The Two Phases of Disease - New Holistic Medicine

Understanding the Natural Course of Disease

Dr. Ryke Hamer has identified that most diseases undergo two primary phases: the conflict active phase and the healing phase. Understanding these phases is crucial to recognizing what your body is experiencing and how to support its natural healing process.

Core Discovery: Disease is not a random occurrence. It follows a predictable two-phase pattern that begins with an emotional conflict and progresses through specific physiological changes. What we typically call "illness" often occurs during the healing phase, not the disease phase.

Phase 1: The Conflict Active Phase (Sympathicotonia)

Most diseases commence with an emotional conflict or shock. This initial triggering event creates stress in both the psyche and the body, setting the stage for physical manifestations.

How the Conflict Active Phase Begins

The conflict active phase starts when a person experiences an unexpected, dramatic, and isolating emotional shock. This could be the sudden loss of a loved one, a shocking diagnosis, betrayal, abandonment, or any event that catches the person completely off-guard and creates intense emotional distress.

The key is that the event is experienced as a biological conflict—something the person doesn't know how to resolve consciously.

Characteristics of the Conflict Active Phase:

Obsessive Thoughts: The person cannot stop thinking about the conflict. Thoughts circle repeatedly around the problem.
Sleep Disturbances: Difficulty sleeping, waking in the middle of the night with racing thoughts.
Mental Preoccupation: Constant inner dialogue of "I can't believe this is happening."
Physical Changes: Tissue breakdown in specific organs related to the type of conflict (often painless and unnoticed).
Sympathetic Nervous System Dominance: The body remains in stress mode, prioritizing survival over other functions.

Important: If no resolution is reached, the brain perceives this continuous stress as a survival threat. To ensure short-term survival, the conflict may be submerged into the subconscious. This suppression can persist for years, sometimes even decades, creating chronic illness patterns.

A Powerful Example: An old man had suppressed a conflict regarding an ex-girlfriend for fifty years. Once the conflict was finally addressed and released using energy therapy, he experienced significant relief, and his entire demeanor changed for the better.

Diseases Associated with Conflict Active Phase:

In some cases, multiple triggers accumulate over time without resolution, leading to chronic conditions. Diseases that first manifest symptoms during this phase always involve endodermic tissue and include:

Lung cancer (air hunger conflicts)
Osteoporosis (self-devaluation conflicts)
Stomach cancer (indigestible anger conflicts)
Breast adenocarcinoma (worry/nest conflicts)
Fibromyalgia (multiple unresolved conflicts)
Chronic fatigue syndrome (accumulated stress conflicts)

Phase 2: The Healing Phase (Vagotonia)

When a conflict is resolved—either through external circumstances changing or internal acceptance—the body immediately begins its healing phase. This phase represents the body's remarkable effort to repair and restore the damage created during the conflict active phase.

"What we typically call 'getting sick' is often actually the healing phase. The body is repairing itself, and this repair process creates the symptoms we recognize as illness."

The Paradox of Healing

During the conflict active phase, conditions such as certain cancers develop, but tissue breakdown occurs painlessly and often goes unnoticed. Only when the conflict resolves and healing begins do symptoms appear—tumors start breaking down, microbes become active, infections manifest, and pain emerges. This is why people often feel "fine" during the disease development and only feel "sick" when they're actually healing.

Why Acupuncturists Detect Illness Early: An acupuncturist might detect upcoming illness by noticing tenderness in acupoints even if the individual feels perfectly fine. They're detecting the conflict active phase before the healing phase symptoms appear.

Example: Micro-tears could appear in the throat during the conflict active phase, but only upon resolution do infections manifest, leading to symptoms like a sore throat or even mononucleosis.

Common Symptoms During Initial Healing Phase:

Fever (body heating up to accelerate repair)
Swelling and inflammation (tissue repair and fluid accumulation)
Pain (nerve endings becoming active again)
Infections (microbes helping break down excess tissue)
Loss of appetite (energy redirected to healing)
Fatigue and exhaustion (body needs rest to heal)
Night sweats (parasympathetic nervous system dominance)

The Epileptoid Crisis: The Turning Point

One major event during the healing phase is the epileptoid crisis—often referred to as the "healing crisis" by holistic practitioners. This represents the peak of the healing phase, where symptoms are most intense.

What Happens During the Epileptoid Crisis

At the height of the healing phase, the body briefly returns to conflict active phase characteristics (sympathicotonia) before completing the healing process. This can be dramatic and is where many people experience their most severe symptoms.

Symptoms During Epileptoid Crisis:

Muscle spasms and convulsions
Severe headaches (particularly with brain involvement)
Epileptic seizures (in cases involving the brain)
Heart attacks (in cases involving territorial conflicts)
Extreme versions of the specific symptoms related to the conflict type

However, once past this crisis, the body transitions into a scarring and restoration phase, gradually returning to normal. This is when true recovery becomes evident.

Managing the Healing Phase

The good news is that these severe healing phases can now be managed and potentially bypassed with subconscious suggestion and energy therapy techniques like Inner Influencing®.

This offers a gentler healing process, reducing the intense side effects traditionally associated with the healing phase. By addressing conflicts at the subconscious level before or during the healing phase, we can support the body's natural healing while minimizing crisis symptoms.

Chronic Illness: Oscillating Between Phases

Chronic illnesses emerge when conflicts aren't fully resolved. This leads to the patient constantly oscillating between the active conflict phase and the healing phase, never completing either one fully.

The person experiences a pattern of:

Conflict active phase symptoms
Brief resolution and start of healing
Conflict re-triggered (often by similar circumstances)
Return to conflict active phase
Cycle repeats indefinitely

Chronic Conditions Caused by Phase Oscillation:

Fibromyalgia (multiple self-devaluation conflicts)
Chronic fatigue syndrome (exhausting conflict accumulation)
Arthritis (ongoing self-worth conflicts)
Recurring infections (incomplete healing cycles)
Chronic pain syndromes (unresolved emotional pain)

Key to Chronic Illness Recovery: The solution lies in completely resolving the underlying emotional conflict so the body can finish the healing phase without re-triggering. This requires addressing both the original conflict and the pattern of re-triggering.

Other Patterns and Syndromes

Additionally, there are:

Diseases that only become apparent in the healing phase: Many conditions are completely asymptomatic during conflict active phase and only reveal themselves during healing.
Syndromes involving partial resolution: Some conflicts get partially resolved, leading to incomplete healing and lingering symptoms.
Compound conflicts: Multiple conflicts affecting different organs simultaneously, creating complex symptom patterns.

Practical Implications

Understanding the two phases of disease allows us to:

Recognize What Phase We're In

Are symptoms appearing during stress (conflict active) or after resolution (healing)? This tells us what's actually happening in the body.

Support the Healing Process

Rather than suppressing healing symptoms, we can support the body through the process while managing comfort.

Address Root Causes

By identifying and resolving the underlying emotional conflicts, we can prevent disease from developing or help chronic conditions finally complete their healing.

Minimize Crisis Severity

With energy therapy techniques, we can guide the body through healing with reduced crisis symptoms.