When did you stop dancing

"In many shamanic societies, if you came to a shaman

or medicine person complaining of being

 disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, 

they would ask one of four questions.

When did you stop dancing? 

When did you stop singing? 

When did you stop being enchanted by stories?

When did you stop finding comfort in

 the sweet territory of silence? 

Where we have stopped dancing, singing,

 being enchanted by stories,

or finding comfort in silence is where we have

 experience the loss of soul. 

Dancing, singing, storytelling, and silence

are the four universal healing salves."

Gabrielle Ruth