The Six Stages of Healing
There are six stages to address our healing. Our medical class is trained well at the more intense levels, but there are many other levels that are extremely powerful in creating good health. The six stages include:
Step 0: Do Nothing
(sleep, meditate, unplug the clock or the telephone)
Step 1: Collect Information
(low-tech diagnosis, books, support groups, divination)
Step 2: Engage the Energy
(prayer, homeopathy, ceremony, affirmations, laughter)
Step 3: Nourish and Tonify
(herbal infusions and vinegars, hugs, exercise, food choices, gentle massage, yoga stretches)
Note: Healing with Steps 4, 5, and 6 always causes some harm.
Step 4: Stimulate/Sedate
(hot or cold water, many herbal tinctures, acupuncture)
Step 5a: Use Supplements
(synthesized or concentrated vitamins, minerals, and food substances such as nutritional yeast, blue-green algae, bran)
Step 5b: Use Drugs
(chemotherapy, tamoxifen, hormones, and potentially toxic herbs)
Step 6: Break and Enter
(surgery, colonics, radiation therapies, psychoactive drugs, invasive diagnostic tests such as mammograms and C-T scans)
Side effects, including death, are inevitable.
Step 0: Do Nothing
(sleep, meditate, unplug the clock or the telephone)
Step 1: Collect Information
(low-tech diagnosis, books, support groups, divination)
Step 2: Engage the Energy
(prayer, homeopathy, ceremony, affirmations, laughter)
Step 3: Nourish and Tonify
(herbal infusions and vinegars, hugs, exercise, food choices, gentle massage, yoga stretches)
Note: Healing with Steps 4, 5, and 6 always causes some harm.
Step 4: Stimulate/Sedate
(hot or cold water, many herbal tinctures, acupuncture)
Step 5a: Use Supplements
(synthesized or concentrated vitamins, minerals, and food substances such as nutritional yeast, blue-green algae, bran)
Step 5b: Use Drugs
(chemotherapy, tamoxifen, hormones, and potentially toxic herbs)
Step 6: Break and Enter
(surgery, colonics, radiation therapies, psychoactive drugs, invasive diagnostic tests such as mammograms and C-T scans)
Side effects, including death, are inevitable.
The Spiraling Directions of Wellness
To feel well we must reside well in two worlds at the same time - the inner world and the outer world. We would like both worlds to be vital. Creating this vitality means transitioning - both internally and externally - through daily, monthly, and yearly cycles. The cycles are predictable - moving through each of the four directions sequentially. Part of feeling well is learning where you are in the cycle, and which cycle needs addressing. Combining these two maps, we turn to....
The Inner World...
South The Physical Body
Here we look at our relationship to exercise, movement, diet & nutrition.
West The Emotional Body
Here we develop emotional fluency and an ability to walk through anger, sadness and disappointment as well as joy, excitement and peace.
North The Spiritual Body
Here we look at our ability to trust and be a part of a larger whole.
East The Mental Body
Here we develop a relationship to our thoughts, recognizing the "ones that grow corn" and those that need to be weeded.
The Inner World...
South The Physical Body
Here we look at our relationship to exercise, movement, diet & nutrition.
West The Emotional Body
Here we develop emotional fluency and an ability to walk through anger, sadness and disappointment as well as joy, excitement and peace.
North The Spiritual Body
Here we look at our ability to trust and be a part of a larger whole.
East The Mental Body
Here we develop a relationship to our thoughts, recognizing the "ones that grow corn" and those that need to be weeded.