energy healing for animals

Energy Healing For Animals – Unit 01

Energy Healing For Animals © Silvia Hartmann 2001 1

Energy Healing For AnimalsSilvia Hartmann

Oceans Of EnergyIf you could shift your viewpoint

For just a moment, as you grow stillAnd silent within, without

A thought or care, without aThought of worry or desire,

You might begin to feelA power tingling in your fingertips

A breath that draws to youA part of all there is,

Of which you are a part,And that surrounds youBuoys you, nourishes

Protects and reaches far and wide,And further still into the deepest bluesOf oceans, and the deepest greens ofMountain lakes and all the creatures

That reside in forest groves, eternal desertsAs above, the stars are dancing.Oceans of Energy and they lie

At your fingertips, for you to navigateAnd learn to know the ancient arts of

Balance, deep release and to once againRestore the Even Flow, the

Perfect State of Being.



Energy Healing For Animalsby Silvia Hartmann

Contents

Contents..................................................................................................................... 2Welcome! ................................................................................................................... 3The Planes.................................................................................................................. 4

Reality vs The Hard................................................................................................. 4A First Map Of The Planes ....................................................................................... 5

> Eggs vs Vortices................................................................................................... 6The Interlinking Planes............................................................................................. 6

Infinite Complexity?................................................................................................ 7> Energy Healing And Healing In General .............................................................. 7

The Requirements Of The Hard............................................................................... 8The Body’s Needs ................................................................................................... 8The Needs Of The Mind ........................................................................................ 10

You, The Healer ...................................................................................................... 11* Exercise 1 - Deep Awareness.............................................................................. 12* Exercise 2 - Extreme Field Awareness................................................................ 12* Exercise 3 - Attunement 1—The World.............................................................. 12* Exercise 4 - Attunement To Self ......................................................................... 12

General Note On The Exercises ............................................................................. 13ASSIGNMENT 1.......................................................................................14



Unit 1 - Field Awareness and Attunement

Welcome!

Enter the worlds of energy—surrounding us, supporting us, nourishing us; life all aroundus and within us. A part of this life are our animal friends on this plane, may they beliving amongst their own kind and their own environments, or having chosen to come tous and develop a more personal relationship with us as our companions or co-workers.

All healing work is about re-discovering a natural balance of a system, a state of being Irefer to as the EVEN FLOW.

This is not an imaginary flawless Eden perfection but a very specific set of parametersthat operate uniquely for any individual and are set by all they are, including theirphysical, genetic and spiritual future, past and present as well as the environments anyindividual would find themselves in.

To this end, we will begin with the basic building blocks that make up an individual’ssystem here and now, including their internal systems as well as their environments.

We will create an energy map that could view as a kind of snapshot of what it is like, hereand now, and then learn to make beneficial interventions, using our own personal energysystem, using the energy available from the universe, as well as our intention, purposeand will.

A major part of this will be to understand the relationships between an individualanimal and the components of his or her environment, which include the owner orcaretaker.

Before we start out on this course together which will encompass many cutting edgetechniques as well as many time proven traditional strategies, I must tell you that Ipersonally do not distinguish between the rebalancing of a human system or that of ananimal, or even that of a landscape.

To even give attention to and have the will and desire to restore the Even Flow, is in myopinion doing the creator’s work, in whichever way you might like to think of theoverriding forces of design in our universe. To me, healing is healing. The healing ofanimals is not second best to that of the healing of humans, or the other way around—weare on this plane together and all both necessary as well as equally beloved andimportant, from the least to the highest.

Further, I would like to come clean right now and tell you that contrary to the view heldby many scientists, I am of the opinion that animals do have emotions, memories, internalrepresentations, an active will and a power of decision; it is my supposition that animalsare far more than simply stimulus-response driven robots. Whether or not you agree withmy view is not as important as it is to note at this point that if you do not believe thatsomething exists, and you do not see it, you can neither treat it nor change it in anyway.



Before we get to that, however, we need to discuss the planes first and I will need to giveyou some safety and conduct warnings.

The Planes

Although the “Oceans Of Energy” are indeed at a certain viewpoint, what exists on thatlevel, there are different planes of reality we need to concern ourselves with, simply byfact that we live here on this planet, at this specific time and in these physical shapes thatwe have assumed.

It is important to appreciate each plane within the entirety of creation for it’s own meritsand it’s own limitations. For many who wish to become healers or extend their healingabilities, what I call The Hard is a nuisance and something unpleasant that must be leftbehind as quickly as possible to make maximum gain on the soul’s journey.

Reality vs The Hard

My ex-husband used to tell me that I should get into the “real world”. He told me thisover and over throughout a period of many years, many times a day. What he meant bythat was that I should get a job and stop looking at crystals or talking about such non-existent things as “emotions” or “God”, for that matter. It was a most interesting thing tothink that his continuous exhortations to this end got me to a point of clear and profoundunderstanding that what he was talking about and calling the “real world” or “reality”was a map that was missing huge sections, stratas and realities of existence he was eitherfailing to perceive or to acknowledge.

The truth is that reality is a many layered thing. Reality is the universe and not only thatof which we can conceive or perceive, but infinity beyond. That is the real world. I wouldsay that none of us are in that kind of real world yet but at least some of us are looking todiscover more about it.

In order to distinguish between the unspeakable realms and practical “down to Earth”,visible, recordable, physically noticeable events and states of being, I coined the term“The Hard” for the plane of existence my husband was constantly referring to.

I chose that term because in truth, it is hard to be here in body. It is hard for us and it ishard for the animals, too.

There is pain, there is confusion, there is uncertainty.

There is hunger and thirst.

There is loneliness and terror.



There is disease.

There is birth and there is death.

All of this is here and it is part of the plane of physicality.

Likewise, other people and societal structures are amongst components of The Hard andto ignore them or pretend they do not exist, serves no purpose other than disabling thealignment with the Even Flow on that plane.

In the next chapter, we are going to start with the minimum requirements in The Hard tobe able to manifest any form of Even Flow.

Before we do that, I must tell you to become very aware of the Laws of The Landpertaining to the diagnosing and treatments of animals in the country in which youcurrently reside.

Here in the United Kingdom for example, it is utterly illegal to diagnose and/or treat anyanimal for any health related problem of any kind unless you are a licensed veterinarysurgeon. It is dangerous to advertise healing or treatments, and it is dangerous to promisecessation of symptoms, resolution of the problem in question or any such thing to anowner, for example during an initial telephone enquiry.

Please be sure that you are fully familiar with all the relevant rules and regulations beforeyou venture out to treat other people’s animals or advertise your services. You could verywell lay yourself open to numerous prosecutions and financial ruin if you fail to observethe existing condition of practising what we do, here in The Hard.

A First Map Of The Planes

The Hard

Physical Conditions and Circumstances, directly observable, such as basic care taking,environmental circumstances, feeding; injuries, genetic influences, statistical data,species-specific physiology, cycles and behaviour.

The Connectors

These are semi-physiological systems that interface between the “pure” energy realmsand the physicality of the Hard, such as the Chakra system, the Meridian System, and theAuric layers for an individual, and geo lines, earth veins and lay lines for a geographicalsystem.



The High Energy Systems

Called thus not because they are better than the systems of the Hard or the Connectors butbecause their levels of vibrations are finer and higher and although they are absolute anenergetic reality, we usually do not perceive them directly but rather, we perceive theireffects and from the effects work backwards as to what must have been there to create theeffect in the first place—like a shadow, or a hologram, or the ripples in a pond that tellyou where exactly the stone must have been even though you can’t see it now. Thesesystems include PowerFields and the unique organising structures of an individual’spersonalised energy system.

The Unseen Realms

This is a most powerful level of incredible denseness of information, timeless andinfinite. The problem is that this realm is such that you can’t make a picture of it, can’ttalk about it or handle it in consciousness as we know it at all. Interventions made in theUnseen Realms and information retrieved from the Unseen Realms is the most powerfulset of the energetic interventions possible and are usually described as “miracles”.

> Eggs vs Vortices

At this point, it is important to note that the general visualisation of, for example, theAuric layers as eggs, circular shells or onion layers, is unhelpful in the context of whatwe are learning to do.

None of the energy systems at any plane are closed. If they were, they could not interactand function in the systemic way they do. When visualising these various energeticrealities on whatever plane, I would recommend you visualise them as interlinkingvortices—spiral shapes that are open and interlace with the others in the system as thoughthey were linking arms.

The Interlinking Planes

I would like to take this opportunity once more to say the following about the PlanesModel:

• No plane is more worthwhile or more desirable than any other.

• Likewise, there are no badges or karmic brownie points for working at onerather than another.

• The reason for this is that none of them could exist without the others!

• It is not necessary to consciously know the nature or level of disturbance to beable to make changes and bring back the Even Flow.



• However, conscious awareness is also a part of the system and is valuable inits own right.

• To begin to give attention to all the planes is the starting point to becomefamiliar with their interlacements and unique contributions, which leads to anincreasing ability to make changes at will.

Infinite Complexity?

Now there may be one or two amongst us who are thinking that this is all verycomplicated.

And if you’re thinking that, you are absolutely right.

The universe is the most complicated place there is and don’t you ever forget that! It isvast, it is infinite, it is truly incomprehensible and it deserves to be approached withhumility and a wide open mind to be ready and able to learn more about it.

Even the smallest new born kitten is a pure wonder of complexity. It is my supposition toretain an eternal sense of wonderment and with it, a sense of overall perspective of yourown place in the scheme of things.

You, too, are a wonderment of infinite intricacy and you reach into the planes and levelsfar beyond from what you can see in the mirror in the mornings. However, to retain asense of perspective is a most tremendously useful thing, especially when you begin tocreate your own “miracles” of healing and transformation.

To retain that sense of perspective does, indeed, supercharge your healing as your egosteps aside; it helps guide you and focus you towards the right ends AND the rightmeans, and finally, it alleviates the burden of having to heal everyone and everythingaround you, as though you were the only thing that stands between the darkness andevery single creature on this planet.

We will speak of this again for it is a central point in the development of a healer butnow, let us begin to look at the most important of the planes.

> Energy Healing And Healing In General

Healing addresses by nature all components that make up a living being, all of which aredeeply interlinked and interrelated.

As the body can create maladies of the mind and the spirit - you will be familiar withfeelings of depression and unhappiness when you’ve had a bad cold, for example - sodoes the mind create maladies of the body - haunted and stressed out executives dropping



dead in their mid-forties are a good modern example of this; and of course spiritualsuffering has a profound effect on mind and body - people and animals don’t not onlyliterally die “of a broken heart”, but have many other many less dramatic illnesses as theresult of lack of love that build up much more gradually, seepingly and insidiously, overa period of time.

I believe it to be essential that Energy Healing is the most effective within a generalframework of addressing all of these interlinked domains with a view to each other inorder to really facilitate the natural healing processes within the animal’s body.

The Requirements Of The Hard

I cannot know how much experience you have had with the physical care taking ofanimals of different kinds but I think it is essential for any animal healer to have at least abasic understanding of the requirements for successful survival in the Hard.

Any animal kept continuously in unhealthy conditions or subjected to conditions andinfluences that are dangerous will of course present symptoms—emotional disturbances,behavioural disturbances and physiological disturbances.

Although these symptoms and disturbances can be addressed by re-balancing the systemsand restoring the Even Flow, as soon as you put the freshly re-balanced animal back intothe environment that caused the problem in the first place, the problem will simply re-occur.

I would therefore offer you the following brief guide; as this is not a course on animalnutrition or physiology, I would suggest you go ahead and find out more about any of thetopics I mentioning here briefly if you are not fully familiar with them as yet.

Mind, body and emotion are all part of the primary systems of The Hard.

So let us begin with ...

The Body’s Needs

Good quality, varied fresh food at regular intervals that are specific to the animal’sspecies and within that, specific to the animal’s cyclic and systemic need.

What this basically means is:

• that in general, highly processed and pre-packaged food is most likely not thelast word in animal health regarding of the species involved (and including thehuman species) that can directly cause a great range of allergies and



presenting symptoms, including behaviour problems, that will ceaseimmediately or show marked improvement as soon as a change in diet isimplemented;

• that individuals within any given species vary tremendously in when or howoften they need to eat, what they need to eat, and how much of it, formaximum health; and that in our monoculture societies, diet usually lacksrequisite depth and variety, regardless of species (and once again, includinghumans!);

• that any animal’s nutritional demands in every sense are variable, dependingfrom day to day on such things as temperature, level of * Exercise and stress,hormonal states, age and individual metabolism;

• that blanket applications of supplements, quantities of food and consistency offeeding are thoughtless and can be harmful in the long run;

• and that the build up of toxins on the one hand, and deficiencies on the other,create a physical environment that no amount of healing can repair or restore,most especially when the animal is returned to the same diet that caused allthe problems in the first place.

B. Clean drinking water in plentiful supply (and in some parts of the world, this mightwell mean tested and certified bottled water, at least whilst an animal is ill orrecovering).

C. Varied Exercise at a level that is comfortable for the animal, which includes:

• physical exercise at a comfortable level and within sound parameters. This ismore applicable to some species than others, but exercise mismanagementaccounts for a vast percentage of presenting physiological and behaviourproblems amongst dogs and horses, for example;

• the ability to use the body once in a while as it was originally designed to beused. Horses that never get to run, ferrets that never get to tunnel and cats thatnever get to climb will manifest problems over a period of time without fail.

• This concept can, of course, be extended to other activities that are in thegenetic blue print/PowerField/morphogenic field of any given creature and ifthese cannot be provided, replacement activities should be found.

D. Comfortable and clean living quarters that are relevant to the species in questionand make sense in the context of the individual, rather than the general standardsprescribed, cook book style, for that species in general.



E. A clean, well groomed body (some designer bred species and breeds are constructedsuch that they can no longer groom themselves efficiently or keep themselves clean,and here the owner or caretaker will have to take responsibility for this);

F. The chance to rest safely, comfortably, and without disturbances, as much as isneeded (much overlooked in this section is the fact that many animals living inchaotic and busy households or circumstances simply either do not get enough rest atall, or at least do not get to satisfy their own biorhythmic requirements).

The next category of minimum requirements for Even Flow concerns ...

The Needs Of The Mind

A. A Purpose in Life

This, sadly, is often lacking for many companion and captive animals particularly - theymay have an important purpose, but it’s not something they can understand or be proudof. Intriguingly, many times people and animals go on doing a very hard and demandingjob, but as soon as they retire, they just falter and fade away. To try and find a way toprovide an animal with feedback on their purposes is one of the main challenges for theowner/caretaker.

B. Self Esteem/Sense Of Self

This follows on directly from the above, but it is a more general concept. Self esteem insocial and highly interactive species such as dogs and horses cannot be created internally;these animals have to mirror themselves in the eyes of their group mates or in the absenceof that, in their caretaker’s. If these caretakers constantly say how bad they are, howworthless, how much trouble they cause etc., the animal’s self esteem will suffer.

This leads not only to a great deal of bad behaviour in both the short term and the longrun, but it also causes stress and will make the animal physically ill.

C. Mental Stimulation

If you have you ever been feeling ill and had the experience of receiving a visitor orsomething may have caught your attention and for a time, your symptoms seemed to havedisappeared entirely, then you will have an understanding of the power of this concept.Together with having a purpose in life and reasonable self esteem, mental stimulation isone of the key elements in long living, healthy individuals, be it dogs or people. On theother hand, lack of mental stimulation (such as experienced by people in old people’shomes) leads to a turning inward, to becoming pre-occupied with problems, and to illhealth as a result.

D. Freedom From Fear



There are many things and many situations animals as well as people are fearful of, butthe main element of fear is that the individual feels they are lacking control over theprocesses of life. Fear is caused by perceiving oneself to be powerless to take control ofthe situation.

For nearly all animals that have human caretakers, virtually everything in their lives is attheir owner’s mercy and out of their control; what happens then is that theowner’s/caretaker’s predominant emotions and responses become the guidancemechanism for the animal as to when they need to experience fear.

We will come across this systemic reality again under different circumstances; for now itis sufficient to note that any animal that lives in constant or near constant fear willmanifest a multitude of behavioural and physiological symptoms.

With these basic requirements in place and understood as being foundational to allhealing endeavours, we can now turn to our true purpose here.

You, The Healer

The key concept in all Energy work is as follows:Energy Flows Where Attention Goes

Everyone is made of energy of course. Everyone has the ability to influence anyoneelse’s energy system and of course, they do! People and animals have effects onus—some feel more comfortable than others, some energize us and some depress us,some disturb us; this is just one of the realities of life.

The difference between “everyone” and a healer is that a healer influences energysystems deliberately and with intention, and that is regardless of whether the intentionis to use one’s own energy system to make the required adjustments, or to channeluniversal energy through one’s own system instead.

It is not a question of talent—anyone at all can do this. Some might find it somewhateasier than others, and there certainly are preferences as to what kind of techniques andsystems are most comfortable for you individually, but the important thing to understandis that it is your birthright to be doing this and to be doing it with volition and decision, toget better at it with practise and as you’re stretching your abilities from day to day andlearning new things, to give yourself permission to be surprised how effective you canbecome.

So, and to end this first part of the course, here are a number of warm up exercises Iwould like you to do on a regular basis.



* Exercise 1 - Deep Awareness

As many times as you like in the day, stop, close your eyes and tune into your physicalsensations in response to your environment. Listen to five sounds you can hear, and feelfive sensations you can perceive. At this point, please concentrate on simple physicalsensations such as a draft in the air, the tingle of an electrical field nearby, a body oftemperature (such as the sun, or a radiator or lamp).

* Exercise 2 - Extreme Field Awareness

Try animals, people, plants and stone or rock for this exercise. Once again, close youreyes and move your hands towards the energetic entity before you. Feel for the field thatsurrounds the entity and become comfortable with it. Distinguish between the field of theentity and physiological sensations such as picking up the heat emanations through yoursensitive palms and fingertips.

Describe your sensations and experiences out loud to engage as much of your neurologyas possible and to create new pathways of information. Do this exercise as often as youlike and whenever you think of it. If at first your results are somewhat ambiguous, forexample you might be unsure if what you are feeling is the field or just some warmthfrom the animal or person, know that it is a perfectly good place to start from andcontinue to practise it. I assure you, you will be able to tell the difference within a weekor so at the most.

* Exercise 3 - Attunement 1—The World

Find a moment each day, at least once, to stand outside, look to the sky and state a desireto be attuned to the World. Just look at the sky and open yourself momentarily to thevastness and the richness of what it is and what it represents for the interconnections ofthe totality of all there is. Take a deep breath, say Thank You to both yourself and theWorld and return to your normal activities.

* Exercise 4 - Attunement To Self

Whenever there is a moment that seems right to you, feel for your own body’s energysystems. State the desire to learn about yourself. Close your eyes and run your hands overyour body, your face, head and neck. Simply note what is there and make a note of howyour own hands feel in turn over the part of your body you are sensing. In order to be



able to successfully heal others, it is of the essence that you are both familiar andcomfortable with your own systems under many different circumstances, physicallocations and mind states.

General Note On The Exercises

Please note that I am not asking you to enter an altered state of mind first, cast circles,meditate, set aside a special time of day or any such thing. All the exercises above arevery quick and do not require any set-up of any kind. You can and should do them at anytime in the ordinary course of your day, as and when you remember. Do them swiftly,accept your feedback without argument and then let them go until the next time.

These warm up exercises are not about succeeding or failing, either. They are simply abeginning statement of intent that you are willing now to pay attention to true reality andthat you are willing to learn. Simple as they are, they will begin to open your existing butunder-used senses as well as teaching you how to receive the input through these sensesthat often gets misinterpreted or simply lost in the storms of our everyday activities.

As you are “walking in the Hard”, these exercises are performed right here and not in anartificially enclosed sacred space—the truth is, everywhere is sacred and the sacred iseverywhere.

This concludes Unit 1.

In the next part of this course, we are going to build upon these exercises and start to lookat some existing maps of the Plane of Connectors, how to detect auras, chakras andmeridians in animals and a number of techniques to begin restoring Even Flow to thosesystems.



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ASSIGNMENT 1

1. Express in your own words the concept of “Even Flow”. (3)

2. What is your understanding of “perfect health”? (3)

3. What is your understanding of the term “energy”? (3)

4. Are you familiar with the “laws of the land” regarding animal healing? (2)

5. Name the 4 Planes of Reality. (3)

6. What is the first step towards understanding the Planes of Reality? (3)

7. Give 3 reasons why a healer needs to “retain a sense of humility”. (3)

8. List the basic requirements of The Hard. (3)

9. State the First Law of Energy Healing and explain what it means. (4)

10. Where and what is “the Sacred Space”? (3)

TOTAL (30)

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