If we cut our hair we have cut off some of your wisdom and knowledge. They say when you cut your hair you have harmed your mental and physical being. This means you have created disharmony with Mother Earth and the Holy Gods. You will get confused and frustrated with the things that may come our way. Furthermore, we have asked for powerful forces of unhappiness, poverty, and our purpose of life becomes dim and unclear. Our dreams become signs of bad luck. In the traditional teachings, it is said that you should never cut your hair unless you are rebounding from sickness or other health problems that hindered your life greatly. In order to create harmony again, we must use the Blessing way Ceremony. In this way we will have a clear mind and thought process. Our hair should never be worn down, unless we are attending a funeral or a burial service. The deceased will be buried with their hair down. The only other time we can wear our hair down is during our monthly (menstrual) thing.

Our knowledge increases as we go from birth to youth hood to adult hood to old age. For example, when a girl reaches puberty, she is given a traditional hair brush as one of her tool to care for her hair. The hair brush is part of nature. The brush is made from tall wild wheat grass tied into a bunch. It represents Mother Earth - white shell, turquoise, abalone shell and black jet and is a protection against evilness.

As our knowledge increases and how we care for our mental and physical being we mature and age, when we reach adulthood we are fully mature with skills and knowledge ready to make life. From this day forward we continued to address our mental and physical being into old age. If we don't violate a natural or ethical law, our frame of mind is clear, strong, and beautiful. The learning acquired is passed on from generation to generation. This learning of knowledge will never grow old. The knowledge is relearned and continued. As we are all educators and learners.