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Living an animist lifestyle helps me to be in balance with all people of creation, whether I understand them as teachers, medicine helpers, brothers, or sisters. Listening to their sense of knowing and learning how that relates to my own sense of knowing and well being helps me to be a more well rounded person in my own right. It assists me in practicing empathy and compassion for all of my human and other than human community.
Intentional mutual respect with all people allows me to maintain a balance in my own life and helps me not to enforce my will, but to harmonize and blend with theirs to create a higher vibration in the universe.
Bioregionally practicing animism gives me a sense of place and belonging, as an individual, as well as part of the larger community. I also feel that having a bioregional philosophy only serves to strengthen my commitment to walking in my life ways and cultural teachings. There is something about being on your own soil or ancestral ground that gives you a stronger sense of who you are and more of a commitment to the future generations to come, which is a very big part of native teachings and way of life...The Seven Generations.