

Therefore we seek to re-experience the rhythm of Stage One.The Twelve Stages of Healing offers us fascinating insights into the complex relationship between mind, emotions, and body, and shows us how we can use these insights to promote greater health in our bodies and harmony in our relationships.Īfter observing thousands of people in both private practice and public seminars, Dr. Eventually, we recognize that the limits of what we can bring to community stem from our own lack of wholeness. This occurs in our internal and external communities. We recognize that all of our choices are spiritual ones, and affect the entire globe of beings. We receive the gifts of individuality, from within ourselves and from others. We experience our involvement with humanity and recognize that wholeness comes from bringing our gifts of individuality into community. We communicate with ourselves and others “through” our wounds instead of “from” them. We live without being attached to our situations. We are renewed beyond our limits and sense of self and enter into the world again. We know that we are part of all we perceive and responsible for what we know.

Here we transcend the limits of the self, recognizing that we are united with the force of the universe. There is an awareness here that we are not just an intelligent form but we are intelligence itself. Accompanied by feelings of awe and joy for the process. Some experience an energetic connection to others. We become aware that we are more than just our physical body, and can become aware of the energy flowing within us and around us. Trust comes naturally and serendipity is a regular occurrence. We enter a stage of gratitude, vulnerability and connection to possibility.
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But that emptiness if full of potential, full of possibility. It is associated with a sense of accomplishment, peace and inner strength.įollowing discharge we feel empty.

Discharge can be noise, screaming, yelling, laughing or muscular moves. This stage is associated with discharge of the patterns that no longer serve us. In this stage we reconnect to that the stories and illusions we have created and start to rewrite our stories in ways that serve us more productively.ĭo you ever feel so ready for change and want to build up the energy even more? In stage 6 we connect to our resources, build energy and get ready to discharge that which no longer serves us. Have you ever told yourself that you just can’t change, that this is how it is or that is has to be and will always be this way? We often limit ourselves with beliefs, and often they’re not even our beliefs, we just picked them up along the way. In this stage we recognize how we have given our power away and how it has limited us and we step back into ownership of who we are and what’s possible. There are times in our lives when we realize that something has to change and that something is us.
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In this stage we learn how to connect to different parts and how to increase our resourcefulness when we feel that things have been done to us or someone else can “fix” us.Įver feel like it doesn’t matter what you do, nothing is ever going to change? In this stage we explore how our mind can hold us in a pattern and how to connect to that part of us that is stuck and limited. This disconnects us from our bodies and our resources. When there are things we cannot accept about ourselves, our situation or our life we tend to look for magical solutions or something to blame.

In this stage we learn that there are times when there is nothing we can do, but if we can learn how to connect to our body in those moments we can draw upon resources we didn’t even know we had. We feel helpless and most of us will do anything to avoid this feeling.
