Medicines

Medicines

By The Nature Within

What’s in a name?

The word medicine is used in so many ways. We hear it in hospitals, in holistic healing, in song, and in prayer. The practice of medicine can take countless forms—scientific, energetic, emotional, or spiritual.

For me, the word medicine comes from a sacred, spiritual place. It’s the energy, frequency, and vibration that brings us back into balance. It’s the way we feel, heal, and realign when we reconnect with what’s natural and true.

Medicine isn’t only found in what we take; it’s also found in what we give, what we release, and what we allow.

I Will Do My Work Honestly

Today, we begin with one of the five Reiki principles:

Just for today, I will do my work honestly.

When we do our work honestly, the medicines of life begin to reveal themselves. They arrive quietly at first—through lessons, challenges, and moments of revelation. Over time, they become teachers, guides, and mirrors that remind us of who we truly are.

In my daily life, I am a board-certified educator—a teacher by profession, but more deeply, a student of life and Spirit. To teach is not simply to pass on information; it is to embody the lesson so fully that it comes alive within us, so that truth moves through us and into another.

The Sacred Tone of Medicine

The word medicine has always carried a sacred tone for me. It speaks to the unseen ways Spirit heals, teaches, and restores balance. Whether we call it Reiki, prayer, animal medicine, or divine guidance—it is all part of the same sacred current that returns us to Source.

Through my connection with Reiki and the Earth-based traditions that honor Spirit, I’ve come to understand that to “do our work honestly” means to remain devoted to growth—to stay humble, to stay teachable.

It means trusting the cycles of letting go. It means remembering that resistance to learning is resistance to healing.

The Medicines of the Path

The medicines of this path reveal themselves in many forms.

Sometimes through Wolf, who carries the wisdom of the teacher and the call to leadership.

Sometimes through Earth Mother, who offers grounding, nourishment, and the reminder to trust in the process of becoming.

Every honest day’s work brings us closer to the divine within.

Every act of awareness becomes a kind of medicine.

To walk the Reiki path is to live in relationship with these medicines—to honor the energies that heal, empower, and guide us back home.

This is the work.

This is the practice.

This is the medicine.

Truth is, there are all different kinds.

Now, how beautiful is that?!