Native American Healing Meditations: Guided Practices to Invoke the Spirit of Healing

by Lewis Mehl-Madrona

In Native American tradition, everything has a spirit--even an illness or injury. "If we know how to listen," teaches Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, "our health issues will often reveal the secret to their own healing." On Native American Healing Meditations, Dr. Mehl-Madrona offers insights and practices to help you access the healing power of the spirit world. Drawing from his experience as both a medical doctor and a lifelong student of traditional Cherokee and Lakota medicine, he presents four guided practices based on indigenous wisdom: Finding Your Spirit Guide--calling upon your unseen allies and ancestors for protection, guidance, and healing energyHeroic Journey--rewrite your life story to one of greater health and happinessDialogue with the spirit of an illness--letting your health challenges tell you why they have come into your life and how to heal themTraveling to the Future--receiving valuable information from your older selfWhile Western medicine often sees healthcare as a battle against a disease or injury, Native American tradition holds that true healing comes through dialogue--with our afflictions, our spiritual allies, and our own innate wisdom. With gentle guidance and a rich understanding of tribal medicine, Dr. Mehl-Madrona offers you essential practices for tapping into the resources of the spirit world with Native American Healing Meditations.

Genres: Self Help, Audiobook

Audio CD

First published June 28, 2011

About the author

Lewis graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and trained in family medicine, psychiatry, and clinical psychology. He completed his residencies in family medicine and in psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He has been on the faculties of several medical schools, most recently as associate professor of family medicine at the University of New England. He continues to work with aboriginal communities to develop uniquely aboriginal styles of healing and health care for use in those communities. He is interested in the relation of healing through dialogue in community and psychosis. He is the author of Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, and Coyote Wisdom, a trilogy of books on what Native culture has to offer the modern world. He has also written Narrative Medicine, Healing the Mind through the Power of Story: the Promise of Narrative Psychiatry, and, his most recent book with Barbara Mainguy, Remapping Your Mind: the Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story.

Reviews

[Sonja · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to like it. His voice is seems forced and overly modulated. It is also a little choppy.

[Kimberly Ann · Rating 2 out of 5]

One half because I do not like his voice or narration: his voice is too purposely "soft"... as if I'm being spoken to in a manner that is falsely comforting and the manner of narration, he breaks/pauses in the midst of a sentence as if in writing he were using too many commas. He sounds forced and unnatural.

The man comes from Lakota (father), Trail of Tears (mother) & european heritage. He has spent time (since the 70's) w/ Native Elders learning about the Spiritual aspects of healing & psychology. He speaks about healing from the point of view of our "stories".

There are two discs each comprised of several parts.

Disc One: Introduction; Everything's a story; Circle and community; Our many selves; Four Directions song; Guided practice (Anywhere prayer); The world is a magical place; Guided practice (Finding your Spirit guide); and Guided practice (Heroic journey).

Disc Two: Introduction; Dialogue w/ the spirit of illness; Guided practice (Traveling tot the future); and The story of bluebird and coyote.

I'm sure I would have preferred to have read this, or been in his presence in order to learn more of what he has to teach.

[Michelle Mormul · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was so good. I listened to it twice. It gave me visions. The reader was the author and he said that you might just have a good imagination or you might actually have visions.

[Holly · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars. A salve for my weary soul.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

The thought that stays with me is the idea that we are made of stories. Life is story.
some helpful guidance on trance/meditation.

[Irene · Rating 2 out of 5]

audio +2 for 2 discs.