Native American (Diné) Lesson on ‘feelings’. 

When we were little, besides the “sticks and stones” we would say “I’m rubber you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you”...not deeply spiritual, but we got the meaning!

"Words do not have sharp blades and points like knives and swords, but they can cut the heart to pieces" ~ Tibetan Proverb

I'm really enjoying these teachings, although I'm Caucasian, so much respect for the beautiful cultures of the natives. Thank you for sharing. 🙏💖

Thank you so much Mr. Brown for your teaching and understanding the deeper meanings of Spiritually. GOD bless you.

This is a great teaching!All the NTT episodes with language lessons and examples are always the best no matter what the subject matter is. Thank you

I wish I was brought up with these teachings. I gravitate to a lot of these videos. They've really helped me to think more positively and live a happier life.

Allowing the beauty of your sharing gift to penetrate that hurt. Blessings Grandfather. Thank you. I would so wrap you in a huge hug right now!

Your videos are beautiful. It's not the words that sends out disharmony but it is the vibrational frequency within the words we put out and receive. It's the intent within the words. We cannot help but to feel that. However there is always the choice in which thoughts and actions we engage with in response to whatever we have received. I can feel hurt or threatened but I also have the power to choose how to deal with that. Free will. Sometimes I fail, other times I succeed. To say no words affect me is spiritual bypassing. Everything is energy, you cannot avoid being affected by others but you can choose how you handle challenging situations. We are temporarily flawed material creatures as well as infinite spiritual beings. Thanks for sharing 💗

Thank you very much for sharing ! Greetings, from Germany and Austria, Michael !

When someone criticizes me I first stop and consider it. If it is true then I take it as an opportunity to correct myself. If it is false then I know that it does not apply to me it is not my problem so it doesn't bother me.

Wonderful wisdom. Remember my friends: the words of criticism we experience the most come from within ourselves, and not from people outside us. So, the wisdom says do not hurt YOURSELF with YOUR words either.

Its better to hear these lessons from traditional elders than popular professors. For digestive purposes anyways. Less polarity and politics makes it sweeter.

Shalom ❤️ Thank you for teaching us. Be still and the earth will speak to you. Be still and the earth will speak to you. Before me peaceful, behind me peaceful, under me peaceful, over me peaceful, all around me peaceful. -Navajo Proverb.

Love his wisdom I have Cherokee on my dad's side I've always felt drawn to native American culture 💕

Yes true, they're just words, but a person's feelings toward you, criticisms & verbal abuses can hurt though... Especially if you've trusted them with your vulnerable issues & aspects

Thank you very much for sharing ! Greetings and Blessings, Michael !

I very much enjoy your wisoms.thank you so much for sharing these teachings.blessings

I figure consejos are easier heard and resonate when ears are free to listen. Thank you for these valuable teachings. Blessings to you and Shane and family. She was so right to encourage y'all to teach in this medium. Thank you,my elders. Your gained wisdom is priceless and am so grateful and happy, joyful,confident,and peaceful when I hear these holy teachings. The love is felt. ❤️

You bring me clarity my friend. Your words are will stand forever ❤️ Bless you..

So true. If words hurt, you are not in a good place in your own mind

Wise words from a wise man, TY TEACH, John Michael !!!

Thank you for your words of wisdom. Greatly appreciated.

Thank you Wally and Shane... this lesson was very helpful for me 🙏

I have wanted to comment on these videos but out of concern that I might offend I have remained silent. I moved to new Mexico from Florida two years ago my wife and I bought a house on the edge of the Navajo reservation. learning the ways and culture of the Navajo has been a challenge. I started watching your videos to learn how to interact with native Americans with out seeming rude. Now I watch your videos because each and every one seems to speak to my life in some way. I too am from the east I too came here looking for a better life. where I live I have open sky's and open country with the Zuni's to look at. I am so happy to be here and so thank full for your videos.

thank you. your teachings are helping me understand better.

This is so true, may try to use words like a snare. To keep you from moving fwd in life or to try and trap you by getting you to react in a negatively. The trap is to get you to do something in an unlawful matter to get you in trouble with the law in hopes that you get arrested to give you a criminal record. This would prevent you stopping them in what they are trying to accomplish as you will not be around to hinder their plans. It is up to you as the elder said to practice self control so as to keep on fighting the good fight. As alway wise words. Thanx.👍

I love you very much Mr,Wally

Beautiful, thank you.

Very useful advice Grandfather Wally especially if one is a sensitive person.

Most toxic people are mirroring how they feel about themselves onto you. Others are intimidated by your light.

I really needed this video! It’s so hard to not let peoples words affect you especially when they’re coming from A loved one . I no longer have my grandparents who raised me so I’m very grateful to you and Navajo grandma ❤️Prayers for you and the Navajo nation 🙏🏼❤️

I appreciate your wisdom, thank you for sharing your beautiful and correct way of life. One time I was in my garage and I heard and Eagle screech out in the distance, it inspired me, I wrote a couple words, basically feeling and thinking to myself, I said I take life so personally that I feel connected, I know I am, I believed I heard the Eagle and I believe the Eagle heard me, negative hateful words don’t affect me, trust me, I wasn’t saying I take other people’s thoughts or opinions of me faze me. I could care less, I do care what God and my mentors think, I appreciate constructive criticism, I take life personally meaning, the connection with it, I love it, all of it, I know who I am. I love your way of life, your mindset, and your culture. I’m sorry the tribes had to go through what you went through, and are still going through, It was wrong. 🙏

I just started watching you. You're very wise and kind. Thank you for sharing your understanding and heritage with us. I have a Cherokee blood line that I treasure. Its so important to teach our children about the power of unseen things both good and bad !! On this subject of painful words and those that use them please teach use more. I am really struggling in this area. Thank you so much !! The mother of Jedi Jay.

Thank you ✨😇✨ LOVE peace to all beautiful Souls we are one 🌏

I think words can only hurt you (further) when the words are in line with what you believe about yourself and that belief is based on a lie... When I feel not good enough, (wound and lie) and a person calls me something which basically says I am worthless, it will hurt me (deeper). When I believe I am good enough, those words can't hurt me. I might even see it comes from the wounds of the person saying it. It's interesting that you started with explaining it in a teaching context. I think true instructors are completely healed.. in some cultures they are called masters. Because we can't look inside the person instructing and can not see the intentions and wounds in that person, I think we should be careful with giving someone a title with our mouths and we may remember that True Teaching will never hurt us because it's encouraging us and strengthening us. Also, if someone authentic teaches something, it means this person has been through a similar process yet and will be patient with you because in you he/she sees him/herself. There is no point in pushing a teaching, because it's a matter of the heart, a matter of feeling to recognize and therefore choose to embrace the instruction and to acknowledge the Instructor. Thank you for explaining, I am happy I have found your channel. May you, your people and all beings experience peace and free choice.

I'm so very grateful for you and your wisdom Sir! The voice of our ancestors brings out through you into the future.

Thank you.

Awesome thank you very much my relation

I'm still learning. Thank you

It's often not the words but the way and energy with which they are given. That is what hurts and I don't know how to stop that.

This was really well said. My father use to say "Stick and Stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. This is how I stayed a strong single mom and grandma because I know I do as much as I can as a humble human. I have Peace but happiness comes and goes but Peace will always give me everything I need in this blessed life with happiness.

Thank you 🙏 sir!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge,and giving guidance to those who are lost ❤

Thanks for sharing the ancient times

Thank you sir.

Great teaching.. Also good to apply to when you experience failure or rejection.. Don't allow it to hurt you or take it too personally

Thank you Mr. Brown for teaching and helping people with your wisdom in your knowledgeable videos!

Thank you Mr. Brown and Shane...

Thank you. You're explaining on a deeper level to what eleanor roosevelt said, "no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." So true!

Thank you! You are my new teacher!

Thank you for the wisdom, keep your traditions going. ❤️

Thank you

Thank you, so much, for sharing your wisdom.

Wat a blessing

My goodness i needed to hear this today. I love you 💗💗💗

I remember my mom and grandma telling me that over and over again

grace and peace

This is so importand. Thank you so much 🌱🕊🕊💚

I really appreciate this channel! 👏🏼👏🏼

It is difficult when words are used as weapons to destroy your peace and wound your spirit. I have someone in my life obsessed with hurting me in any way that they can- I stay strong, but this person, and those working with them do this every day and into the night. Not even sure why they have picked me.

All the best Navajo.

Yes sir.❤

I never understood how not to allow words to hurt me... They do... Even if i tell myself, i don't allow it. No result...

Ahé’hee!

A wise man once said, a wise man once said...😎😎

Thankyou 🙏🏽

Thank You

Obrigada senhor Wally Brown ❤

Thank You ♡

thank you

O my goodness l wish l would've read your words today before going to work .see l used to be a care giver wear l work I'm a 61 year old woman not so wise anyway the start of work was me in the kitchen but 2 friends of mine were telling me of a man soon passing that l used to take care of and that l should see him before his passing after holding his hand someone came said you need to get back to the kitchen and cook that cut deep l took off my chef shirt through it at them said catch this l quit.. so sad l let my Irish and scottish temper get the best of me

The intense irony here however is that half the world now gets so easily offended by even the slightest thing. Such a dramatic difference. I agree with what you say. Interested in how you would deal with a situation where someone in the family keeps lying & setting you up to fail & not trying to teach you; but degrade you on a daily basis for years on end? How does family deal with this if it's your own kin & the enemy is within your own circle?

#Wittgenstein would agree with this!✌️🙏

AHXÉHEE!!

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I think this can be helpful, provided the person providing advice is doing so from a place of love. However, many in our world are critical from a judgmental or wounded place and there is mental and emotional abuse that cannot be allowed. Telling the person who is receiving this abuse, that they just need to not take it personally, is victim shaming.

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Words are born of the intentions of the individual who uttered them. What is the design of said individual's invective? Is it well meaning, innocuous or suspicious?

Mr. Brown, in your opinion do you find some philosophical kinship between these teachings of your people and the ancient Stoics? Both guiding principles appear very similar, but I am more familiar with the cultural context of the Greek Stoics than the Diné I'm afraid, so I may be off the mark with this question.

I turn them into love pranas and send them out😌

People let words rule over them and it traps them keeping them limited to their own understanding as well. I feel partly due to growing up we try to find an identity in this world

Sa'ad meaning words spoken. English = Said 2:58

2 refrain from correcting is more cruel..?

I would love the opportunity to sit with you some day and take in much of this great wisdom. I know there is drama surrounding the whole pandemic deal right now (something that I am not afraid of personally). That being said; I understand that things are being done differently right now. If / when the opportunity permits, I would like to travel to your land some day. I will be sending an email to your traditional teachings website soon as well (from Midwest Moe). We have a show now, with former guests like Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Jane Elliot. If possible; we would like to add you to our list of distinguished guests some day. We can arrange for the interview to be done from the comfort of your own home, over the internet. Nothing but respect; with no surprises or ambush journalism. By the way, we have had native Americans as guests before. I am sure that they can bear witness to the respect and love that we extended to them.

Feelings? Really

MIIGWITCH Mishomis!

I feel the more I listen to him, he feels more and more like a conservative. Liberals and Democrats are good at being emotional and attacking others based on gossip.

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I love and appreciate that there is a people (all cultures) that care about being a well balanced human being and understand that we can be are own worse enemy. personally, I am glad I was a different shade of human being. I saw these little ugly ick and self educated myself through experiences that do happen but it comes from many places but not based on shade of skin color. Thank you for Blessing us ❤ Relatives please be an individual who pays attention, and accepts criticism to self improve and usually others are the ones who lack self control 😘

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