My Creator, I am hurting. Oh Great Spirit, accept the pact I make with you today. I am a spiritual seed. Plant me near you that I may grow under your power and wisdom. Creator, mold and shape me into a spiritual warrior. Oh Great Mystery, please hear me. This Step focuses on seeking help and guidance from an Elder, a Medicine person, a sponsor, a mentor or a spiritual friend.
Allow your eyes, ears and heart to guide you to the right person who can understand and support. O Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds, and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me! I am small and weak. I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things you have made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people. So when life fades, as the fading sunset, my spirit may come to you without shame. What would you like it to be? Use a mind map to write down the characteristics and traits you envision.
When you are ready to take the 3rd step, go to the Medicine person, spiritual leader, Pipe Carrier or Elder to help you take the step. Self-examination has always been part of Native culture because the cultural definition of success is centered on building character.
Before we can build character, we must know our shortcomings, weaknesses and character defects. To have courage means to have heart. This step is about finding your heart. Creator, protect me from my worst enemy — myself. I ask that you guide me into the badlands of self, that I may know you better. Please protect my spirit as I relive the past in order to recover. Great Spirit, guide me as I face the self-examination of the South. There are several ways to do this step: through the solitude of the Vision Quest, prayer and reflection in a sweat lodge, spending a night in a Tipi with brothers and sisters with the Medicine of the Native American Church, or participating in a sobriety pow-wow.
Use the 4th Step inventory guidelines for resentments, fears, and sexual harms. This step is about disclosing our secrets. When we reveal our secrets to another human being and to the Creator, the heaviness is lifted and we begin to see with our hearts, just as the eagle sees Love in everything.
This step deepens our relationship with the Great Spirit. Great Spirit, take my secrets on the four winds and purify them that I may use them in a good way. Pick the person to do this step carefully. It should be the Medicine person, mentor or sponsor you selected in the 3rd step. Smudge with sage, cedar or sweet grass and face South during the process. Share your revelations once you have completed the step.
Your spirit will become lighter and you will sense your healing and wholeness. This step consolidates the process of self-discovery through which we identified our character defects and weaknesses. Now we are entirely ready to release them. Creator, I stand ready for the winds of change to carry on its healing process. The self-knowledge comes from the inventories and lists made while facing South. And, now we are also walking each day with our Creator. Humility is an attitude that will help us start fresh in everything we do.
One of the tools to help us is writing and repeating affirmations. My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me- good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character that stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows.
Grant me strength as I go out from here to do your bidding. Place the following affirmation on your mirror and repeat it every time you look at your image:. I am walking the Red Road Journey of wellbriety. I am proud of my own Native heritage. I will heal and develop myself so that I may be a role model for my children.
I can do this! I AM doing this! This step helps us start to mend the wreckage of our relationships. We acknowledge that we hurt people. In this step we prepare the ground to actually make amends in the next step. We are connected to all things. When we accept this truth we become willing to look at our part in the creation of the harm. Each person who wronged us or we wronged is carefully considered, respected and honored.
To honor one is to honor all, and to dishonor one is to dishonor all. We pray for forgiveness in all the amends we will do with each person. Others may or may not forgive us. Our work is to be without expectation about the outcome.
Through this process we open the door so the blockages of anger, resentment and hatred can be released. Creator, help me meditate on each instance of my past that I may see the truth. Creator, I pray for each and every relation I must approach at this time. Great Spirit, my Sacred Hoop is broken.
Please guide me in healing other Hoops that I have broken. Creator, help me to focus on my part in these weakest links of my life. Use your inventory lists from Steps 5 and 6 to identify those people to whom you owe amends. Before you begin spend a little quiet time with the land.
Look up to the sky with the intention of finding guidance. As we walk on the path of forgiveness and justice we stay focused on the things we have done wrong. We are on the path to becoming right with the Creator and with others. God is the Love that lets me forgive others and others forgive me. Creator, guide me in finding the greatest peace, fellowship and justice with all women and men. Talk to the Elders in your tribal tradition to find out how to restore justice between people who have hurt each other.
Ask for assistance from your sponsor or mentor to see if by making amends you could potentially create more hurt or harm. When making amends, stick to your script and be short, direct and to the point. When making an amendment by phone or in a letter, hold an eagle feather to remain in good spirit and intent.
Ask for help from your Medicine Elder. This step is about moment-to-moment inner alertness and offering instant amends when necessary. The only way to change old habits is to create new ones. We we practice being a positive warrior, the negative warrior eventually fades into the background. If we are consistent and diligent we make a new life. Do I need to discuss anything with anyone? Is there something that I have been holding inside?
As we face North we seek to remain at the center of our personal Medicine Wheel. The center includes the gifts of: compassion, love, peace of mind, positive attitude, trust, forgiveness, acceptance, abundance, empowerment, healing and solutions. Working the 10th Step and participating in sobriety sweat lodges and recovery circles helps us stay close to our center. We have always been a people of prayer. Something inside us becomes alert when an Elder prays.
This step is about re-awakening our gift of prayer and using it for recovery. Many of us view a path as a narrow trail, but a spiritual path is unlimited. Prayer and meditation widen the path and remove obstacles in our way. When we seek something bigger than our ego-self we find self-esteem. The deep root of our wellness is our relationship with the Great Mystery.
Prayer and meditation keep our spiritual awareness of the unseen world of Spirit very close. With this sacred pipe you will walk upon the Earth; for the Earth is your Grandmother and Mother, and She is sacred.
Every step that is taken upon Her should be as a prayer. The bowl of this pipe is of red stone; it is the Earth. The stem of the pipe is of wood, and this represents all that grows upon the earth. All these people and all the things of the Universe, are joined to you who smoke the pipe — all send their voices to Wakan-Tanka the Great Spirit. When you pray with this pipe you pray for and with everything. The Sacred Pipe. We offer group therapy, individual therapy, psychoeducation, and case management.
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