AS POWERFUL AS A DEAD CHICKEN
"I have studied Native American
healing for more than 20 years, and some people say I am a shaman. I'm
reluctant, though, to claim the honorific for myself. One Apache shaman I
revered told me, "I'm about as powerful as a dead chicken." At first I
thought he was joking, or being modest; then I began to see why he was
slow to take credit for healing. "The patient must do 70% of the work of
getting well," he said. "The Creator does 20% and I do 10, which is
barely worth mentioning." Most of what a patient can do to get well, he
told me, is to make the firm decision to BE well. This is where the
medicine person steps in, by taking seriously a vision of the sick
person as healthy, when no-one else can or does. He or she creates with a
patient a shared story of a mutual spiritual quest."
From 'Coyote Medicine' by Lewis Mehl-Medrona
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