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    A Healing Legend: Wisdom from the Four Directions
    A Healing Legend: Wisdom from the Four Directions
    A Healing Legend: Wisdom from the Four Directions
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    A Healing Legend: Wisdom from the Four Directions

    By Garry Flint

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    A Healing Legend: Wisdom from the four directions

    This little book teaches a healing process that can change your life.

    A Healing Legend: Wisdom from the Four Directions was written for children and adults to teach the reader's inner-self a treatment process to move him or her in a positive direction. This is accomplished by reading the story about Kidd.

    Kidd is going through a tough time in his childhood: he's being bullied in school and worries incessantly about the "what-ifs" in life to the point where it is disturbing his school work and social life.

    Kidd receives wisdom from an unexpected source. This wisdom included a process that led to change in his problems without any effort on his part. His growth and transformation from an insecure boy to a self-confident being teaches us that change can happen with the right process.

    In A Healing Legend: Wisdom from the Four Directions, authors Garry A. Flint and Jo C. Willems use a Native American allegory and communication techniques to teach readers of all ages an alternative way of healing personal issues. The fictional story of Kidd is a way to explore the truth that useful healing processes can pass between family and friends.

    This book can be read to children and used in a school setting.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateMar 10, 2011
    ISBN9781456601362
    A Healing Legend: Wisdom from the Four Directions

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      A Healing Legend - Garry Flint

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      Acknowledgments

      Garry A. Flint

      Thank you to First Nations Elder Patrick Adrian for giving me a valuable gift that changed my spiritual and professional life. I thank Roger Callahan, the developer and principle teacher of Thought Field Therapy (Callahan, 2006), who taught me the treatment method he discovered.

      I also want to thank all the patients who were my teachers while I developed the Process Healing Method (Flint, 2006). I especially want to acknowledge the patient who first showed me that it was possible to do Callahan’s external treatment method internally without conscious involvement.

      Garry A. Flint and Jo C. Willems

      We are grateful to Jason, Ryan, and Joy Haxton, Denise Farmer, Donna Cameron, Joan Davidson, and Margaret Peterson who read and critiqued the book as we developed it. We also want to thank Christopher Butler of WordsRU.com who offered significant editing suggestions for the manuscript and Claudia Volkman of Elance.com for the final proofreading.

      Introduction

      A First Nations Elder told Garry Flint that, before 1900, Elders would meet and communicate in a manner that didn't involve spoken language. After a meeting, the elders did what they agreed on with their unspoken communication. The idea of unspoken communication caught our attention and Garry started thinking about different ways to teach a healing process. Storytelling is a natural way of doing this.

      The authors designed this little book to teach a healing process to your inner-self that can heal many of your emotional issues. They present the healing process metaphorically through a delightful tale about a boy who has problems with his thoughts and a schoolyard bully.

      Teaching the inner-self how to treat personal issues is the basis of the Process Healing Method (Flint, 2006). During the twelve years of using this method, Flint occasionally noted something very interesting. Some patients reported that they noticed positive changes beginning to happen to those around them-the spontaneous transfer of the healing process. Was this communication without spoken language? Clearly, in some way, this healing process was being shared with others. After you listen to the book, will you notice others changing around you?

      This little book has had significant impact on some people’s lives. While not true for everyone, the authors believe that many readers will experience positive life changes after reading this book.

      A Healing Legend:

      Wisdom

      from the

      Four Directions

      A Story Before the Story

      THINGS change, that’s the way it is in the mountains— that’s the way it is everywhere. Sometimes things in nature change very slowly and cannot be easily seen, like the trees growing in the forest. Sometimes things change on a regular basis, like the day-to-day living of a squirrel and baby birds growing up. Sometimes things change very quickly, then settle to a new way of being and don’t change for a long time. That is where our story begins...

      A long time ago, a great glacier covered the peaks and valleys of a mountain range. For thousands of years, the movement of the glacier ice wore away the loose soil and softer rock along the highest crest. Eventually this created the towering rocky walls of a circular valley near the top of one of the peaks. When the glacier melted at the end of the last ice age, the ragged stone walls of the cirque were revealed, making the peak look a lot like the indented crown of an old-fashioned ranger’s hat.

      Winter and spring, the water on the walls froze and melted repeatedly, breaking off many chunks of rocks. Most of the chunks of rock that fell away got caught up in the soft soils of the alpine meadows or rolled farther down the mountain where they became stuck behind trees or other rocks. And there they remained, seemingly unchanged forever. However, some of the largest chunks rolled all the way down to the bottom of the valley and ended up in the riverbed.

      Over time, the f low of the river water changed the stones. Some were worn as smooth as the inside of a bathtub. Some of them rolled around in the current until they were broken into pebbles, then into even smaller pebbles and finally ground to sand, all the while moving further down the stream. In this way, a goodly amount of the mountaintop, mostly in the form of fine sand and silt, had traveled all the way to the ocean. And the ocean was hundreds of miles away.

      Then, on no particular day, one large boulder cracked off the stone walls far above the valley and rolled down the steep mountainside to settle into a shaky balance on a mess of rubble just above the river. The very weight of the rock’s great size held it into place, jammed against many other smaller rocks. It was bigger than a house and leaned at an odd angle, over hanging the valley, where it remained for thousands of years while the rest of the valley, and indeed the world, changed around it.

      The broad river valley below the rock was a special place. It was sheltered and faced south, exposing the land to the warming rays of the sun, even in winter. And it was one of the first spots to melt out every spring, making it a good place for all living plants and animals. When this unusual valley was discovered, it became a popular winter home for the first peoples of

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