Spiritual-cultural concepts translated from the Dineh/Navajo language into appropriate therapeutic English descriptions to convey universal health and healing concepts from Dineh/Navajo oral tradition under guidance from Patricia Anne Davis, MA Choctaw-Navajo/Chahta-Dineh
Category Archives: Living the Loving Way
Living the loving way, as a way of life, is hozhooji in the Navajo language. “Hozho” is an all encompassing concept of holiness and wholeness where there are not competing collectivities representing competing ideologies. “ji” is to sing some one back to health. All healing ceremonies sing a person back to health.
Keep in mind that beyond temporal time and physical space the unifying principles of the holy beings who are the Guiders of humanity are available when intention from Humane Beings is invoked by one’s own soul star interconnected with their “diamond crystal soul”, true SELF or light body; and interconnected with creator and divine creation.
We are a spark of divinity as an “individualized” soul, so we are a microcosm of the macrocosm. We are in the universe and the universe is within us. In my writings, I have called this inteconnectedness holographic holistic.
Therefore, all we have to do is intend, visualize, affirm a divine plan of love and peace, in order to manifest our thinking and use it for what it is for in order to participate – do our part as our sacred SELF; our individuality within the whole.
You are not alone. The whole creation and Karmic beings support your intention as it is one with the unifying principles of all spiritual work to serve creator by serving humaneness on earth.
In the Goldstar meditation we are asked to connect our soulstar to that of the lightbeings in the mountains near where we are. The mountains I know of people climb them– so technically they are not free of human interference, right?
There are many sacred places where holy being “reside” and mountains are such places. Pristine mountains are ideally not polluted by humans. However, by connecting with wiilderness places that are becoming polluted by humans like noise and trash, etc. we are helping to clear them from continuing such pollutions by changing the thoughtforms of people who do such things without awareness
When doing spiritual work of cleansing and purifying energies, it is clearing maladaptive thoughtforms back into the light and out of its dense stagnant thoughtforms that keep people spiritually asleep. When we remember our selves as a sacred-SELF, we can make corrections that may seem small, but they make large changes in cooperation and collaboration with people who also aware and awake.
Your commitment to serving in the world will guide you to people who are inspired to guide you.
You also will grow into more confidence about what you see and know in order to discern why, what and how to go about doing your whole duty. A sincere commitment to daily Esoteric meditation, which is a listening to your own soul technique, will anchor and align you with congruent thinking, your creative imagination and intuition.
1. Sit in the chair with both feet flat on the floor and your spine straight.
2. Place your hands over your solar plexus with the right hand over the left hand over the solar plexus in the curve of the ribcage. Place your left thumb over your right thumb in low point of the sternum.
3. Close your eyes and allow your breathing to become rhythmic by counting the in-breath and the out-breath. Remember that the whole universe has the same in-breath and out-breath vibration and impulse.
Part Two: Connect, Intend, Visualize, Affirm and Manifest
Altai Rainbow
When whole-brain thinking is flowing spontaneously and synergetically, you can take the focus of your thinking 8-10 inches above your head to the gold soul star. You can sense it, you can feel it, and you can see this luminous, iridescent gold.
Focusing on your soul star then, say an affirmation of your choosing, such as:
I am the divine soul, I am a divine light, I am divine love, I am divine joy.
From there, the group proceeds clockwise, connecting soul star to soul star. Imagine looking down at the circle from above. Connect your soul star to the soul star of the person who is sitting directly clockwise to you.
Practice feeling as if you were fishing and had caught a fish—feel the tug. You will eventually feel the tug when connecting to the next person’s soul star. When the circle of light is complete, the group raises a five pointed gold star above the location at which you are gathered.
Raise the group’s five pointed gold star above the house or place at which you are gathered .
Raise the star to connect with the mountains around your area where the illuminated beings live. The regional soul star is connected to the illuminated beings in the surrounding mountains. They live in places where there is no pollution or human interference.
From the five-pointed gold star above your region, see the rainbow extending across, connecting to the Altai Mountains and the people there.
Connect with the intention that the Fellowship will take with them, between Mother Earth and Father Sky, where the Fellowship has walked the distance on the physical plane to intend, to visualize, and to affirm. To affirm is to know the truth of this work, to trust the truth of this work.
And then the manifestation is the action plan of all that has been planned, of all the resources that have been offered for this purpose.
Give gratitude for all the resources that have been offered for this purpose.
Rejoice in the liberation of all the souls that are being held in bondage and slavery, who are ready to remember and awaken and reclaim their inherent goodness and divinity and to know themselves.
Realize that we are all equally a precious child of creator.
We can cooperate and collaborate for our collective survival on Earth to renew, to restore the Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. We renew and restore, not only in our physical body, but also in our emotive body as well as the mental and spiritual within us.
And then in the planet Earth, we “re-ignite the fire” of this intention for the future generations. If we take care of the Earth, Water, Fire, and Air, then we will be taking care of ourselves in the future.
We interconnect with the divine to affirm that we have heard and understand the intent for humanity to become humane.
By speaking it into the etheric network and having witnessed, we have undone all the obstacles that have been hidden and have caused delay and suffering.
We manifest in the daily activities as we invite and engage
those who are interested,
and are committed,
and who will join us in
putting our thinking into its appropriate and proper use: for the healing of humanity.
Part Three: Self Replenishment and healing. Grounding and Anchoring the High Frequency energies into the Earth.
As of July 30, the Altai Fellowship is now steeped in the High Frequency energies and transmitting to those who are grounding the meditation. This energy will continue to increase in intensity throughout the lunar waxing and peak with a global event on August 13th with participating grounding groups worldwide. To learn more and participate, please visit: http://altaifellowship.wordpress.com/
Patricia Anne Davis talks about how to choose the path of healing and abundance. As a Navajo wisdom-keeper, she has been initiated to help people to walk the path of goodness and beauty according to the natural order.
Transcript below.
[Navajo greeting] All my relatives, my name is Patricia Anne Davis. My maternal grandparents are the Mississippi band of Choctaw. My paternal grandparents are the Kea’ahni of the Navajo nation.
I have been stewarding a body of knowledge for a lifetime.
I am the 11th child of 12 and the youngest daughter of an authentic medicine person who gave over 40 years of healing services to 3 generations of people. He initiated me into his healing ways when I was 8 years old.
I would like to describe this process and simplify it by saying that it is a healing process that leads to curing. I have been speaking and teaching and healing people for many, many years as well as working in health and human services: in behavioral health in and mental health and social services . We can call it wellness restoration. It leads to curing which is a re-balancing. It is not a coping process.
All healing takes place in thinking.
There are only two intentions, one is destructive and death producing choices and one is constructive and life affirming choices. So when we think about our own ways of giving information to our body, we can give our body wrong information or we can give our body correct information. So, the healing process is very simple in that way. It is a decision.
It is a decision to say yes to constructive and life affirming choices and to say no to destructive and death producing choices.
There is no secret, there is nothing hidden. Healing is beautiful and profound. Healing takes place at a level of communication with our sacred identity, our sacred self. We are all a precious child of creator because our body is made of Earth, 98% Water, Fire is temperature and this Air is the holy creator’s breath.
So, I understand that the perfect peace and love of creator is radiated to the physical sun which radiates to the plant kingdom and that’s how we are breathing oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide. It is the miracle of photosynthesis. And in this way, the Earth, Water Fire and Air which makes up our body, is in harmony and balance with the Earth, Water Fire and Air in the universe.
So we are in it and it is within us.
To remember and awaken to this true knowledge is the whole purpose of ceremony. It is to identify the obstacles and root cause that keep us in an out-of-balance condition. When we undo thinking that tells our body wrong information, Like all of the diseases that occur in our body, it is only energy, stagnant energy. And where [the energy] goes and what happens when we name it and identify it tells us exactly what the spiritual lesson is.
For example, Cancer is the profound need to change one’s thinking. And diabetes is the consequence of experiencing no sweetness in life. So these are briefly a description of the Native American concepts that I teach and I use in the four phases of healing that is called Blessingway.
Currently I offer one-on-one ceremony, group ceremony (that means a small group or larger groups). The group ceremony can be the topic that the group has agreed upon. The one-on-one individual is for the concerns or the sickness that the persona is experiencing. And then a smaller ceremony is also a one-on-one ceremony where each person gets individual attention and that is probably maximum 5 people in one setting. [or a whole family]
I have translated concepts from the Navajo language that describe answers to the questions:
What is healing?
How does it happen in our body?
How do we experience it?
This is coming from indigenous wisdom and knowledge where the container for understanding who we are in the universe, our sacred place in the universe is what I call the Natural Order. The natural order is the laws of nature, like gravity and women give birth to a child. It is not religion, it is not theory, it is not philosophy.
This healing process does not require a conversion process, it does not require taking away and replacing. That was the original condition of colonialism that happened to American Indians. And we are now, in this century and in these times of awakening the conscience, breaking the silence about who we are and what we know.
We are helping the planet and humanity to re-balance, to reconnect, and to re-harmonize with creator and within ourselves and with others.
That is power within to have powerwith and that eliminates the need to have powerover. That means that we know ourselves and our sacredness in which we reclaim all of the gifts that we need to use for our collective survival. We will benefit by them, our family will benefit, our community will benefit. This is the affirmative thinking system. In the affirmative thinking system. we are affirming abundance. What is this abundance? It is peacemaking with the creator.
True Abundance:
In peacemaking, the love energy will flow from the good will to our thinking and our heart, to our actions in the world.
We call that walking in goodness and beautyorliving the loving way as a way of life. A way of life means that the information has been given through generation after generation for win-win decisions.. This means that we have learned that win-lose situations eventually end up as no-win for everyone.
In the process of naming the out-of-balance condition we make sure that there is a safe environment where a person can name what is out-of-balance, discover the root cause and uncover the obstacles that keep a person trapped in a thinking system that is destructive. That thinking system which is destructive to the person as well as the planet
Many people in other places in the world really love American Indians. They want to learn how to reconnect with with nature. And nature and creator are really the same thing. I welcome you to check out my website and find out more.
Thank you, [in Navajo]
Patricia Anne Davis.
All my work is translated from the Navajo/Dineh language and those italicized words notate that. The meaning and vibration is my way of keeping track of information in English while I exist, speak and write in the Dineh Affirmative thinking system. For an explanation of the terms above, please visit theglossary
To explain theblessing way, spiritual-cultural concepts are translated from the Dineh language into appropriate English descriptions to convey universal health and healing concepts from Dineh oral tradition.
Blessingway—hozhooji: a ceremony to awaken one to natural order (hozho); choosing constructive and life-affirming choices; healing from intentions and decisions that destroy oneself and others.
Navajo ceremonies do not require a conversion process of taking away the precious child within the natural order, and replacing this spiritual SELF-identity with a deficient self-image that has to be re-mediated to some desired end state of progress.
Once awakened to the natural order, we beginliving the loving way—hozhooji: literal translation of the blessingway ceremony as translated by my paternal aunt. It is a way of living in reverent revolution, of making decisions that are constructive and life affirming.
Two main ceremonies: Protectionway and Blessingway
These two main ceremonies offer protection from contaminants like the maladaptive emotions of hate, jealousy, anger, guilt, fear, etc. and toxins from the environment.
Five major ceremonies: As five-fingered people, this corresponds to five major ceremonies that every child in the world could benefit by.
Blessingway: the blessing way honors the divine feminine as a nurturer.
Protectionway: divine masculine as a protector-provider.
Purification and cleansing: numerous with specific names for specific purposes.
Spiritual renewal: a nine-day ceremony for spiritual renewal.
Journey to spirit world: the ceremony for a person on their journey to the spirit world.
The Journey Through the Four Worlds
The Navajo creation story speaks about the people traveling through four worlds into the current world from the place of emergence within the four sacred mountains. This represents the concept that there is one mother of us all because our body is composed of earth.
The word for mountain is the same word for spiritual strength. Every child is born through the water and through the birth canal. The element of fire is our temperature and we inhale and exhale with the creator’s holy breath. This air originates from the physical sun and radiates to the trees where we inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.
The miracle of life that we call photosynthesis is what Navajos call the creator’s holy breath. We are instructed to use this holy breath for speaking living words that heal. This is why our medicine people are called “singers”. They sing a person back to balance, harmony with creator, themselves and others within the natural order.
The journey through the four worlds was required to restore balance and harmony from misusing life energy for destructive and death-producing choices. There is a consequence in violating the natural order. This is not punishment, condemnation or judgment, just consequence and a message to correct the out-of-balance life condition.
Inverse Thinking System *Affirmative Thinking System
Deficient self image *Sacred-SELF intellect
Allopathic *Holographic holistic thinking
Abyss – Co-opt – Coping – *Healing Process – Curing –
All my work is translated from the Navajo/Dineh language and those italicized words notate that. The meaning and vibration is my way of keeping track of information in English while I exist, speak and write in the Dineh Affirmative thinking system. For an explanation of the terms above, please visit the glossary
To the left, you will find a graphic representation of the transcendence that occurs when the Closed System of Disease that is designed for failure is re-framed into the Open system of the Natural Order during the Ceremonial Change Process.
The first thing to understand about the Navajo language is that it is spoken in an Affirmative thinking system within the natural order as described in the examples of time and cardinal direction correlated with blessing way principles moving clockwise.
Typically, English is spoken symbolically in a triangle and in a different thinking system. It is in the context of hierarchy, patriarchy and describes everyone in their deficient self-image, which must be remediated into some end-state of civilization or enlightenment.
English is abstract. It is a trade and commerce language. Navajo is descriptive and exact. Therefore, healing ceremonies are exact and actual in the natural order, which is not religion, philosophy or theory.
There are four phases to every healing process that leads to curing, not coping. Before defining them, one must know that the healing process does not exist in the English language thinking system, but it can be described to convey the integrity of the sacred meaning of Navajo words.
The term “Navajo” is an imposed name. We Dineh have several spiritual names that identify us to the creator as a precious child of divine creation, made of earth-physical, water-emotive, fire-mental and air-spiritual. Corn is the symbol of food as social medicine within the economic relationships of the clan system. Our spiritual names are inclusive and universal in application to all people. One name is “earth-surface people”, another is “five-fingered” people and another is the affirmation: “I am a precious child of creator”.
Consequences of Closed System Thinking
When a person makes decisions that are destructive and death-producing, this is considered misuse of thinking by using thinking for what it is not for. All ceremonies correct erroneous thinking that “tell” the body wrong information. Every out-of-balance condition is a consequence of saying “yes” to destructive and death-producing choices and saying “no” to constructive and life-affirming choices.
When a person denies the unifying principle that all creation is Inter-related, this is “stress”. All of the diseases are a consequence of denying our oneness with the creator’s will-to-love. All Navajo healing ceremonies reawaken a person to their true spiritual Self-identity as a precious child of creator made of the four sacred elements: air-spiritual; fire-mental; water-emotive; earth-physical body. When any one of these elements is out of balance, there is dis-ease with creator’s will-to-love that manifests as disease.
Living Hozho, in the Natural Order
The Navajo language is a spiritual language spoken with living words that manifest vibrations for affirming truth in the laws of nature or the natural order of time and direction from East-thinking, West-planning, South-decision making for collective survival and North-equity in restoring resources to the next generation moving clockwise within temporal time and cardinal direction.
For example: sunrise, mid-day, sunset, mid-night; spring, summer, fall, winter; child, youth, adult, and elder. Also, white people, red people, yellow people and black people, all born equal in the sacred circle of life within the holiness and wholeness of hozho. There is no concept of separation from creator or from the natural order. There is only the principle of making constructive and life-affirming choices.
“Co-creative solutions” means manifesting power within, from creator, that radiates love for ourselves in order to have power with others and eliminates the need forpower over.
The spiritual lessen of self-betrayal of our spiritual SELF-identity is corrected by loving the creator the way the creator love us. Then we can love ourselves the way creator loves us. Only then can we love others the way creator loves us and the way we love ourselves. Love must be received and given in this order from the inside-out, not the outside-in.
The context of the co-creative solution begins in the Navajo term “hozho” – meaning “natural order.” The term natural order is temporal time, cardinal directions, cycles of seasons correlated with principles placed in the four cardinal directions for a life journey:
EAST – child: sunrise-spring-spiritual moral standards for living
SOUTH – youth: noon-summer-learning/work/transportation
WEST – parent: sunset-autumn-family/home/story-telling/ceremony
NORTH – grandparent: midnight-winter-SELF-reverence/reverence for the natural order/hope/restoring resources
CENTER: fireplace/hearth of home – spiritual family love
The spiritual lesson in these crisis times and awakening of the conscience is that win-lose decisions create no-win for everyone. Thus, each person is requested to learn why and how to make decisions for win-win, away from destructive and death-producing choices, toward constructive and life-affirming choices.
“Win-win decision making” is discovering and using one’s gifts for collective survival. Every person’s inherent gift supports another person’s survival. Every person can give healthy expression to their gifts and everyone benefits by the healthy expression of each person using their creative imagination for collective survival.
To bring a person out of the Inverse thinking system of Dis-Ease/Disease and into a Wellbeing Continuum, we must co-create wellness using an Affirmative thinking system; we must undo a deficient self image by co-creating life-affirming choices utilizing our sacred-SELF intellect.
To move out of the abyss of coping, we use a healing process that cures the co-opted self that is created by the allopathic disease orientation. The co-creative solution is discovered using an Affirmative thinking system that can be applied to everyday life situations.
Living the loving way, as a way of life, is hozhoojiin the Navajo language. “Hozho” is an all encompassing concept of holiness and wholeness where there are not competing collectivities representing competing ideologies. “ji” is to sing some one back to health. All healing ceremonies sing a person back to health.
Hozhooji is the blessing way ceremony for remembering and reawakening to our spiritual SELF-identity as a precious child of creator. The phrase “living the loving way” is the literal translation of a way of life choosing constructive and life-affirming choices – healing, not destroying self and others.
Living the loving way, as a way of life, is a reverent revolution that re-frames inequity in resource distribution away from the forced-choice purchasing of the products and services that support the financial rich, into using one’s inherent gifts for the benefit of each person, their family, community and nation from elder to the youth of the next generation.
The spiritual lesson in these crisis times and awakening of the conscience is that win-lose decisions create no-win for everyone. Thus, each person is requested to learn why and how to make decisions for win-win, away from destructive and death-producing choices, toward constructive and life-affirming choices.
“Win-win decision making” is discovering and using one’s gifts for collective survival. Every person’s inherent gift supports another person’s survival. Every person can give healthy expression to their gifts and everyone benefits by the healthy expression of each person using their creative imagination for collective survival.
I am an authentic Indigenous medicine person by tribal lineage, initiation, training and experience. I was previously invited to travel to Altai Siberia, Russia a few years ago, but that trip for cross-cultural exchange was cancelled. In the years between then and now, I have actively participated in Altai Mir University fundraising events, for the Indigenous Altai people’s intention for maintaining their aboriginal land status, in a small but powerful way. Also, I facilitated a spiritual connecting ceremony with the land and people of Altai and with the organizers and sponsors of this upcoming trip.
Patricia Anne Davis, MA Choctaw-Navajo/Chahta-Dineh
Navajo Wisdom Keeper
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