A PRAYER SONG

SALMON MEDICINE

"Be like the salmon. Unlike most fish they have no problem swimming across the currents. They don't always go with the flow. Sure you will have to face bears in your life but the best way to be is to be yourself. Don't go with the flow like the multitude of people. Swim against the currents and be yourself. Refuse to be anyone else but you." - Bear Warrior 

Easier said than done. Most people have accepted the Lamb as their totem, or the herded Cattle as their power animal. Giving up the power animals they were born with was the giving up of the ghost. Giving any advice to the contrary of the nature of the Lamb keeps the populace herded. Only their thoughts have hope. Their hearts have fear, and their bodies cannot move outside of the flow of the multitude, or the vast range of their fears of living. This paradox makes the hope of becoming one's self, one's true self an impossible wish, a wish that one had done something with their lives.

When on their death beds thinking about their lives their Medicines come back to them, their power animals return with sadness in their hearts. Their eyes full of tears they ask their host why they were sent away.

People chose this way to live, and the herders chose to lead them astray. – Dawn Wolf

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