As has been described, organic Life is intelligent and performs its own meaning-making. Exactly as the startle-alert stillness is a (possibly prolonged) moment of external meaning-making, there is an internal meaning-making stillness that indicates and precedes re-organisation at a local or systemic level. From a therapeutic point of view, these stillnesses are critical signposts that something useful is about to happen. Since the biological intelligence is making the changes, the best thing we can do is stay out of the way and let it progress. This might seem like sloppy laissez-faire, but in reality a lot of skill is required. First the right conditions have to be put into place for the organism to be capable of noticing - and then to notice - a new possibility. Then an even more delicate skill is required to maintain the input of information of the correct magnitude and type - such that the re-organisation progresses to include as much of the total organism as possible, and continues to its optimum conclusion.

So it is well worth learning how to recognise these stillnesses. And also how to support them to the best possible outcome - even though we cannot possibly know what that might be, exactly. Internal healing stillnesses are somewhat vibratory, and - like the external stillnesses - can contain a sense of excited potential / potency / expectancy. They may be local to some part of the body, and may also occasionally expand and appear to fill a large room - raising interesting questions at to what exactly is being experienced. [1].

The muscles [2] of body sometimes shake uncontrollably after a high-adrenaline event. This shaking is a transition - when the body has already recognised that the event has come to an end and is returning to normal metabolism - the shaking being a way to burn off excess adrenaline. This shaking is not in itself an emotional discharge but may sometimes also be accompanied by emotions that relate to the high-adrenaline event. In which case if you can just observe the accomanying emotions they will come and go and be permanently erased. If the emotional release that accompanies the shaking is quite strong, then it may begin to take over, in which case the shaking discharge will also probably come to an end. Complete release of the emotional memory requires that there is no fear of the shaking and that the emotions are also "watched" as a memory passing through. Usually this requires that the emotions are titrated - i.e. that there is also "something else".

An extraordinary range of unusual to slightly weird sensations are signs that the body is healing itself. If you trust your body and been curious about it for some time you will probably have collected a "vocabulary" of sensations and easily know what is happening.

Any of the following sensations that begin unexpectedly and then pass after a few minutes and do not keep returning are likely to accompany self-healing events : Pulsing, deep thumping, vibration, trembling, rippling, slow waves passing through the body from feet to head or head to feet, extreme tingling, temperature changes, auto-motion (the body moves limbs itself), feelings of becoming like a ball of fluid, short sharp bursts of pain (that last for just a second and do not return), feeling a different size (smaller, larger) or a different age, feeling as if part of the body is in a different place from the one you "know" it is in (such as feeling as if one side of the body is higher), feelings of part of the body being absent. I've probably forgotten a few others.

Most everyday symptoms are direct indications that your body is attempting to heal itself or are side-effects of the healing process. For instance, high body temperatures (fevers) are a way to weaken infective organisms, a running nose is a way to clear out the upper respiratory tract (and a very watery running nose is a flushing of Cerebro-Spinal Fluid/CSF from the brain to flush out infections from the cribriform plate and upper nasopharynx).