Shamanic Four Directions for Healing Spirit, Emotions Body Mind

Four Directions for Healing: Spirit, Emotions, Body, Mind

By Lewis Mehl-Madrona: “Remapping Your Mind” p. 5

Coyote Healing p. 99

1. Mind

2. Body

3. Spirit

4. Community

5. Emotions and Relationships

6. Safety

7. Social determinants of health (social sustenance) Well-being – The Center (Our Hearts)

Medicine- Wheel Associations

1. East: Spirit

   1. Land and place of Spiritual connections and the power of Spirit to sustain our lives and that we are never alone – Guidance and Direction is always available

   2. Connection to all things and underlying unity

   3. Inner Vision

   4. Springtime and The beginning of Journeys, of New Life (infants and children)

   5. The development of the Self as an individual

   6. Where we learn to share

   7. Baby animals and the soaring Eagle

      
      

2. South: Emotions, Relationships and Family

   1. Land and place of Emotions and Feelings – we learn to Ground them in Mother Earth

   2. Innocence of youth and adolescence, Childlike Awe and Wonder, Curiosity and Joy

   3. Faith, Trust, Honesty and Humility

   4. (Re)Establishing Relationships with Family and Community 

   5. Summer (Northern Hemisphere)

   6. Animals of Kindness and Compassion: Deer, Mouse and Horse.

      
      

3. West: Our Body

   1. Land and place of our Physical Body

   2. Activating the Inner-Healer

   3. Cycles of Life and Death

   4. Nurturing and sustenance of our body and environment and economy

   5. Winter

   6. Bear

   7. Retreating, hibernation, resting the body, introspection, the Unconscious.

      
      

4. North: Mind and Community

   1. Place of Wisdom and Community

   2. Develop Intellect, Knowledge and Wisdom

   3. Recognize our Beliefs and Values and our perceptual filters

   4. Tasks of putting Knowledge and Caring into Action – Payback

   5. Place of our Elders and Ancestors who share their Wisdom

   6. Place of the Nation, our Political environment

   7. Season: Fall

   8. Buffalo