoms may appear — even as health improves:
“People who have had tendencies in the past to recurring skin rashes or eruptions will frequently tend to eliminate poisons and harmful drugs through the skin with new rashes or eruptions.
The patient asks, ‘Why do I have a rash? I’m eating better now than I ever did before — and instead of getting better, I’m getting worse!’ They don’t understand that the body is retracing. The body is getting more alive and active. It is throwing out poisons more rapidly now that the body has more power.”
“With some, colds or fevers may reappear. This is nature’s way of house cleaning. Understand that these actions are constructive, even though unpleasant at the moment. Don’t try to stop these symptoms by the use of drugs.”
“Headaches may occur at the beginning; there may be a short interval of bowel sluggishness, occasional diarrhea, tiredness, irritability, or emotional sensitivity. However, the great majority of people find these reactions tolerable — and they begin to notice improvements daily. That becomes an inspirational force to them.”
🌬️ The Same Principle in Spinal Flow
What the Gerson practitioners described through changes in diet is the same principle seen through the Spinal Flow Technique.
When the nervous system reconnects and energy begins to move, your body starts to “clean house.” It releases old debris — chemical, emotional, and physical — stored from years of stress and adaptation.
Your system is intelligent beyond measure. It will always choose the most efficient path back to balance. Sometimes that looks like deep fatigue, emotional release, or the temporary return of old sensations — all signs that your body is reorganizing itself toward greater health.
So if you notice changes after a session — trust the process.
Rest. Hydrate. Nourish your body.
Because healing isn’t always comfortable… but it’s always intelligent. 🌿
