| How many times in interactions with our | | | | being ill, I was told her days of being |
| animals do we forget to invite them to be | | | | ridden were over. She had sustained permanent |
| part of the equation, doing things to them, | | | | damage to some of her organs and was not |
| and not with them? This change alone can | | | | expected to recover further, this was now her |
| manifest many positive results by changing | | | | life. Traditional Medicine could do no more. |
| their feelings of being powerless to those of | | | | The Mighty Morgan's return to health is a |
| feeling empowered. | | | | story of its own, but after including her in |
| | | | her own healing, she went on to take second |
| For many years prior to the age of present | | | | place in three 25 mile endurance rides. |
| day medicine and its accessability to the | | | | |
| mass population, we relied more on ourselves | | | | When a dire prognosis is given, we feel |
| for our healing. Over time we came to believe | | | | sadness and brace against what is believed to |
| that through traditional medicine, the doctor | | | | be the inevitable. Our animals may not |
| or veterinarian was all powerful in making us | | | | interpret speech as we do, but they hear and |
| or our animal well. The age of addressing the | | | | feel the vibration of hopelessness. After |
| symptom, and not the cause, became the norm. | | | | hearing a diagnosis of cancer for my canine |
| A prescription was written and off we went | | | | companion I began to add that information to |
| with the belief that our healing was in the | | | | what I thought and felt about her. I now gave |
| hands of someone else. | | | | off a vibration she began to embrace. In my |
| | | | quest to find what was missing I found a |
| Many years ago my horse became very ill from | | | | holistic veterinarian who said, "stop |
| a tick born disease and endured procedures to | | | | thinking of your dog as having cancer, she is |
| save her life. At the time I just held her in | | | | more than that, and besides you're shortening |
| my heart and attempted to console her. | | | | her days.That moment brought me a revelation. |
| Fear,submission, and loss had found a home, | | | | As a healer I was caught up in doing the |
| replacing self trust. | | | | healing, or so I thought. After his statement |
| | | | it became apparent to me that if I opened to |
| I was very grateful to all the wonderful | | | | shifting how I viewed her cancer I was no |
| people who helped her. Yet a key component to | | | | longer giving off a "good bye it's all over" |
| healing remained illusive to me. It wasn't | | | | energy. When I began to be only half the |
| until some time later that it became | | | | equation in her healing that was the first of |
| apparent. This Morgan had lost belief in her | | | | many shifts for both of us. Moxie began to |
| self. It took time for me to understand what | | | | improve and we went on living together and |
| was missing. I needed to change my | | | | loving each other for four more years. |
| perspective. | | | | |
| | | | Expanding the way in which we feel and |
| Our animals respond to all the vibrations of | | | | understand what is going on for our animals |
| the body. The Animal Kingdom did not narrow, | | | | can greatly influence the thoughts we hold to |
| as man did, to believe that the vibration of | | | | support them in their life. When we include |
| the vocal chords was a primary means of | | | | the knowledge that the body knows how to be a |
| communication. They never veered from using | | | | part of healing itself, we take back a |
| the whole of their being to give and receive | | | | component of our power. When we offer that |
| information. | | | | understanding to our animal, we place |
| | | | awareness in a supportive role. |
| In modern day veterinary practice most often | | | | |
| a diagnosis is made and the care giver | | | | Self empowerement and perspective are key |
| embraces it. After many weeks of my horse | | | | parts in healing of the self. |