Let's begin our day with a little bit of happy talk and meditation in this short yet impactful podcast designed to infuse a little bit of positivity into each moment of every day.
Let's get in the flow.
Today I want to share with you a prayer that I absolutely love.
I've read it before,
So if you've been with me before then you may have heard this,
But I could honestly read it every day to you if I could.
It's a prayer that seems to me to be about cleansing of your soul.
It's absolutely beautiful.
Chief Yellow Hawk was the chief of the Lakotas.
A ton is not really known about him.
I will say that.
Only that he was one of the ones that signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie that helped to guarantee land of the Black Hills actually to the Dakota Territory.
Sadly this is one of the treaties that was eventually broken and led to the Great Sioux War in 18.
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I'm sorry,
I forget exactly when that was,
So I apologize for that.
I don't know much about him at all,
But I do know that when I read this prayer I feel a sense of grounding and connection to myself,
To spirit,
And to the earth.
It's absolutely stunning of a prayer.
I try to be into poetry and prayers and that sort of thing,
But it has to really tweak my heart to really have me go back to it.
Chief Yellow Hawk is one of the spirits that I always ask him to come in and be with me,
Be by my side whenever I do any spirit work.
He was very spiritual to the best of my knowledge and to anybody that would write this prayer of course.
I ask him for spiritual guidance regularly.
He's pretty amazing.
What I'm going to do right now is I am going to light some sage to cleanse us.
It's a big,
Big flame.
I am lighting my sage and I'm going to let this burn while I say the prayer and then we sit in meditation for a few minutes.
We're going to sit in the stillness and we're going to allow Chief's energy to surround us and cleanse us.
Cleanse our souls.
What I want you to do is as I'm reading this and then after as we sit in this stillness,
I want you to concentrate afterwards.
Concentrate on your breath.
Allow yourself to breathe in the energy of this insightful,
Spiritual,
Amazing man,
Chief.
Let's take a deep breath in through our nose.
Breathing in that healing and release.
It's perfect.
This is the prayer,
O Great Spirit by Chief Yellowhawk.
O Great Spirit,
Whose voice I hear in the wind and whose breath gives life to all the world,
Hear me.
I come before you,
One of your children.
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.
My ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may know the things you have taught my people.
The lesson you have hidden in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength not to be superior to my brothers,
But to be able to fight my greatest enemy,
Myself.
Make me ever ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades as a fading sunset,
My spirit may come to you without shame.
And now let us sit in the stillness,
Concentrating on our breath and allowing the beautiful energy of Chief Yellowhawk to empower us.
Let Their birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping birds chirping Let's bring our awareness back.
Birds chirping Take a nice deep breath in.
And release.
Birds chirping Namaste.
