In Native American Tradition, Medicine is anything that will aid the seeker in feeling more connected and in harmony with nature and all life-forms. Anything that is healing to the body, mind, and/or spirit is Medicine. The Medicine Walk was a way to reestablish the link to Allies, or Medicine Helpers.
A Medicine Walk is still possible in today's busy world if the seeker knows how to read nature's signs.
Intuition allows us to maintain Earth-connection through our understanding the languages of the Planetary Family. Power is no more than our gifts and abilities and can never be stripped from us by another.
For centuries, the Red People have used the omens of nature to arrive at the decisions of entire Nations. All living creatures have their own Medicine messages to share with those who are willing to learn their language.
Every fellow Creature-being or life-form is a teacher and potential friend. Each teacher in nature holds a deep abiding love for Great Mystery and will impart messages to those who seek the mysteries of the Void. The unknown is made up of those lessons that instruct us in our roles within Creation as well as the roles others play.
To understand these messages is to become one with the Creature-beings of nature. To seek peace of the Standing People (trees), to acknowledge the sacredness of all life-forms, and to find harmony with each living thing is to gain respect for Self as a Guardian of our Earth Mother.
The basic premise of this understanding is to acknowledge the Uniworld. The Uniworld is the universal Family of Creation. The Earth is our mother, the Sky is our Father; our grandparents are Grandfather Sun and Grandmother Moon. Our Brothers and Sisters are the Stone People, the Standing People, the Creature-beings, the Plant People, and other Two-leggeds. We are never alone. When our human family is separated or moves onto the Blue Road of Spirit through physical death, we have nothing to grieve if we remain connected to the universal Family of Creation. The Medicine Walk is one way of reclaiming those connections.
In our modern world, the understandings of the Language of Love can be understood only through an open heart, for it is a way of living life rather than a system to be mastered. We must be willing to use the feelings and the inner senses to "hear" the tender teachings of our fellow life-forms.
Once we understand which type of lesson is comming our way on our Medicine Walk, we can proceed by noticing which Allies call to us. When something catches our eye, it has called our attention and is speaking to us through the Language of Love. In caring for that messenger we establish a link that will allow the message to be received. In observing each Medicine Helper, weather it be Drangonfly or Ponderosa Pine, Petroglyph or Stone Person, we learn the lessons of nature.
Our Native way of learning can bring a change in consciousness that opens new doors of expression and expansion. To understand the Red People is to reach out to another culture and share the beauty of our common paths. In doing so, we trust that our common goal will be attained: peace, truth, and healing for Mother Earth's children. When the Children of Earth are healed, we may welcome the Rainbow of Peace into our hearts and trust that each Medicine Walk on the Sacred Path will bring new connections and Good Medicine that can be shared. In this way, we become the living prophesy of the Fifth World of Peace.
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