Native Addiction Healing
This Podcast focuses on all aspects of healing addiction related to Native Americans. It seeks to understand pathways to healing from a spectrum of approaches, for example: evidence based; spiritual; cultural; traditional treatment methods; mindfulness; meditative, physical, nutrition to name a few. It will also explore possible roots of addiction. It hopes to draw from experienced professionals in the addiction filed and others by way of interviews.
Episodes
29 episodes
Roots of Addiction
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 ge...
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26:48
Mindfulness and Native Culture
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 ex...
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11:40
The Nature of Trauma
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 thi...
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13:01
Relapse Prevention Skills
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. Heal...
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33:15
A Decision for Healing
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 thi...
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23:36
Cultural Genocide and Addiction
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 concep...
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26:47
The Great Spirit is Within Each of Us
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,...
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32:06
Intersection of Native Culture and Evidence Base Practice
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 per...
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27:21
With in the Stillness of The MInd
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 wo...
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21:12
Unpacking Addiction and The Still Mind
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...
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31:12
Healing is Unlearning Illusions
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. W...
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27:54
Illusions vs Peace
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. Throu...
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24:51
Looking at Our Thoughts
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, q...
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38:40
The Conditioned Mind Set
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;...
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35:49
The Nature of Addiction
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 e...
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25:09
Beyond Forgiveness
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 ...
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23:15
Rethinking the Meth Problem
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 r...
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25:05
Healing Within Stillness
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...
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39:53
Perception of Trauma
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...
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40:24
Our Ego vs. Truth
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 pro...
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25:56
Stillness and Healing
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...
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35:14
Sober Families
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...
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31:03
Healing
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).
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38:51