The Circles of Life by Hyapatia Lee (.ePUB)
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The Circles of Life: The Second Step on the Native Strength Path by Hyapatia Lee
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Overview: The Circles of Life is a traditional Native American teaching that gives insight into our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual abilities at any given time in our life. It is a reference book, to help gain awareness of how age causes certain areas of our life to be emphasized. For example, we generally are more emotional in our youth, more physically adept when we are in our prime, and as we enter our elder years, we have more wisdom than we have ever had before. These basic principles just scratch the surface of this ancient teaching. This lesson goes down into exponentially deeper levels, showing us what influences us at nine month intervals throughout our life up to the age of one hundred and eight, a sacred number in many cultures. Instead of simply seeing the season a forest is in, for example, we will be able to tell if it is early or late in the season and if there has been enough precipitation. Instead of simply seeing a picture of the Mona Lisa, we will be able to see the frame, her beautiful face, and every minute detail in the background. Instead of knowing we are traveling west in the United States on I-80 across Nebraska we will know exactly what mile marker we are near and where each business and house is along the way. Once we have this knowledge we can work with the influence our age provides.
As we go through life, it would be extremely helpful to know what lies ahead. Life brings us unexpected surprises every day. Some are good and some are bad, but a large number actually can be predicted by devoting a bit of careful thought to the situations at hand. Just as we know that winter will follow fall and spring will come after that, the patterns of our life are predictable. This is true for everyone, whether we are in the grips of destitute poverty in a third-world country or living the life of luxury in a palace. These are patterns that cannot be tampered with. Just as we cannot force summer to come before spring, we cannot escape these patterns and the effects they have on our lives.
Through centuries of study, traditional medicine men and women charted the patterns experienced by everyone as they went through life. There are no exceptions, men and women, the able-bodied and the disabled, are all influenced in the same manner. There are many books on childhood development but few people realize we do not stop growing and developing simply by virtue of having reached adulthood. We continue to learn, mature, develop and change until the day we die. In fact, some our most advanced growth takes place in our elder years. Change is the only constant in the universe.
Life is like a spiral. Our progression is similar to the shell of the nautilus. As we go around, progressing with each revolution, we revisit the same directions around the wheel over and over again. We may be in the East, but we are symbolically one level above where we were on our last time around, more advanced by one revolution. It could also be compared to a spiral staircase. As we go through life, we further ascend in our evolutionary process. If we have learned our lesson, we will advance to the next stage when we re-visit that direction. If not, we will find ourselves confronted with a situation similar to the last time and a fresh opportunity to make a better choice.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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