Autonomic Nervous System

I found this interesting.

Many of you here already work on allergies energetically, either with the Body Code or another modality. But have you ever thought about the role that the autonomic nervous system plays in an allergic reaction?

Dr. Klinghardt brought this up last week in his weekly debrief when discussing his Five Levels of Healing and allergies.

His Five Levels of Healing are:
• Level 1: Physical Body – The material level, focusing on anatomy, biochemistry, and toxins (e.g., heavy metals). Treatments include detox, nutrition, and medications.
• Level 2: Energetic Body (Electromagnetic) – The biofield or chi/prana, involving energy flows and environmental factors like EMFs.
• Level 3: Mental Body – Thoughts, beliefs, and emotions stored in the neocortex.
• Level 4: Intuitive Body (Soul) – Subconscious realm of archetypes, past lives, family patterns, and intuition.
• Level 5: Spiritual Body – Connection to the divine or higher self; non-interventional. Personal practices like meditation, prayer, or conscious living foster innate healing.

Allergies belong to the second level, the energetic body, and they represent things that you are incompatible with in your life. It could be food, fragrances, pollen, dust mites, people, cats, dogs, etc. The Greek roots of "allergy"—allos (meaning "other," "different," or "altered") and ergon (meaning "work," "action," or "deed")—represent a pulling away from something in our life.

An allergic reaction is an electrical process in the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). It’s an electrical nerve conduction issue, and it is the first thing that is triggered when you are incompatible with something in your environment. Histamine, mast cells, and other cells that are triggered are the second step in an allergic reaction, even though most of us will perceive them as the first step.

In Klinghardt’s Five Levels of Healing, he teaches what is called “downward causation.” Upper levels affect the lower levels. Disruptions in the higher levels can profoundly influence and manifest symptoms in the lower levels. Allergic reactions affect the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) on the second level and cause symptoms “downward” into the first level—the physical level—by activating histamine, mast cells, etc.

So often, we try to treat the physical level first, but usually that only works temporarily. We’ve learned with energy medicine techniques to also treat the “allergy” energetically, but what about the cause behind the symptom, which is a dysfunction in the ANS? Resetting the Autonomic Nervous System with the number could potentially energetically get to the root of the problem. I think it would be cool to try! Let me know if you use the number with any of your clients when working with their allergies.
Love and hugs,
~Christine