Many years ago when I was a Reiki 11 practitioner and working in a veterinary practice I was able, with the agreement of the vet, to practice on some of the animals. It was actually through seeing this that some of my colleagues asked me to treat them as while they thought it was a bit weird they could see for themselves there was something to this Reiki business!
I would like to tell you about my one of my experiences with a Greyhound. The dog had sustained a irreparable leg injury on his left hind and needed surgery to remove the leg, the operation was skillfully performed by the vet and the dog was put in a kennel to rest and recover with the necessary medical paraphernalia attached to him. The day after the operation I was on the early shift and as usual I had arrived with plenty of time to spare. The dog was in his kennel and was so very stressed and in pain. Removal of a limb is traumatic for any animal. I spoke softly to the dog and immediately felt my hands begin to tingle. I opened up the kennel door and got inside with the dog, he looked at me with such pain and anguish in his eyes.
I held my hands a little way from the dog and ‘connected’ with him, his look changed from panic to interest at what this lady was doing in his kennel! Animals often look quizzical when they feel the Reiki energy for the first time. When working with animals it is especially important to be led by them if a dog is frightened or uncomfortable it may bite, a cat scratch (or bite!) and a horse can give a nasty kick (and again bite!). I then placed my hands on the dog’s shoulders and the Reiki really began to flow. We sat like this for a while and he let out a huge sigh, a good sign. I moved my hands to his head he looked into my eyes, it was a beautiful moment of two souls connecting. He then realised that despite the lack of one of his limbs he was able to move and he lay down, his breathing slowed and he fell asleep, he slept for a long time and when he woke he was calm and relaxed. He was able to go home under supervision later that day and walked out on his 3 legs with relative ease.
Did Reiki make his leg grow back? Well of course it didn’t. What it did was allow his body, mind and spirit to come to terms with the loss and heal itself. The dog recovered from his surgery well and remarkably quickly. With Reiki miraculous things can and do happen, but it is a facilitator rather than a magic wand.
*The picture in this article is not the actual dog, but the spitting image of him.
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