Meditations with the Navajo: Prayers, Songs, and Stories of Healing and Harmony Audiobook (Free)

A collection of stories, poems, and meditations that illuminate the religious world of the Navajo.

• Explores the Navajo’s fundamental perception in the importance of harmony and balance in the globe.

• Stocks Navajo healing techniques have been passed down for generations.

• Includes meditations following each story or poem.

Navajo myths are being among the most poetic in the world, full of dazzling phrase imagery. For the Navajo, who call themselves the Dine (literally, ‘the People’), the storyplot of about Meditations using the Navajo: Prayers, Songs, and Stories of Recovery and Tranquility emergence–their creation myth–lies in the centre of their values. In it, all of the globe is created collectively, both gods and human beings, embodying the idea that change originates from within instead of without. Poet and author Gerald Hausman collects this and various other stories with meditations that together capture the essence from the Navajo people’s way of life and their knowledge of the globe. Here are common myths from the Holy People, of Changing Woman who teaches individuals how to live, and of the trickster Coyote; tales of healings performed by stargazers and hand tremblers; and tracks of love, marriage, homecoming, and growing old. These and the meditations that adhere to each tale reveal a world–our world–that thrives only on tranquility and balance and shares the Dine belief that the main point over the circle that has no beginning or end is usually where we stand at the moment.