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Coyote Wisdom: The Power of Story in Healing
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About Coyote Wisdom: The Power Of Story In Healing
Product Description An in-depth look at the therapeutic and transformative powers of storytelling in Native American and other cultures • Explores how to create a healing state of mind using stories • Includes healing stories from Native American traditions and other cultures from around the world • By the author of the bestselling Coyote MedicineStories are powerful sources of meaning that shape and transform our lives. We tell stories to track our process of personal and spiritual growth and to honor and respect the journeys we have made. Through stories we are provided with experiences of spiritual empowerment that can lead to transformation. In Coyote Wisdom, Lewis Mehl-Madrona explores the healing use of stories passed down from generation to generation in Native American culture and describes how we can apply this wisdom to empower and transform our own lives. A storytelling approach to transformation starts with how we were created and how we can re-create ourselves through the stories we tell. As we explore the archetypal characters and situations that populate the inner world of our stories, we can experience breakthroughs of healing and even miracles of transformation. This approach to healing through stories runs counter to the current model of modern psychology. The stories we tell about ourselves may model our lives, but by introducing new characters and plots, we can come to see ourselves in a new way. The author also draws upon the cultures of other indigenous peoples--the Maori, East Africans, Mongolians, Aborigines, and Laplanders--to illustrate the healing use of stories throughout the world. From Booklist Mehl-Madrona (M.D., Ph.D.) outlines what he calls "narrative medicine," or a "storied" approach to disease and recovery that can be used in conjunction with standard medical treatment. Believing that answers to illness lie within each patient, he draws on such diverse sources as traditional Native American tales, pop-culture figures, and fictional characters to encourage patients to perceive how their illnesses have allowed them to accomplish a goal, and how to retain or transfer that goal while releasing the illness. One anorexia patient, for instance, attained a level of "perfection" with her extreme dieting that she couldn't bring about in other areas of her life. Working together, doctor and patient construct stories that externalize illness, rather than making it part of one's character. Case studies cover eating disorders, depression, battering, lupus, and various cancers, and Mehl-Madrona explains how, in extreme cases, the narratives are used to control pain or allow a patient to die more peacefully. A fascinating look at a branch of alternative medicine. Rebecca Maksel Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Review ". . . Mehl-Madrona shows how other forms of story have given his patients power, allowed for their transformation and healing, and shown them their connection with their community.", Sharon Kayne, Crosswinds Weekly, June 2005 "There are few people who would not recognize some piece of their lives in each of these stories.", Sharon Kayne, Crosswinds Weekly, June 2005 “ Coyote Wisdom is about soul and mind--the shared journey of healer and patient toward insights and images that break us out of our frozen-heart places and transform awareness, and thus permit us to let go of suffering. As a physician and one who also strives to heal patients, not just treat them, I honor Dr. Mehl-Madrona for achieving a practical clinical method in Coyote Wisdom that is woven from the artistry of storytelling in the tradition of his elders and his reverence for the healing power of universal myths.”, James Lake, M.D., Chair, American Psychiatric Association Caucus on Complementary and Alternative Me “ Coyote Wisdom is a gateway to understanding the importance of stories in rituals and ceremonies. Mehl-Madrona’s study of healers is a step forward in explaining the im
