The Medicine Wheel in Recovery

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatric, Behavioral Health.

The Medicine Wheel is a sacred symbol to many NAI for it embodies many native concepts and teachings. For many NAI (and non NAI), it has been used successfully in Addiction recovery work. Most folks are familiar with AA's 12 Steps. For many NAI, AA is found lacking, non native, and fails to connect with them as a people. The Medicine Wheel has been a most welcome alternative to AA.

This website does a very nice job in laying it out.

http://open-mind.org/Wheel.htm

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The Medicine Wheel is a sacred symbol to many NAI for it embodies many native concepts and teachings. For many NAI (and non NAI), it has been used successfully in Addiction recovery work. Most folks are familiar with AA's 12 Steps. For many NAI, AA is found lacking, non native, and fails to connect with them as a people. The Medicine Wheel has been a most welcome alternative to AA.

This website does a very nice job in laying it out.

http://open-mind.org/Wheel.htm

The Medicine Wheel ( or the Cross Roads ) is the primary centering piece for all things in life. From it we have the four directions to balancing our lives. When one point of the Medicine Wheel is out of balance, an individual will be sick. The four balance points are Emotional, Physical, Mental, and Spiritual. With these points the NAI live in harmony with the land and others around them.

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the medicine wheel is utilized differently by different tribes. as a cherokee elder once said, "the medicine wheel brings together the energies of all creations and all our relations here on mother earth in a simple way that allows the complexity of life to dissipate from our busy minds."

the cherokee medicine wheel includes the seven cherokee clans as they relate to society, religion, politics as well as personal relationships. the number seven (7) is a sacred number. and, each clan represented by a color. an expression of life, we give thanks for all things bestowed and all things learned as well celebrating life itself.

(exerpt from j.t. garrett, ed. d., member of the eastern band of cherokee indians)

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The Medicine Wheel is a sacred symbol to many NAI for it embodies many native concepts and teachings. For many NAI (and non NAI), it has been used successfully in Addiction recovery work. Most folks are familiar with AA's 12 Steps. For many NAI, AA is found lacking, non native, and fails to connect with them as a people. The Medicine Wheel has been a most welcome alternative to AA.

This website does a very nice job in laying it out.

http://open-mind.org/Wheel.htm

I was going to look for this article, but open-mind.org is apparently a website for searching apartment rentals in Europe.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatric, Behavioral Health.

Interesting, you are correct. That was the link then...but since from then to now, it links elsewhere to that other site. How odd. Any way, the info on the original post remains informative and relevant. Thanks for the update.

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Specializes in ED, OR, SAF, Corrections.

Thunderwolf - is this the site you were referring to?

http://www.nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/649/the-wellbriety-medicine-wheel

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When I saw this under "what's new", and saw Thunderwolf's name next to it, I thought s/he had suddenly reappeared! All of Thunderwolf's posts are at least 2 years old, so I don't know if this member is still around.

I've read several of Tw's posts, and his/her comments on Native American views are fascinating, but nothing recent :crying2:

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