The Four Sacred Medicines

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The Four Sacred Medicines A Brief Guide to the Spiritual, Physical, Emotional and Mental Healing Practices of Canada’s Aboriginal People

CLEANSE AND PURIFICATION: What’s in a Word? MEDICINE AND HEALING: Not only physical For the soul, spirit & mind ABORIGINAL: First Nations Métis Inuit CLEANSE AND PURIFICATION: Make clean Start new Goodness & positivity

The Medicine Wheel NORTH CAUCASIAN AIR WINTER WEST EAST ELDER AFRICAN MENTAL CEDAR EARTH FIRE The Medicine Wheel FALL SPRING ADULT INFANT/CHILD SOUTH PHYSICAL ABORIGINAL SPIRITUAL SAGE WATER TOBACCO SUMMER TEEN EMOTIONAL SWEETGRASS

CEDAR TOBACCO SAGE SWEETGRASS

CEDAR Purification Attracts positive energy, feelings, balance and emotions Vitamin C Used in smudging ceremony or in a tea

Tobacco Connects us to the spirit world Absorbs prayers and carries them to the spirit world Honors a promise or agreement Offer your thanks to the Creator and Mother Earth for their gifts Usually not smoked, unless for very special ceremonial occasions

Sweetgrass Cleansing Represents elements of virtue (bends but wont break) Virtue- wrong doing can be returned with kindness Braided before harvest to honor and respect Mother Earth

Sage Brings strength, wisdom and clarity of purpose Purifying Drives away negative energies

Smudging Ceremony A “smudge” is smoke used in ceremonial cleansing Stand in a circle (connection to all things) Traditional practice for some Aboriginal cultures Purifies and cleanses negative energy, feelings or thoughts from a person or a place Sacred medicines are burned in a shell (water) Sage, sweetgrass and cedar (earth) Burning (fire) Smoke (air) Person uses their hands to smudge areas of the body that need cleansing and purification (mind, heart, back, feet, eyes, mouth) Smell of smudge may stimulate brain to produce beta-endorphins which triggers a healing process Positive thoughts and prayers are carried to the creator in the smoke NOT UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS OR ALCOHOL NO PICTURES NO METAL (Jewelry, watches, lighters) RIGHT TO PASS

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