Page 191: Confession and Prayer

July 26, 2025, 11:02 AM

From page 191:

"Confession and prayer are closely related."

"Creator is also more likely to listen to a person who is humble enough to admit frailties."

"...'owning-up' to one's faults or misdeed is considered cleansing for the soul."

"When a person breaks one of the moral 'rules for living,' it creates a spiritual opening through which disease can enter the body."

(see endnote # 4, page 397:

Ann Tienup-Riordan, ("Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yup'ik Eskimo Oral Tradition (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994), page 209.

From page 192:

"Good thoughts promote ethical behavior, health, and harmony."

From page 192:

The way Cohen (2003) presents it in his book, I view the following as a prayer, and I would call it: MAKE YOUR LIFE A PRAYER:

"iF YOU MAKE A REGULAR EFFORT AT PRAYING, BY THINKING GOOD THOUGHTS, AND YOU LIVE IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY, THEN YOU WILL SOON FIND THAT MANY OF THE THINGS YOU DO IN YOUR DAILY LIFE GIVE YOU GOOD THOUGHTS AND CAN, THUS, ADD STRENGTH TO YOUR PRAYERS. YOUR PRAYERS CAN INVOLVE MORE AND MORE OF DAILY LIFE, BY SPENDING MORE AND MORE OF YOUR TIME DOING THOSE THINGS THAT ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO PRAY ABOUT...AND THEN ALL THE GOODNES WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE A PRAYER."

(see endnote #5, page 369:

Adolph Hungry Wolf, A Good Medicine Collection: Life in Harmony with Nature, (Summertown, TN Book Publishing C., 1990).

From page 192:

"A Counselor prays and helps the patient pray in communion with the Creator, a process of both speaking and inner listening."

From page 192:

"Rolling Thunder used to admonish his patients, 'Don't whisper when you pray. Are you afraid that GOD might hear you?'"

"The Medicine Man attracts blessings from the Great Spirit and the healing Bear Spirit by Demonstrating humility before them."