A Healers Lesson on Healing

So today as I Shuffled the Deck, before I could choose two cards dropped together, Tobacco and White Sage. For me those are very powerful cards that speak to healing, balance and honoring and accepting Blessings. Something that I was reminded of yesterday in a very unexpected way. I had a candle of Tobacco burning in my room and had just lit some sage to cleanse my space unknowingly opening a portal of a lesson that was going to be delivered to me up close and personal.

I as some may know or not have been recovering from Spinal Surgery that I had last summer. It has been a tough journey that I waited for over 40 years. What was accomplished was not only amazing but short of a miracle. I had to wait a long time for the right surgeons and the right technology, but all in all the outcome was well worth it. My spine is normal again and I have gained 2 1/2 inches back… so I am happy no more back pain. Oh but wait, fast forward and I am dealing with excruciating nerve pain in my legs as the nerves that were dead for so long…are now being reborn. So needless to say the journey has been one of patience which I do not have and readily admit, and the other of taking care of self… putting me first something I have rarely done in my life.

So yesterday was a lesson of trust and opening to what others can do to help. Enter Bonnie Lou FG Rodriguez and her husband and my friend, Walks with Thunder  https://walkswiththunder.com/.  I have not been acquainted with Bonnie Lou up close and personal, and to be quite honest other than people I have worked with or know I don’t let many people in that close. Doing the work I do sometimes not only pushes people away but draws people in like a moth to a flame, and sometimes that is not a good thing. So I put up barriers and protection plain and simple. Not to say Ms. Bonnie Lou was not to be trusted, I simply did not know her. However yesterday I was caught of guard as my phone rang on Messenger and when I answered it Bonnie Lou was on the other end.

It was not a particular good moment for me as I was feeling very ill because of my pain levels, to which she saw immediately when she asked me to turn my video on. When I saw myself which is not something I do, look at myself in the mirror…I was not happy at the image I saw. I was deathly gray in color looked withdrawn and well lets just say I didn’t look good. Immediately she offered to work on sending me healing and working to pull our the stuff that was not helping me. To help reset my balance. As she did so I could feel the energy swirling and felt dizzy and pressure in my head and sinus area popping. The more I let my walls down, the more I trusted the source, the more what she was doing was working. Lesson received and noted.

I have also received Theta healing from another friend over the course of this journey from Julie Sullivan, an also amazing Healer. Again it is about opening up and trusting. So I learned a powerful lesson yet again. I am grateful and thankful to have these ad others like them in my life.

So I have to pause and give thanks to these wonderful people who have done healing work on me over this past year… to all of you who have put up prayers and sent healing energy to me. For those of you that do not believe that this works… I encourage you to open to the possibilities, to trust in the Universe as it will provide all that is needed at just the right moment.

So my prayer for us all today is that we simply open to all those possibilities, that we learn to trust even when we are possibly at our weakest moment… for us all to remember there are good people out there that are willing to help and be there when we need them to be perhaps as we have been there for others. So as we do our rituals, as perhaps we light some sage and tobacco to cleanse and offer prayer… we add some for ourselves to be healed and brought to balance as is needed.

White Sage is the sacred herb of the West, used in smudging to purify, and to send prayers to the Creator. White Sage  speaks all about the Sacred Within each of us!  We need to take the time to honor that and all that is Sacred in and around our lives. Time to recognize it and send thanks and gratitude up to the Creator and Ancestors, keeping us strong of mind, heart, body and keeping our intents positive.  White Sage shows us that it is time to change the path of the negatives that surround us in the world today by shielding ourselves with positives! Sometimes we need to look deep within ourselves to see the destructive cycles that we have placed ourselves in most of the time without even realizing it, and then set about releasing them. Thus changing our very thought patterns. Learn to look in the mirror and see the reflection understanding that we are in deed human and have flaws. But that those flaws do not mean we are unlovable, incapable, unwanted, rather they mean we have opportunity to grow, to expand to better ourselves, and heal.

Begin by giving yourself the love you deserve… Self Love. All the time understanding and knowing that the Creator and the Ancestors that walked before us support and assist us if we are open to it. We simply have to believe and have faith. Life does not work by pushing the “Easy” button… it is all about the journey and the process we go through to make us whole, balanced and walking in positives.

White Sage  speaks to honoring family,  friends, all people and creatures that have walked with you and that have yet to enter your path. Honor your Guides, the Spirit that assist you each day. Honor the Elementals, the Directions, the Great Mother Earth and Father Sky. Honor Grandmother Moon and Grandfather Sun.

This is what the Sacred Sage reminds us of, this is the tone it sets for us to follow.  Remember it is not owned by anyone, it is one of the Great Mother Earth’s many gifts to us and it is up to all of us to keep all that is Sacred safe and thriving.

White Sage assists in clearing our energy fields, driving out the negative and strengthening the positives. White Sage is held Sacred because of it’s effective purifying energies. It heals by bringing us back to balance cleansing the body and mind of negative spirits and impurities. Leaves are at times burned to drive away bad spirits, evil influences, bad dreams, bad thoughts, and illness.

Tobacco is the sacred herb of the East, the direction of Grandfather Sun, Eagle, and the Creator. We send our prayers up in its smoke, and Eagle takes them to the Creator. Tobacco is sacred, therefore it is to be respected and comes with responsibility to use it properly. It is both a powerful tool of healing and honoring our spirit and our Ancestors that walked before us.

The Anishinaabe use a form of Tobacco known as kinikinik, or a red willow mix. Because it opens the door to the Creator, When Tobacco is used to make smoke, it is one of the most sacred of plants for Native people. Tobacco is also one of the four sacred plants. It represents the Eastern Direction and the mind.

The Elders say that tobacco is used to connect the Spirit World as the plant’s very roots penetrate deeply into the the Great Mother Earth, and its smoke rises high into the sky to reach the Creator’s gaze. This plant is highly respected and highly honored. The gifting of tobacco is a beautiful way the people show respect and honor to others. Ceremonies using tobacco invokes a connection to universal energies and to the Creator, a connection made between earthly and spiritual realms is to be considered sacred.

Prayer, Offerings, Purification and Respect... remember these for meanings as you use the Sacred Tobacco plant.

I am bear Medicinewalker and I am dedicated to Educating and sharing the lessons, teachings and culture I have been taught by my Elders and journey with the World. It is not enough merely to learn the ways of our Elders. We must honor those traditions by sharing and educating the World. Inspiring others …Inspiring our Youth. Through the Music… the Arts…the stories…”

Blessings to You All,

~ bear

Music by Chris Ferre and is available at http://www.chrisferree.com  and on Itunes

Earth Dance – Chris Ferree as part of the Wolf and the bear Network 2020