North American Aboriginal Healing
Aboriginal people across Canada practice
different ways of healing than conventional
Western medicine. They focus on the
whole person. When they look at the
whole person, they look at 4 parts,
the physical part (your body), the
emotional part (your feelings), the
spiritual part (the power outside
of yourself) and the intellectual
part (your mind).
When you are seeking healing, according
to Aboriginal tradition, you focus
on each part of yourself and try to
get them balanced. Also, Aboriginal
tradition teaches that healing happens
in community. This means that healing
happens when people try to heal their
relationships with the world around
them (with their families, friends,
the environment, & the Great Spirit).
There are a lot of things that Aboriginal
communities do to help people heal
the 4 parts of themselves. Here are
some examples:
- sweat lodges
- baths
- Medicinal herbs (tobacco, cedar,
sage & sweet grass)
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