Native Addiction Healing

Send a text In this episode, I explore the connection between the disconnect from wisdom, truth, and clear vision and how this disconnection contributes to the pain that leads to addictive behaviors. This disconnection stems from the widespread cultural genocide experienced by Native Peoples in North America and other colonized populations worldwide, particularly through the boarding school system...

Send a text Black Elk was an Oglala Lakota holy man who spoke about many topics in his book, "Black Elk Speaks." In it, he discusses the Oneness of the Universe. From this Oneness comes what is true, and what is true has the presence of peace. It is the experience of peace that validates what is true. From stillness and being in the present moment, troubled people find a deep sense of pe...

Send a text In this short episode I take a narrow look at the nature of trauma existing within the mind, which exist within the spiritual realm, our true nature of being. The spiritual realm is the causation level resulting in the physical formation of things and behaviors. We should understand the conditioning of the mind through the human experience that offten results in painful illusionary tra...

Send a text In this episode I discuss skills to help prevent someone from taking the next drink or use drugs. These skills are commonly taught and practiced in recovery programs. I focus on two primary skills of boundary setting and avoiding triggers. Healthy boundaries protect us and avoiding triggers helps prevent thoughts drinking or using drugs along with avoiding cravings. 

Send a text Change often occurs only when we feel enough pain. For many people the pain experienced through living a life of addiction to alcohol or drugs or any other addiction behaviors may lead to somebody saying to themselves I must change. Whether this change may come through a formal treatment center or through a self-help group such as A.A., the most powerful form of change will always be f...

Send a text In this episode, I explore the origins of pain that contribute to substance abuse in Native American communities. I examine the core source of this pain as a disconnect from a fundamental truth about oneness with the universe.  This concept is expressed in the words of a renowned Sioux spiritual leader, Black Elk, who states: "The first peace, which is the most important, is that...

Send a text The remembrance of wholeness, oneness is within each of us and is accessible by way of stillness of the mind. If oneness is the truth as expressed by holly men through out time and around the world, then just about all of our beliefs, thinking, and experiences here is misinterpretation of what's real. If almost all of man is perceiving wrongly it still results in illusion which st...

Send a text Somethings are understood to work well and lead to healing at the deepest level. In this episode I weave together Native cultures source of spiritual awakening, healing, and the evidence base practice of Mindfulness. The Truth that corrects perception and provides a deep peace is within everyone, we just have to want it, reach for it, and practice it daily. Educating oneself on stillne...

Send a text How could problems continue to exist when we learn how to release the problem completely and replace it with a strong validating peace of mind. We don't try to fix effects, it will take your energy and have little results that don't last, we work with the causation of problems that truly only exist in the mind. Facts don't upset us, our interpretation of facts upset us. 

Send a text To deal with any problem it's helpful to better understand the nature of the problem and possible solutions. In this episode I opened up the nature of addiction and the best possible solutions, as I have come to understand both. There is no one size fits all solution to any perceived problem, perhaps there is only what we are able to or are ready to comprehend at the current time...

Send a text What is wrongly perceived typically results in an Illusionary state of being, this could happen to individuals and almost always is the state of being for society as it perceives what is reality. This could be painful or a desired experience. What is true cannot be learned or unlearned, we can't acquire what we already are nor does illusions have any effect on truth. We can realiz...

Send a text How could we recognize illusions when it's all we ever seen in our human experience? We experience the absence of love of peace and yet we refuse to become aware of the true nature of spirit existing in complete peace and happiness.  Through the steady practice of stillness of the mind do we realize the truth of things beyond words. 

Send a text The most powerful form of healing involves looking at our miss-perceived illusionary thoughts in the presence of truth. The truth of our self and our nature is 100% unaccusable to our personality, ego, self, that we think we are. In stilling, quieting the mind, where our self-talk, the ego, continuously speaks so loudly, we begin to look at our thoughts and access healing, the unlearni...

Send a text We all have a conditioned mind set heavily influenced by our environment starting from our inner utero experiences until this present day. Oppressive and traumatizing environmental experiences typically result in a mindset of victimhood; guilt; feelings of not being enough; insecurity; shame; unloved; fear; codependency and addiction behaviors etc. This mindset fights for your attentio...

Send a text Addiction behaviors are an attempt to make things better and find relief from pain. In this episode I look at addiction from the causation level of the mind, the nature of pain derived from a conditioned state of mind resulting from the human experience. How could we recognize peace within us when all we ever known is the non-stop chatter we all hear in our mind. We have a choice. 

Send a text Beyond Forgiveness:  Forgiveness is said to be one of the most powerful healing things we could do for ourselves, yet we lack a fuller understanding of how to do this at a deeper level. We could learn how to forgive in a mindful way beyond our thinking mind. Our thinking mind would rather haves keep our wounds, victimhood, and blame for others. 

Send a text The greatest form of healing is beyond anything humans can develop, understand or provide because the human mind's faulty belief system and rationale are so prominent, it covers up what is true. For this reason, stillness is a required state of mind to access our fundamental truth of being, a truth that has been within all of us since the beginning. Healing occurs within a shift t...

Send a text In this episode new ideas on how to approach the methamphetamine problem are provided. The World Health Organization states, "The methamphetamine problem is a trauma problem." Healing and preventative work with the young by providing internal resources based in mindfulness practices as a way of life, is needed. 

Send a text In this episode I take a look at trauma as it relates to addiction, effects on the body and mental functions. Next, I speak on trauma existing only as a perception making an illusionary experience within individuals and society when compared to the truth of oneness. 

Send a text We believe our intellect, education and experience provide a great contribution to healing the mind, spiritual awakening and overall health. In one respect it does, on the conscious level to reason and question things, that's needed, and it provides good benefits, but then our conscious level of mind can only take us so far. There comes a point when we realize our thinking mind be...

Send a text We pray a lot and that's ok. In prayer we are often praying to... and asking for..., in other words we are speaking not listening and often defining our needs or problems using the vary mind that results in our needs and our problems. Our needs and problems are far from our comprehension. The standard reasoning, we are conditioned with will continue to perpetuate stress and pain....

Send a text This episode provides some thought on acquiring and maintaining a sober family. It provides some tools to be used by the family to not only support a sober home, but techniques and concepts related a spiritual based practices for overall health of the family. 

Send a text In this episode I open up concepts in healing from a cultural perspective based in the spiritual realm. I draw from the wisdom of Black Elk, he was a holly man of the Oglala Lakota Sioux (1863-1950).  

Send a text In this episode, The First Peace, is referring to Black Elk's book, "Black Elk Speaks" were he states, "The first peace which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe..." In addiction healing we should be concerned with the only place where sickness could exist, t...

Send a text This episode takes a deeper look in to illusions in contrast to proposed concepts of Oneness of Spirit as found within Native American and Native Peoples around the world spiritual beliefs. This episode does reference quotes from the book, "Black Elk Speaks." This is episode 2 on Illusions.