What
is Healing?
Sage
Words from Native American Wisdom Keepers
By Sandra Cosentino
"Medicine
is a vibration within all of Creation."
"The heart
of healing is to accept it to come to you."
"Have
kindness from the heart and faith.
Always pray when
you start the day.
We all carry
the seeds within us."
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Drawn
by direct knowing from lucid dreams, spirit helpers, ecstatic experiences
of direct union with Nature, I seek that elusive state
of balance, wholeness, aliveness, awareness. Blessed
to be part of a stable, affluent culture I, like so many of us
in the Western world today, have answered the call to explore
inner realities, other cultures, and places resonant with primordial
spiritual energy and beauty. Each
new understanding shortens the time it takes to recreate myself. Traveling
an ascending spiral that moves faster and faster. Yet underneath
I feel that sense of dancing on the edge of the unknown me. Can
I bring home the soaring eagle into this physical being? Can
I feel the pulsating life of the universe in every cell of my own
being? Is this elusive state of balance somehow here right
now in the moment I just embrace me as I am? Including all
those doubts, fears, judgments and limiting beliefs of
my own culture toward “natural”, self-directed healing?
"What is healing?" I pose this question to Native
wisdom carriers in my circle: Uqualla, who is from the Havasupai
tribe who live within the western Grand Canyon; and three traditional
Hopi friends who live on high, windswept mesas of remote northeastern
Arizona. Wisdom from Amaru Li, a Peruvian healer and spiritual
teacher/bridge person is included as well.
"Ancient spiritual wisdom has survived in
global wisdom people. We are instruments of healing and healed
in the process. Healing
is for every breathing moment. Medicine people, shamans,
healers have many names. There are many spirits such as rock
spirits, tree spirits. Humans each are given giftings to
facilitate a particular medicine. All are unique.
Healing is as diverse as the many grains
of sand, of stars, colors. Medicine is a vibration within all
of Creation. Not just
human. We are just a small part of the total, receptors and
givers of healing. Our physical reality is more tunnel vision,
we expect physical presentation to stimulate healing.
Plants are physical form manifesting into
this reality. Plant,
ceremony, tradition has guaranteed complete healing with the addition
of spirit-soul vibrations into it. It is instilling that
frequency and vibration into the place of receptiveness.
People assume they are healers. In the medicine spirit way,
we never ever copy or take another's ritual. The heart of
healing is spirit presented--they must be in the right place of
heart connection.
I watch so many people prepare medicine
and exclude the sacredness of it. So the body won't completely heal. You can simply
heal by touching. Touch the essence within: mind, heart. If
that door is not open, the person will not heal. Ancient
medicine was not to allow a person to exist without knowing there
was reason for them to exist. They are ill because they have
not honored their vessel with spirit as watcher, the guide.
We have the gift of choice: you will fall, will hurt. This
ignites illness. So when a person goes in for healing, the
healer knows, they must heal the impurity in the physical being,
to open that door to heal the physical, must honor all aspects.
Spiritual fine-tuning. Honor and be happy with this form. It
will be as long lasting as they make it. Fuel is food thought,
wisdom. Honoring with humility the spirituality. It
will continue that we as 2-legged form will desire a physical hand
held form of medicine that will better us, but not necessarily
heal.
Contemporary medicine is a result of individuals
who have tuned themselves into limited understanding. They do bring corrections. They
have a gifting from spirit to understand molecular chemistry, but
they do not understand this genius was gifted by great Creator. In
that honoring, healing comes forth in various stages.
Healing spiritually must begin with each
individual within his or her own area bringing healing from within. You will sense
the physical medicine that can bring healing for the moment. This
is always temporary.
Every rising sun be aware of Creator that
allows us to be in the best of health. As plentiful as grains of sand and stars
of skies--healing is that many and that varied. Understood
by science, the right dosage is required to work properly. With
spirit, vibrational medicine must be right amount for some awakening. In
the time we are here we can emanate, radiate. There is so
much to be said for healing. It can be interpreted in so
many ways.
The best gift is that you have allowed for
someone to walk their walk in a beautiful way. I honor
all medicine people, native, non-native, scientists, educators--all
are gifted but should give thanks daily in their heart.
Healing will continue in a right path as
long as we are honoring and humble, things come automatically. It harmonizes with
our capabilities. People stimulate a part of you that will
allow for healing to continue, to touch heart places.
You are the only form that needs to be present
for healing to happen. Don't harbor things inside, constantly
allow for release.
In collective consciousness we find much
nurturing, sanctuary. If
you seek security, it is a sign that you need to address self.
Ceremony is to joyfully make sign to spirit
that we truly honor you and should be woven through the whole
of your existence. Ceremony
reminds us to emphasize our connection to the unseen. It
stimulates spiritual vibration to an ascended level. Everyone
in that circle has a part to add and will come out stronger spiritually.
Enjoy the simplicity of waking every morning
to understand your journey, life purpose. Be able to see the sunrise, this
assures you are breathing. Unseen has many names: something
greater, essence. This has allowed the opportunity of journey
this day. If you make it to setting sun, reflect, give rest. If
negativity is there, address it in different light. It will
in time resolve.
Heart take lead pulls self away from physical
ego. Trust
what is there and felt; it takes lead into your life. Start
from where you feel within.
If you feel the call of place, go. Just
be. If you
do, everything else will fall into place. It is a must for
foot to touch ground. Ritual call. Let heart child take lead. In
the innocence of the child, you will be called to the right offerings."
“Just as you plant a seed and take care of it from the day
it is planted, you, as a being, transform as you work with the
universe. Nature is the grounding for whole universe. We
are plants for the whole universe. To heal the universe,
be strong with that stem. Give yourself that opportunity
to heal. The heart of healing is to accept it to come to you.
Pray together, become one--it helps you
open. Don't hesitate. Practice
society within your heart. Open to your own individuality. Group
energy helps, but you have to accept. Have courage to give
your prayers. The terrorist attack was a wake up call
to the universe.
If children are not afraid, they can come
forward and lead universe in a whole path. Have trust in yourself and universe and
creator. Creator walked this path many years ago and left
this open for all people. Burn cedar (juniper) incoming
and outgoing to open doors and make it easier to work with feelings.”
Quotshomgnewa, Hopi:
“Take bad energy out and give it to the Creator, release
your inner self. Then you regain power. Prayers, use lots
of prayers. I use different types of herbs for different problems
on body points. I look inside the body using a crystal like an
x-ray and see things that should not be there.
I pray to nature, to living creatures for help in healing a person,
they pray too. Deer is what I work with. They help
and strengthen me and know what I am doing. They give guidance. I
asked Deer to help me for three days; we went on the hill and prayed
and deer came. This was a sign that I was recognized.”
Hopi Medicine Man:
"We're here to protect and preserve this land for our children
and their children. Where you are born, you always go back, that
is your umbilical; it is always imprinted. We send our messages
from the center of Mother Earth to infinity. Our natural foods
grown from the land sustain us." He spoke of how since time
immemorial Hopis have maintained their sovereign status given to
them by the highest leader who is always there for everyone.
“Someone with a good heart, with no anger can persevere
and will succeed in fulfilling what needs to be done. Have kindness
from the heart and faith. Always pray when you start the day. Rest
when the sun goes down. We all carry the seeds within us. We each
came in with different things to fulfill. It is important for children
to know their purpose. Knowledgeable people sit on their knowledge,
but sometimes they take off the mask and become their true self."
He was encouraging each of us, of all cultures, to express
our true heart. This is our gift to the world that changes
everything around us.
Amaru Li, Peruvian Shaman
Amaru has a new vision bridging his traditional culture with
today’s
world:
“Shamanism regards disease as an imbalance and offers ways
to restore and preserve emotional and spiritual health by re-establishing
the body’s natural balance…The shaman uses the energy
of Mother Earth and directs the Universal Energy for healing...
we integrate mind, body and spirit into a personal vision of harmony
and balance.”
His teachings and healing sessions incorporate meditations,
rituals and ceremonies dedicated to honoring and respecting
the self as well as Mother Earth and transforming negative belief
patterns into new realities. Some elements he works with
are:
Energy balancing
to cleanse, restore and protect the body’s
natural flow of energy
Practicing reciprocity—giving
and receiving
Connecting to the higher frequencies of positive emotions
Extraction of the negative
Retrieval of splintered parts of the soul
Power animal medicine practice to bring strength, healing and
wisdom
Practice of ceremony for connection to the cycles of nature and
spiritual guides; for expression, spiritual development, psychological
transformation and to help us remember our purpose in the universe
Creating sacred space for conscious interaction of the sacred
self with the forces of the divine universe
(above excerpts from Amaru Li's
web site)
Woven into this indigenous wisdom are fibers of devotion, honoring,
purification, flow, humor, centeredness, belief and trust in self
and the universe and so much gratitude. I, too, choose
to open the pathways of direct connectedness to Source, to each
day release that which no longer serves, to re-create this physical
expression as an evolving frequency. Cracking the shell of
what I think I am into a softened permeability. Humbleness
is now a new seed of wisdom borne of deep listening and observing: of
the light residing in each of us, of the dawn chorus of bird beings
calling up the sun and those wordless moments of just being.
Ancient wisdom expressed in a co-creation with today’s frequency
is my homing beacon. This is a time of each of us now today
accepting the call to be our own shaman-healer. No longer
the sole province of the magician-seer as in times past, but a
birthright, a gift, a calling voicing through each of us. To
ask what is healing, is to ask, what is love, what is God, why
am I here? Ultimately it is a mystery uniquely expressed
in each one of us.
