The Medicine Wheel
(part III)

The West - Wudeligv

It seems that most culture have the west as being represented as the color black. Black is because of the early teachings of the darkened land. This is where the sun sets.

The west represents our physical life. Our bodies, our competitive urges, the things that become sacred in our lives, and absolutely our "helping others" in every physical means. This should be thought of as our "teenage" or adolescent years in life. This is where we are growing up after discovering the "ways" of the world and trying to become a part of it. And if I may, this is where most of us focus on our physical fitness of our bodies. Also, beauty and ugliness of the physical "skin-deep" theories are gathered in by us as individuals. If we aren't taught correctly before and during this stage in life, these bad things will enter in and have more of an impact on that could disrupt the harmony needed to live a balanced life.

Yet at the same time, the west brings out our competitive nature which is good for us as individuals. It brings on humility in the areas where we don’t excel in, and in reverse, give us a little ego boost where our strengths are. Through this, with an appropriately developed mind, we will learn where to apply ourselves, how best to put ourselves forward in a way that will produce the best results and know what to avoid. For example, not wasting our abilities on a wrong "career" that becomes fruitless and miserable because though we may have wanted to do "this", but through a well-balanced learning and knowing who we are and applying our God-given talent where it was to be put in the first place, we can ultimately focus our physical abilities on where they are best applied, thus being better balanced within ourselves.

At and the same time maintaining a well-balanced nature of life, keeping what we learned/knew from the south in purity, as a child in mind and growing upon that.