The healing phase or restoration phase, also called post-conflictolysis (PCL), is the period after resolution of the biological conflict in the psyche —when the psyche is no longer preoccupied with the conflict content and the organism shifts from heightened sympathecotonic (sympathetic) activation into deepened vagotonic (parasympathetic) restoration.

Common features of the healing phase include fatigue, relaxation, warmth (warm hands and feet), fever and inflammation, increased appetite, diminished thirst, waking late in the day, and difficulty falling asleep before around 3:30 am. Nighttime nervous system activity becomes exaggerated, described as “lasting night.”

During PCL, the tissue and functional changes initiated during conflict activity begin to breakdown, renovation, and progress to a new normal. This process will include (depending on the germ layer involved in the special biological program):

• Tumours breaking down (usually involving a small amount of surrounding non-tumour tissue),

• Ulcerated tissues rebuilding (and in new mesoderm tissues, usually to a larger size),

• Functional losses reverting, sometimes temporarily becoming over-function (and in some programs, such as motor programs, the functional loss can temporarily worsen during healing).

The healing phase is divided into two sub-phases:

• PCL-A (Post-Conflictolysis Part A / “Edema Phase”): the first part of healing, characterized by swelling/edema in the relevant brain relay and body tissue.

• Epi-crisis (Healing Crisis / Epileptic or Epileptoid Crisis): a short, intense replay/flashback of the biological conflict in the psyche, experienced across psyche, brain, and organ. Its purpose is to squeeze edema from the brain relay, pulling the organism out of deep vagotonia toward normotonia. The timing of the epi-crisis is SBS-specific.

• PCL-B (Post-Conflictolysis Part B / “Scarring Phase”): the second part of healing, characterized by release of excess fluids, exudation and scarring, and longer-term changes in tissue size/density that become part of the new normotonia. Completion of PCL-B is described as the mechanism of biological evolution, including changes to DNA.