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Below is a personal account from a Tipp City resident whose life was changed
as a
result.
In 1995 I was only seventeen years old and filled with all of the usual
teenage stress. I
wasn't exactly sure where I fit in, I didn't know what I wanted to wear, and
I had not yet
figured out what I was going to do with myself when I grew up. I was
attending the Upper
Valley JVS enrolled in the Graphic Arts program. I dreamed of becoming an
art teacher
after high school. Of course I was filled with the excitement of my dreams,
along with the
anxiety of being a teenage girl that hadn't quite figured herself out yet. I
suffered from
extreme anxiety wondering where and how I fit in, and wondering if I even
needed to
anyways.
Then one day we had a substitute teacher in our lab. Her name was Mrs. Nancy
Neal. She
was the coolest adult I had ever met. She actually looked at me when she was
speaking to me and she really cared about what I was interested in and why.
She taught us guided
meditation one day in class, and I went home and practiced on my own that
very same day.
I continued to do this on a regular basis. I even did it in the classroom or
anywhere that I was and needed to relax. This relaxation I learned from Mrs.
Neal was one of the first steps
to my realization of what I wanted to spend my life doing.
I learned from her the importance of caring for and respecting myself no
matter what everyone else was saying or doing in my life. She touched the
life of myself and so many of my friends when no other adults wanted
anything to do with us. My friends and I weren't put on this earth to be
like everyone else and she recognized and encouraged that. I
owe her many thanks for helping me develop into an independent thinker and
not be afraid
to follow what sounds correct for me to live by, even if it made no sense to
anyone else.. I am currently the owner of The Earth's Center in downtown
Tipp City. I am a Holistic Health Practitioner and Holistic Life Coach. I
help people learn how to relax and focus on what is important in their lives
and how they can get where they want to be. At my office we offer
reflexology, reiki, hypnotherapy, acupuncture, massage, yoga, pilates, zumba,
belly dancing, meditation classes, and tai chi classes. Of course we cannot
forget that we also offer Mrs. Neal's not so conventional meditation class
for teens. I do not know how
many lives Mrs. Neal has reached the way she has reached mine. I do know
that my
fourteen year old nephew loves her and she is one of few that can reach in
and bring him out. Thank you Mrs. Neal for spending your life blessing the
lives of others. What you are
doing is making a difference.
Nicole Mikel Bayman -
The Earth Center
27½ E. Main
Street Tipp City, OH
(937) 520-0472
http://www.tourgreatmiami.com/members/earthcenter.php
