I’m choosing my words carefully as I describe this little book, lest I impose a more rigid outline than Woodley intended.

Living out the harmony way requires not just a belief but also actions that align with and participate in the local ecosystem and the whole universe” (63). But the harmony way is a way of living and being, with very tangible expressions. A philosophy can simply be believed or espoused. To European and Western people, a philosophy is something that one can adopt at any point in life. “Among Native Americans, the harmony way is less like a philosophy and more like a whole way of being and doing life. The final sections show the reader how to embody and enact the values and priorities of the harmony way. The fifth and sixth sections contrast it with the human-centered, individualistic “American dream,” which Woodley describes as an “indigenous nightmare”. The first four sections describe the indigenous worldview Woodley calls “the harmony way”. The daily meditations are grouped into nine sections or themes that guide the transformation. Embracing these values will help uprooted, transplanted, disconnected readers re-establish harmony and balance on Earth, and become better “Earth relatives.”īecoming Rooted is a gentle and ingenious guide to this process – offering one hundred simple, elegant meditations and observations, each followed by a reflection question or action, that coax the Western reader into a new way of thinking and being in the world. Indigeneity matters, he says over the centuries, indigenous peoples have worked out their relationships with their fellow creatures and the habitats that sustain them all. We are all from somewhere.” Several times in the introduction to his lovely devotional, Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with the Sacred Earth, author Randy Woodley returns to this truth, inviting the reader to let the idea sink deep into your being, to let it become part of your identity. A Review of Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with the Sacred Earthīuy Now:

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