Navajo Prayers

 

Prayer Of Affirmations – A Navajo Indian Prayer

The simplest and most obvious prayer is a request to God that the adversity end and that one be restored to health. Such prayers often involve "affirmations." There is a considerable psychological literature on the healing power of affirmations, and many cancer patients use them. Here is a beautiful Navajo prayer that uses affirmation:

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O you who dwell In the house made of the dawn,
In the house made of the evening twilight . . .
Where the dark mist curtains the doorway,
The path to which is on the rainbow . . .
I have made your sacrifice.
I have prepared a smoke for you.
 
My feet restore for me.
My limbs restore for me.
My body restore for me.
My mind restore for me.
My voice restore for me.
 
Today, take away your spell from me.
Away from me you have taken it.
Far Off from me you have taken it.
 
Happily I recover.
Happily my interior becomes cool.
Happily my eyes regain their power.
Happily my head becomes cool.
Happily my limbs regain their power.
Happily I hear again.
Happily for me the spell is taken Off.
 
Happily I walk.
Impervious to pain, I walk.
Feeling light within, I walk . . .
In beauty I walk.
With beauty before me, I walk.
With beauty behind me, I walk.
With beauty below me, I walk.
With beauty all around me, I walk.
 
It is finished in beauty.
It is finished in beauty.
It is finished in beauty

 

Traditional Navajo Prayer

Dark young pine, at the center of the earth originating,
I have made your sacrifice.
Whiteshell, turquoise, abalone beautiful,
Jet beautiful, fool’s gold beautiful, blue pollen beautiful,
reed pollen, pollen beautiful, your sacrifice I have made.
This day your child I have become, I say.

Watch over me.
Hold your hand before me in protection
Stand guard for me, speak in defense of me.
As I speak for you, speak for me.
As you speak for me, so will I speak for you.

 

May it be beautiful before me,
 
May it be beautiful behind me,
 
May it be beautiful below me,
 
May it be beautiful above me,
 
May it be beautiful all around me.

 

I am restored in beauty.
 
I am restored in beauty.
 
I am restored in beauty.
 
I am restored in beauty.

 

 

 

Prayer for Recovery of Mind and Body (Navajo Prayer)

 
Restore to me my feet, my body, my mind, and my voice.
Take away your spell from me today, remove your spell from me today.

You have taken it away from me! It has departed far from me - you have taken it far away from me.

I recover in a magnificent fashion. My eyes regain their strength; happily the spell is removed. I walk without pain, I walk with light within. Thus happily you accomplish your works.

With happiness the aged will regard you and the children will look toward you. They will regard you with happiness as they return home. May their trials homeward be pervaded with peace and may all of them return.

- Navajo Prayer

 

 

 
This is called a Navajo Wind Prayer, but it actually addresses women with great reverence and love. Share it with a woman you know so that she can remember to walk with her head held high, proud in the knowledge of her strength and true beauty.

Dine (Navajo) Wind Prayer
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Oh, Great Spirit, Oh Grandfathers,
How lucky can one be to know such beauty?
One can search the world over and not find this much loveliness.
Her heart is pure, and radiates love and warmth.
Oh, Mother Earth, it is from your womb that she does come.
It has to be, for she reflects your beauty that I see all around me.

Oh, Navajo Wind, blow softly upon this desert rose.
Embrace her always with your warm gentle breezes.
Fill her heart with the pride and happiness.
From a proud and noble people that she does come.

Whisper soft reminders in her ear,
“Never forget…
Never forget.”

Oh, Father, the Navajo Sun,
Shine brightly down upon her path,
Allow her to see the beauty in herself as well as in others.
Protect her and keep her warm.
Hide her in your absence from the despairs of this life.
Allow her always to walk in beauty.
Oh, Woman who walks in beauty like the night,
I am a friend who is distant and silent.
I will care for you always.

 

 

A Navajo Prayer

Navajo sand painting

In harmony may I walk.
With harmony before me may I walk.
With harmony behind me may I walk.
With harmony above me may I walk.
With harmony underneath my feet, may I walk.
With harmony all around me may I walk.
It is done in harmony.

 

 

On the trail of beauty, there I wander
In the house of happiness, there I wander
Beauty before me, there I wander
Beauty behind me, there I wander
Beauty above me, there I wander
Beauty below me, there I wander
All around me, in old age traveling
On the trail of beauty, with beauty I wander
With beauty I wander.

 

 


Today I will walk out, today everything evil will leave me,
I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body.
I will have a light body, I will be happy forever, nothing will hinder me.
I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me.
I walk with beauty below me. I walk with beauty above me.
I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful.

In beauty all day long may I walk.
Through the returning seasons, may I walk.
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
With dew about my feet, may I walk.

With beauty before me may I walk.
With beauty behind me may I walk.
With beauty below me may I walk.
With beauty above me may I walk.
With beauty all around me may I walk.

In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk.
My words will be beautiful.
 

 

 

 

Nancy A. Butler, Student
Tunxis Community College, Farmington, CT
Asnuntuck Community College, Enfield, CT
Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT
Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
Email:  nancyab@earthlink.net