Stage 7–Resolution

Acceptance

Discharge of bio-electric energy is associated with a discharge of mechanical energy.  This may be a discharge of the muscular system, or fever, coughing, sneezing, or vomiting.  Crying, screaming, and laughing are also discharge phenomena.  When the discharge occurs after the previous six stages, resolution can occur with the discharge.  A sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, peace, and inner strength accompanies the process when resolution occurs.  The sentiment is, “I am so ready to scream and not only discharge, but resolve the recurrent energy pattern distracting me from who I really am!  I am fully committed to do this now.  I must let go of this now!

–SomatoRespiratory Integration Workbook

To dis-charge means to eliminate a charge.  Successful discharge is bringing the BodyMind from a state of distress towards ease.  This result is RESOLUTION!!  All of the uncomfortable build-up and preparation you experienced in Stage 6 is officially released–in an empowering way–as you move into Stage 7.

If discharge occurs at an earlier stage of healing–say Stage 1 or 2 (read earlier posts), you often focus on what was lost.  When this happens, the tension between your True Self and the disconnected parts of yourself increases.  You feel discharge at that time is an unwelcome event because you still have attachments or a need to those parts of you that you are giving up.

When discharge occurs in Stage 7, your focus is primarily on the wholeness of your being that is eliminating something you no longer need and does not serve you.  It is then a welcome event that you have prepared yourself to expect.

As the discharge process develops, you begin to feel the alternating building of tension and release of tension.  You have mixed emotions of relief this can finally happen and disappointment that it has to be uncomfortable.  Then the rhythm begins to take control of your physiology, and you lose complete thought and control over it.  The end of Stage 7 is characterized by a completion of the discharge with a sense of resolution.

Once you have completely resolved the old energy and patterns held within the BodyMind that no longer serve you, all that is left is emptiness….

Next week:  Letting Yourself Go…Moving from the Season of Transform to the Season of Awaken