The Six Steps of Healing - From "Healing Wise"

[Shraddhananda]

The Wise Woman tradition offers self-healing options as diverse as the human imagination and as complex as the human psyche. How confusing! We need a way to cut through the confusion and decide which option to use when. Susan Weed calls it the Six Steps of Healing, a hierarchy based on the concept: "First do no harm."

Step 0 - Do Nothing
Step 1 - Collect Information
Step 2 - Engage the Energy
Step 3 - Nourish and Tonify
Step 4 - Stimulate & Sedate
Step 5 - Use Drugs
Step 6 - Break & Enter

Tell us about your experiences with the 6 steps of healing?

[angel]

my experiences with the 6 steps of healing
My philosophy is we have everything we need for life on this earth. 
My medical pledge is to First do no harm."
Step 0 - Do Nothing  if the patient is stable on medications or does not want them
Step 1 - Collect Information  a daily activity
Step 2 - Engage the Energy 
Step 3 - Nourish and Tonify 
Step 4 - Stimulate & Sedate 
Step 5 - Use Drugs   definitely  the frustration comes when you can not get to the root of the problem or if you have tried every treatment known and your patient is worse.  or you sense there are medicines out there that if we knew how to use them we might just see a cure thinking out of the box
Step 6 - Break & Enter 
So I want to learn about how medicine was when we had no pharmacies
I am drawn to the herbs
I hope I will meet some wise women who can impart wisdom

[Shraddhananda]

HI Angle,
I apologize that I missed this when you posted it.  I would love to talk with you more.  Tell me more about your questions....
I'll do my best to answer them or find people who can...
Many blessings!

[wiseone]

I was so thrilled to read this part is Healing Wise where Susun lists the 6 steps and have found them extremely helpful for me in lots of different ways-from physical ailments to emotional distress. Especially the first three are so wonderful- I often just leave it at that and find I already feel tons better.

[Shraddhananda]

Hi Wise One.
I found these extremely helpful as well.  Sometimes for some things, I need to go into step 4, but I'm doing so consciously and that feels good.  Many blessings!