How Can the Medicine Wheel help us?

 

The Medicine Wheel is a place to pray, meditate, contemplate, and strengthen our connection to life and the universe. It helps us understand ourselves and our relationships with all creation, other beings, plants, animals, humans and Spirits.

Each of us is deeply connected to everything that exists and therefore we are a critical part of the sacred Medicine Wheel. Because of this interconnectedness, what we do to other life forms, we are doing to ourselves. This is the Natural Law, the Law of One!

The Medicine Wheel can give us visions for our Life. True visions benefit all our relations on Mother Earth, not just our selves, but all beings in all of the Creation.

Each of the seven directions of the Medicine Wheel has a lesson for each one of us individually to know. We must spend time in each of the quarters of the Wheel to know what those lessons are. It is important that we do not avoid the teachings and lessons of any one of the directions however difficult they might be for us. It is equally important that we don’t become entrapped in the energy of any one of the directions and never move away from it. Each has a dark side as well as a light side.

Each direction of the Medicine Wheel serves as a mirror and is intended to show us what each individual needs to know about ourselves in relation to the entire universe. The purpose of this is to help us return to the home of the True Self in the center of our own internal Wheel of being.

We need to spend time each day understanding where we are on the wheel and in what lesson we are being taught. There are no bad lessons, each of us goes through what we must to become strong and to know how to find the path that takes us back to the center of the True Self. It will be different for each individual and we cannot be lead there by following another human being. We will be shown the direction we must travel, but we must travel it ourselves.

When we spend time meditating within the lessons of the Medicine Wheel we learn that all things are placed in your circle for you. We are all connected and the Creator knows what guidance you will need. Nothing comes to us by chance. Who you know, be it two legged, four legged, crawlers, swimmers, winged ones, standing people, or stone people, are here to help you on your path. But you must take time to know them or they will not know you. There are thousands of Spirits who will touch your lives in one way or another each day. It is up to you to find the lessons in each.

By connecting with these spirits we can learn a lot about who we are within Self, and how we connect with all of Creation. By filling ourselves with a sense of Spirit, we connect and tune into our ability to nurture and love ourselves and others, and Mother Earth. The more we nourish our Spirit, the more doors open so that more guidance can be given. We learn to honor the world of Spirit for the guidance we receive. We find the inner child again and learn to laugh and play. As we grow older we loose our concept of "play" and take ourselves and our lives to seriously.

Megwiich for listening to these humble words.

Manylodges