Native American Healing & Symbolism

[Guest guest]

What intrigues me is that singing and drumming have a large place in

native healing techniques, and as we know, sound is a form of

energy... Is it perhaps a very advanced way to use the human voice

as a means of delivering the right correction of energetic

imbalance?? I lived with a Navaho family for a year and a half, but

found out as a culture, or just my adopted family, don't like to

talk about such things... Does anyone here know more?

 

Best Wishes,

Misty L. Trepke

http://www..com

 

Native American Healing and Symbolism

 

It is within the Native American belief system that everything has a

spirit. Not just animals and humans but rocks, trees and wind as

well. Illness occurs when these spirits feel angered or insulted.

Fighting illness is more than treating the physical symptoms, but

addressing the spiritual cause as well.

 

Crystals have been used for healing and spiritual purposes for

centuries. They have proven to be very special tools, treasures from

our earth. Science has utilized the technical properties of crystals

for quite a while. We have eternally sought inspiration,

understanding and healing from stones and circles. Native Americans

honor stones as " the oldest living relatives, " while Jews and

Christians alike have gathered near stone tabernacles or stone

temples for centuries to worship and seek guidance. The ancient

Western European cultures believed that stones in a circle had

magical, spiritual and healing properties. The Hindu religion uses a

mandala, or sacred circle, for meditation, life direction, and

healing. From the statues of Stone Age matriarchal cultures to the

ancient pyramids of Egypt or Stonehenge in England, people have

turned to stones, circles, and rings of stone for assistance in the

timeless human struggles with life, growth, and healing.

 

The Native American system is based on this ancient and compelling

attraction to the circle and to stones. The circle is a symbol

present across time in all religions and cultures, for the circle is

endless and timeless. The circle suggests an unbroken wholeness in

time and space, repeating over and over without end. The cycle of our

lives moves in repeated and interwoven circles. Our day moves in a

circle, as does our months (moon cycle),and years. The journeys we

take in our lives begin at our home base, move away, and circle

back. Plato wrote that the soul is a circle.

 

Native Americans use a circle of stones as a process designed to help

us stop and think about the circle of our individual life, within the

circle of universal life. This growth process can help us see our

kinship with all people across time, cultures, and religions. For the

human search for life, healing, and growth is timeless and ageless

like the circle. So healing is a universal process for every man or

woman who begins it. Paradoxically, healing is a process that is

uniquely different for each man or woman who begins it, in

whatever culture and time. For healing is also deeply personal. It is

more a gradually ascending circular process, like a spiral gradually

moving upwards, than a linear process like climbing a mountain slope.

 

There are levels and stages of healing, and each person may have

different needs at these levels and stages.

 

The healing process is a natural part of all of our lives. It occurs

as a recovery process from behaviors, beliefs, values, attitudes

and/or events that have been painful or dissatisfying to self and

others. The process happens in many ways: the body (physical), the

mind (psychological), the soul (spiritual), the heart (emotional),

and the environment (ecological).

 

Healing occurs in respectful and authentic connections with ourselves

and with other human beings. Healing requires intimacy. Intimacy

develops as connections between people, based on trust,

communication, and shared experiences. This development requires a

time, a space, a tempo and rhythm unique to each individual. So

healing occurs in relationships, and healing is a lifelong process.

The knowledge of knowing thyself is very significant. For only you

can understand what you are experiencing in that particular moment.

Only you can discover how the healing process can work specifically

for you, because each one of us are different. Each one of us has our

own unique energy and must master how it is we can understand it,

deal with it.

 

All of us have experienced some hurt or dissatisfaction in our lives.

 

Sometimes the hurt has been imposed by our families, sometimes by our

communities, and other times by our cultures. At times the hurt or

dissatisfaction has been imposed by ourselves. And so, our life's

work includes the healing process. This is the reality of being

human, and always has been. We can struggle alone or together.

 

I was recently talking with a Native American friend of mine Chiaz,

who is from the Dineh tribe. He told me this great story...

When the miners where mining for ore in the West they basically came

in and ravaged the land. Ripping it up and destroying every living

thing around. Trees and animals died in the process. When they left,

they took every bit of ore from the ground, leaving only the " green

stone " behind. What they left behind, to the Native Americans, was

the most valuable of all material. This " green stone " helped to

stimulate physical and psychic vision and concentration. This " green

stone " assisted with stomach, liver, kidney stones, lungs, immune

system, and circulation problems. Releases and draws out pain,

inflammation, depression, anger, heals blocks. Protects well by

powerfully cleaning the auric field, rapidly absorbing undesirable

energies. This " green stone " they left behind was Malachite. Its

steady pulsing electromagnetic energy is worth more than its weight

in gold, on a healing level.

 

I have included a resource from my friend Chiaz who is an American

Indian Native of the Intertribal Foundation:

 

Native American Intertribal Foundation

505 Post Road Wells, Maine 04090

(207) 646-1206

 

The Native American Intertribal Foundation was founded for the sole

purpose of assisting Native Americans in the state of Maine. NAIT

serves the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Nations, the Houlton band of

the Malisseet Nation, and the Arroostook band of the Micmac Nation.

NAIT has created a Holiday Fund, a Bicycle Program, a New Baby

program, and more. NAIT is a nonprofit corporation.

 

 

Wabanaki Nations Cultural Resource Center

 

Wabanaki Nations Cultural Resource Center is a nonprofit, self-

determining,grassroots/community level action to support the Life and

 

restoration of Wabanaki Peoples and Nations. The Wabanaki Nations

Cultural Resource Center was established to restore the natural Way

of Life of Wabanaki, creating community projects and programs in such

 

areas as Original Spiritual Practice, Social Health, Education, Law,

Traditions, and Customs

For further information, phone during regular business hours, fax, or

 

write to:

 

WAP'QTOTIMOINOAG-OETJGEOAPENEOAG

Wabanaki Nations Cultural Resource Center

via Burnt Church Reserve

P.O.Box 127, Lagaceville

New Brunswick, EOC 1KO, Canada

Tel. (506) 776-1800 Fax: (506) 776-3392

 

Andrew " Guruji " LMT, MT-BC, CA

Peacefulmind.com

Alternative medicine and therapies for healing mind, body & spirit!

 

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