Healing from the Dilly Bag

By Bilawara Lee

Healing from the Dilly Bag

Bilawaras book offers information to help you get a better understanding of Australian Aboriginal peoples deep connection to Mother Earth and their beliefs about health and wellbeing. She will share with you her wisdoms to help you achieve an increased empathy for the Aboriginal peoples psyche and how they traditionally overcome the effects of illness and injury.

The book carries Bilawaras message from her knowledge and teachings as a spiritual healer. She will share with you information on how she uses her knowledge and skills from ancient traditional teaching in a contemporary world. Holistic spiritual healing treats your body, soul and spirit. This is different from western medicine which focuses on parts of the body and mind but ignores the spirit, expecting patients to seek spiritual healing from their religious and cultural organisations. Spiritual healing aims to restore balance for each person in their body, soul and spirit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Mar 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781479785018

Bilawara Lee

Bilawara Lee is an Elder of the Larrakia Nation of Darwin Northern Territory, Australia. Bilawara has over 62 years’ experience with working, living and being part of a vibrant, highly respected Aboriginal family. Bilawara’s family, her culture and spirituality are fundamental to her identity and are very important for her journey in this lifetime. She has a great passion to combat ignorance and racism and is committed to sharing her knowledge towards achieving these goals. Bilawara is acknowledged and respected as a community communicator, healer and teacher of the ancient wisdoms of Aboriginal spirituality and healing. She is the Australian Aboriginal representative on the International Indigenous Grandmothers Council whom are acknowledged and respected as the wisdom keepers of the World of Ancient Sacred Knowledge. Bilawara is the Elder on Campus for the Flinders University’s Northern Territory Medical Program in Darwin Northern Territory, Australia and the reason for this book is for her to share her knowledge on how to work as a holistic healer. Healers who are able to use the best of modern medicine together with what is best in traditional healing so they can heal mind, body and spirit. Bilawara is an international author and popular teacher and workshop presenter on the wisdoms of her ancient teachings, and she has been made a Faculty Member of the Casa de La Luna institute in California USA.

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Copyright © 2013 by Bilawara Lee.

Library of Congress Control Number:      2013901481

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-4797-8500-1

                 Softcover        978-1-4797-8499-8

                 Ebook             978-1-4797-8501-8

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Rev. date: 03/25/2013

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Spiritual Connection To Land

Chapter 2 Aboriginal Healing

Chapter 3 Aboriginal Spirituality

Chapter 4 Health Practitioner—Patient Communication

Chapter 5 Lessons To Be Learned From Aboriginal Healing

Chapter 6 Spiritual Healing

Chapter 7 Rituals And Healing

Chapter 8 Conclusion

B ilawara Lee is an Aboriginal Elder of the Larrakia Nation of Darwin, Northern Territory (NT), Australia. Her name means ‘black cockatoo’. The black cockatoo bird is an ancestral spirit ‘being’ that represents the power of spirit coming into your life; its spiritual energy can bring about empowerment, happiness, and contentment. The black cockatoo embodies the energy of change, so when it appears in your life, change will happen. When Bilawara touches your life, change will follow.

Bilawara is the eldest of 11 children (seven brothers and four sisters). She has 3 children and 8 grandchildren. She is a cross-cultural awareness and cultural protocols trainer, conflict resolution mediator, and authorised marriage celebrant. Bilawara has over sixty-three years’ experience with working, living, and being part of a vibrant, highly respected Aboriginal family. She is acknowledged and respected as a community communicator, healer, and teacher of the ancient wisdoms of Aboriginal spirituality and healing. She is the Australian Aboriginal representative on the International Indigenous Grandmothers Council, members of which are recognised as wisdom keepers of the world of ancient sacred knowledge.

In 2009, Bilawara was a recipient of a Tribute to Northern Territory Women 2009 Award for her involvement in and contribution to the NT community and for improving the lives of Territorians. The award acknowledged her tireless volunteer work advocating for the rights of all women at the local, national, and international level and for her support and commitment towards achieving reconciliation and breaking down barriers between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people through her cross-cultural awareness training and workshops on cultural protocols for working in Aboriginal communities.

Bilawara is the Elder on the campus for Flinders University’s NT medical program in Darwin, NT, Australia. Her dream is to see the graduates from the NT medical program graduate as true holistic healers, who are able to use the best in modern medicine together with what is best in traditional healing; this combination promises to be better than either one alone, especially for Indigenous patients.

Bilawara also works as a spiritual healer and uses her knowledge and skills through mamili-ma [star] healing, which is a combination of ancient rituals and spiritual energy, to support and guide others through these very difficult, rapidly changing times.

The reason for this book is to share the knowledge and skill with those who are truly interested in working on their own healing or with others to heal body, soul, and spirit. I know that this spiritual healing method can be used by anybody and can be used to heal anyone.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

T o my dear friends John Altomonte, who took