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The 12 Stages of Healing ©
The following guideline briefly describes various stages of physiological and emotional shifts, which
occur during healing processes. The foundations of this work, AKA Somato Repiratory Integration,
developed out a form of subluxation based chiropractic, Network Chiropractic/Spinal Analysis;
developed by Donald Epstein, DC. For more information regarding the studies of The 12 Stages of
Healing, please contact Innate Intelligence, Inc. (Wiseworld Seminars) :
444 N. Main Street - Longmont, Colorado 80501 - 303.678.8086

"If you can’t be in the stage you love…love the stage you’re in!"
Each stage has a rhythm of its own. No one stage is better than another. We can not think or figure our
way through any stage. Each stage represents one of the 12 rhythms of consciousness of humanity. Be
with the stage that your are in. Don’t resist the stage, honor it. The stage will come to completion as
you have gained the information within its rhythm.
Many people never fully experience most of the 12 stages, spending their lives within the first few.
Maintaining a clear nervous system helps to move consistently through the stages more rapidly.
Your breath and movements guide you through each of the 12 Stages of Healing. Go with your flow.
Even your distress has a "story" to tell you. Let your peace teach your distress to heal.

Stage 1: SUFFERING:
Different from pain, suffering is marked by a profound awareness
that something is wrong. Parts of our being are disconnected. The
awareness of this disconnection is usually made as we draw more
upon our consciousness and energetic resources. This especially
occurs when confronted by a traumatic or chaotic event or loss.
The lesson of this stage is the acceptance that nothing works at
this time, and that you are presently helpless.

The talented French artist,
William Bouguereau (1825-1905),
expresses similar emotional turbulence,
within the human psyche.
My soul is full of whispered song,—
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are full of life and light.
~~ Dying Hymn