Earth Medicine With Shaman, and Healer Julie McIntyre

Indigenous medicine people make the point over and over again that the practitioner must have faith in her medicines.  It must be based on personal relationship with the medicine or the protocol you’re suggesting. Without personal trust in your medicines, as if your own life depended on them, your confidence in the medicines will fail as you approach diseases in which death may occur and your clients will ~ at some level ~ know it.  

Plants are living entities and what you do when you heal with plant medicine is that you bring together the living entity of a plant, with the living entity of the person, with the living entity of the organ system through the introductory medium of the herbalist. Your perception has to be sensitive enough to understand how to do that and to perceive what happens inside the person when they are all introduced. 

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