Have you ever noticed that as an old injury heals, a pain you thought was long gone suddenly reappears — only to vanish again a few days later? That’s not your body going backwards. It’s very often a sign that healing is working exactly as it should.
This pattern has a name: Hering’s Law of Cure. It was described by Constantine Hering, a physician working in the 1800s, and it’s a principle that still shapes how we think about healing in energy kinesiology today. Hering observed that the body heals in three consistent ways — from the top down, from the inside out, and in the reverse order to how the problem originally developed.
That last part is the one that trips people up, so here’s a simple example. Say you had a pain in your ankle. Over time, that became a pain in your knee, and eventually a pain in your hip. If you’re now working on healing that hip, don’t be surprised if the knee pain briefly returns as the hip resolves. And once the knee has healed, don’t be surprised if the ankle pain — the very first place it all started — makes a brief reappearance too.
Then, once that’s passed, it’s genuinely done. The body has unwound the problem in the reverse order it built up, from the top of the chain back down to where it began.
Why does this matter practically? Because without knowing this, it’s easy to panic the moment an old symptom resurfaces and assume something has gone wrong — or worse, that a treatment has failed. Understanding Hering’s Law means you can recognise that returning pain for what it usually is: a sign that your body is working through a genuine healing process, not a setback.
This is one piece of a much bigger picture. If you’d like to learn how to use your own body to identify exactly what it needs — and to work with principles like this one directly — our free Energy Kinesiology course is the place to start.