Graduate Spotlight
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Melanie Noel Light, MS in Natural Health
“Peering Through the Portals”
In the introduction to her first book, Portals to the Soul, the Psyche and a More Enchanted Life, CCNH graduate student Melanie Noel Light celebrates interpersonal evolution with a quote from best-selling author and psychotherapist James Redfield:
“For many years, a new world view has been forming intuitively in the hearts and minds of people around the world…based on a central perception that we have capacities for a greater life than most of us have realized.”
Building on undergraduate studies in psychology (BS from California Polytechnic State Institute) Melanie enjoyed the CCNH masters coursework enough to continue her studies at the doctoral level. Her writings offer a holistic view of how we can develop a “more skillful will” for living.
Looking at life as interconnected, realizing that everything we know is intertwined, she says it’s only natural to understand that we have universal access to far more knowledge that meets the eye. “Our cells intermingle and communicate with other cells. Our thoughts travel in waves. Given a new view of reality, our conceptual abilities expand into portals of ever higher exploration.”
In the book, everything in our surroundings is fluid, vibrating and changing. “We’re all capable of sensing and thus averting unseen danger, intuiting small sub-shifts,” she adds. “These subtle glimmers are to be gathered, nurtured and polished.” One vignette describes a series of warnings that miraculously saved her father’s life as his car skidded into a sudden hairpin turn on a remote country road.
Another involved a medical appointment to address Melanie’s sudden numbness and unexplained shaking, which she felt may be a blood sugar imbalance. But the doctor was dismissive, impatient, even quick to insinuate a psychosomatic disorder, “with never a word about diet. It was all about sickness, nothing about reclaiming wellness.”
Looking on the bright side, this episode led Melanie to study natural health and become her own healing advocate. “Changing my eating habits fueled my sense of empowerment and self-knowledge; information that I knew needed to be shared.”
In person or in print, her message is to stop living on autopilot, listen from within, and be open to change. “Our Higher Intelligence often knows just how to address root causes. Instead of assuming stress and illness will overtake us, we can choose to be like my sprightly grandmother, who never seemed to age. Resembling a fairy muse who loved riddles, jokes and mystery, she had simply decided to live a charmed life.”
Throughout Portals, Melanie’s poetry and lyrical stories stand in good company, alongside quotes from more than 50 other inspiring voices – including CCNH curriculum authors Deepak Chopra and Caroline Myss.
Melanie Noel Light has written more than 300 magazine and online articles and is working on several book ideas, with essays and poetic commentary on environmental consciousness, holistic health and dream wisdom. Her next novel is entitled Illuminate: Adventures for the Restless Spirit.
For more information, see www.LuminousMinds.net
This article was based on an interview with the graduate.
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