Build a sacred circle of cornmeal,smudge the circle and yorself,and enter the circle from the East.Lay down your medicine blanket and lie or sit on it,Get comfortable.Center yourself and relax.

HOW TO BUILD A SACRED CIRCLE:

Building a sacred circle : prepare the ground by cleaning the area.Sprinkle cornmeal,starting from the east going clockwise.Make the circle big enough for you and your tools to enter. Before entering the circle,do a smudging ceremony.Feel the earth and the presence of the four-legged,the winged ones,the finned,the crawlies,and all relations.Periodically cleanse your circle by smudging moving the smoke around the grounds and blessing the grounds through prayer.Feed the sacred circle grounds by giving away to the four-legged ,the winged ones,and all the other relations using tobacco,cornmeal and seeds.Give away to your wheel,so all that come to it give away to you.This is a Sacred Circle.

THE MEDICINE BLANKET

Your medicine blanket is used to bring you physical connection to spirit.It provides safety and protection-through comfort-within its array of colors and texture.It is recommended that it be handmade of any cloth of 100 percent cotton or wool.To care for blanket,honor it every full moon by rubbing in the seven sacred disciplines-which are earth,water,ashes,sage,tobacco,sweetgrass and cedar.Your medicine blanket is to be used in ceremonial work as a shield of safety.You can also use it to make a study bundle in which you can carry your drum,rattle,notebook,and things like that to class.You can use it at your home on your bed,or take it with you at all times,even when you are traveling (put it around your shoulders in the car,train,or on a plane),or going to the hospital.

1.Understanding self,understanding spirit.                                                                                                             

Make a list of everything that is you,as many as you can list.Include statements about your physical appeareance.   Example :You are fat or skinny,tall or short.Your are male or female,bald or have hair. This will help you to understand self.It is important to see all sides of yourself.It is important to write down good and bad things-things you do right and wrong. Next,make a list of things you are,ways you see yourself,and ways you wish to live. Example: You are a truth teller or an liar;you are spiritual-you're a wind talker;you are alive-you're an earthwalker;you are dead-you're a rider.                                                                                       

List everything about yourself.Brainstorm your mind and ask your self to fill in the blanks.Next, make a listing about understanding your spirit.List everything you can about your spirit : the color,the way it feels,how to hear it,what it longs for.List all the ways that you are in spirit. Example: Are you good-spirited or mean spirited?Free-spirited or contained?High-spirited or low?Are you absent of knowledge about your spirit?

If you are absent of knowledge about your self or spirit,this is the beginning of your quest for your sacred self.You can open a door  into the spirit world through journeying.To have a better understanding of your spirit self,breathe and look for the path.Follow it to tranquility center.Find a place to sit down.Ask your spirit to appear.Look in your memory.Look at your spirit picture that is happening in the upper world.Listen to the reflected self and understand the spirit voice of yourself.Know that all thought is spirit.Get a clear picture of spirit.Then you can formulate your actions,know,and record these actions as a list of the reflected self.This will be seen as a clear picture of your spirit self which will act as a guide for yourself coming from the upper world.It is pure spirit thought.Write down what you see.  Example : I see myself.I see myself with White Wolf.I have a wolf paw;I have a hand.I have white wolf fur; I have a long white tail.My teeth are long;my face is human on one side;my wolf self is the other.

You will see your spirit self.What color is it?What does it sound like?What does it look like?Bring your spirit self memories back and record them.

2.Understanding your spirit emotions.                                                                                                  

Understandstand that,when you are in spirit world,there is no time;there is no day,no month; there is no season,no light nor dark-unless that is what is for you.It can be sunny and rainning at the same time.There are no limitations within spirit emotions.Follow your path to your tranquility center and find a place where you can sit and feel the spirit emotions.Feel what it is to be able to fly,the feeling of being free.Feel what it is to be connected and full.Feel what it is to be original,to ancient.Feel the memory of all- the emotion of constant.Remember these feelings and list them.Come back and write more feelings about spirit emotions. 

3.Understanding the need to connect spirit to physical.                                                           

Take the list that you have written about self and spirit self and draw a connection to how you gain from your spirit in your physical day.  Example : Your spirit is strong and solid and rich and full.Bring that back to your physical self and see yourself as strong and solid and rich and full,and write an affirmation : I am strong.I am solid.I am full.I am complete.I am rich,solid and full. Build affirmations from your spirit knowing. Example : I am blue and blue is truth. 

4.Understanding seeking the voice of spirit.                                                                                

Learn to listen to your spirit voice.Feel the softness.Feel the warmth.Feel the gentleness,the completion,the original.Feel the totality.See the color,see all colors within.To understand seeking the voice of your spirit,you must begin to listen beyond your physical needs.Example: Dont be concerned about how much money you'll make,but how your heart will expand.Dont be so concerned about how others feel about you,but what your memory will be of yourself.Dont be so concerned about what you'll leave to your children when you die,but what you will be to your children always.  

List your feelings from the four steps and see the value of questing for your spirit self. Understand your spirit,the spirit emotions connecting your spirit to your physical with the voice of your spirit.Let the voice of your spirit set forth on a quest.From the voice of your spirit you move forward as an understanding comes into your reality.From the voice of your spirit you have an understanding.This travels through your soul into your physical mind,where it manifests as actual thoughts.From there on,those thoughts exist.At this point you have an understanding of the voice of your spirit.