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MYTH: Healing requires a trained professional or a highly educated specialist.

MAGIC: My healing is natural, spontaneous, and magical. I Celebrate the innate wisdom and ability of my body to heal
me. I nurture the magical healing power that is mine and mine alone, whether or not I receive the assistance of
trained professionals.

Myth: Healing means symptoms or disease disappear or come under control.

MAGIC: I accept myself unconditionally, with all my symptoms, conditions, and glorious imperfections. I am healing
in spite of the imperfections that still appear in my body and my life. The healing power of my body-mind is more
powerful than I ever imagined. As I heal, I experience my whole self, including my light and my shadows.

Religious

Myth: I must forgive in order to heal.

MAGIC: I am open to forgive for myself and for others whenever the timing is right for me. Today, I celebrate the
forgiveness that has spontaneously sprung forth in my life, and I honor the healing that has already occurred. For
those I have not yet forgiven, I trust that forgiveness will come as my bodymind heals.

New Age

Myth: I am responsible for creating my reality.

MAGIC: I am not responsible for creating my external reality. I am responsible for my internal state of mind,
emotion, and vibration. I am responsible for focusing my attention on my inner environment in relationship to my
life circumstances. It is my gift to become aware of the state of tension, pain, or ease in my bodymind, and to
accept my experiences – pleasant or unpleasant – with nonjudgement and love.

A reoccurring sickness, healing crisis, or life-threatening illness?

A feeling of emptiness and longing, for no apparent reason?

A major trauma, emotional hardship, or life-changing event?

A feeling of being stuck in a pattern of self-destructive behavior?

A sense of heightened awareness or knowingness which was then lost?

After observing thousands of people both in private practice and public seminars, Dr. Epstein discovered twelve
basic rhythms, or stages of consciousness, shared by all humanity. Each stage of healing has a distinct “rite of
passage” – a chaotic experience or healing crisis – that helps us to reunite with aspects of ourselves that are
traumatized, alienated, forgotten, abuse, shamed, or unforgiven. Each stage also has a characteristic pattern of
breath, movement, and touch that can help us to reconnect with the natural, internal rhythms of our body and
experience a greater sense of joy and well-being.

The Twelve Stages of Healing takes us beyond traditional books on healing as it gently guides us through the lessons
of each stage on a journey toward greater wholeness, spiritual awareness, and try healing in all areas of our life.