Six Steps of Healing
Written by Susun Weed
Examples are in parenthesis: (with a few of the modalities available at each step)
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)
For every stimulation/sedation, there is an opposite sedation/stimulation, sooner or later. Addiction is possible if this step is overused.
Step 5a: Use Supplementsrn(synthesized or concentrated vitamins, minerals, and food substances such as nutritional yeast, blue-green algae, bran)
These substances may do as much harm as good.
Step 5b: Use Drugs (chemotherapy, tamoxifen, hormones, high dilution homeopathics, and potentially toxic herbs)
Step 6: Break and Enter (threatening language, surgery, colonics, radiation therapies, psychoactive drugs, invasive diagnostic tests such as mammograms and C-T scans)
Side effects, including death, are inevitable.
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