Why do you decide to do it and what is it? A medicine walk has a spiritual context. The spirits are asked for a medicine gift. Such a medicine gift can be anything: beautiful feathers to decorate, special stones or wooden sticks. It can clarify a difficult life issue. The next important steps in life can also appear, as can a new animal ally or a new object of power; and much more.
In preparation for this, we get up long before sunrise to meditate. A magical gate is then opened. Before we pass through it, we are asked for a gift of medicine. Even before the sun rises, we go through this gate on our hike, which lasts until after sunset. We fast the whole day and don't speak a word. The long day ends with a meditation. Such a medicine walk is a very powerful and clarifying tool, a gift from the spirits, the spiritual world. The effort and the fasting are like a sacrifice. We sacrifice ourselves and ask our spirits for insights.
It should definitely be done alone, but it is not a disadvantage if the accompaniment and magical embedding is done by a shaman.
Here are a few lines of reflection from my last medicine walk:
After some time, I realize that the last steps are often the most difficult. It's only done when it's done. The sun burns down even hotter. I accept it and carry on. My consciousness has now completely wandered into the here and now................I see a sign pointing the way. I am briefly unsettled. My inner feeling wants to show me another way. I follow my inner feeling. But I want to check with people who know the area and have my feeling confirmed from the outside. I hear people talking, but I can't see anyone. Am I right, can I trust?
I walk on, the path becomes even steeper and seems to be going in the wrong direction. My legs carry me faster again. Then, after a quarter of an hour, I have certainty. I have chosen the right, faster route, which is necessary in my state of exhaustion. I can feel the strength beginning to flow through my trust in my inner voice.
