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3 4 5 C h e c k o u t A B M P 's l a t e s t n e w s a n d b l o g p o s t s . Av a i l a b l e a t w w w. a b m p . c o m . 85 3. THE INHERENT HEALING PROCESS There are many perspectives to the understanding of what constitutes healing and many approaches, philosophies, and techniques for how to bring this about. The key evolutionary step in BCST is a movement into a participatory model in which the living intelligence of the system, the Breath of Life, orchestrates a sequence of events that resolves inertial forces. The resolution of inertial forces, in turn, allows for a reorganization of form, function, and inherent motion of the system, restoring itself to its inherent pattern of health. This sequence of events, which reveals itself to a practitioner who has refined their skills to accurately and compassionately witness the reorganizing phenomena of bioenergy, is an inherent healing process. My teacher, Franklyn Sills, the pioneering teacher of BCST, has called this the "inherent treatment plan." 7 When a practitioner partners with the bioenergy of the client, they are orienting to the original and inherent health of that client, not their dis-ease. The bioenergy of a living system always seeks balance, resolution, and health—it is self-healing. This is the inherent healing process that we observe as a practitioner. 4. INERTIAL FULCRUMS ORGANIZE SHOCK The consequences of unresolved inertial fulcrums within the human system are expressed as a multitude of detrimental signs and symptoms—injury, illness, psycho-emotional imbalances, etc. We can also recognize that the combined result of all these detrimental expressions within an individual manifests through all levels of being. When unresolved inertial forces within the system are held in stasis by the Breath of Life and produce negative influences within the life of an individual, this total pattern of expression is called "shock." BCST recognizes that the resolution of inertial energies by the Breath of Life is in essence the resolution of shock and trauma. The Breath of Life is like a wise gardener who works by pulling the weeds out by the roots. While it is easy to see the parts of the weed that grow above the ground— flowers, leaves, and stems—it is the root of the plant that supports its life. In removing the roots from the earth, the gardener ensures the weed has no ground from which to regrow. In the same way, resolving inertia is the healing of shock at its root, leaving the symptoms and manifestations of shock bereft of their foundation. As a living system reorganizes around the midline and other natural fulcrums in the last phase of the inherent healing process, the manifestations of shock (shock affect, cycling, hyperactivation, dissociative states, and so forth) dissolve, and health is restored through all levels of the system. 5. HEALING HAPPENS IN THE PRESENT MOMENT Regardless of when an inertial fulcrum became stored in a client's system, the activity of the bioenergy resolving that inertia happens in the present moment. While a client may experience the memories, feeling states, thought processes, etc., of a past event during the unfolding of the inherent healing process, the practitioner recognizes that these specific aspects of past experience are energies organized around an unresolved inertial fulcrum. In other words, a trauma from the past has remained active in the present state of the client's system. As inertial energies are resolved during a session, these aspects of past experience return to the client's awareness to be resolved in the here and now of present time. CONCLUSION The potential for healing in the practice of BCST is astonishingly wide ranging. Not only are physical trauma and illness ameliorated by BCST, the forces of the Breath of Life, or biodynamic energy, can also directly impact and transform our emotional, psychological, and even spiritual health. Notes 1. W. G. Sutherland, Contributions of Thought, 2nd ed. ed. Adah Strand Sutherland and Anne Wales (Yakima, Washington: Sutherland Cranial Teaching Foundation, 1998): 146. 2. W. G. Sutherland, Teachings in The Science of Osteopathy, ed. Anne Wales (Sutherland Cranial Teaching Foundation, 1990). 3. W. G. Sutherland, Contributions of Thought, 2nd ed. 4. Osteopathy in the Cranial Field, ed. Harold Magoun (Sutherland Cranial Teaching Foundation, 1997): 15. 5. The five principles of biodynamic craniosacral therapy were first articulated in my article "Natural Fulcrums: Principles of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy," The Cranial Wave (Winter 2014): 26. 6. R. Becker, Life In Motion (Portland, Oregon: Rudra Press, 1997): 204. 7. F. Sills, Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics, Vol. I (Berkeley: North Atlantic Press, 2011): 53. Scott Zamurut, RCST, is one of the longest tenured biodynamic craniosacral therapy teachers in North America and served as a founding board member of the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America. He offers foundation and advanced trainings in BCST at the Santa Fe School of Massage in New Mexico, where he also offers specialized trainings in pre- and perinatal education.