Successful Hopi Spiritual Healing For Dementia

David Maes of Hopi/Apache descent has found a way to help native elders with dementia. It uses the native ways of healing with drums and chanting. What’s unique is his ideas of how to reach these people and that it is working. Here is a report about it written in IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com by Carol Berry.

Successful Hopi Spiritual Healing For Dementia

Most suffering among elders is caused by loneliness, helplessness and boredom, “while an elder-centered community calls for close and continuing contact with plants, animals and children for their companionship,” he said of a part of the Australian approach to dementia.
In some so-called holistic approaches, there are separate medical, social, religious and other treatment components in which “specialists think they are treating the whole person, but in fact they’re fragmenting the person.” Instead, he suggests, each specialist should have “a bit of” the other specialists, “so the M.D. explains how medicine affects his or her spirituality and accompanies the person to a chaplain. That goes to the center of each person—”the essence of the person”—that may have been lost over the years.
“The only way we can reach people with dementia is by going into their world—there’s no other way to reach them right now. They [the treatment community] are beginning to listen to us,” he said, describing Taawa as “a brand-new approach.”
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David Maes comes from an impressive background: Masters of Divinity from St. Thomas School of Theology in Denver with a double major in Christian and Native American Theology and a Masters in Counseling from the University of San Francisco. I especially like how he is combining the methods of other native healers and how he is gathering the energies of various healers for each case. It show how important this is to him as well as his personal ability to network and learn from others. If you like this idea click like below and better yet, share this post with a friend.