The Spirit of Healing

Stories, Wisdom, and Practices from Native America

By: Lewis Mehl-Madrona MD PhD

Narrated by: Lewis Mehl-Madrona MD PhD

Essential Training in Native American Healing Wisdom
A Lakota prophecy tells of a day when Westerners will join Native wisdom-keepers to create a new, integrated vision of healing. Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona believes that day has arrived. With The Spirit of Healing, this physician and lifelong student of Native American spirituality invites you to discover healing practices informed by both modern medical and psychiatric knowledge and the “narrative medicine” of traditional healers.

“Western medicine provides many tools for doctors and professionals,” teaches Dr. Mehl-Madrona. “But in the Native approach, we learn how to become our own best healers.”

The Art of Healing through Story
Mind-body medicine has shown how important our thoughts are in determining our health. In tribal practice, this is expressed in the power of story—when we learn to listen to the stories underneath an illness, we can illuminate the path to healing. Dr. Mehl-Madrona reveals time-honored techniques and ceremonies for calling on the strength of our ancestors, community, and helping spirits so that we can re-create our life's story as one of wholeness and health.

Practical Guidance for Restoring Harmony and Balance to Your Life
Native medicine focuses on enhancing the underlying harmony of our lives, not only within our bodies, but in our relationships to each other, the environment, and the spirit world. Offering over six hours of stories, insights, and practices, Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona provides indispensible guidance for integrating Native American wisdom into your life with The Spirit of Healing.

True caring wisdom from the heart

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Absolutely YES, Dr. Lewis Mehl shows true healing from the heart and mind and his compassion for others. A tool not all have.

Which scene was your favorite?

The Wind.

Any additional comments?

Dr. Lewis Mehl, Please write more books. Thank you

True Healing for me

I am absolutrly sold on this man. His guided meditations takes me where I need to go.

Interesting perspective

Some interesting perspective on life. Some of stories were too much fantasy for me to relate to.

Healing from trauma and illness, this leads you on a journey to discover your own inner healing process.

The author/narrator’s gentle voice and way leads you to discover a peaceful path of healing. No judgement. No separatism. Just healing found through story, indigenous culture and a simpler path long lost in western civilization. I will listen to this again! So peaceful! So healing. Great insight never tells someone NOT to seek medical help when needed, but how the two can exist within one belief system. Well done!

Very helpful!

These stories are so helpful for anyone who suffers from something, which covers all of us. The narration is soothing and the information is so important in these pharmaceutical times.