20 Say You Saw it in The Monadnock Shopper News, November 19 – November 25, 2014 Send Us Your <di HigZhh4 Stories of Hope B6EH8djchZa^c\HZgk^XZh michelle@shoppernews.com (**"'')).')"'')% lll#bVehc]#dg\ fax: 357-9351 or mail: PO Box 487, Keene, NH 03431 ."44"(&5)&3"1: Kathie & Michael Sullivan L.M.T. Reiki Master Certified Hypnotist (603) 876-3993 N.H. State Licensed 3D<6DC.=6C@H<>K>C<6N 6B 80 Roxbury St. keeneyogacenter.com NOONTIME YOGA Tues. & Thurs., 12-12:45 pm DAILYCLASSESsSTUDENTRATESsALLLEVELS HEARTFELTLOCALHOMEGROWN 3ERVINGTHECOMMUNITYFORYRS 7ASHINGTON3Ts+EENEsWWWTHEYOGASPACENHCOM THE APOTHECARY Compounding customized medication for people and pets COLLAGEN TYPE II Gives many patients some relief from their arthritis pain. 0QFOt.POEBZUISV'SJEBZ .BJO4USFFUt(603) 357-0200 Tall Yellow Top In this day and age of mass media communication, it is so easy to search for personal healing answers from “experts” somewhere in cyberspace. And while this can sometimes be helpful, this month’s column is about our own personal healing wisdom – which each of us can access. Messages of healing can come to us in many ways. Sometimes they can come as a dream, so vivid and memorable that the dream image does not fade away when we awake. Years ago, when I was in a low point in my life and dealing with some unexplained eczema on my elbows and eyelids, a beautiful and powerful snake visited me while I slept, biting me on my arm and infusing me with a warm and wonderful feeling that woke me up. In fact, I could not sleep at all the rest of the night, and from that moment on, I never had the eczema again. In some dreams, diagnosis can happen. A wonderful book about the power of dreams was written by a man who himself dreamt of his impending thyroid cancer and the doctor who would eventually operate on him. He had to convince the medical profession to take his dream seriously enough to do the medical tests, which indeed showed the cancer his dream had already revealed to him. In our awaking moments, we can also receive intuitions of healing possibilities, either for ourselves or our loved ones. This can come in many ways: while meditating, from spirit guides, from thoughts that drop into our mind and heart unexpectedly, and sometimes just simply by being with ourselves. Sometimes we may ask for them or in some cases they may find us – to our great surprise. But in whatever way they may arrive to you, they are typically simple and direct. You know. Let me give you a personal example. As mentioned in my column last month, I have been studying Australian Bush Flower Essences. And while I had “tried a few” in our training class, I was searching for the one constitutional essence that would be most specific to me. I read over and over the 64 different descriptions. I looked at their &?;FCHA .?LMJ?=NCP?M with Skye Stephenson pictures. I thought a lot about it, scribbling this name or that down. And then one morning as I was preparing to go to work, I saw the flower that was meant for me. It was bright yellow, and it looked a bit like a dandelion but was not. I leafed through my reference guide until I found the image. The flower was “Tall Yellow Top.” It was one of the few flowers I had not even considered. My first read through of the description did not seem right to me. It talked of people who either feel better than others and thus stand apart, or people who need to stand apart to get a message out. Characteristics included being detached, aloof, etc. It took me some time to accept this healing wisdom from my deepest self. A few days later, in the second reference volume a follow up addition about “Tall Yellow Top” describes its use to alleviate pelvis and leg pains that cannot be explained. Pains that feel like they are in the leg and foot, but actually derive from a shifted pelvis that makes one leg slightly longer than another. Amazingly, I had been experiencing just such pains. The chiropractor I go to told me that they were due to the position of my pelvis and tried to correct it via some specific messages and recommendations. Even more remarkable is that this shifted pelvis is due to a birth injury. I was pulled out after a difficult delivery by forceps, which twisted my pelvis. I have early memories of painful massages done to right my pelvis so my two legs would be even. For decades, I had never had any pain in my lower extremities but of late had begun to experience some discomfort. Two weeks into taking “Tall Yellow Top,” and most of my leg and ankle pain is gone. And I believe that I am feeling less emotionally aloof as well. Such diagnostic ability to help ourselves heal is within us all, if we give it a chance to speak to us and we follow what it suggests. Oftentimes, it involves admitting things about ourselves we may not want to acknowledge at first, but this too part of our healing process. Skye Stephenson, PhD., is a local resident who enjoys writing, sacred travel, and helping to promote peace and healing. She recently completed her own “Crystal Companion Cards,” and is a licensed crystal healer. She would enjoy meeting with you to explore your life path and what would help facilitate your personal goals and passions. She employs a combination of divination, astrology, flower essences, crystal healing and meditation techniques, depending on the client’s interest and inclination. 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