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An animal offers you its medicine to help with something you need at a particular time. Your totem isn't the only animal that can give you medicine ~ all creatures can, in fact, many do throughout your lifetime. The medicine you receive may change from day to day.

When you spot an animal in nature or a dream, it may have come to bring you medicine. Animals also appear to us through television, magazines, books, or even conversations. If you feel suddenly or strongly drawn to a particular animal, it could be a signal that you need that creatures medicine right now.

According to the Eastern Band Cherokee Indians, "Animal medicine refers to the healing aspects that a particular animal brings to our consciousness."
 
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BEAR, How to use this animal's power:

When you need extra strength, emotionally or physically, ask a bear to lend you it's power, especially if your facing a threat of some kind. Are you having trouble handling a problem or making a decision? Let a bear guide you to discover your own inner wisdom.

Encountering a bear in the waking world or in a dream can indicate that you need to withdraw from activity for awhile to rest, or perhaps you need more sleep to keep up your strength. A situation may arise soon that requires you to use your power to protect yourself or others.
 
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~BEAR~
...you possess tremendous strength and can be fierce, but you are usually gentle and even rather shy...unless someone provokes you. You're probably quicker and more agile than you appear, and people tend to underestimate your capabilities. Extremely protective of your loved ones, you will go to great lengths to keep them safe. Although you have a playful side, you need to withdraw from society for periods of time to be alone and rest.
~Strengths; strength, speed, protective, loyalty, peacefulness.

~Symbolic meanings~
Encountering a bear in a dream can indicate that you need to withdraw from activity for awhile to rest. Perhaps you need more sleep to keep up your strength. A situation may arise soon that reguires you to use your power to protect yourself or others ~♥~
~The Sacred Power of SPirit Animals~
*Artist: Carl Brenders*
 
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The Bear Legend A Cherokee Legend In the long ago time, there was a Cherokee Clan called the Ani-Tsa-gu-hi (Ahnee-Jah-goo-hee), and in one family of this clan was a boy who used to leave home and be gone all day in the mountains. After awhile he went more often and stayed longer, until at last he would not eat in the house at all, starting off at daybreak and not coming back until night. His parents scolded, but that did no good, and the boy still went every day until they noticed that long brown hair was beginning to grow out all over his body. Then they wondered and asked him why it was that he wanted to be so much in the woods that he would not even eat at home. Said the boy, "I find plenty to eat there, and it is better than the corn and beans we have in the settlements, and pretty soon I am going into the woods to say all the time." His parents were worried and begged him not leave them, but he said, "It is better there than here, and you see I am beginning to be different already, so that I can not live here any longer. If you will come with me, there is plenty for all of us and you will never have to work for it; but if you want to come, you must first fast seven days." The father and mother talked it over and then told the headmen of the clan. They held a council about the matter and after everything had been said they decided: "Here we must work hard and have not always enough. There he says is always plenty without work. We will go with him." So they fasted seven days, and on the seventh morning al the Ani-Tsa-gu-hi left the settlement and started for the mountains as the boy led the way. When the people of the other towns heard of it they were very sorry and sent their headmen to persuade the Ani-Tsa-gu-hi to stay at home and not go into the woods to live. The messengers found them already on the way, and were surprised to notice that their bodies were beginning to be covered with hair like that of animals, because for seven days they had not taken human food and their nature was changing. The Ani-Tsa-gu-hi would not come back, but said, "We are going where there is always plenty to eat. From now on, we shall be called Yonva (bears), and when you yourselves are hungry come into the woods and call us and we shall come to give you our own flesh. You need not be afraid to kill us, for we shall live always." Then they taught the messengers the songs with which to call them and bear hunters have these songs still. When they had finished the songs, the Ani-Tsa-gu-hi started on again and the messengers turned back to the settlements, but after going a little way they looked back and saw a drove of bears going into the woods.
 
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~Bear Medicine~
...is the ability to find your service pathway, the pathway that truly gives you joy. Your service pathway includes both your spiritual and career pathways. Bears are always very clear about their pathways and intentions. They will not let anyone or anything stop or divert them when they are following their true pathway. Bears represent strength, and endurance, and they never give up on life, no matter what happens to them. They are great parents and communicators.
~Bear medicine also gives us the powerful gift of introspection and discernment while dreaming, meditating or journeying. Bear can awaken our unconscious and connect us to the messages meant for us through our soul
 
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