Support individuals in reducing substance use 4.4 - describe how to manage your own feelings about the individual's progress or lack of this in such a way as to minimise their impact on the support provided. Different conditions may require varying approaches to support self-management. When supporting individuals who are reducing or trying to stop their substance use we need to firstly, remind ourselves that all people are capable of change and possess personal strength and abilities. We must trust that individual's can and will grow in their own time and in their own way. We must be patient and be able to tolerate varying amounts of floundering, confusion and false starts.
Other physical healing techniques include, but are not limited to hydrotherapy (similar to a traditional sweat) and various types of massages, visualizations and healing ceremonies. Most of these are led by shamans. They’re the equivalent to doctors and they are mediums to the spirit world. Native Americans discovered the therapeutic value of touch and with that study came many techniques of massage. They used different types of massages for different things.
The remedies included natural herbal plants, but also spirits! Local Individuals in America considered that men and women should live in balance with individual characteristics and you cure by coming back to individuals with balance. Most of the communities had special "medicine" men and women who did the treatment. Sometimes they are called shamans. They used plenty of different natural herbal plants to cure.
If you’re Hmong and have a sickness that won’t go away, you would go see a shaman. The literal translation for a shaman is “master of spirits” (PBS par. 2). Youa Lee (Grandma) stands by her Shaman tools and her remedies to cure others, including her granddaughter Kalia. Not everyone can become a shaman, but if you are called to it there are many duties you’re responsible for.
Biet, however, was using his own cultural beliefs in doctors and medicine as a base for this conclusion. The Caribs believed that the Shamans had the power to heal them of illnesses and predict the future, so
With every opportunity of listening I will be mindful of creating a safe environment where clarity, understanding, and listening can take place effectively. More, important I should keep in mind how God listen to us. He listen to other with a love, compassion and caring heart. I want to do more listening and slow to speak. James 1:19 (KJV) says, “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.” Taking the correct actions when listening will allow me to mend broken relationship due to lack of communication or listening skills.
As active, it consists in the impartation of ideas, or suggestion, by the healer to the patient. As passive, it consists in the reception and assimilation of such suggestion. The healing power, however, is sought in the consequent mental activity of the patient himself[59]. Spiritualistic: It is claimed by spiritualists that the spirits are the only doctors they require, and that these spirits can both diagnose and prescribe the proper remedies because of their superior knowledge. Spiritual: Spiritual healing, in its strict and proper denotation, may be said to be synonymous with faith-healing in the stricter sense.
The knowledge is handed down from medicine people before them who train for many years to come up with the formulas. Cherokee medicine people travel to the rock caves to meet with the Little People and share their secrets. The proper way to find a medicine person is be part of a Cherokee community. Advertising and telling the formulas is prohibited. The Cherokee wedding is said to be a very beautiful ritual.
It is important to communicate with your peers, and have meaningful conversations. If you are always alone you could self isolate and fall into a depression. Intellectual health: Intellectual health is the ability to think clearly. It allows you to use your brain for life’s lessons. We live through trial and error and we need to make responsible decisions.
ISBN 978-1550593860, $34.95. Recently I attended an Ojibwe healing ceremony and became aware of the presence of a vastly different paradigm for creating and sustaining networks of healing and personal transformation than what I have grown accustomed to within my own culture. A paradigm built on shared experience, communal bonds, and synergistic participation instead of the competitive, isolated, and diminishing institutions of the “Western” model. I witnessed people healing one another through story. Through presence.