healing yourself
Healing yourself
In our culture, and others, there is a tradition of being healed. You go to someone, a doctor, healer, bear, and they heal you. Ummmm
In Coyote Medicine, Native American and physician, Lewis Mehl, writes
“Only the creator, the spirits, and the patient take credit for healing, the shaman is only with them. Native Americans won’t say they are shaman or they do the healing, we need to be humble or the spirits leave us. The patient does 70% of the work to get well, the creator does 20%, I do 10% which is barely worth mentioning. Most of what the patient does to get well, is make the firm decision to be well .”
http://www.healing-arts.org/mehl-madrona/
Ok this is like a mantra for me, thank you Lewis, because all my professional life, I struggle with this paradox, I am a healer, I do healing with people and I believe with all my heart people heal themselves and spirit heals. So.. when I dance as bear, illness goes from people to bear to eagle to fire to creator, I carry bear, people release illness. When I am a physician, I am with someone, I do what I do and they go home and heal. Drugs and surgery help but they do it. My first book Well Body Book was about a person healing themself.
http://www.amazon.com/Well-Body-Book-Michael-Samuels/dp/0394709691
When I teach art and healing I ask my students to do an art project to use art (visual, music, dance, word, ceremony) to heal themselves, others, community or earth. So.. I tell them .. heal yourself… I do not do it, you YOU do it. with….. spirit all your ancestors, spirit guides creator goddesses divine feminine and the art is the voice of all of this speaking through you my dears, ummm
Yes she does..
