Vivian is sick and tired of feeling like crap. She wonders why she can’t trust her body. She’s afraid to leave the house, because she’s not sure when the next ‘attack’ will happen. She feels embarrassed and betrayed. 

But recently she’s realized that she abandoned her body connection years ago. As a young girl, a family ‘friend’ began to sexually abuse her. At the time, and for many years later, she felt there was no one she could go to — or trust.

For Vivian, the abuse seemed tolerable because that connection to her body was gone. She wants to reconnect. She is ready to begin a new relationship. Which for her will mean not pushing through pain and ignoring what her body is telling her, not allowing herself to engage in eating things that she knows will have negative effects.

What If You Could Really LOVE Your Body?

Over the course of the next few weeks we will continue to outline how you can achieve, maintain or improve your health by using the ancient wisdom of the Native American medicine wheel. If you missed Part 1 click here to start your journey. So how do you connect abundant health to the medicine wheel? 

The basic Native American medicine wheel is usually drawn as a circle with four equal quadrants that look like a times or plus symbol in the center. Then specific colors fill each space, depending upon the lesson or significance designed by the tribe or nation. For more information on how the Native American medicine wheel works click here.

Become Consciously Aware That You Have Choice in Your Life (East)

Be mindful of your environment: everything you think, say and do are all part of your ability to change your health.

The Three Arrows of Power

• The thoughts you think;
• The words you speak; and
• The actions you take.

What Actions Can You Take to Produce a Healthy Environment?

The use of non-toxic cleaners, fresh (rather than processed) foods, or drinking filtered water – can make a HUGE difference in your life. It is said that the journey of a thousand miles, one must begin with the first step.

Balance and the Law of Nature (South)

It is important to observe the laws of Nature because of your energetic connection. If plants, air or water should disappear, so will humanity. The Law of Nature is the same as the Law of Physics — nurture the Earth and she will last; pollute her … and she will die.

When you think about it, ALL things are connected. Within every human body are all the same elements that exist within our sacred Earth Mother. You have salt water outside your cells; fresh water within your cells. Within your life you experience the same cycle of seasons. And you have the same minerals in your body as within the Earth.

In planting crops, you can either deplete the soil or work harmoniously with it by rotating the crops or growing plants that strengthen each other.

Life for Life

So focus on eating ‘life for life.’ Make it a point to eat live foods, predominantly green foods every single day. Strive for at least 75% of the nutrition you have to be in that category.

Your Relationship with Water and Emotional Currents (West)

Water is the element of the west and has the power to wear or break stone. It carries you to distant shores. Water teaches the importance of change, and when used regularly can save your life.

Have you ever noticed how some people seem to maintain a youthful appearance, while others seem to age prematurely? Well, that smooth youthful appearance comes from rediscovering a simple habit … drink plenty of water every day because water is necessary for joints, breathing, waste elimination, circulation, and healthy skin.

Your Relationship with Wind and Breath (North)

Air on the medicine wheel is in the north and, although it isn’t often seen with the naked eye, has great power. It can uproot a tree or cool your brow.

It shifts and changes at will and in the right moment — merged with the scent of pine or food — guides you with anticipation to a new experience.

Through your breathing and movement you bring oxygen into your entire body and energize your bloodstream. When your blood has plenty of oxygen in it, when your tissues have a lot of oxygen, it sustains a healthy internal environment.

How does this connect to the Native American Medicine Wheel?

It begins in the east with your conscious awareness, where the new day dawns. When you awaken your spirit and are consciously aware that you have CHOICE in your life, then things begin to change. So the thoughts that you think can either empower or disempower you.

As you move to the south on the medicine wheel, this is the element of the Earth and it has to do with nutrition and food. You can see how important it is to make conscious choices about how you feed your body.

Moving on to the west, the element of water … this is the place of navigating through the emotional currents of your life as well as hydrating your body properly. Your body is comprised of a high percentage of water and you need to maintain a healthy level of hydration.

Finally, as you move to the north, this is the element of wind or air. It has to do with the thoughts you think, as well as oxygenating your system with proper breathing and exercise and movement.

What If Abundant Health Was Within Your Grasp … NOW?

If you’d like to reclaim your sacred power and experience abundant health for yourself through the practical teachings of the Native American medicine wheel, you are invited to join us as we gently guide you through a powerful program to help you Manifest Abundant Health.

Live on Purpose ... Change the World!

Gakina-awiiya (We Are All Related),

Founders, HowToLiveOnPurpose.com
Creators of the Life Purpose Quest - Seven Rites of Passage
Guides and Mentors for Self-Mastery and Personal Transformation

"Teach us love, compassion and honor ... that we may heal the Earth and heal each other." - Ojibwe

Audrey is an excellent example of the unique and systematic way the medicine wheel works, and the powerful impact applying the ancient teachings can have on your health and wellness.

She loves horses, but after a serious ankle injury, Audrey was told by her doctor that she would need to wear a brace and she would always have pain. She had become accustomed to it, relying on daily pain medication and never leaving home without the brace.

She’d resigned herself to the idea that as she was getting older, she’d just have to put up with it.

But What If Abundant Health Was Within Your Grasp?

In less than 30 days she attained remarkable results. One day, Audrey walked downtown without her brace. But that’s not all! Without dieting and with absolutely NO sense of deprivation, she lost 15 lbs and wore her favorite capris, which hadn’t fit in quite awhile. She felt marvelous!

She’s since been able to put the brace away for good, and no longer has a need for pain medication. Audrey sleeps like a baby and says she feels stronger, healthier and more energized than she has in years!

Now, we’re not saying that you will get the same results, but what if you could eliminate just one of your symptoms?

Would That Be Something You’d Be Interested In?

Over the course of the next month we will outline how you can achieve, maintain or improve your health by using the ancient wisdom of the Native American medicine wheel. So how do you connect abundant health to the medicine wheel?

The basic Native American medicine wheel is usually drawn as a circle with four equal quadrants that look like a times or plus symbol in the center. Then specific colors fill each space, depending upon the lesson or significance designed by the tribe or nation. For more information on how the Native American medicine wheel works click here.

Make Peace With Your Body (West)

The first step that you will want to take in your journey to abundant health is making peace with your body. Making peace with your body means accepting responsibility that your physical being is composed of judgments that have manifested into your interpretation of what a perfect body is. The fact is, the ‘perfect’ body doesn’t exist. It is an illusion created by society — to manipulate society. Now that you know the truth, you can relax and begin to appreciate the unique and original body that you have.

Our Native elders teach that everything is about relationship. So it is important to begin with the internal relationship, and lay the groundwork for calling in Abundant Health. Without this, it is very hard to sustain health because there is too much stress in the body.

Gain the Courage to be Healthy (East)

It takes a lot of courage to DECIDE to be healthy. So many people today are obsessed with their body image: How do they look? How much do they weigh? How do their clothes fit? Do they have a ‘beach body’?

Often people are caught up in JUST the physical appearance of their body, but the commitment to be TRULY healthy — to claim abundant health and wellness — is something that takes a LOT of courage. And it takes stepping OUT of a relationship that keeps you feeling separate from your body.

If you’re dealing with a health condition, whether it’s life-threatening or what’s been called permanently debilitating… whatever it is, that’s not something you did consciously and said, “Gee, I really want to be sick.”

That’s not the way that it works. But that doesn’t mean that you haven’t somehow cooperated or participated in the creation of it.

So the turning point for many is accepting responsibility. For a long time in my life I didn’t like that word because I felt that it implied some sort of blame. But at that point in my life, when the ‘rubber hit the road,’ I had to come to an understanding that it was simply my “ability to respond” … so now I hyphenate it (response-ability).

Your Body Longs To Be Loved (South)

It’s a scientific fact that people long to be loved. From the day you were born, you long to be touched, held … and cared for. You need to start accepting yourself, loving yourself, forgiving yourself.

And when you start accepting yourself and giving yourself the love you really crave and long for from others, everything starts to turn around. Rather than the other way, instead of seeking that from outside, if you start doing it from the inside miraculous things begin to happen.

The first part of connecting abundant health to the Native American medicine wheel is about creating a gentle, loving, nurturing, nourishing relationship with yourself, with your body. And realize that longing you have to be loved is something YOU can provide.

Do You Have a Clear Vision for Abundant Health? (North)

A vision isn’t just a picture or concept of how you’d like things to be, it’s so much more than that!

It literally communicates to not only your inner world, but the outer world, what you are calling forth. It activates a powerful connection between you and the Universe.

It’s an appeal to your Higher Self, your higher Intelligence. It’s an appeal to the Four Sacred Directions and the Native American medicine wheel. And it’s a call that you are committed to become something greater than what you currently are.

How Does This Connect to the Native American Medicine Wheel?

As was stated before, the first step towards achieving abundant health is making peace with your body. This is represented in the West on the Native American medicine wheel. Honesty resides in the sacred direction of the West, and by being honest with yourself and realizing that you are blaming and shaming yourself, you will be able to forgive yourself and ask for your body’s forgiveness.

Courage resides in the sacred direction of the East on the medicine wheel. It takes a lot of courage to decide to be abundantly healthy. By choosing to be abundantly healthy you are using courage to see a brighter, healthier future for yourself.

Love resides in the sacred direction of the South on the medicine wheel. Fulfill your longing to be loved by loving and accepting yourself — just as you are.

Wisdom resides in the sacred direction of the North on the Native American medicine wheel, which you access by consciously creating a bigger vision for your abundant health.

Your Body is the Vessel That Holds The Key to Your Past, Present and Future

“Just as the Earth is home to all living things on our planet,
so is the Body home to your soul during this earthly journey.”

– The TallTrees

If you’d like to experience for yourself the practical teachings of the Native American medicine wheel, you are invited to join us as we gently guide you through a powerful program to help you Manifest Abundant Health.

Live on Purpose … Change the World!

Gakina-awiiya (We Are All Related),

Founders, HowToLiveOnPurpose.com
Creators of the Life Purpose Quest – Seven Rites of Passage
Guides and Mentors for Self-Mastery and Personal Transformation

“Teach us love, compassion and honor … that we may heal the Earth and heal each other.” – Ojibwe